November 4, 2015 • 42 mins
In episode three, Rosenthal and Jeselnik dig deep into what Dez Bryant should do with his monkey, how Anthony got free Chipotle and whether the Philadelphia Eagles can compete for a Super Bowl with Colin Kaepernick as their quarterback.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the third episode of The Rosenthal and
jessel Nick Vanity Project. Whoa chacka houga houga. That was
(00:21):
most deaf with the intro this week. Thank you to him.
Big fan of Anthony, big fan of this show. You're
you're responsive at the top. They're just getting increasingly ridiculous, Anthony. Yes,
it's going to be. It's gonna be a running theme
as the show goes on. I just think of something
like what would be fun for me to say in
that moment, and I pick up something random. My other option,
actually I might use it next week, so I'm not
gonna tell you. But I was in between two things.
(00:43):
I went with Chaca. We uh, We're back for the
third episode. I'm continually surprised. I was driving with my
wife Emmica, who listened to our first two episodes, which
says a lot about you, really, Anthony, because she never
listens or watches or reads anything I do. I'm not
just saying that to me, Oh yeah, your wife is
so sick of you with the point, It's true, but
(01:04):
she she was saying, there's no way that higher ups
that your bosses are listening to this, because because it
would not continue if that's true. And I think she's
pretty much right. I think if my bosses were listening
to this, they would just be like, why are we
doing this? See I understand why she would think that,
but I disagree. Like this is this billboard, I mean,
(01:24):
this thing is huge. This podcast is huge, number one
on the billboards. Uh. And you know who's on board?
Who Roger Goodell. Wow, I didn't know that. I never
would have guessed him to be a podcast guy, but
he says he listens to a lot of them. I
wrote up in the elevator with him and he said
to me, he looked me and he shook my hand.
He said, anthem, I'm a big fan of your comedy.
But I listened to the podcast both episodes twice, he said.
(01:47):
He mentioned he like kind of squeezed my hand like
extra hard when he said that twice. And he was like,
I watched it twice. And he said, if I could
unzip myself and step out of my own body and
become someone else, you said, I don't want to be you,
which is a quote from Rocky four. And I called
him on it. That was little Wayne. That was a
(02:12):
fun That was a fun run. Last week we played
the same little Waine clip over and over again. We
found out I did not know this, but I found
out that you can use any song you want for
five seconds as long as you say who it was afterwards. Yeah,
you gotta give him credit. That was of course Fireman
by little way that made up? Or is that a
real thing that you can use it at five seconds? Seconds?
And second? That's what I was like to believe. As
(02:34):
long as you're credited, and you're you're kind of talking
about pop culture, we're giving we mean, little Wayne. His
career is not going so well right now. I feel
like the publicity we're giving him is invaluable. And oh
he he was in the elevator with me and Roger
and uh elevator, just the three of us. It's like,
it's Brandon, our producer, by the way, is you guys
are wondering what the who the non famous voices? It's Brandon.
(02:58):
Actually it's more famous than you think. Weird. I think
it would have to be. It's where the elevator gets
so much use in a two two floor building here.
I know, I know, but only the V I P
s get to use it. Um, let's go through. Let's
go through what was cut from last week's episode. People.
I get some tweets, people like why are you working
with the NFL. The NFL works and works with me.
(03:18):
Everybody the NFL works around me, and I get to
say whatever I want, I do whatever I wants, here
coming whenever I want. And then you guys get to edit.
I don't listen, but then you tell me what was
cut out. So let's go through what was cut. Number one.
I have your edited because Greg's a sensitive little girl.
With your wife, Emmaica, we were describing you were just
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we were talking about porn for some reason I remember exactly,
but that while your wife was sleeping, you would edited
for content. Again, Well, you say we, I did not
bring this up at all. Maybe I talked about the
topic because none of this has ever happened. You talked
about it. I think you even described filming it or something.
But yes, and that came up. I have no idea
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what it was. Weird. I mean, I understand why it
was edited, but I don't understand why we said it.
Um Number two was a favorite of mine. I invented
a product that I was trying to market, UH called
bed full of Guns, sponsored by Greg Hardy. Uh. So
I made several references to a new product called Greg
Hardy's Bed full of when you want you to sleep
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but not too well. Greg Hardy's Bed fell. That was
edited out many many times, And I understand why I
couldn't really fight them on that. That is something they
don't really want to talk about, much less repeat repeatedly.
After that we had we talked about Johnny Manzel and uh,
the Cleveland Browns want him to break up with his girlfriend,
and a lot of that stayed in the show, So
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it didn't I I didn't listen, but I know I
was like angry. I was like mad at at the
whole situation that that your your professional quarterback, you're Johnny
Football and your girlfriends in the way that the part
of your anger at Johnny was cool. I think it
was when you started directing it towards the girlfriend felt
a little unfair. Didn't make didn't make the cut. Sure
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you don't know where like I do. Um? After that
we cut we cut another reference to breast cancer. Um
what I think? I'm sure we're talking about the pink
that the people players and coaches were wearing. Edited because
October was breast cancer Awareness month. See, if you're just
left it at that, it could have it could have
stayed in. But then when you start going on and on,
that's gonna be edited. Hey, I thought about going to
(05:24):
medical school. We're the worst student I've ever seen. You did.
You barely went to class. That was an English class.
That's right, and now it makes my money. It's not
It's not like after that, after the breast cancer thing,
we cut a story about Greg's truancy as a waiter.
It says you, I don't know, I know, I would
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never use the word truancy. We were just talking about
you were a bad waiter. Um. Yeah, I think that's
something about our our summer together. Yeah. Yeah, you were
on the cold line making lobster, you know, making rules,
worked at a restaurant together. I was in the I
was in the kitch, and Gregg was out front. Um,
and uh, I think it was just probably a boring story.
I think anytime we have a story that's more Greg centric,
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it's gonna get cut through. No fault of the zone.
After that, a Hitler reference edited for jessel Nik related shenanigans.
So I'm just a history buff um. After that, one
of my favorites. One of my favorite kinds of edits,
the edit that makes no sense whatsoever. But you kind
of understand where we had one of the edits. I
think I used the word, uh, damn, and we're not
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allowed to say that. I can say damn if I
want to. I can say God if I want to.
But you throw those two together and it's some mollet
of cocktail. And there are people who don't don't like
it because I can imagine that a lot of our listeners,
heavily religious, heavily all the all of the major religions
listen to it. The pope, the pope bring in a
religious crowd in general. If you are if you believe
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in a higher power, that higher power is me. Well.
The best bird about this was that this was one
of those drops edited for blank. It was a drop
in edited that got edited. Yeah, when will it end, Anthony?
Probably this week. There was actually one more um that
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you forget there was that that long rant in the
sources section that you had one of your sources in
Philadelphia finally uncovered what is really going on in Chip
Kelly's private life? Oh no, that was in there, fools,
wonder what I meant that was Black Alicious, the new
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Black Alicious, A big fan, a big big hip hop guy. Greg.
Let's do some headlines. Let's do it. Let's start really
at the top of what I think America has been
talking about all week long. Des Bryant's monkey. Does Bryant
owns monkey? Peter not happy with it? Does Bryant released, uh,
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you know an Instagram picture He's got his monkey, Dallas.
Bryant is the name. Yeah, it's pretty Uh. I wonder
how many names he had to think of. Foy landed
on Dallas. It couldn't have been a long list. He
you know, posted the picture Instagram. Um. Peter was not
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happy about it. They were pointing out, you're not really
supposed to just have monkeys in your house. The monkeys
should be in a sanctuary. Uh. A lot of people
ended up getting asked about this. Jason Garrett was asked
about this. Jerry Jones was asked about this. Jerry Jones. Um, Actually,
let's let's hear what Jerry had to say about it.
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I am a monkey saying so such a such a
great quote. Just the way he says you can tell
he's smiling when he said it, like he is a
monkey fan. He's not a lot of people would just
say that just to try to, you know, keep the
players in line. But you can believe Jerry believes it.
I kind of agree with Peter here. I don't think
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I take I don't think that you should have a monkey.
That's why all the monkeys I have in my apartment
are dead. They're all dead monkeys I've got. I've got
thirteen to eighteen, uh dead monks. Don't know the exact number,
but I know it's got to be. It's got to
be like in Rules of Three, because what how do
they all get there? Well, here's what I do is
I'm a taxidermy guy, but I'm kind of lazy about it.
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Where what I do is I get the monkey. I
get three monkeys, and I get a board. I got
like a little two by four. And first I start,
I glue the monkey's feet to the boards. All right,
so the monkeys are okay, I feed him. All I'm
doing this, the monkeys are glued to the boards. I
got three monkeys in a row. And then after I
feed them one last time, I put glue on the
monkey's hands and I put one I put them hands
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over the mouth, one I put the hands over the eyes,
and then when I put the hands over the ears,
and then like a week later, depending on how much
they ate the first time. A week later, you've got
a great taxidermy. Here, no evil see, no evil, uh speak,
no evil thing. It's it's pretty good. It's like, it's cute.
It's very cute. It's sellable too. It's cute. You know.
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The waiting is the worst part, waiting for them to
find only pass away, but and after they're dead though,
it's a conversation starter. You know, not only why do
you have this, but why do you have so many
of them? The hardest part is you gotta fabreezer constantly.
It's like monkeys living in a rainforest. To some sort
of brain, it's just fabreeze. I don't think about it,
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about it, thinking of my plan to put the can't depending.
Don't digging in my pet. That was Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar.
Can't just go indie with this stuff. We gotta go
with the big big guys. Yeah, we go with what
we like. We get to choose. Another story in the
news in the NFL out of San Diego this week,
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Sad I'm a big Keenan Allen fan. I don't know
if you watch the Chargers at all out here in
l A. They're the closest thing we have to a
local team. Keenan Ivory Island keen and I he was.
He was on the last comic standing right, great host.
