Ep. 4: Air Bud takes over, Rex Ryan's bad jokes

Anthony Jeselnik and Gregg Rosenthal go in depth about the origins of Air Bud, Buffalo Bills head coach Rex Ryan trying to be funny and the boys deliver their locks of love. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to episode four of the Rosenthal and jessel Nick
Vanity Project r j v P. We're still trying to
figure out what this show is, but we're still cranking. Anthony.
We're the Mayor of Kings, Destroyer of Worlds. Welcome to

(00:27):
the episode four of our j VP r j v P.
Anthony really wants, for branding purposes, to yell that as
much as humanly possible, it's fun to yell what's going on?
We uh, you were at my house last night. We
were kind of going over the show. That's how seriously
you are taking things. You also are now watching football

(00:49):
more regularly from like a you know, a scholarly perspective,
because you're a trained NFL analyst. Now stop talking like
I'm like a transfer student, like I came over from
like China, and I'm just like learning the game. Like
I've watched the football. I'm just on the road a lot.
I don't get to watch I don't get to watch
a lot of games. But this week I got to
watch Raider Steelers being in l A. They it was
a nationally televised game. How was I was sitting home

(01:10):
watching watching the games all Sunday? It was awesome. It
was a great It was a great game. I only
seen Ben going down, but I enjoyed, you know, getting
to sit there with a friend having some mimosas, ordering
breakfast and uh and enjoying myself. I uh, I like
to watch the game. I was a little confused at first. Um,
he thought this was funny, But I thought I thought
it was even funny at first. Like I see in
the top left corner of the screen during all the

(01:32):
games yesterday, because it's it's it's a Veterans Day, they're
celebrating veterans as they should. Um, and I see there's
a ribbon in the top left corner, and I thought,
Like the first game, I was like, why has the
NFL adopted the AIDS ribbon for their the fiftieth anniversary
of the Super Bowl? Like I thought, that's what it was.
And then my friend explained to me, No, that is

(01:52):
for veterans. It's not that's not the Why would you
immediately think it's the eight I don't even really have
that association. Why that be because that ribbon, like the
ribbon that they use which is for veterans, and they
use it for breast cancer and different diseases um a
lot of them. It originally originated as the AIDS. That
was the first. They were the first cause to to
use that. So it's it's an appropriate mark for some things.

(02:14):
But I thought it was hilarious that the NFL would
use it as their their fiftieth anniversary marking. But I
was wrong. That would be a strange move by the NFL.
We uh, we have to wear those pins. Were encouraged
to wear those pins Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October
and then veterans Um Appreciation for the Military in November.
So every every video hit that we do for NFL

(02:37):
Now or NFL Network, you gotta you gotta find one
of those pins if you've lost it. It's it's like
the makeup ladies least favorite month of the year because
they're trying to track down these pins. Edited for a
severe lack of respect, but I think I think the
way to do that Greg And so you don't lose
your pin as you put them on like the Marines
do it. You know what I mean. You don't use

(02:58):
the back, You put it just right into your chest
and you have your friend's head butt you onto the
pen until you start bleeding. That's that's the NFL way
big week for you. That's a big week. I mean,
you're you're prepping, you know, you're doing some writing, but
you know in your life you are moving this week.
I'm moving. I'm moving out of an apartment into a
new an apartment. Yeah. Yes, but you're moving in the

(03:19):
most anthony Jessely nick way possible back into your old
apartment that you moved out of wet only a year
and a half ago or a year ago. I'm moving
out for a very anthony reason, which I won't get into.
But I'm also I am left an apartment building and
I'm moved to this new one, and I didn't like it.
So I'm moving back and not in the same apartment,
but the same building, which is a very mean thing
to do. Don't you just feel like you just wasted

(03:40):
a lot of time and money with this whole back
and forth. Certainly, certainly you paid a decorator lots of
money to like put together your new apartment, you know,
a year ago, and now all that money is basically
gone because you're moving back to the old one. It
was a sunk cost. You know. I thought about it,
and I thought I have to leave this place as
soon as possible, and I ran. I ran for the

(04:01):
hills and it cost me some money. But what's money
for if not for wasting it on moving through from
apartment to apartment. It is pretty amazing to set up
that people like you have, that you can just like literally,
you're checking yourself into a hotel. You're not doing anything
move related, and then you just show up to your
new apartment. It'll be all set up for you. Yeah.

(04:21):
I leave on Sunday and I'm just walking to my
new apartment on Tuesday. I don't box anything. I don't
know what. It's all set up in a certain place
like and designed and and I don't know what that is.
Don't like. They're like, do you want me to show you?
And I'm like, I don't care. I just do what
you think is good. And that's fine, Brandon. Is that
is that how your moves are? And actually I went
to look at a place today, an apartment that uh,

(04:43):
I have to do on my own. It stinks. Look
for a place and then I'm gonna have to move
stuff in there myself. I'm sure. Man, if I was you,
I would kill myself, all right, Maybe start practicing your
stand up. Brandon, that was old Drew, your old drug

(05:07):
one of my favorite new rappers. Uh sent me a
direct message on Twitter, which made me very excited. He
told me, and I quote, I fox with your comedy.
Uh as that's spelled fu X. Okay, that's actually not
even a swear, Brandon. I think that's safe. We're good
to go. Guys did it with the X and I was.
I foxed with your comedy is the favorite thing I've
ever heard, so I thought i'd give him give him

(05:29):
a shout out throughout the show tonight. I'm gonna play
several your old Drew songs. Y O U R O
L D D double O G. You really questioned. He's
got three albums. They're great. Um, let's go through what
was cut from last week's episode. It's one of our
favorite weekly segments for our regular listeners now, which we
which we appreciate you. They've been growing in mass and
we're getting pretty meta now because we keep on. Last

(05:50):
week was pretty clean. Uh, you know, fortunately or unfortunately
depending on how you look at it. UM, I think
this is gonna be a heavier episode for our our
j VP fans. Anthony listened to it and then told
Brandon before today show, like we were way too easy
on you last week. We want to screw this show up. Wait,
did he actually listen to it? Or is that I did?
I legit. This is the first one I listened to.

(06:11):
I have not listened to the other two, but I
listened to this one just to see like what was
going on. I didn't talk about the dings and all
that stuff, so I got to listen to it. A
good job, Thank you, Brandon, better than I ever would
have expected from you. Um. But I want to go
through a lot of these things that I'm gonna talk
about that that were edited, have been edited from every episode,
like things that we joked about in the first episode,
and then trying to explain it in what got edited

(06:32):
from last week. So try to explain it in a
way where it doesn't get edited. That's what I'm gonna do.
That's what I was setting up Greg, Thank you, Thank you. Um.
This one has been difficult to talk about, and it's
so long ago. I didn't remember what the joke was.
But what got edited was talking about Greg's wife being
asleep and Greg manipulating her limbs into different positions while

(06:52):
she's sleeping as if you would like a Barbie doll
or some sort of like plaything while it was sleeping,
and then filming this UM and I think that should
get through what I just said. That's the cleanest way
I can say that. UM. I'm just sick of it
and I want it gone. Another thing that got cut,
that got edited a little bit, like we left it
in and then we took it, we beeped a little bit.
Was the product that I that I've been pitching UM

(07:15):
with with different levels of success, which is Greg Hardy's
bed full of when you want to get to sleep,
you don't want to sleep too well, Greg Hardy's bed
full of I'm Another thing, we we talked about breast cancer.
We were talking about, you know, the month of October
being breast cancer month, and I made a claim about
the curability of the disease, which the NFL thought was

(07:36):
UM grotesque and that was edited and inaccurate. You were
just making numbers up, yes, as I often do. UM.
And then the last thing was I referenced a dictator
from Germany in the nineteen forties who eventually committed suicide,
UM and I and I combined him with breast cancer

(07:57):
and I don't remember how or why, but I'm sure
it was hilarious that was edited. So those were the
edits from last week, and I think we are I
think we nailed it. That that was your old Drew.

