December 23, 2015 • 46 mins
In episode nine, Gregg Rosenthal and Anthony Jeselnik offer their take on New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham getting suspended one game for his behavior against the Carolina Panthers and the boys break down humans racing against animals.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's episode nine of the Rosenthal and jessel Nick Brandity.
It's two days before Christmas and the creatures are stirring
in the podcast studio. If you ask me, there are
too many songs about Hanukah. Welcome back. This should be
(00:33):
a fun one. A special Christmas edition of The Rosenthal
and jessel Nick Vanity Project and also a birthday edition.
We are fresh off Anthony jessel knicks thirty seventh birthday
on Tuesday's right, Happy birthday, Thank you, thank you. It's
the day after. This is my most hungover episode by far. Yeah,
(00:55):
that's why I think it should be an interesting one. Brandon,
what brandons are? Producer? Of course? Brandon? What did you get? Ant?
Did he? Uh? I got nothing? Awesome? He stolen unblocked
me from Twitter, So that happening, That's right, what's kind
of like you gave me everything you had? Um. Now,
last night was fun. We had a dinner I took,
I had some friends come and join me at ruth
Stress Steakhouse, one of my favorite places to go eat.
(01:18):
You reminded me that's what we went for your if
your bachelor party, yeah, which you basically organized that. That
was in l A too, Yeah, it was a great
time last night. It was good, very good time. I uh,
my memories will hazy. Yeah. I I I double double martinis,
which I don't which I'd like to do. Um, two
martinis with a couple of bottles of wine for for
(01:38):
seven people, and then I think some scotch at the end. Probably. Yeah,
you made us all stay and watch you, uh drink
some scots through purse lips and you couldn't even come
close to finishing it by that point. It was almost
like disgusting to you, even though it was a blue label,
because I really knew things. I knew things were going
into a different place. When you asked the entire table
(02:01):
for the fourth time whether we were going to come
back to your apartment, he went through each and every
person each time. Yeah, And I mean I enjoyed repeating
myself when I get that drunk. I was a very
happy drunk. I think that I woke up this morning.
I went to bed about three in the morning, had
had friends come over, and then I made people watch
a movie with me, uh which I watched the whole thing,
(02:22):
And I woke up laughing this morning because we got
back to my place. One of my friends who was there.
Ricky said she had she had like presents. We used
to go give it. I'll give it to you once
we had to get back to your apartment and then
gave me with like like with a flourish like it
made a big deal out of presenting this to me.
Gave me two like very comfortable, very nice, high quality
blankets from my couch, and then five minutes later I
(02:44):
was like, Ricky, what did you get me for my birthday?
And everyone even at that point then I was like
gob smacked that I did not remember five minutes before
her giving it to me. Um a lot of a
lot of things I'm being told that I did, but
all good things I'll I'll give. People were pretty gobsmacked
when you when you kept being kept asking over and
over again. He's like, oh wait, you have a babysitter,
(03:06):
Ammaica and I my wife. We had to go head
back home. We did. We did not go to the
after party or anything, but it was a great time Ricky. Ricky,
by the way, made a very touching uh toast to you.
They probably don't remember uh during dinner, so you should
ask her about that. I don't remember it. What was it? Oh,
just just basically that you were you know, despite you know,
people might think you were a jerk or anything, but
(03:28):
basically that you've got everyone's back. When when you become
friends with Anthony jessel Nick, he's got your back. Okay,
I kind of remember that now. That was very that
was very nice of her, and I do I have.
I have all my friends backs, uh when I'm black
out drunk on my birthday. Um. But yeah, that was
a good that was a good time. Thank you for
thank you for coming. Yeah, you're coming for Christmas to
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give the God Kids. Uh, you watch them open the
presence that you got them. It'll be fun. I'm excited
about quite a week. Puppets in a truck. That's what
they're getting. That's what the God Kids are getting. Um,
let's do uh, let's do what was cut. That was
(04:10):
Roger Goodell. Uh. We are, of course, uh still with
the NFL rules. If you listen to the podcast, we're
allowed to play two hip hop songs uh, and then
we have to play um NFL mandated music that Roger
Goodell himself produced and oftentimes played on. He doesn't always
play every instrument, but he can uh and he does
and that's him on the xylophone, so that counts as
one of the hip hop tracks, I think. And we'll see, Yeah,
(04:33):
we'll see what comes after that. Let's get into what
was cut from last week. A couple of words, A
couple of a couple of words. I think I said
the word uh slang for a cat um which I
I think I said that, and Greg dropped an F
bomb I believe um. I talked about a joke was
cut where I talked about edited because we bawed too hard.