He the receiver, of course, out for the Chargers, one
of the leading receivers in the league. I think he
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has the third most catches through eight weeks in NFL history,
but he will not get any more catches this season
because he has a lacerated kidney that will knock him
out for the rest of the season. Last Dyney, what
happened to the football that I grew up with? You know,
remember remember back in the day when Ronnie Lott cut
off half his kidney so he wouldn't have to miss
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a play in the preseason re bands both shoes. J cool,
I'm back in New England. That was apathy. That was
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way too long. That was way too long. I wanted it.
I like the interest. You gotta pick. You gotta pick
the part of the song that it's gonna be texted earlier,
I said it starts at ten because you gotta have
you gotta have that. I mean, that's great. That could
be the start of the show right now, if we
can get Apathy and you were you were wrong, you
were wrong. I should have just completely just stopped him there.
(12:06):
You could buy pass me and go straight to Anthony
for all musical I thought not. I thought it was
funny and don't talk to me like Apathy was your choice,
Like I gave you that song. I was like, You've
got to hear this guy, Apathy. He just raps about
being from New England. It's hilarious and he's great. He's great.
What's the next I can pick whoever I want, act
like whoever I want. We're going to talk about Matt
Liner and Ken Wizz and Hunt's firing in Tennessee. Of course.
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Uh you know Ken Well from his days with the
Pittsburgh Steelers. Nobody beats Wizz. We all loved, we all
loved was a lot of people thought that Wish should
get the job after Kawer left. Yeah I was. I
was one of those guys. But I love tom One.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a big Tom One fan,
but I like Wizz and Hunt. Um, I think the
story is not so much of the whizz got fired,
it's more to The more interesting part to me is
Matt Leiner. It's reaction to it. Yes, Matt Liner, he
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enjoys nothing more really than the demise of Ken wizzen Hut.
I've never seen anyone said publicly open about, you know,
stomping on a guy's grave. When the minute he gets fired,
the second it gets fired, he puts out a tweet
that says karma, and then another tweet that says, well,
now Marcus Mody, Martin Mariotta finally has a chance. Yeah,
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I love it. I mean the thing about me is
like no one can deny that Ken wizzen Hunt as
a coach was unbeatable. Wait wait, wait, wait, wait stop there,
what's up? Brendan he Uh's three and twenty was his
record with the Titans NI very beat nigh unbeatable. I
bet those I bet a lot of those were close games.
But I love that Matt Liner will never let it go,
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Like he'll be at Ken wizzen Hunt's funeral talking about
this stuff, like he'll be at funerals for other wizzen Hunts,
be tweeting at his futer just in case Ken shows
up to pay his respects, like you know, you know,
Liner has got Google alerts, and I feel like this
is like Lionons only happiness. Like I can see him
like walking around his apartment, like carrying his Higsman in
one hand and tweeting out, tweeting out karma to uh
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to wisen it with the other one. It's a little chilly,
Go get me comblo. That was ghost Face Killer, one
of my favorite killers. I gotta bring up something not
in football, but it's near and dear to your heart, Anthony.
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This week, Chippotle had the shutter forty restaurants after allegedly
feeding Koli two customers in their Halloween burrito or some
sort of spooky burrito themed. Now, listeners may not know this,
but you have a close relationship with Chippotle. Your highest honor,
(14:47):
I would say, in your entire career is that Chippotle
reached out to you and handed you something the public
probably wouldn't know exists, but some sort of celebrity card
where you can go to Chippotle lay any day of
the week, any day of the year, and get a
free burrito. Yes, this is kind of sad for me, Like,
(15:07):
I don't know if you know, I lost my wallet
last week. I hadn't lost my wallet in years, but
I lost my wallet and credit cards, replaceable driver's license
like a new one, but my celebrity card from Chipotle,
which i've I loved, I loved, and I honestly haven't
been there in a while. Like I kind of embarrassed.
The employees kind of embarrassed me when I went in. Well,
for a while, you were, you were going every day.
I went every day. There's one around the corner from
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my house, and I went like every day, and it's
only like seven dollar. It's not like I need the
free burrito. But I thought I thought it was like
so cool that I could that I could go do it.
But then eventually the employees were like, hey, man, you
come in here every day, had like a new burrito,
Like what's up? Like like what's going on? And then
I had to stop. Do you think that any celebrity
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has ever used that card more than you? Here's like
I can't imagine that. You know they give it to
Jessica Alba and that she's stopping by every day. Here's
what I'll say. I know a couple of other celebrities
who have them, and like never used, and there's like, yeah,
I got one too. I know a lot athletes have them.
A lot of athletes use them, so I bet I guarantee.
I bet like half the NFL has them. Um, which
would be fun thing to ask players if they have
a free Chipportle card when they When I got embarrassed
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when the when the one kid was like like, why
do you come in here every day? He's like he's like,
only get two of these celebrity cards here at this location.
And he said, but you and Elizabeth Berkeley coming every day.
I thought that was so funny that like me and
Elizabeth Berkeley from show Girls are coming every day to
uh to UH to get our free BREEDOU. It's amazing you.
I've rarely seen you so giddy with excitement as you
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were the day first of all that you found out
it existed and they told you about it. And then
I I saw you like eight months later, and you're like, correct,
you know, you know what happened this week? And your
eyes just like lit up like a little kid and
said like, look what came in the mail. It's very little. Uh.
There's very few things that bring you joy in life,
and yet that was one of them. Remember that was
the day you told me that your son was born
and I just didn't care, like I was like, but
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I got this sport hard and uh and you were.
You were actually more excited to tackle at the combination
Pizza Bell that was Das Racist. Das Racist. Let people
think it's doss. I did for many years, and then
I met them and they were like, really, yeah, you
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met them. I met them at a I met him
a bumber shoot, a music festival in Seattle. One of
the guys from Das Racist. His brother is a comedian,
Harry Knabalu, and so we were hanging out and they
were like, nope, it's it's it's DAS And I felt
pretty dumb. I taught Ellis when she was She still
sings it often, but when she was like one and
a half and was just getting going in terms of
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her talking, that was one of the first things I
taught her was that song. It was interesting I remember
that because you wouldn't a lot of parents want their
kids to talk as soon as possible. You made her
wait a year and a half. You made her way
to the full eighteen months before she could open her mouth.
Do you think did you ever feel like that was cruel?
She she's the head of pace Walker really is the one. Yeah,
it's struggling right now. She doesn't like to talk to
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you in particular. That's that's part of your your wold dynamic.
I still have the rocks she gave me. She's really
do you. Yeah. I keep it on a shelf and
just in case she asked about it again. Us. Uh,
Gregg's daughter gave me a rock and twenty minutes later like,
where's that rock? And I pulled it in my pocket
and everyone was blown away. But I hadn't just thrown
the rock away immediately. But I'll save it. That's what
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we did with him. I believe it. I believe it.
It's got a lot of rocks, all right, Anthony. You
went to Catholic school growing up. This is our final
headline of the week. Right, you went to Catholic? I was.
I was. My dad tried his best to raise me Catholic,
even though I've rejected it. Uh, because it was all
public schools as hard as you possibly can, Yeah, I
went to public school. I did not have to go
to Catholic school. You did some C C D stuff.
(18:40):
I guess. Oh yeah, I was talking about even if
he went to Catholic school, probably would have lasted what
a day? If that, if that, if that, I was
not a good I was not a good Catholic. Catholic
school in Cincinnati, Hamilton's County suspended a six year old
this week for pretending to shoot imaginary bow and arrows
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at classmates at recess. Was upsetting them, upsetting the other students.
They got the six year old out of there. You
would think that if anyone could appreciate the power of
imagination would be the Catholic Church. Uh. First of all. Secondly,
I don't think this is wrong at all. People think like, oh,
people are being too hard on this kid. I think
it's I don't think it's wrong. He's suspended, but he's
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not missing any games, you know. I mean it's not
that it's not that long game checks. But when you're
dealing with children, I don't think you're going far enough.
You're this kid, I think you should be executed. What
who is that? As an example to others, just to
stop the plague of imaginary weapons everywhere? When not when
I'm not in school. You know, if you want to
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go home and Hunger Games it up. You know you're
in a robin hood all around your your bedroom, you
know your wrong room. You can go ahead and do that,
but once you get to school, I think you should
be executed. Like the Room and the pot to the
fifth Dade split on him. Run the Jewels, That's what
that was My favorites. Run the Jewels. I love are
(20:04):
You're really just living out your dream to be like
a vj oh I love it. I just like that.
That was That was Round the Jewels. It's fun. Let's
let's talk a little bit. Um. We went through the
headlines there. What what a what a wrap up? Greg,
Thanks buddy. We we went what have you been doing?
What have you been doing for Halloween? For instance? Did
you do anything for Halloween. I'm not a big Halloween guy.
(20:26):
I don't like dressing up, you know, I don't like
the crowds. Like Halloween and St. Patrick's Day are two days.
I was like, let me stay in my apartment and
not do anything. I went to a birthday party this
weekend for a friend on Friday, but then Saturday just
stayed in and watch movies. I like to get like
horror movies on and I saw this amazing horror movie
that it's It's one of those movies you ever have
something that you like, you love, but you have a
hard time recommending it because you know someone else is
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gonna hate it. Like I'm a weird everything. That's true. Yeah,
I'm a freak. Like I'm a weirdo. But if you're like, hey, Anthony,
I'd like to watch what you watch and something that
like a horror movie that I stayed up all night long,
not scared, but like thinking about it. It's a movie
called Martyrs. It's called Martyrs. It's a it's a French
horror movie from like early two thousands, maybe mid two thousand's,
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but it is bonkers. It is totally bonkers. I watched that,
and then to calm down afterwards, I watched the movie
called Inside, which is also like another French extreme horror movie.