(08:18):
I think you finally nailed the death spot that you
were talking about, that you figured a way around it.
You're getting savvy. Don't call him that, all right? Yeah, Well,
so when when we were talking, you were at You're
at my house last night and we send ideas, Hey,
what are we gonna talk about this week? This is
planned out. Despite you know how it sounds, you really
wanted to build this whole show around one video you

(08:42):
felt was really important. I wanted to pitch like an
entirely different podcast just based around this one video and
just going into it's a whole it's world building, almost
like the Marvel Cinematic Universe and what DC is trying
to do universal in their Monster movies. I wanted to
do this with a video. Uh this, We're gonna play
a clip. This is the that up of air Bud,
the Golden Retriever from the Cinematic Uh, from the movie's

(09:05):
air Bud um U. Airbud golden receiver, which is the
the football related one. This is the air Bud and
his his his partner Um playing football at at Hines
Field during a Steelers game. Steelers fans, please welcome to
Heinz Field. A true K nine celebrity. He's been popularized
in over fifteen major bullshit two films the super athletic

(09:28):
Golden Retriever Buddy a k A. Air Bud, and joining
him is his brother, fellow Air Buddy Brutus. He's the
best part. Today, the air Buddies, along with owner Kevin
Di Chico, will demonstrate their legendary football catching abilities. Buddies
are currently on their first ever book tour promoting their
new newly released bestseller, God Buddy, the Air Bud Story.

(09:53):
The announcer stumbled over it. That's how much he can't
believe that these two Golden Retrievers have a book deal.
Air Buddy. So the video is like, it is like
a couple of minutes of this guy and this trainer
running around in Roethlisberger jersey in your stadium. I know
you are the team that brought air Bud football populace.
I know we do a lot of things. I mean
the Rooney's are at the forefront of everything, brought airbut

(10:15):
in and this guy runs around like he's under pressure,
like people are coming at him, and he's throwing these
like these little inflatable footballs to these golden retrievers in
the end zone. And the first the first couple or
like disasters, like they're missing and that he didn't even
get close. Aren't even like, aren't even enjoying this at all?
And then they started to catch a couple of footballs,
and every time they do, the announcer announces it touchdown,
as if like anyone of the stadium is enjoying this

(10:40):
at all. I was obsessed with First of all, I
was like, what is this book deal? Like, how do
you how do you like? Let's let's promote this by
going around the stadiums and wasting everybody's time. But then
I started looking into the air Bud franchise. There's a lot,
There's so much here. First of all, let's talk about
Airbud Golden Receiver. Alright, Airbud. The original Airbud is about

(11:03):
a dog that plays basketball. And when I say plays basketball,
I watched the clip. I mean that people on air
Bud's team throw a basketball at the dog and it
bounces off the dog's face and many times goes in
the basket. Like it is hilarious. If you just cut
out the basketball going into the hoop, it would look
like they were just beating this dog with a basketball. No,

(11:23):
it's great. I hate dogs. It's one of the best
movie if you hate that. And then Airbud too is
like the same kid with the dog finds out that
his dog can actually catch football's And my favorite part
is that air Bud to Airbud golden receiver the film.
This is from his Wikipedia page. The film was dedicated
to the memory of the original Airbud, who died of

(11:46):
a rare form of cancer in several months before the
movie's released. It's fair. It's a it's kind of a
Paul Walker situation, kind of like a like a Paul Walker. Um,
who's the other guy? Who am I thinking of? Who
played the joker? Um? And uh, Heath Ledger. It's a
Heath Ledger situation with air Bud um and I love that.

(12:06):
And in in the plot of the movie, kind of
you did you watch it? By the way, like when
you're watching Airbud, do you look like Paul Walker for
the scenes that are actually air Bud, that where you
could tell it's a fake. It's clearly the dogs like
smiling a little too much and each thinking yeah, the
dogs like, why is your tail waggoning in this scene
not the other one. It's clearly your brother um in this.
In this movie, two Russian siblings by the name of

(12:27):
them Talia and pop Off Kidnap Buddy, Kidnap Airbud and
Hope some having performed special attraction at the Russian circus.
All right. At the end of the movie, Patrick, the
little boy, finds Buddy, takes him to the game, and
with the help of Buddy, his team catches up in
the championship. But Buddy's tackled and taken out of the game,
which made me think, all right, let's say Buddy is

(12:49):
on an NFL roster right now. Let's say he gets
on the Niners. All right, let's say something Niners right now? Greg,
how many plays not the games? How many plays if
a golden Retriever was on the team, how many players
until the dog is killed, not injured, flat out killed. Well,
I think it depends on the opponent, like as James

(13:10):
Harrison on the other team, I think if James Harrison
is there, he's going right for that dog. He's out
on the first place, he's on the first play nine
is she was? Harrison doesn't seem like the kind of
guy who likes dogs at all. I can see that.
I would love to maybe Joey Porter runs, runs off,
runs off the sidelines and takes out the dog. I
think the dog would be killed immediately. On special teams,
I think the dog would be destroyed. How many times

(13:32):
do you think they would show it on the jumbo
tron do you think they would? They think could replay
it over and over, but they just like, this is
this is tough. This is the dog having its spine
broken in seconds, within seconds if its first NFL play,
um again, if the Steelers too, do you think, Okay,
let's say it's playing the Steelers. Is the dog killed
by Harrison or oh Michael Vick, Oh the tension there? Yeah?

(13:55):
Maybe maybe pre game one ups that comes out and
can't handle himself. There would be out of drama in
the crowd. I like, though, after we're hit, we're into
the fourth step, fourth episode here, and you know, people
around the office of ass like, what is this show?
What what is it all about? And I'm saying, you know,
we're two friends. We're talking some football, talking some memories.

(14:17):
We're figuring out as we go. But I think now
we're starting to find our footing. And that is episode
after episode Animal Cruelty, Animal Cruelty, Forture so good. I mean,
because I think next week I might get into the
later entries in the Airbud franchise. There is Airbud seventh Inning, Fetch,
Airbud plays baseball, Airbud spikes back, Buddy tackles volleyball. There's

(14:43):
actually one where they go into space, I swear to God,
called Space Buddies. When were these all created? Anthony? This
is I'm going from about like the original Airbud was
out and what's the most recent one? The most recent
ones two thousand thirteen at Super Buddies after acquiring rings
the Grantham Superpowers, the Buddies must must use them to
stop a villain. Well, that was a huge hit because

(15:04):
that's what got them the book deal. After that, they
just had to get their words out there. I like
the comments on the YouTube, And if you want to
find this on YouTube, you can you can look for
air Bud performance with Steelers. Um. You know, for some reason,
watching this makes me sad. Melancholy is the word. This
made me so sad because he died a few years ago.
I think lung cancer. You remember the dog comment from
the Full House. That's the same dog. It's so sad,

(15:26):
But he was old. If you're if your dog dies
from lung cancer, you're a bad owner. Poor air Bud.
I mean, well, actually you're giving him a lot of
He's in a better place now. You know, he's playing
football with God that your old drew. So that was Emmica.