(04:54):
I'm sure I made some inappropriate joke about what went
on there. I don't remember the exact joke, but that
was certainly cut. I made a joke about Pagano Chuck
Pogano can't be eaten by his bosses because of the
disease that he had, which I'm not allowed to joke about.
I also compared a junior say ow to air bud
(05:15):
ah touchdob a bud in a bad way. If you
know anything about junior say o um. And then I
we joke got cut where I said the commission edited
to add more xylophone. That's gotta get cut again. Fifty
nine miles to Jacksonville. That that dune stuck in my
(05:36):
head this week. I'm not even joking if kind of
kind of you know, it's running through the head a
few times. Plus one of our our podcast listeners left
some comment fifty nine miles to our j V peak,
So I like the shout out there, that's a good uh,
that's a good one. Um, fifty miles to Jacksonville. That
was still maybe one of the worst titles of of
this song or any other. Uh, let's get in the headlines.
(06:08):
That was Roger Goodell. It was another I think that
was the same song. There's a different part of the
same song. If you have If you know Roger Goodell,
you know he can play the spoons like nobody's business,
and he plays that tune a lot with the spoons.
But this was a xylophone. I think it was one
of the xylophones that that I got him for his
birthday last year. He wanted to just lay something down
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and uh and uh and and knocked it out of
the park. I think that's a that's a great song.
I still need to get you a birthday present. Maybe
you would want a xylophone. I thought we all took
you at the dinner. I guess that's kind of a present. Yeah,
I mean it's it's as much as a present as
I expected from you. Um, but I could not kick
a xylophone down the stairs. I have no musical talent.
I'm like the I'm like the opposite of Roger Goodell.
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That's true in many ways. Uh. This week another man
who's the opposite of Roger Goodell in so many ways.
Odell Beckham has been in the was I don't think
anyone listening to this could have avoided this story. As
we tape here on Wednesday, there working hard right up
until the holiday. He has been suspended one game by
the NFL and his appeal on that suspension. You might
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not even know this had happened on your drive over here.
Anthony has been upheld, so he will be suspended for
one game for his excessive fighting with Panther's cornerback Josh
Norman throughout Sunday's game against the Panthers. Yeah, one little
nuts was kind of a bit of a meltdown. I
do not buy any of the excuses that he has
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given for for this behavior. I mean, no one's had
a meltdown quite like that, And everybody talks trash right. Well,
there's been reports that have come out that you know,
Michael Irvin, who works here, you know, said that people
have been questioning Odell's sexual orientation all season long and
that was getting him angry. There was also the story
(07:55):
that the Panthers had a bat out on the field,
uh the Giants. Hunter Brad Wing, who went to l
s U with Beckham, recounted a story before the game
where one of the Panthers had a baseball bat and
approached the receiver and he said, I'll be the reason
you don't play today and others and other days, which
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is pretty aggressive. It's very aggressive, borderline unacceptable, just because
of the baseball bat. Like that's what made me laugh that,
Like they saw Good Fellows the night before and like,
you know it would be cool is if we threatened
him with with equipment from other sports, you know, football
is not enough. Like they saw like the bow Jackson
black and blue poster and thought, you know what that
would look tough, like someone who must have had golf clubs.
(08:38):
I bet somebody thought about throwing basketballs at him before
the game. Sounds like an airbud an idea for an
airbud movie are they still making sequels. That would be uh,
that would be a good one. I would I would
watch that movie like I've watched all Airbud movies. Yeah.
I like. I like how the Panthers coach Ron Rivera
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called out the Giant basically for leaking this information. I
always like it when the when the coach gets down
to it and kind of shows you how the sausage
was made, basically saying, the Giants are leaking out these
stories about the bat and about the sexual orientation, and
that it's all nonsense because he should have, you know,
stayed under control and it doesn't really matter. And they
had been bringing the bat out for weeks and weeks.