They're both on iTunes, you can find them easily. Um,
and that's supposed to be one of the most crazy
horror movies ever. And I watched that to calm down
after Martyrs. I recommend both these movies, um, but I
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would love to know what people thought, because it's so
crazy that if you're like, I hate you from I like,
if you were like Anthony, I watched this and then
I poked out my own eyes, I would I would
be like, yeah, I can see you having that reaction. Well,
you've You've dragged me to a lot of movies over
the years, and some that I wouldn't even dragged me
to many movies over the years, Like you're the more
art house. I'm more like. I'm like, I dragged you
(21:53):
to see Deep Blue Sea exactly. Would have never gotten
to see Deeply see like, but sometimes it's a big
hit you you We went to some Scandinavian movie recently.
Do you remember that one where the guy uh who
was in Hannibal? Actually he just the TV show. It's
a Western and he just kills everyone. It's pretty That
(22:13):
was a great That was a good one. That was
a good one. You want to me to go see
a Morris Paros That was a great one. That was
it was all right, but it wasn't like you you
had to make me go see that movie. But it
was pretty good. Did you see have you seen U?
I saw Steve Jobs this week. We love Steve Jobs.
It's bombing, but I loved it. I love the dialogue
and that. Um, that's great. People should go see that movie.
(22:35):
It's underrated. Uh and I think it would have been
a big hit if we'd gotten if we'd gotten Fincher
in there, as opposed to whoever the hell directed it.
I don't know. It was amazing, No, I know that.
But a movie that's almost entirely dialogue, and which is great,
great dialogue. I love the movie and the main character
is essentially like those movies. Don't do you like those movies?
(22:58):
Love reminding of yourself? Yes? But I do great? I
do great. I love that movie and all, you know,
one last shout out to movies. I saw I Smile
Back the Sarah Silverman movie, which is like all about depression.
It's a tough set. But if you love Sarah Silverman
like I do, you don't love as much as I do.
But if you likest, go see this movie. You once
introduced me to her, which is cool. Like when you
do little things like that, why not? Yeah? You were
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you were? You cool? That was cool? Alright? When did
that happen? Where was it was like at the back
of a show, right, like an improv or largo or something?
Maybe largo. I mean I just said hi, very now
you can get me self conscious about it. I want
to introduced someone to her. A friend came to a
show and he goes, how old are you? I wanted
to kill him. I wanted to cut his I think
he told me that story that night, being like, don't don't,
(23:44):
don't blow this, Greg, No, this is a more reason
that the how old are you? Was more reason that
I was. I was not. I was not happy. And
you know what. You know what time it is, Greg,
It's it's screener time. It's screen of time. What people
don't understand about celebrities is that they get screeners, Like
I don't have to go see movies if I don't
one to around the around Awards season, I just get
things sent to me, like DVDs get sent to me.
That just celebrities. You could be a low level w G,
(24:08):
a writer whatever. It's true, if you're in the if
you're in one of the Writer's Guild, producers, guild, directors.
I'm in the Writer's Guild. I'm in the Actor's guild.
So I get these things, and I got I've gotten
too so far. One is called Grandma with Lily Tomlin,
which I will never watch, and I recommend no one watching,
and then I got by the other night, I got
straight out of Compton, which I was very excited I've
never seen. And there's a scene in here that you
would love that reminded me of you when I watched
(24:29):
it the other night. Remember, we used to laugh in
college about about the idea of Dr Dre like waking
up in the morning and then just waking up and
getting a big pile of like of of mail and
then reading it in every letter saying Dre fell off. No,
I don't remember the chronic and the album chronic is
(24:49):
that line where he was like, now all I do
is like like reading hate mail days andre Ful. Often
we're like just the idea of him reading all of it.
It's just like another another bag and getting matter and matter.
But he's like still has to do it, like it
keeps thinking the next one's gonna make an invitation to
a Christen. He's fueled by that negativity. And in this
inn the Compton, there's a scene where ice Cube is
recording a disc track against n w A has left
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the group and he's recording it. And while he's recording it,
they're showing a montage of all the guys from end
tow and there's like ton of them all listening to
the songs separately. And when they get to their part
of the disk that this is them, you see their
reaction in the real time, and it is hilarious. It's
so funny to watch these guys react to the disk track.
I loved it. I I gotta get that. I mean,
(25:31):
I would love to, like, let you borrow this, but
I can't. Yeah, you used to sometimes bring over screeners
at least for you know, Emma, that you thought she
would like. But now I found it's illegal. Like what
I have to do. What I'm supposed to do now
is I watch it myself by myself, and then I
have to I have to cut it up. I have
to cut up the seeds the DVD. Yeah, you could
just keep it in your house. No that's not that's
(25:52):
not what they say. They say you gotta cut it
up right away. You watch it once and then you
destroy it. And I'm gonna destroy it right now. You're
brought to here for that. I've had to show you
because I want you to remember how good it is.
And then I'm gonna break it. No, no, no, Vanilla
remain in the game to break bline salts it into
something that was killer. Mike, one of the members of
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Run the Jewels, edited to keep Greg's job. Maybe we'll
leave it. I think watching you struggle with no I
thought you were gonna make some sound effects there, so well,
what sound effects am I gonna make? I just cut it.
I just cut the DVD and half as is legally
required of me. Let's go to our listener of the week.
Let's was a big hit on last week's show. We
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got a lot of great listeners this week that I
wanted to put themselves forward, but only two could really
make the cut. Was it a tight competition, like I
don't I don't look at Twitter, I don't read these
I don't read these things. Yeah, there was a lot
of people, and we do appreciate everyone, you know, saying
that they liked the show and hoping that it's not
getting canceled. And one said that it makes me more likable,
(26:57):
or that now they think I'm I'm cooler than they
used to think I was. That's good, you're rubbing off me.
One said, these are to buying one of your albums
now they didn't You didn't even have never done that before,
so that's cool. But the winner to check my bank account.
The winner is Nick Heaton from at Boston Pats. I
love the show. But and then he sent a picture
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Anthony want to show you, but this is what happens
when me and two other podcast listeners collide. Hastag Vanity
Project and he has a picture of a three car accident.
So once again someone is listening to the podcast. And
then just they listened to your advice last week, which
I didn't think was particularly responsible. You closed your eyes,
(27:41):
recommended people close their eyes drifting too the other lane
and see what happened. A lot of podcasts, a lot
of car accidents because of this podcast. You can see
in this picture you can see the in the middle car.
They're kind of laughing. You can tell they're still listening
to it the podcast. But I think because of this podcast,
people are gonna die in car accidents. That's a fact.
And a lot of people the NFL have talked about
us maybe suspending the podcast until driverless cars are invented
(28:05):
so that people can people can be safe out there.
But I say, I say, you know what cost what
cost greatness? This cost greatness? This podcast is kind of
a car accident. I don't think my timing on the
last joke was yeah, well, I think you're part of
it is a car accident like yours. Like I'm like
flying a plane around and you're like trying You're like
trying to like to a three point turn in the
(28:26):
cargo hold in a car. Your analogy is totally falling.
Our second listener of the week, just to show how
much we're really infiltrating the NFL media landscape, is Ian
Rappaport rap Sheet are our very own inside or NFL
media inside or Ian Rappaport one of his friends, Sheep
(28:46):
is our second listener of the week. Uh He rap
Sheet sent out a tweet or a text message back
and forth with Ian and Sheep where you know, he
was making sure that Ian's actually listing. Ian, of course
is not listening, which isn't cool, but he was just saying,
it's hysterical. They play a bunch of stuff out a
little way. It's great. I mean, my favorite part of this,
(29:08):
and now that I'm looking at it, is that Ian
Rappaport has his friend in his phone under the name Idiots,
not just like one idiot, but like idiots, the idiot friends. Okay,
so it's like a bunch of gas. I don't know.
I don't think so. It sounds like Sheep is just
like multiple idiots, like Shep is, SHEP contains multitudes and
they're all done. But thank you, thank you. Ian. I
don't know who you are, but I hear. Uh you've
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got a lot of followers, as if that meant anything
that was broken social scene kind of kind of getting
out of the hip hop realm. That one's kind of
a little surprised me a little bit. But it's a
great song. You should listen to the rest of it
if you get the chance. Weekly ask Anthony questions, Ask Anthony,
(29:53):
I like these. What was the defining moment of your
friendship with Greg? This is from Frank. Okay, this is
a good one, and I think it's it's good because
you have no idea what the answer is. You have
no clue, Like nothing even pops into your head. You're
just like you like, woke up one day and we've
been friends for years. You don't you don't remember. I'll
tell you why, and I want to know if you
agree with me on this one. All right, Greg and
(30:14):
I we kind of hit it off when we first
met at two Lane. We we met joining a fraternity
and we were friends with everybody, and we kind of
we liked each other sense of humor. We got along,
but we weren't like best friends yet the way we
are today. Here's the moment best friends, best friends. Name
a better friend than me? Dy've they've been? It might
be a tie, Not anymore. I think I've blown him
(30:36):
out of the water by by by a million miles by, Dave.
I don't like to rank friends. We should you should?
You shoul definitely get your top two in order, Uh, Dave,
Dave cannot compare it to me and what I've done
for you in your life. Here's the story sophomore year.
Beginning of sophomore year at two Lane, A lot of
times going to school in New Orleans, A lot of
(30:56):
times you had to leave because of a hurricane at
two Lane. And the first time we had to was
the beginning of my sophomore year. And the hurricane didn't
actually hit, but we had to leave and there were
two cars leaving. We're gonna go to Houston to go
stay at a friend's parents house. We know how bad
the hurricane was. Gonna be traffic is insane. We've got
to leave early one morning. It's like you've got to
get out of town for your life. And there's two
cars going. One car is our friend Jamie, which was
(31:17):
a very nice it was like a land Rover, like
all leather, seeds, all air conditioned, and it's like he's
got plenty of room in there, and he's got he's
got everything, and he's rich and he's gonna he's gonna
drive everybody, and you're like, no, I can't leave my
car I've got. This was a Nissan CenTra. It was
like a early nineties early nineties on CenTra, a stick shift,
like barely drove around. It was like on his last
(31:38):
legs knew. It's like I can't leave it here. If
there's a storm, I've got to drive it too. So
we gotta take two cars. And nobody wanted to ride
with you. You had no air conditioning, and I was like,
you know what, I'll ride with you, Greg, And so
for like twelve straight hours we were in a car
not only with no air conditioning, but we had to
turn the heat on because your car was gonna overheat.