(15:53):
My wife was in the other room last night saying
that we were giggling like girls while talking to the mayor.
But there's only one way to get goal, and that's
like girls. She also said I should stop trying to
be She's been listening to it, which is a big compliment.
Like I said to you, and she she listened to
episode three two and she said, I should stop trying
to be funny. That was That was funny to me
because I didn't realize you were trying. I was, let's

(16:16):
get to our big headline. But we do that. Yeah,
do you think your wife Your wife loves you more
than she loves me. Do you think that she likes
me more than she likes you? I'm not. Sheould probably
stick give you a little bit of this point. And
I do a lot of the heavy lifting with the
god kids, you know what I mean. I kind of
raised those children myself. Oh you do it, you send gifts,
you bring gifts over. She doesn't like me that much,
I would say, in general. So it does. It's a

(16:38):
low bar to clear, and I think that you've you've
cleared it. She also felt bad. She didn't want you
to think, as as you were leaving last night that
in any way like she was discouraging you from coming
over anymore. No. I think she's just like wondered why
anyone would be friends with you. You You have to hang out,
so you guys can do this on the phone. I
thought was funny. Let's do headlines, headlines, and every week

(17:00):
we're gonna do headlines. We've got we've got our hot
take of the week coming up. We've got asked Anthony
or listener of the week, have a little movie talk.
But first let's go through some NFL headlines, and we
are going to start with the Oakland Raiders coming off
that tough loss in Pittsburgh where you lose Ben Roethlisberger,
but you do win the game. A fun game that

(17:21):
I watched on Sunday, but the real action was happening
off the field. Ray Ray Armstrong has been accused. This
is a Raiders player of a felony of taunting a
police dog. Action for News in Pittsburgh says Armstrong was
aggressive and confrontational towards Bandit the dog, jumping, beating his chest, barking,

(17:47):
lifting up his shirt and yelling at this police dog.
And Chief Deputy Kevin krausse Uh says they are investigating
it and it's a third degree felony charge in Pennsylvan
and charges maybe brought against Ray Ray. Arms love the
name Ray Ray Armstrong. It's a great, great football name.
I think one of my favorite parts is clearly Ray

(18:08):
Ray thought that this was an airbud situation where he
was like trying to intimidate the other team. Yeah, if
you can keep if you can keep it out of
the end zones with a little content before the game,
you do it. I would have loved We've seen Ray
Ray's face when he found out that's a felony, Like
that would be like, Hey, you're not supposed to taunt
police dogs. He'd be like, oh yeah, I'm sorry, my bad, No,

(18:28):
it's a felony. And the picture if you go online
you see the picture of the dog. The dog is
wearing sunglasses all in all photos, which means that's one
of the coolest dogs ever. Yeah, but it also makes
him eminently tontable. If if you're a if you're a
dog and you're wearing sunglasses, when you put those glasses on,
that's kind of like I can take the heat. I'm
I'm a cool dog. I'm not just any old dog

(18:48):
walking around. Bring it. I can take care of myself.
Since when are these dogs held to some different standards
that you can't tunt to a lot of Raiders and
Steelers fans are tunting each other. I'll tell you this
right now. If I was a dog, where sunglasses the dog?
You know just air bud to dot to uh this
dog bandit, I mean the dogs are everywhere. Jack del Rio,

(19:10):
the Raiders coach, was almost incredulous about this charge, and
he said he's caught wind of this story. He's gonna
put it in the silly category. I think once the
facts come to light, I don't think there's gonna be
much of an issue. I would love to know what
else is in the silly category. Del Rio just two categories.
It's like football and then silly. You know it's silly

(19:33):
as Jack del Rio's hair color. Right now. I don't
know if you've seen him on the sideline last week.
He's in between some things, right, I mean it's it's platinum.
You didn't notice that. I just thought he hit the
the die bottle a little too hard there. I thought
he was doing it to commemorate fifty years of the
Super Bowl. Have you went the hospital? Need? That was

(19:59):
your old Drew. So last week you set up one
of your rules. You didn't want to talk about the
Levy on Bell injury like a whim strange, like a
guy who builds his persona on kind of I'm a
tough guy. I don't care about anything. Is afraid of
talking about a football player who you don't even know
his injury. You refuse to talk about Ben Roethlisberger's injury

(20:22):
on this show too. I feel we were talking about
players getting injured. If a player gets killed or a
player kills a dog, I'm on board. But player gets
injured by dog, we'll talk about that. But injuries on
the field, I don't I don't think are I don't
think you're fine. I don't want to be taunting players
who got hurt. But I did say last week my
exact words. My exact words were, I don't want to
talk about injuries unless a player has a lacerated kidney,

(20:44):
and as if I am some sort of wizard, and
I am. Uh Andrew Luck lacerated kidney. How long he's out?
Two to six weeks? And immediately when this news happened,
we got a couple of tweets about the whole lacerated
kidney effect because I mean, you mentioned lastrated Kitty. I

(21:08):
don't know why this is. This is sort of the
injury de jour in the NFL. Back to back weeks,
we have a a lacerated kidney, and you you questioned, uh,
you know, the new school type of players like Keenan
Allen who were knocked out for the season when they
get a lacerated kidney. Um, But I thought maybe you

(21:28):
would be impressed by the fact Andrew Luck took that
hit and it's a brutal hit. Early in the fourth quarter,
he stayed in the game. The very next play he
throws a touchdown. He ends up going. He goes five
for seven for the rest of the game, I think
for sixty four yards. Leads them to a huge upset

(21:49):
victory against Denver. Andrew Luck stays in and plays through
the lacerated kidney. Ronnie Lot would be proud, right, Yeah,
I'm a Luck fan. And here's the thing about Sidney's
everybody's got two. You can last rate one. You can
still finish the game, like Andrew Luck, not like what's this?
What's his face? McGee from two weeks ago touchdown stop?