(09:20):
It was some stupid motivational ploy where they you know,
it was supposed to be something about toughness, you know
that that they carried the bat out with them. I
don't know, was something that they're gonna hit home runs
and they're gonna hit people hard. Whatever. Does None of
that makes sense what you said, but it's true. It's true.
The Saints actually used to do this too. They would
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bring a bat out. It was like we're gonna we're
gonna knock them out. I don't know, but coaches do
this sort of stupid stuff all the time, and for
whatever reason it's acceptable. Build ourselves used to put up
mouse traps with cheese in it in the locker room
as a way for the players to say, don't take
the cheese, and that's supposed to be don't take the
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compliments that people are giving you. Don't take the cheese.
That's that's so dumb. I mean, the players must have
lost so much respect for him when he did that,
like mouse traps with cheese because they were eating. He
was considered one of the greatest motivators in NFL history.
I only like, I only like when coaches bury things.
Oh yeah, burying the ball. They got to bury the ball.
I forget about bury the ball. That's that's a parcels thing.
(10:25):
That's us BROWNO. Think my favorite one was Jack del Rio,
the old Jaguars coach. Now he's the Raiders coach. He
got in serious trouble because one of his motivational things
was they gotta keep chopping wood. And he had an
axe in the locker room and they after every game
or every practice, someone would take the axe and you know,
hit some wood, but their punter. I forget who is
(10:47):
name it is now, it's about ten years ago. He
axed his own leg and he was out for the season.
But you know, the the heavy axe and he just
chopped himself right in the story. I believe it. But
the most ridiculous thing is why was his slogan we
gotta keep chopping wood? Like that's a terrible it's a
terrible slogan. It's not motivational at all. It's an insulting
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It shows how little NFL coaches think of their players,
basically that they can be motivated by these childish antics,
which wouldn't work. You wouldn't think it sound like he
would have to think of like the coach had to
think of a motivational ploy and then just like like
I had five seconds to think of something and came
up with chopping wood. A lot of people think that
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was Goodell. Again that people would't think it was the
same song. It is not a lot of imitators of
Roger Goodell, and that was one of one of the many,
one of many knockoffs of his uh of his song Xylophone,
My Xylophone. I mean, we couldn't be complimenting Roger Goodell
more that you know we we could be going to
the two authorized hip hop tracks. I know that first
one was was one of them, Thore Roger Goodell. But
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just the people demand more xylophone over and over again.
We could never get sick of it. It's like my
Christmas presence to the world. So we're gonna do the
hot take of the week right now. We usually do
it at the end of the show, but there were
so many sizzling hot takes on the Odell Beckham controversy
that I just wanted to get some sound on. And
we're gonna start with one of my favorites w f
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A NDS Mike FRANCESSA. You tell me. Tom Coughlin was
proud of that. I watched the postgame. Tom didn't even
criticize him in a post game. Well, you and I'll
have a talk. I'm not gonna get into it with
you here. Oh really, no, Tom let him un all
over the field like a clown. Tell me that's Tom
Conflin who came to the team talking about the team
needing this one. When when we drag out Tom's first speech,
the giants are desperate needed discipline. Oh really, where that goo?
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That's how you're supposed to gonna run your team, Tom,
it is time to leave. That is great. It sounds
like my dad doing an impression of someone that hates um.
I love Mike friends. I lived in New York for
ten years. There was nothing better than Mike and the
Mad Dog after like a big Yankees Austin just seeing
him absolutely lose his mind. And usually I disagree with
the hot takes. I definitely don't feel as emotional about
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Odell Beckham as as Princesses did. But he's basically right.
I think this is the end of Tom Coughlin, and
this is gonna be one of the final things that
kind of kicks him to the curve. Yeah. I think
it reflects more more on Couflman it does on on Beckham.
But I just like describing a wide receivers running all
over the field like a clown. Uh is a great
is a great way to describe someone. Let's let's listen
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for Incess. I really had a lot of great points.
They don't got more. Princess. Everything with him is me me,
me make a catch, dance all over the field pre game,
put on a show ware ridiculous stuff on the field.