(31:58):
In August in Louisiana, stuck in traffic with the heat
drawn full blast, just your CDs, which I think every
CD you owned was by Pavement, who I do not like.
And we had to talk and fill time for from
that amount of time, and on the way back, like
we bonded. We talked about everything there was to talk
about it we ran out of things. And then on
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the way back, after like a week in Houston, we're like,
I was like, oh, maybe I can go and James
gone now and you were like, nope. Now we're best
friends forever. Now you're riding with me all the time.
That's a touching story. I was expecting some sort of
gut punch there at no no, I know, and once
you once you started into it, I do remember that.
I'm surprised there was. I would have thought there was
someone else in that car with us, but now nobody
(32:41):
would come in that car. They were like making fun
of us. We were dying in that car. It was.
It was a trend because we ended up driving out
here to Los Angeles. When we moved out here, we
also didn't internship out here, so we did we did.
We went to Massachusetts once. There's a lot of long
distance drives and and two of the things I remembered was, uh,
you would not like listening to pavement, which wasn't cool.
(33:01):
And then you didn't drive stick shift and you were
you know, so I had to drive the entire time.
But you're you're like twenty now that I think about it,
you were. You were an adult at that point driving
stick shift is not that the problem to figure it out.
I was like, I would have done it, and I
know in theory had to drive stick but your car
wasn't in great shape. So we're like, if you're learning
on this, you might you might break this car. So
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we never actually actually did it. Um, but I uh,
I enjoyed myself. But that was I think that's the
defining moments of our friendship. That was back, going all
the way back to back. That's how I talked to him.
(33:44):
That's how I call him. Is that you want behn
Sebastian back. Come on, I'll take it. Come on, buddy,
I take in the week. I take every week. We
really could go back to uh our friends Stephen A.
Smith and we're gonna this week at least to kick
start our hot take of the week. Um. It's from
(34:04):
Twitter It was from Colin Kaepernick getting benched. There was
still some hours left before the trading deadline, and Stephen
Smith Stephen A. Smith tweeted out, if the Eagles go
and get Colin Kaepernick, they can compete for a super Bowl.
Hot take of the week. That is the most ridiculous
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thing I've ever heard. Some of the other things coming
out in San Francisco this week, like old crusty white
sportswriters saying that Kaepernick is the most arrogant and rude
person that they've ever covered, a lot of hot takes
when it comes to Colin Kaepernick. I don't know if
any of these people have watched Colin Kaepernick play recently.
There's there's no way he would be taking any team
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to the Super Bowl. He can't read a defense, and
I know you know that watching the games you've been
studying him, Anthony, Uh, He's not accurate at all. He
just seems completely out of sorts, defensively illiterate. I will
back you on that, but I think Stephen A. Smith
saying that they can compete for Super Bowl. First of all,
A Smith, everyone can compete for Super Bowl. This is America,
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birthplace of bulls, my favorite part of the whole Kaepernick thing.
And I'm i'm I'm kind of Ifian Kaepernick as a person.
I like that they did this to him pretty much
on his birthday. They cut him hours before his birthday.
He's on the team, he's a backup. He's a backup
to blamee exactly exactly being cut like you're looking for
other stuff. He just got a chill the day before
(35:31):
his birthday. For your birthday. You couldn't have done it
like a day before, waited another day. I I think
that's the funniest part. Like they must not like him
because they knew that, they knew it was a birthday thing.
They wanted to just stick it to him a little extra.
I think they I think they I think they thought
it was funny that they did it. Like I don't
think they planned it, but I think they thought it
was pretty funny. I think that that play where I
(35:54):
don't know if you saw it, where he has his
two receivers out on the side you Tori Smith and
name but and they're both jumped and up and down
like saying, hey, throw the ball. There's literally no defender
over here at all. And he doesn't even notice him.
That's really his career in nutshell. And Tori Smith was
the one who said let's bench him right before his birthday.
(36:14):
I like to that was Raffie, a little surprise for
you right now. This was the part of the show
last week and people love this part of the show.
Anthony makes predictions or he talks to his sources. And
(36:35):
I don't know if you remember this, Anthony. Last week
you talked to your sources about this Cincinnati Bengals and
Pittsburgh Steelers, and uh, Brandon, let's let's listen to what
those sources had to say. And my sources tell me
that the Stewards are kind of overmatched. You know, the
Bengals are planned on all cylinders. They're really doing well.
Dalton's having a great, great season so far. But because
(36:59):
this game is going to have a playoff atmosphere, the
Bank was gonna lose by thirty five points and Dalton
will have a hundred interceptions. Okay, I was I was
off a little bit. You're off by nine interceptions and
the Bengals got it done. And you know what when
I brought up that, Hey, maybe for the show and
headlines this week, let's you know, maybe we'll talk about
Leavy on Bell's injuries out for the season. They signed
(37:20):
a guy named Isaiah Pide. Maybe there's comedic value there.
Who knows. We could talk a little bit about the Steelers.
You responded, No, that's that's too depressing that you that,
you know, we can talk about babies dying or monkeys,
but that the but But the Steelers losses cut so
(37:40):
close to home that you don't even want to talk
about it on an NFL podcast. What do you do?
How do you answer for that? First of all, your
sources and and what about your sources? Have you talked
to them this week? I? You know, I I definitely,
I definitely talked to them. They said it could have
gone either way. Uh, it just a bad break leading
on I'm worried his careers over man like it. It
(38:03):
makes me sad, Like it's a bad that's a bad injury.
I'm only talking about players getting injured unless it's a
kidney related. If it's something internal, it's like an internal
organ has been damaged, then yeah, that's a fair game.
But but yeah, I that that was an upsetting game
for me to watch. I think my season could be over.
It'll be fun. How are you feeling, I mean, therefore
(38:23):
and four, they're still in the wild card mix. They're
not gonna win the division. What is what is your
confidence that Ben Roethlisberger could get them going in the
second half. I mean, they could be six and two
now easily, they could be seven and one now easily.
I just think that I think the things aren't lining
up right right now. And Bell going down the way
he did, I think that might be a press. I
was still going to compete for a wild card. We'll see,
(38:43):
and I guarantee, I guarantee record this right now and like,
just play it back. I guarantee the Steelers beat the
Bengals next time they play. I guarantee they're gonna split
with the with the UH, with everyone. Steelers not winning
a lot of games since we started this. Do you
feel responsible at all? No? I do not. I do
not feel responsible. I feel like I've helped them win
the games that they've won. I think I single handedly
(39:05):
got them over the Phoenix hump Um or the Arizona
hump But but I guarantee, I guarantee we go one
and one against the Browns, we we win our next
game against the Bengals. We win the next game against
the Ravens. I guarantee it. Take it to the bank.
There's the hot take of the week from Anthony Jessel, Like,
all right, let's get to our plans. Don't cut me off.
(39:25):
I can cut you off. I want. It's part of
the show, right, Take it to the bank in real life,
take it to the bank, the blood bank, Senator. Whenever
you take something to the bank, you have to follow
it up by saying, the blood bank Senator. It's from
a movie. You've never seen it, but it's the best.
You know. I'm talking about Brandon, not a It's for
It's come. It's from um, not Out for Justice, not
Marked for Death. What was the first Steven Seagal movie?
(39:49):
Do you know what I'm talking about. I think we're
gonna be able to help you on this one. Steven
Seagal and Kelly LeBrock. Nope, you can take that to
the bank. Listeners can just yell it out in their
empty cards, right before they cry Mike in accident. Yeah,
trying to yell it out. It's worth it if you
die today, they'll be looking on their phone trying to
google it. Let's move to a new segment instead of
your sources because they're clearly unreliable. Um, we're gonna play
(40:12):
a different game with I thought would be interesting. A
lot of people, you know, kind of looking for your
unvarnished take on the NFL. People have been tweeting us
a lot about that, looking for, you know, certain questions.
How do we really feel about certain people? Now I
work for the NFL, UM, I have to be careful
with what I say, at least publicly. I can't you know,
(40:34):
I have to be factual in some of my criticism,
but you don't really need to know. I I kind
of get off on people not liking me, so I
can just say whatever I want. I'm gonna be honest.
I want to be authentic. So I thought i'd be
fun to do a bit where you just give you
throw me some names. They can be people like behind
the camera, in front of the camera, athletes, former athletes, whoever,
(40:54):
and I'll give you my We might do this every week,
just kind of get got to feel the unvarnished true.
Does Anthony like them? Yeah? Go ahead, all right, let's
start with the NFL network coast Rich eisen Rich Eyesen,
great guy. Uh, just the best. You know, he interviewed
me one time and we we got along really well,
and you know, spent spent time talking afterwards. I thought
he was just a cool, really nice guy. NFL commissioner
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Roger Goodell, Oh, beautiful, beautiful man. God knocked that one
out of the park. And I am not exaggerating at all.
I was at the game, Tom Brady, Tom Brady, I
gotta I'm not a fan, like I'm not a fan
of him in general. I think he's bad. I would
compare him to like a Skeletor or Gargamel in terms
(41:39):
of quarterbacking ability. And I think he wants to shoot
the president. Antonio Brown crunk for days, funky, funky fresh
for weeks. What was that? No idea? I've never heard
(42:02):
that before. What was that? I don't know? I figured
out in post? Who cares? All Right, I gotta get
out of here. But um, just before we wrap up,
we haven't talked about my God kids? How are how
are Walker and Ellis? Do? Said? Ay? When I was
bringing Walker and Ellis to school, Walker
Welcome back to the third episode of The Rosenthal and
jessel Nick Vanity Project. Whoa chacka houga houga. That was
(00:21):
most deaf with the intro this week. Thank you to him.