(22:15):
Have you went to hospital? Leader? See Rex Ryan back
in the news this week for his Jets, I mean
his Bills go into New York playing the Jets on
Thursday Night football. And on Monday of the week he

(22:37):
answered a question and told America that yes, he is
gonna name I k and Em Poly, who is the
man who punched out Geno Smith in the Jets locker
room and was subsequently cut by the Jets. He's gonna
name an Empoly a captain for the Bills this week
going to New York to face the Jets. Now, Rex Ryan,

(23:00):
he loves to do this sort of thing. He loves it.
But this makes me sick. I like Rex Ryan. I
think he's a funny guy. I think he's one of
the funnier coaches in the league. No one can touch
the sense of humor and warmth of a Bill Belichick.
But I think that Rex Ryan is a very funny guy.
But he blew at this time. I think he should
have said no, I would never do that. That's taking
it too far and then throwing him out there. You
don't give your punch line away like on Monday, you

(23:22):
know what I mean, You wait until the game to
do it. I think this was a huge blown opportunity,
and I think he was a little too pleased with himself,
like he was kind of laughing about it, like as
if he had already done it. You know what I mean.
You haven't done it yet, Rex, you know, unless he
gets the tattoo on the other arm. And I'm not
gonna buy it if he gets at tattoo on the
other m n Polly knocking out Gino Smith edited for
just the right amount of air bud stop uh tattooing

(23:46):
his other arm? Is his wife wearing a Bill's jersey?
Now do you not know this. Yeah, that's right, they
changed the jerseys. He also, I mean, he's a crazy person.
He also has a tattoo of an offensive lineman from
the Jets, Wayne Hunter, who he put a tattoo of
himself of Wayne Hunter on himself to try to convince

(24:06):
Wayne Hunter to re sign with the Jets because he
really liked Wayne Hunter and Wayne Hunter is like the
seventh best offensive lineman on the team, not even an
important thing. He just cares that little about his body
that he just decided to throw Wayne Hunter tattoo on there.
He also has a has a tattoo of Calvin from
Calvin Hobbs urinating on an MLS logo. Really no, no, Greg,

(24:29):
I would have believed that touch You would have believed
that he a tattooed of Calvin urinating on the Major
League Soccer logo he has a picture of after all this,
you know the stories that came up. He's a man
who I really don't think on one level, he does
care what people think. He wants everyone to think he's funny.

(24:49):
For whatever reason, he showed up to Tuesday's press conference
wearing a Clemson helmet and just had that on because
his his Son went to Clemson for the first minute
and a half of his press conference like that was
the joke, that was the whole thing. So he's working
out bits. But on another level, I don't think he
really cares what people think. This is the same guy
who they were doing a video kind of one of

(25:10):
those behind the scenes profiles of him. They're in his
you know, in his office, in his desk, and he's
perfectly proud with the framed picture of his wife's feet
on his desk, feet still in two thousand fifteen. Yeah,
it's pretty Uh, it's pretty weird. I mean, I don't
I don't Actually, I don't have any problem. I'm not
picking on it at all. But it shows that he's

(25:33):
not going to be bullied by America's expectations of him. Well,
I'm making a face. I really wish Anthony. I wish
the listeners could see Anthony's face. He is making an
arms signal every time he wants touchdown earbud to be
played of touchdowns, touchdown signal, it's two bout the number

(25:53):
can't afford me on camera Rex Ryan by the way,
before before we move on, um, he he acts like
this is oh, this is normal. Because I do this
every week. I sent out for instance, uh, he sent
out Richie Incognito as a captain when they faced the Dolphins.
And he put out a bunch of offensive linemen when
they when they played uh Doug Moron's team, who was

(26:14):
the x Bills coach and coach's offensive lineman. But his
that's not a that's not a defense that I'm always that.
I'm always a jerk like this guy I k and
and Polly didn't just uh play for the Jets. He
literally knocked out the starting quarterback, a quarterback who was
Rex's quarterback. He assaulted him in any other line of work,
like you would lose your your profession. I just think, like,

(26:36):
what an honor to be named captain, uh for for
a Rex Ryan teams. Like, oh, You're the captain this week?
Oh great, because I've done a good job in practice
all week. No, I'm just screwing around. Touch job. Gino
Smith heard the news uh that and and Polly was
gonna be a captain this week, which led to this
delightful exchange within New York reporter. I don't think anything.

(27:00):
This is the decision. I really don't think much about it.
I don't take it personal. Um, its best what you're asking.
Why don't you take it personal since you punched you?
I mean, what would because he punched you? The next
question touched fir Bud. That's so first of all, congratulations
to Gino. I'm being able to open his mouth all

(27:22):
the way. UM, I wouldn't comment that much either if
I had had my job broken. Job fair, Bud. If
it's the next question like he got, he got called
out hard, totally busted, and then just do the next question. Well,
I just love the the reporter. I mean, that is
some New York. That is the difference. You're not getting

(27:42):
that third follow up in Kansas City. Uh. You know,
why would he take it personally because he punched you
in the face. Why would I take that personal because
he punched you in the face, Because that's the most
personally like. You can't say you could have said any
other excuse, like I'm not gonna let it bother me.
I'm gonna stay like focused on the game and be
professional about it. You can't say I'm not gonna take
it personally. He punched you in the face off the field,
in the locker room, that's personal. Have you went to

(28:08):
hospital ding. Do you know what season it is right now?
It's clamp season. Clamp season. I forgot. I'm so sorry.
Generas Jenkins, Rams cornerback UH hashtags clamp season at the
end of every one of his tweets this season. It's

(28:30):
kind of like a branding thing he's doing. He's if
he's going to be a free agent, he's putting the
clamps down. Watch out Genora's Jenkins. The Rams unfortunately lost
last weekend. I have them going to the playoffs this year.
They're kind of like back in this Rams team. I
like them. They lost to the Vikings. Tough loss for them.
But immediately after the game, Genoras Jenkins tweets out a

(28:51):
picture of the box score from the game and it
says numbers don't lie dot dot dot clamp season, and
in a highlighter it has uh the receiver that he
was going up against, Stefon Diggs, who has held to
three catches for forty two yards. I love it. I mean,
I love the story because I'd love when people do

(29:11):
what I'm gonna call it the inappropriate mic drop, you know,
I mean, at the end of like one of my sets,
like if I'm just like murdering the crowd dropped the
mic at the end. Maybe Chris Rock can do it.
I can do it. That's about it. But if you
drop the never done that. I've never once done it,
but I have. I think in my next special, might
I would love instead of dropping the mic as I finished,
I tell my last joke and then I throw the
mic as hard as I can into the audience. I

(29:36):
think that would be hilarious. I would definitely get sued
for it. Your new special Thoughts and Prayers on Netflix.
By the way, you know you stopped pimping it. I forgot.
I forgot, but I think I feel like everyone in
the world's seen it now. Really I haven't great press,
great reviews. Not to get off topic, but how come
in comedy you don't tour after any other business. It's

(29:56):
like you promote after something comes out, essentially like got
a musician goes on tour after they come out, But
in comedy you don't really do that because when people
comedy can only enjoy the most once. You know what
I mean. If you see that especially, you don't want
to see it again live. You want to see like
the new stuff with music. You want to hear them
play it live. It's it's different and it's certainly frustrating.

(30:17):
Just burned off all that material. Yeah, if you go
see me to an hour, it's gonna be a whole
different hour. So I gotta take some time and uh
and build up the next the next thing, said Genris Jenkins.
Though you were excited about the responses that he got
to this, or just just his confidence in general, just
his confidence of like it reminded me of the band
Sexual Chocolate in the movie Coming to America. It's like

(30:37):
bombing at that church thing and the guy just keeps on,
like screaming, like trying to get them to give him
a standing. Ovation. Reminded me of that. And I love
I love misplaced confidence, and that is that is this
Jenkins guy in a nutshell. Yeah, he got a ton
of response. Is just killing him for being a team player.
And I I like that he can eatn't back off

(30:57):
at all. He didn't back off the Brandy neither. His
response was just I can only do my job. Ha
ha ha ha. Hashtag clamps can't you can't stop clamping?
We need we need, we need stop. Have you went
to hospital leading You'll see God, people are gonna hate

(31:19):
that song by the time his episodes over, but I
love it. Listen to the whole thing. It's called blood.
Keep to Leave, the Denver Broncos cornerback was suspended this
week for one game by the NFL for poking Colts
tight end Duyne Allen in the eye during Sunday's game
against the Indianapolis Colts. Keep to Leave was asked about

(31:43):
it after the game. He clearly poked Alan in the eye.
He said, you think I played football to poke people
in the eye. It was an honest mistake from my angle.
I I see Alan head, but von Miller a little bit.
I went over to try to poke his head, and
I've think my hand slipped and hit his face. He
acted like he got in the eighteen passenger car wreck.