Go over there to the mug to the fans throwing
the game. I'm not already you're part of a team,
and you're not even part of a good team. None
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of those are excuses for why he shouldn't why he
shouldn't do those things. He's a wide receiver. Of course
you want to do You want to see pregame warm ups.
You want to see uh, you want to see the
blonde hair, you know, you to see him dancing after
a touchdown. A lot of it seemed to be describing
you on your birthday. Yes, except for the dancing. I
don't think. I don't think I danced. No, if I did,
you're not a real dancer. I'm trying to remember more,
(14:11):
more of the dinner and whatnot. It would have come
to me throughout the show. You're right though, that the
wide receivers. Uh, this is what wide receivers are on
some level. And I think Odell Beckham got punished. He
got suspended for a game. He's losing a game. Check
the Giants have a big game. This for like not
for not for his pregame one ups, which are awesome, Right,
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it's supposed to be who cares. He's an entertainer. It's
all about him. This is a totally separate thing that
he just lost his mind. And I think a lot
of people were going crazy killing Beckham this week and
saying that no one's ever been like this before. Mike Wilbon,
who hosts P t I on ESPN, he tweeted out,
I can't remember ever seeing Jerry Rice, Chris Carter, Michael Irvine,
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or any of the greats behaving as a lunatic as
Beckham has today. Jerry Rice, Okay, that's true. Edited because
Greg took it too far, so they're saying, like, I
can't remember any of the greats, Like the greats did
plenty of stuff. Jerry Rice was so crazy that he
complained aboutknocking enough respect after being named m v P
of goddamn super Bowl. That's how crazy Jerry Rice was.
And everyone else you named had a cocaine problem. All right,
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Odell Beckham can do whatever he wants. I think the
reason it was so crazy was because people liked him
so much before this they just couldn't believe that he
he did this. But all Odo needs to do is
get some cocaine. I don't know what that was, but
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I'm gonna listen to when I work out. Devin Taylor
the Detroit Lions defensive and not a well known player.
He came a little more well known this week when
he showed up to Monday Night Football in New Orleans.
By the way they showed Jockomos during Monday Night Football.
They they were coming in from the Break, one of
the great restaurants in America and certainly in in New Orleans.
(15:57):
Got me excited. Devin Taylor wore a suit on the
way into the Superdome which got some attention. It was
called Gangs the clause. Uh. It had dinosaurs, guns, trees,
snow flakes, and hearts all over the suit. Not just dinosaurs,
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greg t Rex, which is I think is important to note.
My favorite thing about this is that the suits costs.
That is how much that suit costs, like online? And
he looked pretty sharp. You can get it, look Taylor,
google Gangs the clause. Maybe that's what I'll get you
for your birthday. My birthday is over. It was yesterday
and you blew it Christmas. Maybe I would. I would
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love to see the Christmas present that you get me. Um,
what would your suit? If you're gonna get a suit
with the cool pattern on it? What would your pattern be, Well,
I gotta start with football's um start there. Well, yeah,
you know, like that's your base. It pays my it
pays my way. So I would go foot balls, tacos uh,
(17:03):
symbols of hurricanes, air bud, and then machine guns. Okay,
that's funny because I was looking at your notes earlier
and I was like, what the hell? What what is that?
What did he write down? When I saw symbols for
tacos um? I would have I think my suit would
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just be it would be almost exactly the same, only
my suit would have smaller suits on it, and in
those tiny suits it would have a dinosaur or a
handgun in a Christmas tree. I think. I think that
would be pretty dope or or giant versions of me,
you know what I mean, Like just a lot of me,
but way bigger than the actual suit. I don't know,
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people know what I'm starting. It's sick of that song,
but it's barely not enough to actually change it. But
I think that's a sign of a good song. When
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you can hear it this many times, you just start
to get a little bit tired of Well, I was
starting to wonder, are we gonna you know, each week
we've had different music really on the show, whether that's
possibly going to be scrapped, and it's just all xylophone
all the time until we absolutely prevent anyone from ever
listening to this podcast ever again. Each week the subscriber
numbers go down and down. I'll stop playing it when
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Goodell stops making it, you know what I mean, which
is probably gonna be never that guy. I mean, especially
around the holidays. I think I think he kind of
does it to relief stress. It just seems like after
a long, hard day, you want him, you want to
bang out the zie. Especially with the Concussion movie coming out,
there's there's a lot He scored the Concussion movie edited
to keep Greg's job. I don't know if you heard
(18:50):
Jason Pierre Paul this week. He really spoke at length
for the first time about the incidents that occurred and
lead to his hand disfigurement this off season where he
lost you know, a finger and a half, and he
was quoted finally, you know, talking to the public and
revealing what it was and what happened. He said, quote,
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the fireworks just went off in my hand. I love it.