Big fan of Anthony, big fan of this show. You're
you're responsive at the top. They're just getting increasingly ridiculous, Anthony. Yes,
it's going to be. It's gonna be a running theme
as the show goes on. I just think of something
like what would be fun for me to say in
that moment, and I pick up something random. My other option,
actually I might use it next week, so I'm not
gonna tell you. But I was in between two things.
(00:43):
I went with Chaca. We uh, We're back for the
third episode. I'm continually surprised. I was driving with my
wife Emmica, who listened to our first two episodes, which
says a lot about you, really, Anthony, because she never
listens or watches or reads anything I do. I'm not
just saying that to me, Oh yeah, your wife is
so sick of you with the point, It's true, but
(01:04):
she she was saying, there's no way that higher ups
that your bosses are listening to this, because because it
would not continue if that's true. And I think she's
pretty much right. I think if my bosses were listening
to this, they would just be like, why are we
doing this? See I understand why she would think that,
but I disagree. Like this is this billboard, I mean,
(01:24):
this thing is huge. This podcast is huge, number one
on the billboards. Uh. And you know who's on board?
Who Roger Goodell. Wow, I didn't know that. I never
would have guessed him to be a podcast guy, but
he says he listens to a lot of them. I
wrote up in the elevator with him and he said
to me, he looked me and he shook my hand.
He said, anthem, I'm a big fan of your comedy.
But I listened to the podcast both episodes twice, he said.
(01:47):
He mentioned he like kind of squeezed my hand like
extra hard when he said that twice. And he was like,
I watched it twice. And he said, if I could
unzip myself and step out of my own body and
become someone else, you said, I don't want to be you,
which is a quote from Rocky four. And I called
him on it. That was little Wayne. That was a
(02:12):
fun That was a fun run. Last week we played
the same little Waine clip over and over again. We
found out I did not know this, but I found
out that you can use any song you want for
five seconds as long as you say who it was afterwards. Yeah,
you gotta give him credit. That was of course Fireman
by little way that made up? Or is that a
real thing that you can use it at five seconds? Seconds?
And second? That's what I was like to believe. As
(02:34):
long as you're credited, and you're you're kind of talking
about pop culture, we're giving we mean, little Wayne. His
career is not going so well right now. I feel
like the publicity we're giving him is invaluable. And oh
he he was in the elevator with me and Roger
and uh elevator, just the three of us. It's like,
it's Brandon, our producer, by the way, is you guys
are wondering what the who the non famous voices? It's Brandon.
(02:58):
Actually it's more famous than you think. Weird. I think
it would have to be. It's where the elevator gets
so much use in a two two floor building here.
I know, I know, but only the V I P
s get to use it. Um, let's go through. Let's
go through what was cut from last week's episode. People.
I get some tweets, people like why are you working
with the NFL. The NFL works and works with me.
(03:18):
Everybody the NFL works around me, and I get to
say whatever I want, I do whatever I wants, here
coming whenever I want. And then you guys get to edit.
I don't listen, but then you tell me what was
cut out. So let's go through what was cut. Number one.
I have your edited because Greg's a sensitive little girl.
With your wife, Emmaica, we were describing you were just
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we were talking about porn for some reason I remember exactly,
but that while your wife was sleeping, you would edited
for content. Again, Well, you say we, I did not
bring this up at all. Maybe I talked about the
topic because none of this has ever happened. You talked
about it. I think you even described filming it or something.
But yes, and that came up. I have no idea
(04:00):
what it was. Weird. I mean, I understand why it
was edited, but I don't understand why we said it.
Um Number two was a favorite of mine. I invented
a product that I was trying to market, UH called
bed full of Guns, sponsored by Greg Hardy. Uh. So
I made several references to a new product called Greg
Hardy's Bed full of when you want you to sleep
(04:20):
but not too well. Greg Hardy's Bed fell. That was
edited out many many times, And I understand why I
couldn't really fight them on that. That is something they
don't really want to talk about, much less repeat repeatedly.
After that we had we talked about Johnny Manzel and uh,
the Cleveland Browns want him to break up with his girlfriend,
and a lot of that stayed in the show, So
(04:41):
it didn't I I didn't listen, but I know I
was like angry. I was like mad at at the
whole situation that that your your professional quarterback, you're Johnny
Football and your girlfriends in the way that the part
of your anger at Johnny was cool. I think it
was when you started directing it towards the girlfriend felt
a little unfair. Didn't make didn't make the cut. Sure
(05:02):
you don't know where like I do. Um? After that
we cut we cut another reference to breast cancer. Um
what I think? I'm sure we're talking about the pink
that the people players and coaches were wearing. Edited because
October was breast cancer Awareness month. See, if you're just
left it at that, it could have it could have
stayed in. But then when you start going on and on,
that's gonna be edited. Hey, I thought about going to
(05:24):
medical school. We're the worst student I've ever seen. You did.
You barely went to class. That was an English class.
That's right, and now it makes my money. It's not
It's not like after that, after the breast cancer thing,
we cut a story about Greg's truancy as a waiter.
It says you, I don't know, I know, I would
(05:44):
never use the word truancy. We were just talking about
you were a bad waiter. Um. Yeah, I think that's
something about our our summer together. Yeah. Yeah, you were
on the cold line making lobster, you know, making rules,
worked at a restaurant together. I was in the I
was in the kitch, and Gregg was out front. Um,
and uh, I think it was just probably a boring story.
I think anytime we have a story that's more Greg centric,
(06:07):
it's gonna get cut through. No fault of the zone.
After that, a Hitler reference edited for jessel Nik related shenanigans.
So I'm just a history buff um. After that, one
of my favorites. One of my favorite kinds of edits,
the edit that makes no sense whatsoever. But you kind
of understand where we had one of the edits. I
think I used the word, uh, damn, and we're not
(06:29):
allowed to say that. I can say damn if I
want to. I can say God if I want to.
But you throw those two together and it's some mollet
of cocktail. And there are people who don't don't like
it because I can imagine that a lot of our listeners,
heavily religious, heavily all the all of the major religions
listen to it. The pope, the pope bring in a
religious crowd in general. If you are if you believe
(06:51):
in a higher power, that higher power is me. Well.
The best bird about this was that this was one
of those drops edited for blank. It was a drop
in edited that got edited. Yeah, when will it end, Anthony?
Probably this week. There was actually one more um that
(07:11):
you forget there was that that long rant in the
sources section that you had one of your sources in
Philadelphia finally uncovered what is really going on in Chip
Kelly's private life? Oh no, that was in there, fools,
wonder what I meant that was Black Alicious, the new
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Black Alicious, A big fan, a big big hip hop guy. Greg.
Let's do some headlines. Let's do it. Let's start really
at the top of what I think America has been
talking about all week long. Des Bryant's monkey. Does Bryant
owns monkey? Peter not happy with it? Does Bryant released, uh,
(07:54):
you know an Instagram picture He's got his monkey, Dallas.
Bryant is the name. Yeah, it's pretty Uh. I wonder
how many names he had to think of. Foy landed
on Dallas. It couldn't have been a long list. He
you know, posted the picture Instagram. Um. Peter was not
(08:15):
happy about it. They were pointing out, you're not really
supposed to just have monkeys in your house. The monkeys
should be in a sanctuary. Uh. A lot of people
ended up getting asked about this. Jason Garrett was asked
about this. Jerry Jones was asked about this. Jerry Jones. Um, Actually,
let's let's hear what Jerry had to say about it.
(08:35):
I am a monkey saying so such a such a
great quote. Just the way he says you can tell
he's smiling when he said it, like he is a
monkey fan. He's not a lot of people would just
say that just to try to, you know, keep the
players in line. But you can believe Jerry believes it.
I kind of agree with Peter here. I don't think
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I take I don't think that you should have a monkey.
That's why all the monkeys I have in my apartment
are dead. They're all dead monkeys I've got. I've got
thirteen to eighteen, uh dead monks. Don't know the exact number,
but I know it's got to be. It's got to
be like in Rules of Three, because what how do
they all get there? Well, here's what I do is
I'm a taxidermy guy, but I'm kind of lazy about it.
(09:17):
Where what I do is I get the monkey. I
get three monkeys, and I get a board. I got
like a little two by four. And first I start,
I glue the monkey's feet to the boards. All right,
so the monkeys are okay, I feed him. All I'm
doing this, the monkeys are glued to the boards. I
got three monkeys in a row. And then after I
feed them one last time, I put glue on the
monkey's hands and I put one I put them hands
(09:37):
over the mouth, one I put the hands over the eyes,
and then when I put the hands over the ears,
and then like a week later, depending on how much
they ate the first time. A week later, you've got
a great taxidermy. Here, no evil see, no evil, uh speak,
no evil thing. It's it's pretty good. It's like, it's cute.
It's very cute. It's sellable too. It's cute. You know.
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The waiting is the worst part, waiting for them to
find only pass away, but and after they're dead though,
it's a conversation starter. You know, not only why do
you have this, but why do you have so many
of them? The hardest part is you gotta fabreezer constantly.
It's like monkeys living in a rainforest. To some sort
of brain, it's just fabreeze. I don't think about it,
(10:18):
about it, thinking of my plan to put the can't depending.
Don't digging in my pet. That was Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar.
Can't just go indie with this stuff. We gotta go
with the big big guys. Yeah, we go with what
we like. We get to choose. Another story in the
news in the NFL out of San Diego this week,
(10:40):
Sad I'm a big Keenan Allen fan. I don't know
if you watch the Chargers at all out here in
l A. They're the closest thing we have to a
local team. Keenan Ivory Island keen and I he was.
He was on the last comic standing right, great host.