(32:05):
I guess that's what type of guy he is. I
love it that he pokes the guy in the eye
so blatantly. I mean, you don't play football people on
the eye. You play football like you're fighting Darryll Hannah
and killed Bill. That was the most blatant I pook
I've ever seen. And then he blames the other guy.
I guess that's what kind of man you are. When
I poke you in the eye. You can't poke someone
in the eye and then call him a woos Yeah,

(32:28):
you can't. You. I like that he came out strong
against Alan, like like it was definitely Alan's fault. This
is the guy to leave. I mean, he's had a
crazy he's had a crazy past. I think that's part
of the suspension. People forget the story. Um a few
four years ago when he was on the Bucks and

(32:48):
there was an arrest based on his sister's boyfriend got
shot and to leave was involved. But then his this
is all on the record, and his mom then stood
up and said, no, keep didn't you know fire anything?
I did? Uh some some wire type stuff there and
check out Perry Mason over here. Stop have you went

(33:14):
to hospital? Meeting two more? I swear it's year old duke.
No one's sick of it. It's great. I guess every
every minute. I'm a fan of the repetition, but I
know that people people, people are not. Yeah, there was
a five to seven week period where Anthony only listened

(33:37):
to like Woe by Black Rob in college. You know
that song? We probably don't Brandon have to get it
as it was only replaced by me playing six months
in a row of things you can do. Yeah, teltron Um,
this next, this next story is next headline is one
of I think the topics we've we've hit every every
single week, maybe animal cruelty and uh and Greg Hardy.

(33:58):
What happened this week with Greg Hardy, Well, it's bad
luck for you. You're trying to, you know, get that
bed full of idea off the ground, and you're you're
having trouble getting a sponsor, getting a Hardy to really
get on board. Tank did not go well from me,
But I'm gonna keep trying, you know what I mean.
This is America, and I feel like, yeah, he's not
getting any more popular this week. He was at the

(34:21):
game last week, of course, against the Eagles. Uh, pictures
came out of the woman that he assaulted, and he
hasn't talked to the media since then. And instead of
talking to the media after last week's game, our own
Mike Silver was at the game, reported that a ferrari

(34:44):
was pulled into the stadium. This is indoors into the hallway,
essentially underground under the stadium. They bring the ferrari out
just a couple of feet outside the locker room. They
closed the locker room down to reporters, and then Hardy
gets into the ferrari and takes off. And the immediate

(35:05):
thing I thought was like, is that the worst job
in America? The security official who has to go track
down Greg Hardy's ferrari to go help this low life
basically get out of town without facing any heat. No, actually, Greg,
the worst job in America is Greg Hardy's edited to
keep Greg's job. Have you went the hospital need? I

(35:38):
bet that got edited. No one is happy with me
for what I just said. That's okay. I don't know
why I keep going back to this this topic. It's
just gonna get I think the joke was legit. I
think it was legit. He's a He's a piece of garbage.
Last story, Greg, jump into this one. We're no second
to last story, our last football story. We always like
to finish up when we can with a non football story. Uh.

(35:58):
The Giants went down to Tampa last week beat the
Buccaneers and after the game, one of their fans was
arrested for allegedly trying to to burn down the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers flag outside the stadium. Now, this is this

(36:19):
is not your average flag. If you go to Google Satellite,
you can see this flag on Google satellite because it
is eighty by fifty feet, it's twenty six thousand dollars,
and it's at the top of a fifteen story pole.
But that's not gonna stop Daniel Justin Raboni. It's not

(36:40):
gonna stop him, who he was arrested for criminal mischief
in possession of marijuana, he still made a big time
attempt to go burn that flag. That it's a great
mug shot. The guy was clearly uh intoxicated on a
cocktail of things, I would assume. And my favorite part
about the story is that no one knows how he

(37:00):
got up there. He like, he's not talking. They don't
know how he got a fifteen stories So he thought
it was gonna be flammable like they would have a giant.
It was flame retardant. So basically it just didn't work
it out of course, it was um, I love I
love this guy. This guy is. This guy is a great,
a great one of the all time classic Giants fans.
He's definitely the most effective person to wear an Eeli

(37:22):
Manning jersey this year. There you go, I'm like, that's
a little something for the wife, for the misses. Thank you.
He he gets me thinking, like, what is what is
the dumbest thing you've ever done? While maybe not of
right mind, well intoxicated, I've done that, and I don't

(37:44):
think I've ever done anything smart to wantoxicated, um, although
I have made a career out of it. Um, But
I can tell you the dumbest thing you've ever done?
Oh no, this is this is gonna be. Let's see
how I can. I don't want to get you fired,
but I wouldn't mind, you know what I mean. I
could support your entire family financially if I had to. Um.
There was a time where Greg and I lived together
after college for a couple of years and uh and

(38:07):
we were roommates for quite some time. But in college
I believe, like junior senior year, I bought Greg for
his birthday. I bought him a glass bomb a night,
a very nice glass bond and we named did you
remember we named it? Yeah? There was a lot of
talk for a week, but we settled on Casanova Franken
Cassanova Frankenstein, which is a great name for a bong,

(38:27):
a grant for anything really um. And and we had
this for years and one day I'm looking for it.
This was like maybe a couple of years after college.
See Greg, have you seen that thing? That that piece
and you and you say, uh no, I had have
no idea where it is. And I became obsessed with
the fact where if you have a landlord, uh there's
there was like a there was like a theory that
was going around, almost like an urban legend that your

(38:48):
landlord can take can steal drug paraphernalia because you can't
report it the police. So we got we somehow convinced
ourselves that their landlord had come into our apartment just
taken this and just taken taking the bomb, because you
hood this was I mean, you only in l A
for a couple of years after call it. It was
like towards the end of it, and I remember getting
like more and more worked up about this guy. I
can't believe the landlord just came in here. I don't

(39:09):
know how I convinced myself that happened. And you're backing
me up, You're like, yeah, yeah, that's that's probably what happened.
And I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna call him
and I'm gonna tell him that I know he did this,
and you're like, yes, you should do this, like you
should call him, and I'm like getting ready to do it,
like I literally have the phone in my hands and
it starts ringing from one of our friends. It was
from Tamar, remember our old friends. He's like, hey, man,

(39:32):
I want to I gotta come by and drop off
your bond that I borrowed. And I'm like, what I
was heard about to call my landlord and accused him
of stealing it from my apartment, which would have been
an all time terrible thing to do. And he goes,
what do you mean Greg gave it to me? I
asked if Greg if I could borrow it. Greg walked
outside and handed it to me in my car and
then I drove away. Yeah, have a good friend. That's

(39:54):
what's called being a good friend. What a good friend
would have said when I said, hey, where's the bond?
You would have said, Hey, I lent it to Tamar.
Not you should call the landlord and tell him about it.
I didn't you know, I didn't remember. No, you did not.
You don't remember a lot of things, and that's why
we're barely friends. Stop. Have you went to hospital met

(40:18):
you see that was real drug. Final story that will
talk about today. Uh from the southern California area, San Diego.
Sea World announced this week that they're going to and
the use of killer what is it, killer killer Wales,

(40:39):
Killer Whales shows? You forgot the name? Whales mu is
what they call. They're ending the shows in San Diego
in the Florida. They're still gonna have them like around
the world, They're still going to do them. It's only
in San Diego there stopping and they're gonna keep them
in tanks, which is the worst part. They're just not
gonna make them jump around. They're gonna make him hang
out with trainers. Just still going to be there. The
thing that got me was that they're gonna end the
shows in two thousand seventeen. So we're trying to increased

(41:00):
demand for these shows. You know, you better get in
now while you can well before before we end in
two thousand seventeen, they switch over from Shammou to air Bud.
Touched on air Bud because what I mean, wouldn't you
want to get your family, get him in the van,
drive him down to San Diego and watch a bunch
of drowned Golden Retrievers and I flopping around. I would

(41:21):
love I would love to see that. And that has
been airbud and that has been headlines. That was a
Little Wayne. You know the time of week it is
whenever you hear a Little Wayne Fireman off of The
Carter Too, which I mistakenly said was Little Wayne's worst album.

(41:42):
It's his best album, The Carter Too. I don't know
if you care about that. Sea World, by the way,
is terrible. I brought uh Emmica, I mean, ellis there.
I went to one. I went to the one in
Ohio was not terrible. Like I don't care about the
politics of it. I cared about that. You had to park,
you know, half a mile away, and it called us
the ton and kids. You know, two kids you could have.
You could go to a pond near you and they

(42:04):
would have the same amount of excitement. This has been
hot takes. No see world is a terrible place. The
only the closest I get to see world is watching
Jaws three, as I do once a week. Jim called
well has the hot take of the week. My favorite
headline of the week. It's from m Live in Michigan.
It's just lions coach Jim calledwell, I'm not dead yet.

(42:26):
Such a great take. I mean, it's controversial. A lot
of people think he is a corpse um. But he's
saying I'm not dead yet, which is a hilarious thing
to actually say out. It's amazing. If you I mean,
if you've seen Jim calledwell on the sideline, Uh, if
you've watched him make decisions close in different game situations. Uh,

(42:46):
if you've ever seen him try to, you know, challenge
a play, I could. I could see why he needs
to clarify this way. So many people believe that he
is in fact dead. He seems like he's trying to
commence himself. You're dead, Jim, You're a corpse. But he's
not dead. He's still the coach of the the Detroit Lions.
And he says, you know, people, people have been saying

(43:08):
he's done too quick, but as you can see, I'm alive.
And well, there's only been one man I think who
has walked and Risen Risen from the dead, and I'm
certainly not him. He said that, Yeah, yeah, called well,
you were certainly not Jesus Christ. And there are two people.
Jesus Christ, of course, rose from the dead. That's a fact, everybody.
You can take that to the blood bank. Senator. Also Lazarus,

(43:31):
Jesus Christ brought Lazarus back and then wasn't there something
at the end of the movie the Abyss where where
they got they got? Um. I don't know if it
was like a mouth to mouth situation, but some people
come back. People come back a lot to remember. Remember
Rod Tidwell at the end of Jerry McGuire, he's dead
and then he comes back to life at the end,
much like Jesus and Lazarus called Wells off. Think about

(43:54):
air Bud died and then they magically replaced him at
a different talk. But it's kind of like the spear
of air Bud has been rejuvenated. I think called blows
Way off. I think he's off base and I think
he should be fined for this and this alone, that
was a little Wayne. Every week we ask Anthony if

(44:18):
if you want to become a sponsor for this segment,
contact Anthony personally. UM awkward tactical. Heather Murray on Twitter
asked you if Landry Jones goes down this week to injury,
do we finally agree that your sources call back to
episode two of The Rosenthal and Jesselyn Nick Vanity Project

(44:40):
r g V p uh if Landry Jones goes down
to we finally agree your sources are jinks to the Steelers. Okay,
let me. I'm gonna talk about this. First of all,
it's a banner day for Heather Murray. Heather Murray is
actually I don't know if you know this, Greg, she
is one of Jessell Nick's Jezebels. Uh. There was a
there's a fan group of mine which two girls she is.
I would call her Joseph bel West. She lives in Texas.

(45:03):
The whole group is to two people, two different girls,
one in Carolina, and then I had the Murray's in
Texas and they they run a blog called Josellns jesse Bell's.
I think it's a tumbler blog and they are there
big time. And she's also Pittsburgh fans. So I'm gonna
answer her question. I didn't know you're gonna pick it,
but but I'm happy to give her Heather a shout out. Um.
I do not believe in Jinx's or that I can

(45:23):
be a cause of Jenks. I remember when I worked
for Jimmy Fallon in two thousand nine. I was a
writer on that show for the first year and Troy
Paula Malu came on the show. And the entire year
I worked on that show, I only met two guests
and I never wanted to meet people, would bother anybody.
I met Iggy pop Uh because he's one of my favorites.
And I met Troy Paula Mallo and I met him,
took a picture with him with my terrible towel. And

(45:45):
this was right before I think the Steelers were six
and two, and it was right before we played Cincinnati.
Was a big game in Cincinnati and for for the
lead in the a f C North, and I was
very excited. I put the picture up on Facebook. And
then the Steelers lost that game against Cincinnati, Paula Mala
got hurt, and then we lost the next I believe,
five games in a row. I think at the end
of that room where we were, we were six and seven,

(46:07):
and people every day, every day emailed me on Facebook
and like, take this down, you're jinxing us. Since you
put this up, we've lost every game, We've lost the player,
and I refused to believe it. I refused to go
gently into that good night. But I am not a Jinx.
I am the reason we've won those Super Bowls. I
am Pittsburgh. I am steel You don't even have a
Facebook account anymore, not anymore. I mean it's up there.

(46:29):
But you know, touch that reminds me you are. I
mean you just answered her question by saying basically, yes,
I am a Jinx. However, I get involved publicly with
the Steelers, bad things happen. That's not true. I that
reminds me when I got by Remember when I got
that Rothlessberger jersey, nothing bad ever happened. Ah. That reminds

(46:54):
me of when you worked at Fallon and Uh. I
went and you introduced me to quest Love because he
wanted to ask me fantasy football question. This is when
I worked at Rhoda World, and this was one of
the biggest regrets of my life. You know. I talked
to him for a few minutes, gave him. Greg is
a die hard roots fan, die hard roots fan. I
went up and I meet you. I wasn't just like

(47:15):
he meet Greg, I was like Quest Love, you like
fantasy football? This guy is like one of the premier
fantasy football minds in the country. And he was very
excited to talk to you. He was. He was excited.
He asked me a bunch of questions, and then he
was like, I'm gonna give you my email address, and
I want you to email me and then we'll just
you know, email about fantasy you know, you can help
me with fantasy football. And I was obviously, you know,

(47:38):
this was a long time ago. Ten years ago, No,
maybe not that much, six or seven years ago, whatever
it was, I was really excited about it. He gaves
you know, he writes it down on on the piece
of paper. How long do you keep it for? I
don't know. All I know is about one week later,
one or two weeks later. I was like, oh wait,
whatever happened to that piece of paper? And I looked.