He the receiver, of course, out for the Chargers, one
of the leading receivers in the league. I think he
(11:02):
has the third most catches through eight weeks in NFL history,
but he will not get any more catches this season
because he has a lacerated kidney that will knock him
out for the rest of the season. Last Dyney, what
happened to the football that I grew up with? You know,
remember remember back in the day when Ronnie Lott cut
off half his kidney so he wouldn't have to miss
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a play in the preseason re bands both shoes. J cool,
I'm back in New England. That was apathy. That was
(11:43):
way too long. That was way too long. I wanted it.
I like the interest. You gotta pick. You gotta pick
the part of the song that it's gonna be texted earlier,
I said it starts at ten because you gotta have
you gotta have that. I mean, that's great. That could
be the start of the show right now, if we
can get Apathy and you were you were wrong, you
were wrong. I should have just completely just stopped him there.
(12:06):
You could buy pass me and go straight to Anthony
for all musical I thought not. I thought it was
funny and don't talk to me like Apathy was your choice,
Like I gave you that song. I was like, You've
got to hear this guy, Apathy. He just raps about
being from New England. It's hilarious and he's great. He's great.
What's the next I can pick whoever I want, act
like whoever I want. We're going to talk about Matt
Liner and Ken Wizz and Hunt's firing in Tennessee. Of course.
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Uh you know Ken Well from his days with the
Pittsburgh Steelers. Nobody beats Wizz. We all loved, we all
loved was a lot of people thought that Wish should
get the job after Kawer left. Yeah I was. I
was one of those guys. But I love tom One.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a big Tom One fan,
but I like Wizz and Hunt. Um, I think the
story is not so much of the whizz got fired,
it's more to The more interesting part to me is
Matt Leiner. It's reaction to it. Yes, Matt Liner, he
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enjoys nothing more really than the demise of Ken wizzen Hut.
I've never seen anyone said publicly open about, you know,
stomping on a guy's grave. When the minute he gets fired,
the second it gets fired, he puts out a tweet
that says karma, and then another tweet that says, well,
now Marcus Mody, Martin Mariotta finally has a chance. Yeah,
(13:15):
I love it. I mean the thing about me is
like no one can deny that Ken wizzen Hunt as
a coach was unbeatable. Wait wait, wait, wait, wait stop there,
what's up? Brendan he Uh's three and twenty was his
record with the Titans NI very beat nigh unbeatable. I
bet those I bet a lot of those were close games.
But I love that Matt Liner will never let it go,
(13:37):
Like he'll be at Ken wizzen Hunt's funeral talking about
this stuff, like he'll be at funerals for other wizzen Hunts,
be tweeting at his futer just in case Ken shows
up to pay his respects, like you know, you know,
Liner has got Google alerts, and I feel like this
is like Lionons only happiness. Like I can see him
like walking around his apartment, like carrying his Higsman in
one hand and tweeting out, tweeting out karma to uh
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to wisen it with the other one. It's a little chilly,
Go get me comblo. That was ghost Face Killer, one
of my favorite killers. I gotta bring up something not
in football, but it's near and dear to your heart, Anthony.
(14:23):
This week, Chippotle had the shutter forty restaurants after allegedly
feeding Koli two customers in their Halloween burrito or some
sort of spooky burrito themed. Now, listeners may not know this,
but you have a close relationship with Chippotle. Your highest honor,
(14:47):
I would say, in your entire career is that Chippotle
reached out to you and handed you something the public
probably wouldn't know exists, but some sort of celebrity card
where you can go to Chippotle lay any day of
the week, any day of the year, and get a
free burrito. Yes, this is kind of sad for me, Like,
(15:07):
I don't know if you know, I lost my wallet
last week. I hadn't lost my wallet in years, but
I lost my wallet and credit cards, replaceable driver's license
like a new one, but my celebrity card from Chipotle,
which i've I loved, I loved, and I honestly haven't
been there in a while. Like I kind of embarrassed.
The employees kind of embarrassed me when I went in. Well,
for a while, you were, you were going every day.
I went every day. There's one around the corner from
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my house, and I went like every day, and it's
only like seven dollar. It's not like I need the
free burrito. But I thought I thought it was like
so cool that I could that I could go do it.
But then eventually the employees were like, hey, man, you
come in here every day, had like a new burrito,
Like what's up? Like like what's going on? And then
I had to stop. Do you think that any celebrity
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has ever used that card more than you? Here's like
I can't imagine that. You know they give it to
Jessica Alba and that she's stopping by every day. Here's
what I'll say. I know a couple of other celebrities
who have them, and like never used, and there's like, yeah,
I got one too. I know a lot athletes have them.
A lot of athletes use them, so I bet I guarantee.
I bet like half the NFL has them. Um, which
would be fun thing to ask players if they have
a free Chipportle card when they When I got embarrassed
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when the when the one kid was like like, why
do you come in here every day? He's like he's like,
only get two of these celebrity cards here at this location.
And he said, but you and Elizabeth Berkeley coming every day.
I thought that was so funny that like me and
Elizabeth Berkeley from show Girls are coming every day to
uh to UH to get our free BREEDOU. It's amazing you.
I've rarely seen you so giddy with excitement as you
(16:31):
were the day first of all that you found out
it existed and they told you about it. And then
I I saw you like eight months later, and you're like, correct,
you know, you know what happened this week? And your
eyes just like lit up like a little kid and
said like, look what came in the mail. It's very little. Uh.
There's very few things that bring you joy in life,
and yet that was one of them. Remember that was
the day you told me that your son was born
and I just didn't care, like I was like, but
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I got this sport hard and uh and you were.
You were actually more excited to tackle at the combination
Pizza Bell that was Das Racist. Das Racist. Let people
think it's doss. I did for many years, and then
I met them and they were like, really, yeah, you
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met them. I met them at a I met him
a bumber shoot, a music festival in Seattle. One of
the guys from Das Racist. His brother is a comedian,
Harry Knabalu, and so we were hanging out and they
were like, nope, it's it's it's DAS And I felt
pretty dumb. I taught Ellis when she was She still
sings it often, but when she was like one and
a half and was just getting going in terms of
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her talking, that was one of the first things I
taught her was that song. It was interesting I remember
that because you wouldn't a lot of parents want their
kids to talk as soon as possible. You made her
wait a year and a half. You made her way
to the full eighteen months before she could open her mouth.
Do you think did you ever feel like that was cruel?
She she's the head of pace Walker really is the one. Yeah,
it's struggling right now. She doesn't like to talk to
(17:56):
you in particular. That's that's part of your your wold dynamic.
I still have the rocks she gave me. She's really
do you. Yeah. I keep it on a shelf and
just in case she asked about it again. Us. Uh,
Gregg's daughter gave me a rock and twenty minutes later like,
where's that rock? And I pulled it in my pocket
and everyone was blown away. But I hadn't just thrown
the rock away immediately. But I'll save it. That's what
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we did with him. I believe it. I believe it.
It's got a lot of rocks, all right, Anthony. You
went to Catholic school growing up. This is our final
headline of the week. Right, you went to Catholic? I was.
I was. My dad tried his best to raise me Catholic,
even though I've rejected it. Uh, because it was all
public schools as hard as you possibly can, Yeah, I
went to public school. I did not have to go
to Catholic school. You did some C C D stuff.
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I guess. Oh yeah, I was talking about even if
he went to Catholic school, probably would have lasted what
a day? If that, if that, if that, I was
not a good I was not a good Catholic. Catholic
school in Cincinnati, Hamilton's County suspended a six year old
this week for pretending to shoot imaginary bow and arrows
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at classmates at recess. Was upsetting them, upsetting the other students.
They got the six year old out of there. You
would think that if anyone could appreciate the power of
imagination would be the Catholic Church. Uh. First of all. Secondly,
I don't think this is wrong at all. People think like, oh,
people are being too hard on this kid. I think
it's I don't think it's wrong. He's suspended, but he's
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not missing any games, you know. I mean it's not
that it's not that long game checks. But when you're
dealing with children, I don't think you're going far enough.
You're this kid, I think you should be executed. What
who is that? As an example to others, just to
stop the plague of imaginary weapons everywhere? When not when
I'm not in school. You know, if you want to
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go home and Hunger Games it up. You know you're
in a robin hood all around your your bedroom, you
know your wrong room. You can go ahead and do that,
but once you get to school, I think you should
be executed. Like the Room and the pot to the
fifth Dade split on him. Run the Jewels, That's what
that was My favorites. Run the Jewels. I love are
(20:04):
You're really just living out your dream to be like
a vj oh I love it. I just like that.
That was That was Round the Jewels. It's fun. Let's
let's talk a little bit. Um. We went through the
headlines there. What what a what a wrap up? Greg,
Thanks buddy. We we went what have you been doing?
What have you been doing for Halloween? For instance? Did
you do anything for Halloween. I'm not a big Halloween guy.
(20:26):
I don't like dressing up, you know, I don't like
the crowds. Like Halloween and St. Patrick's Day are two days.
I was like, let me stay in my apartment and
not do anything. I went to a birthday party this
weekend for a friend on Friday, but then Saturday just
stayed in and watch movies. I like to get like
horror movies on and I saw this amazing horror movie
that it's It's one of those movies you ever have
something that you like, you love, but you have a
hard time recommending it because you know someone else is
(20:48):
gonna hate it. Like I'm a weird everything. That's true. Yeah,
I'm a freak. Like I'm a weirdo. But if you're like, hey, Anthony,
I'd like to watch what you watch and something that
like a horror movie that I stayed up all night long,
not scared, but like thinking about it. It's a movie
called Martyrs. It's called Martyrs. It's a it's a French
horror movie from like early two thousands, maybe mid two thousand's,
(21:10):
but it is bonkers. It is totally bonkers. I watched that,
and then to calm down afterwards, I watched the movie
called Inside, which is also like another French extreme horror movie.