(47:59):
I looked in my all it couldn't find it there.
I asked Anthon. I asked Emmaica, my wife. You know,
she's seeing it. She knows what I'm talking about. Like
I remember it was. I think it was like an
earth Link account. So I just started like guessing what
it could be or something, but I couldn't really remember.
I turned my entire apartment upside down, never found that
piece of paper. And I always feel like that was

(48:20):
maybe a a friendship lost or some sort of cool,
cool experience that I could have had at some point
in my life. Certainly, right, you know what make that
story better if it was longer with two especial shots
and they don't tell her how many newspapers. I'm ready
several papers and I'll read them all twice recite them.
Seeing you back with Son, I'm nice. That's a song

(48:43):
about reading newspapers, which really makes me laugh. You're you're
really getting into the dancing here. The second question of
ask Anthony hot Randy uh asks tell the story about
the most gnarly gal you saw with old Gregor's get
Sweet with r g v E p j VP. Did
you say g r j vp J screwed it up?

(49:05):
Yeah you did, Yeah you did? Okay, Uh. Greg and
I went to college in New Orleans where we uh
we we did it up like we were we were
hardcore in New Orleans, and I definitely saw greg with
with many women. You didn't really get with gnarly girls.
I would say, I don't remember like a gnarly girl
that you were ever with. But my favorite story about

(49:27):
you hooking up with the girl is Junior year. We
we all livedet. We lived like they were like five
people in the same house, and we had like where
we watched TV was right outside of your bedroom, and
we all came in from a night and you brought
this girl home. I think she was a freshman and
we were juniors. Cute girl, but you go into your
bedroom and you locked the door. Everyone locked doors because
I mean, if there was a door open, we would
come for the children and we would run in there

(49:49):
and we would like make your life a living hell.
So you locked your door, and you were so drunk
that you went to put on music, and we're like
outside listening to like we hear the music come on,
and you accidentally put it on repeat, so we said
listen there for hours, laughing hysterically, like trying to watch TV,
play video games or something while you hooked up with
this girl listening to the rain parentheses super Duperfly by

(50:12):
Missy Elliott, which is famous for Beep Beep, who Got
the Keys to the Jeep? But you had it on
repeat over and over again. I haven't laughed that hard
in quite some time. I thought this story was gonna
be embarrassing, but I'm proud of that I mean, miss
Elliot's great. You shouldn't be I'm your I'm your best friend.
I would never take you down on the air, super
dupifly more than one with two espresso shots. And they

(50:35):
don't tell her how many newspapers outread by several papers said,
I'll read them all twice, so resite. I'm saying you back.
I'm nice girl, Drew. That song is called get the
Paper our listener of the week this week. Uh, it's
gonna be in iTunes comment uh in review. I just
want to remind everyone we appreciate all the reviews on

(50:59):
iTunes and the comments. Uh. It really helps, you know,
juice up uh our rankings and whatnot. And this is
this is how we're gonna grow this show and continue
to do it. I think if the NFL again listens
to it at all, it might be stopped dead in
its tracks. But it's starting to grow and we appreciate it.
The only way we're going to grow through a you know,

(51:19):
word of mouth. So we thank you all for for
doing that. Subscribe stopped in his tracks like Greg Hardy touched,
that's definitely not making it Stuart Tongue, Uh, says Jesse
Nick is the best comedian alive yet. Greg holds his
own in that kid with a disability who finally gets

(51:42):
a spot as a non scholarship player kind of way.
It's inspiring. You're like Lucas, Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's great.
Best comedian alive or dead, I think. Uh, even corpses
can't hold my jock. So thanks Stewart, and uh thanks
again to everyone who who sent in what's espresso shots.
They don't tell her how many newspapers out read last

(52:05):
several papers, and I'll read them all twice, your old Drew.
Let's let's do some screener talk. Greg. As I've said before,
I've said in every episode, I am a celebrity. I
am I'm too big for a podcast, if you which
I think is kind of like part of the charm
of me doing everyone favor. This week, I have gotten
I got a screener for Furious seven. I know, we

(52:27):
we We referenced Paul Walker earlier in the episode talking
about Airbud touched Airbud Paul Walkers, of course, the airbud
of actors um and it's a it's a weird movie
I didn't see in theaters. People really liked it. People
got emotional. It was like saying goodbye to Paul Walker.
And I can understand how that may have been like
that in the theater. You watch it at home, you
watch it on your DVD player, and it's just creepy.

(52:49):
You were just like picking out like that's not him, Okay,
that's him, that's not him. That's weird. And at the
end when he pulls up and you're like, no, it's
definitely not him. It's really creepy. It is really weird.
You're not selling this though. People like this movie, yeah,
but they should not have. It's pretty, Uh, it's pretty.
It's pretty bad. And yet and you bring these in

(53:09):
every week. I bring weird you. You can't share it
with me. I bring it in here just to show
you that I that I got it. And I know
you like to borrow movies, and we borrow movies a lot.
But because of the screener policy, I have to watch
it once and then cut it up with a pair
of scissors. Um, and I like to do that in
front of you right now. No, no, no, vanilla, two
espresso shots. They don't tell her how many of those

(53:32):
papers out read. Buy several papers and I'll read them
all twice. So sing that was your old drug, reading
the papers. Speaking of reading, let's do some book talk.
We talked about movies. So yeah, we talked about movies.
Last week. You ended every show the jess Nick Offensive
that is on Comedy Central. You always ended it with

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your tagline, go read a book. Yeah, read a book.
I that was funny. Instead of being like, watch what's
next on this network, I would say turn this off
and read a book. I only people read enough. Um,
I enjoy reading. Uh, you're a reader. I'm a big reader.
Say that's say I'm close to that. Um I would.
I'll talk about what I'm reading right now. The book
I'm reading right now is called The Dog Stars by

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Peter Heller. It's one of those like if you've referred
The Road by mc McCarthy. It's kind of like that,
like there's been some sort of apocalypse, this guy trying
to find his way. It's it's an excellent book. Um.
But the book I'm gonna recommend to people because it's
a Veterans day. Uh and I and I and I
totally respect our veterans. Shout out to my grandpa, the
General General back Rich General buck d still with us,
still kicking. Um, he's a great man. And I'm gonna

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recommend a book called Readeployment Phil Clay. It's a great book.
It's short stories about soldiers returning from war or over
over there in war. It's it's a very real look
at at soldiers and the problems that they face today.
I think there are very serious things. I'm not even
gonna make a joke. It's a great book and it
will make you respect the men and women who's serving

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armed forces, and they deserve all I respect, and I
think they deserve our understanding as well, which they don't
get biget our respect, but not always understanding. Read Redeployment
by Phil Clay and you'll be able to understand our
soldiers a little better. Seriously, that's one of the best
books I've read in the last five years. We've talked
about it. I think we might have talked about like
a year ago. I love I love that book. That's
a great choice. Uh, now you're getting me thinking. Veterans Day.

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Billy Len's Halftime Walk is another book which is football related,
um because it takes place at Cowboy Stadium. It's about
a veteran coming Home and they're actually making a movie
about him. Angle's next movie and it's unbelievable, and and
it's that's by Ben Fountain. That wasn't gonna be my recommendation,
but just thinking if people people like Redeployment, this is

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a football book, they'll they'll like that too. One of
the best football books ever, but it's really more of
a military book. My my recommendation is gonna be. Uh.
Walker Percy's The Movie Goer. Now I named my son
Walker after Walker Percy. The Movie Goer is one of
my favorite books. And the reason I'm gonna throw it
out there is because they got me think last week

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when you told that story about how are the definitive
moment in our friendship was driving escaping the hurricane in
New Orleans. I think there was ninety eight or so
going to Houston. The hurricane never quite hit New Orleans. Uh,
you know that was kind of the defining moment. We're
stuck in the hot car and everything like that, And

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it got it got me thinking of Walker Percy, who
had basically a theory that he he said people are
essentially happier in a hurricane. He lived in Louisiana, all
his life that that it sort of drags them out
of the malaise. Like he wrote a lot about just

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being kind of in a malaise of life and you
just everything is ordinary. And he would talk about people
in Louisiana who who would ultimately be feel more alive
during the hurricane or during that that they would suddenly
talk to their spouse in a much different way than
than that they would ever talk, and much more alive.
And they got me thinking about our trip a little bit.

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It's a great that's a great recommendation to just to
sum up to everyone. Read Redeployment by Phil Clay stop
with two especial shots and read they don't tell her
how many those papers I read last several papers, said,
I'll read them all twice. Soccer recite them sending you
back so nice. This show is going a little bit long,

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but just think of how many hurricane you know, the
hurricane there ust that moment we got. My son is
named Walker, Walker Percy. He's got the big theory on hurricanes.
I also on my back have a tattoo and something
somewhat embarrassing tattoo of a ying yang in the symbol
of a hurricane that that we were both way not

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sober for I think it got late. That's that's maybe
for another show. That's another show for sure, but we
I would be happy to discuss the Saint Patrick's Day
massacre was that was our tattoos here, Bud, this is
a big show today, but I think really the biggest
part is to come. Um, this is gonna be great. Um,
I'm wanna set this up. This is a new bit
we're gonna do. Um. I like to make picks. I'd

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like to make predictions. And uh, this is called this
is a segment called Anthony jose Knicks Locks Locks of
Love Anthony Jesse Knicks Locks of Love. Now, people have
been listening to the podcast or listening to this one
today have heard me being censored throughout you know, Uh,
you hear ding, You'll hear something clearly taken out because
of of the way that I talk and things I

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talk about. I just want to say that I never
agree with censorship, but I understand why any company, especially
one is concerned with their image as the NFL, would
not want to endorse the things that I say all
the time. You know, I get it. I knew the
rules when I walked in the door. But now after
three episodes, I think that I've gotten a feel for
what the NFL will and want to allow. And I
want to be I want to be a crowd pleaser.
I want to give the league. I want to give

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Goodell what he wants, you know. I want to give
them something good and I think I have that here.
That elevator ride was huge, fee, it was so big. Um.
The other day we rode the escalate for like an
hour and a half. We just kind of went up
and down the escalator together. But I think Anthony's Locks
of Love is gonna be a signature bit. So I
think I'm gonna include you in this one. Don't you
go ahead and give me your give me let's do

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three or four? Well, this is this segment. It's called
the Anthony's Locks of Love. But I'm not allowed. I'm
making picks. It's kind of like we talked about, Um,
take taking a photo or getting some photos together for whatever.
Our symbol for this podcast is going to be a designer,
and you insisted your picture would have to be bigger,
much big twice. If you're really funny, I'm gonna go

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with Casey over Denver to start my picks. You know,
I want to make some bold picks here. It's part
of our bold predictions that will be on the site
on Friday. I really believe it. You think Denver's gonna
drop to Bronco's missing two good players, the chiefs of
playing much better, and I think that they pull off
a big upset in Denver this week. All right, here's
my first lock of the week. This one is a gimme.

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It's simple arithmetic. One plus one right, Green Bay over
Detroit and God is a myth meant to scare children
and weak minded fools. Touched a do you another one? So?
So wait the lock? So you had the lock in
terms of the game. And then also I combined him.
I combined I got it things like it's like it's
kind of two facts, but it's one lock. I'm gonna

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give a lock. Not going out on a limb here,
Patriots over the Giants, you know, getting it's not gonna
get any revenge for those two Super Bowls. Those are
those are long past. My first game I ever covered
was Super Bowl forty two where they blew the great records.
So they're gonna take out that frustration the greatest non
Steeler super Bowl ever and the guy who climbed the

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flag is gonna be there and he's not burning anything
this week. Patriots taking him out. Alright, Uh, you know
my he's my second lock. I I think this week,
I know one thing, like i'ment with my instincts. Then
I did some research and I backed it all up
with the Luiji board. Pittsburgh over Cleveland and jet fuel
can't melt steel beams edited for not enough air, Bud.

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I'll eat a car touchdob air bud. Alright, Greg, do
you have a third? Uh? Do you have a third? Luck?
I don't know if what's the point at this They're
all gonna get knocked out at this point. Keep going
down these roads. I'm gonna go another upset pick. Marcus
Mariotta look great last week in New Orleans. I think
that defense is better than people think. Andrew Luck now

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out for the Colts. Maybe that opens up a little
window in the a f C. South Tennessee knocks Carolina
from the ranks of the unbeating big upset. That's a huge.
The Panther's a huge. That's a huge. You're putting it
all on the line. There your whole reputation. Uh, here's mine.
Bet the house, Bet the house, quit your job and
put your cat in a shoebox for this next one,
because I can get wrong. T the Tampa over Dallas

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and Joe bean A Ramsey was a suicide at the
perfect crime touchdob Air bud. Are we putting the cat
in the shoebox? It's just part of the preparation. You
have a last you have a last lock. Yeah. I
hate to I hate to do this because, uh, Arizona

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is the team of the Around the NFL podcast. Uh
you know, the number one podcast on on NFL dot com.
I never heard of it. Ah, but I think they're
gonna lose this week. I think Seattle is gonna take
care of business. Make sure that NFC West Race is
a little more interesting. Beat the Cardinals, alright, Seattleiver Cardinals.
That's a that's a big that's another big pick. Uh.

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This this and I don't even call this a lock.
It's like stronger than a lock. This next one is
so rock solid that before today's podcast, I got this
one tattooed on my hand. So then after the game
on Sunday, I can say to somebody, Hey, do you
know what time it is? Well, I do. Time for
me to be right. And you know what the tattoo
in my hand's gonna say. It's gonna say, since you
over Houston, and the age of consent should be too.

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And I'm not talking about years. And that was Anthony's
Locks of Love. That was Pavaratti. Now before we wrap

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this up, Greg, we haven't talked about them all day,
and we've mentioned that we haven't really talked about them.
How are my god kids doing? How are Ellison Walker? Well,
Ellis is old enough to listen to this podcast every week,
and last week we were listening and