They're both on iTunes, you can find them easily. Um,
and that's supposed to be one of the most crazy
horror movies ever. And I watched that to calm down
after Martyrs. I recommend both these movies, um, but I
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would love to know what people thought, because it's so
crazy that if you're like, I hate you from I like,
if you were like Anthony, I watched this and then
I poked out my own eyes, I would I would
be like, yeah, I can see you having that reaction. Well,
you've You've dragged me to a lot of movies over
the years, and some that I wouldn't even dragged me
to many movies over the years, Like you're the more
art house. I'm more like. I'm like, I dragged you
(21:53):
to see Deep Blue Sea exactly. Would have never gotten
to see Deeply see like, but sometimes it's a big
hit you you We went to some Scandinavian movie recently.
Do you remember that one where the guy uh who
was in Hannibal? Actually he just the TV show. It's
a Western and he just kills everyone. It's pretty That
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was a great That was a good one. That was
a good one. You want to me to go see
a Morris Paros That was a great one. That was
it was all right, but it wasn't like you you
had to make me go see that movie. But it
was pretty good. Did you see have you seen U?
I saw Steve Jobs this week. We love Steve Jobs.
It's bombing, but I loved it. I love the dialogue
and that. Um, that's great. People should go see that movie.
(22:35):
It's underrated. Uh and I think it would have been
a big hit if we'd gotten if we'd gotten Fincher
in there, as opposed to whoever the hell directed it.
I don't know. It was amazing, No, I know that.
But a movie that's almost entirely dialogue, and which is great,
great dialogue. I love the movie and the main character
is essentially like those movies. Don't do you like those movies?
(22:58):
Love reminding of yourself? Yes? But I do great? I
do great. I love that movie and all, you know,
one last shout out to movies. I saw I Smile
Back the Sarah Silverman movie, which is like all about depression.
It's a tough set. But if you love Sarah Silverman
like I do, you don't love as much as I do.
But if you likest, go see this movie. You once
introduced me to her, which is cool. Like when you
do little things like that, why not? Yeah? You were
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you were? You cool? That was cool? Alright? When did
that happen? Where was it was like at the back
of a show, right, like an improv or largo or something?
Maybe largo. I mean I just said hi, very now
you can get me self conscious about it. I want
to introduced someone to her. A friend came to a
show and he goes, how old are you? I wanted
to kill him. I wanted to cut his I think
he told me that story that night, being like, don't don't,
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don't blow this, Greg, No, this is a more reason
that the how old are you? Was more reason that
I was. I was not. I was not happy. And
you know what. You know what time it is, Greg,
It's it's screener time. It's screen of time. What people
don't understand about celebrities is that they get screeners, Like
I don't have to go see movies if I don't
one to around the around Awards season, I just get
things sent to me, like DVDs get sent to me.
That just celebrities. You could be a low level w G,
(24:08):
a writer whatever. It's true, if you're in the if
you're in one of the Writer's Guild, producers, guild, directors.
I'm in the Writer's Guild. I'm in the Actor's guild.
So I get these things, and I got I've gotten
too so far. One is called Grandma with Lily Tomlin,
which I will never watch, and I recommend no one watching,
and then I got by the other night, I got
straight out of Compton, which I was very excited I've
never seen. And there's a scene in here that you
would love that reminded me of you when I watched
(24:29):
it the other night. Remember, we used to laugh in
college about about the idea of Dr Dre like waking
up in the morning and then just waking up and
getting a big pile of like of of mail and
then reading it in every letter saying Dre fell off. No,
I don't remember the chronic and the album chronic is
(24:49):
that line where he was like, now all I do
is like like reading hate mail days andre Ful. Often
we're like just the idea of him reading all of it.
It's just like another another bag and getting matter and matter.
But he's like still has to do it, like it
keeps thinking the next one's gonna make an invitation to
a Christen. He's fueled by that negativity. And in this
inn the Compton, there's a scene where ice Cube is
recording a disc track against n w A has left
(25:10):
the group and he's recording it. And while he's recording it,
they're showing a montage of all the guys from end
tow and there's like ton of them all listening to
the songs separately. And when they get to their part
of the disk that this is them, you see their
reaction in the real time, and it is hilarious. It's
so funny to watch these guys react to the disk track.
I loved it. I I gotta get that. I mean,
(25:31):
I would love to, like, let you borrow this, but
I can't. Yeah, you used to sometimes bring over screeners
at least for you know, Emma, that you thought she
would like. But now I found it's illegal. Like what
I have to do. What I'm supposed to do now
is I watch it myself by myself, and then I
have to I have to cut it up. I have
to cut up the seeds the DVD. Yeah, you could
just keep it in your house. No that's not that's
(25:52):
not what they say. They say you gotta cut it
up right away. You watch it once and then you
destroy it. And I'm gonna destroy it right now. You're
brought to here for that. I've had to show you
because I want you to remember how good it is.
And then I'm gonna break it. No, no, no, Vanilla
remain in the game to break bline salts it into
something that was killer. Mike, one of the members of
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Run the Jewels, edited to keep Greg's job. Maybe we'll
leave it. I think watching you struggle with no I
thought you were gonna make some sound effects there, so well,
what sound effects am I gonna make? I just cut it.
I just cut the DVD and half as is legally
required of me. Let's go to our listener of the week.
Let's was a big hit on last week's show. We
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got a lot of great listeners this week that I
wanted to put themselves forward, but only two could really
make the cut. Was it a tight competition, like I
don't I don't look at Twitter, I don't read these
I don't read these things. Yeah, there was a lot
of people, and we do appreciate everyone, you know, saying
that they liked the show and hoping that it's not
getting canceled. And one said that it makes me more likable,
(26:57):
or that now they think I'm I'm cooler than they
used to think I was. That's good, you're rubbing off me.
One said, these are to buying one of your albums
now they didn't You didn't even have never done that before,
so that's cool. But the winner to check my bank account.
The winner is Nick Heaton from at Boston Pats. I
love the show. But and then he sent a picture
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Anthony want to show you, but this is what happens
when me and two other podcast listeners collide. Hastag Vanity
Project and he has a picture of a three car accident.
So once again someone is listening to the podcast. And
then just they listened to your advice last week, which
I didn't think was particularly responsible. You closed your eyes,
(27:41):
recommended people close their eyes drifting too the other lane
and see what happened. A lot of podcasts, a lot
of car accidents because of this podcast. You can see
in this picture you can see the in the middle car.
They're kind of laughing. You can tell they're still listening
to it the podcast. But I think because of this podcast,
people are gonna die in car accidents. That's a fact.
And a lot of people the NFL have talked about
us maybe suspending the podcast until driverless cars are invented
(28:05):
so that people can people can be safe out there.
But I say, I say, you know what cost what
cost greatness? This cost greatness? This podcast is kind of
a car accident. I don't think my timing on the
last joke was yeah, well, I think you're part of
it is a car accident like yours. Like I'm like
flying a plane around and you're like trying You're like
trying to like to a three point turn in the
(28:26):
cargo hold in a car. Your analogy is totally falling.
Our second listener of the week, just to show how
much we're really infiltrating the NFL media landscape, is Ian
Rappaport rap Sheet are our very own inside or NFL
media inside or Ian Rappaport one of his friends, Sheep
(28:46):
is our second listener of the week. Uh He rap
Sheet sent out a tweet or a text message back
and forth with Ian and Sheep where you know, he
was making sure that Ian's actually listing. Ian, of course
is not listening, which isn't cool, but he was just saying,
it's hysterical. They play a bunch of stuff out a
little way. It's great. I mean, my favorite part of this,
(29:08):
and now that I'm looking at it, is that Ian
Rappaport has his friend in his phone under the name Idiots,
not just like one idiot, but like idiots, the idiot friends. Okay,
so it's like a bunch of gas. I don't know.
I don't think so. It sounds like Sheep is just
like multiple idiots, like Shep is, SHEP contains multitudes and
they're all done. But thank you, thank you. Ian. I
don't know who you are, but I hear. Uh you've
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got a lot of followers, as if that meant anything
that was broken social scene kind of kind of getting
out of the hip hop realm. That one's kind of
a little surprised me a little bit. But it's a
great song. You should listen to the rest of it
if you get the chance. Weekly ask Anthony questions, Ask Anthony,
(29:53):
I like these. What was the defining moment of your
friendship with Greg? This is from Frank. Okay, this is
a good one, and I think it's it's good because
you have no idea what the answer is. You have
no clue, Like nothing even pops into your head. You're
just like you like, woke up one day and we've
been friends for years. You don't you don't remember. I'll
tell you why, and I want to know if you
agree with me on this one. All right, Greg and
(30:14):
I we kind of hit it off when we first
met at two Lane. We we met joining a fraternity
and we were friends with everybody, and we kind of
we liked each other sense of humor. We got along,
but we weren't like best friends yet the way we
are today. Here's the moment best friends, best friends. Name
a better friend than me? Dy've they've been? It might
be a tie, Not anymore. I think I've blown him
(30:36):
out of the water by by by a million miles by, Dave.
I don't like to rank friends. We should you should?
You shoul definitely get your top two in order, Uh, Dave,
Dave cannot compare it to me and what I've done
for you in your life. Here's the story sophomore year.
Beginning of sophomore year at two Lane, A lot of
times going to school in New Orleans, A lot of
(30:56):
times you had to leave because of a hurricane at
two Lane. And the first time we had to was
the beginning of my sophomore year. And the hurricane didn't
actually hit, but we had to leave and there were
two cars leaving. We're gonna go to Houston to go
stay at a friend's parents house. We know how bad
the hurricane was. Gonna be traffic is insane. We've got
to leave early one morning. It's like you've got to
get out of town for your life. And there's two
cars going. One car is our friend Jamie, which was
(31:17):
a very nice it was like a land Rover, like
all leather, seeds, all air conditioned, and it's like he's
got plenty of room in there, and he's got he's
got everything, and he's rich and he's gonna he's gonna
drive everybody, and you're like, no, I can't leave my
car I've got. This was a Nissan CenTra. It was
like a early nineties early nineties on CenTra, a stick shift,
like barely drove around. It was like on his last
(31:38):
legs knew. It's like I can't leave it here. If
there's a storm, I've got to drive it too. So
we gotta take two cars. And nobody wanted to ride
with you. You had no air conditioning, and I was like,
you know what, I'll ride with you, Greg, And so
for like twelve straight hours we were in a car
not only with no air conditioning, but we had to
turn the heat on because your car was gonna overheat.
(31:58):
In August in Louisiana, stuck in traffic with the heat
drawn full blast, just your CDs, which I think every
CD you owned was by Pavement, who I do not like.
And we had to talk and fill time for from
that amount of time, and on the way back, like
we bonded. We talked about everything there was to talk
about it we ran out of things. And then on
(32:19):
the way back, after like a week in Houston, we're like,
I was like, oh, maybe I can go and James
gone now and you were like, nope. Now we're best
friends forever. Now you're riding with me all the time.
That's a touching story. I was expecting some sort of
gut punch there at no no, I know, and once
you once you started into it, I do remember that.
I'm surprised there was. I would have thought there was
someone else in that car with us, but now nobody
(32:41):
would come in that car. They were like making fun
of us. We were dying in that car. It was.
It was a trend because we ended up driving out
here to Los Angeles. When we moved out here, we
also didn't internship out here, so we did we did.
We went to Massachusetts once. There's a lot of long
distance drives and and two of the things I remembered was, uh,
you would not like listening to pavement, which wasn't cool.
(33:01):
And then you didn't drive stick shift and you were
you know, so I had to drive the entire time.
But you're you're like twenty now that I think about it,
you were. You were an adult at that point driving
stick shift is not that the problem to figure it out.
I was like, I would have done it, and I
know in theory had to drive stick but your car
wasn't in great shape. So we're like, if you're learning
on this, you might you might break this car. So
(33:23):
we never actually actually did it. Um, but I uh,
I enjoyed myself. But that was I think that's the
defining moments of our friendship. That was back, going all
the way back to back. That's how I talked to him.
(33:44):
That's how I call him. Is that you want behn
Sebastian back. Come on, I'll take it. Come on, buddy,
I take in the week. I take every week. We
really could go back to uh our friends Stephen A.
Smith and we're gonna this week at least to kick
start our hot take of the week. Um. It's from
(34:04):
Twitter It was from Colin Kaepernick getting benched. There was
still some hours left before the trading deadline, and Stephen
Smith Stephen A. Smith tweeted out, if the Eagles go
and get Colin Kaepernick, they can compete for a super Bowl.
Hot take of the week. That is the most ridiculous
(34:26):
thing I've ever heard. Some of the other things coming
out in San Francisco this week, like old crusty white
sportswriters saying that Kaepernick is the most arrogant and rude
person that they've ever covered, a lot of hot takes
when it comes to Colin Kaepernick. I don't know if
any of these people have watched Colin Kaepernick play recently.
There's there's no way he would be taking any team
(34:48):
to the Super Bowl. He can't read a defense, and
I know you know that watching the games you've been
studying him, Anthony, Uh, He's not accurate at all. He
just seems completely out of sorts, defensively illiterate. I will
back you on that, but I think Stephen A. Smith
saying that they can compete for Super Bowl. First of all,
A Smith, everyone can compete for Super Bowl. This is America,
(35:09):
birthplace of bulls, my favorite part of the whole Kaepernick thing.
And I'm i'm I'm kind of Ifian Kaepernick as a person.
I like that they did this to him pretty much
on his birthday. They cut him hours before his birthday.
He's on the team, he's a backup. He's a backup
to blamee exactly exactly being cut like you're looking for
other stuff. He just got a chill the day before
(35:31):
his birthday. For your birthday. You couldn't have done it
like a day before, waited another day. I I think
that's the funniest part. Like they must not like him
because they knew that, they knew it was a birthday thing.
They wanted to just stick it to him a little extra.
I think they I think they I think they thought
it was funny that they did it. Like I don't
think they planned it, but I think they thought it
was pretty funny. I think that that play where I
(35:54):
don't know if you saw it, where he has his
two receivers out on the side you Tori Smith and
name but and they're both jumped and up and down
like saying, hey, throw the ball. There's literally no defender
over here at all. And he doesn't even notice him.
That's really his career in nutshell. And Tori Smith was
the one who said let's bench him right before his birthday.
(36:14):
I like to that was Raffie, a little surprise for
you right now. This was the part of the show
last week and people love this part of the show.
Anthony makes predictions or he talks to his sources. And
(36:35):
I don't know if you remember this, Anthony. Last week
you talked to your sources about this Cincinnati Bengals and
Pittsburgh Steelers, and uh, Brandon, let's let's listen to what
those sources had to say. And my sources tell me
that the Stewards are kind of overmatched. You know, the
Bengals are planned on all cylinders. They're really doing well.
Dalton's having a great, great season so far. But because
(36:59):
this game is going to have a playoff atmosphere, the
Bank was gonna lose by thirty five points and Dalton
will have a hundred interceptions. Okay, I was I was
off a little bit. You're off by nine interceptions and
the Bengals got it done. And you know what when
I brought up that, Hey, maybe for the show and
headlines this week, let's you know, maybe we'll talk about
Leavy on Bell's injuries out for the season. They signed
(37:20):
a guy named Isaiah Pide. Maybe there's comedic value there.
Who knows. We could talk a little bit about the Steelers.
You responded, No, that's that's too depressing that you that,
you know, we can talk about babies dying or monkeys,
but that the but But the Steelers losses cut so
(37:40):
close to home that you don't even want to talk
about it on an NFL podcast. What do you do?
How do you answer for that? First of all, your
sources and and what about your sources? Have you talked
to them this week? I? You know, I I definitely,
I definitely talked to them. They said it could have
gone either way. Uh, it just a bad break leading
on I'm worried his careers over man like it. It
(38:03):
makes me sad, Like it's a bad that's a bad injury.
I'm only talking about players getting injured unless it's a
kidney related. If it's something internal, it's like an internal
organ has been damaged, then yeah, that's a fair game.
But but yeah, I that that was an upsetting game
for me to watch. I think my season could be over.
It'll be fun. How are you feeling, I mean, therefore
(38:23):
and four, they're still in the wild card mix. They're
not gonna win the division. What is what is your
confidence that Ben Roethlisberger could get them going in the
second half. I mean, they could be six and two
now easily, they could be seven and one now easily.
I just think that I think the things aren't lining
up right right now. And Bell going down the way
he did, I think that might be a press. I
was still going to compete for a wild card. We'll see,
(38:43):
and I guarantee, I guarantee record this right now and like,
just play it back. I guarantee the Steelers beat the
Bengals next time they play. I guarantee they're gonna split
with the with the UH, with everyone. Steelers not winning
a lot of games since we started this. Do you
feel responsible at all? No? I do not. I do
not feel responsible. I feel like I've helped them win
the games that they've won. I think I single handedly
(39:05):
got them over the Phoenix hump Um or the Arizona
hump But but I guarantee, I guarantee we go one
and one against the Browns, we we win our next
game against the Bengals. We win the next game against
the Ravens. I guarantee it. Take it to the bank.
There's the hot take of the week from Anthony Jessel, Like,
all right, let's get to our plans. Don't cut me off.
(39:25):
I can cut you off. I want. It's part of
the show, right, Take it to the bank in real life,
take it to the bank, the blood bank, Senator. Whenever
you take something to the bank, you have to follow
it up by saying, the blood bank Senator. It's from
a movie. You've never seen it, but it's the best.
You know. I'm talking about Brandon, not a It's for
It's come. It's from um, not Out for Justice, not
Marked for Death. What was the first Steven Seagal movie?
(39:49):
Do you know what I'm talking about. I think we're
gonna be able to help you on this one. Steven
Seagal and Kelly LeBrock. Nope, you can take that to
the bank. Listeners can just yell it out in their
empty cards, right before they cry Mike in accident. Yeah,
trying to yell it out. It's worth it if you
die today, they'll be looking on their phone trying to
google it. Let's move to a new segment instead of
your sources because they're clearly unreliable. Um, we're gonna play
(40:12):
a different game with I thought would be interesting. A
lot of people, you know, kind of looking for your
unvarnished take on the NFL. People have been tweeting us
a lot about that, looking for, you know, certain questions.
How do we really feel about certain people? Now I
work for the NFL, UM, I have to be careful
with what I say, at least publicly. I can't you know,
(40:34):
I have to be factual in some of my criticism,
but you don't really need to know. I I kind
of get off on people not liking me, so I
can just say whatever I want. I'm gonna be honest.
I want to be authentic. So I thought i'd be
fun to do a bit where you just give you
throw me some names. They can be people like behind
the camera, in front of the camera, athletes, former athletes, whoever,
(40:54):
and I'll give you my We might do this every week,
just kind of get got to feel the unvarnished true.
Does Anthony like them? Yeah? Go ahead, all right, let's
start with the NFL network coast Rich eisen Rich Eyesen,
great guy. Uh, just the best. You know, he interviewed
me one time and we we got along really well,
and you know, spent spent time talking afterwards. I thought
he was just a cool, really nice guy. NFL commissioner
(41:17):
Roger Goodell, Oh, beautiful, beautiful man. God knocked that one
out of the park. And I am not exaggerating at all.
I was at the game, Tom Brady, Tom Brady, I
gotta I'm not a fan, like I'm not a fan
of him in general. I think he's bad. I would
compare him to like a Skeletor or Gargamel in terms
(41:39):
of quarterbacking ability. And I think he wants to shoot
the president. Antonio Brown crunk for days, funky, funky fresh
for weeks. What was that? No idea? I've never heard
(42:02):
that before. What was that? I don't know? I figured
out in post? Who cares? All Right, I gotta get
out of here. But um, just before we wrap up,
we haven't talked about my God kids? How are how
are Walker and Ellis? Do? Said? Ay? When I was
bringing Walker and Ellis to school, Walker
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