When I heard this, I laughed, so hard. Hey, Hey, Jason, Pierre, Paul,
the fireworks just went off in your hand. No, of
course it did. The The only other like explanation would
be that you were watching The Simpsons and thought, you
know what, I want my hands to look like their hands. Um,
(19:35):
let me, let me slam a couple of these hands off,
a couple of these fingers off, either in a car
door or with some fireworks, because this would really take
my career to the next level. Was that a new one?
(19:59):
Was that a new song? Is that the same move
been playing? I can't okay, it's a new one, thank you, Brendan.
A little variety, but again that was still that was
still the man. It was definitely a little longer, a
little bit. It's really testing theory. This was a good idea. Jets.
The New York Jets this week have their biggest game
in three or four years against the Patriots, and uh
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one of the guys helping them out on the practice
squad throughout the week is Joe Anderson. Not a well
known player or name, but he became famous Anthony a
little earlier this season. Six eight weeks ago, he stood
outside the Houston Texans stadium for multiple days asking for
(20:44):
a job, and he took a picture of Instagram on it.
People kind of went by. This is a guy that
had been in the NFL. He had been on practice squads,
on teams during the summer, but never really stuck. So
he basically pulled off this stunt just standing outside, you know,
like a homeless person hole a sign, and here we
are six weeks later. It worked. He is in the NFL.
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He's on the New York Jets. Uh is there is
there a person in the entire league. You think who's
who's less respected than? There's less respected than Joe Anderson
around the locker room. There's no way. There's no way
anyone even talks to him. Odell Beckham maybe right now.
I don't know that's popular popular. It's not a popularity contest.
It's a respect thing. You know, you can be very
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popular and still not respected. You're saying it wasn't worth
it for Joe Anderson to debase himself like this. You're
not seeing a People look at this and they're thinking, Wow,
what a story of humbling perseverance that this guy sort
of put himself out there like that. He wanted to
continue his career, so bad. He has two kids, he
has a wife, and he wanted to fight for it
(21:49):
that much that he was willing to basically humiliate himself
to get a job. Yeah, but that's not how jobs work. Like,
that's not what you're supposed to do. Um, you should not.
You should have some pride and yourself, have some self respect.
Joe Anderson, and I hope you're hope you're out of
the league, you know what I mean. The faster we
can get Joe Anderson on the league, the faster we
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can get more Golden Retrievers to play the game. Touched.
I'm not I'm not Joe Anderson fan. No one's buying
that jersey. I'll tell you that right now. No, I'm
gonna buy Joe Anderson jerseys and give him the homeless
people so I can try to get get his good name.
But I don't think they have practice squad jerseys anyways.
I don't know that's good. They'll just showing off. You
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think the song is over, and he's like, nope, I
got a little I got a little curve ball for you.
Towards the end, it's amazing he keeps getting longer and longer.
That song does Bryant this week, uh was in the news,
not for anything he did recently, but for a video
that surfaced on a Oklahoma state website where it showed
Does Bryant in college challenging a horse to a race.
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And you know you won't believe this, but the horse won.
It was the mascot, right, the horse was the mask
took out, does Brian? That makes more sense? That must
be true. Yes, it wasn't just like a horse walking
by and he was. I didn't really put it all together,
but that makes more sense. You see, even though you're hungover,
you're really sharp right now. I could not be sharper,
but I'll tell you it wasn't sharp as death. I
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watched the video. Does sucks all right? I would have
killed that horse in a race. You gotta be smart.
Does you gotta outthink the horse? You can't just try
to power past it. You can't just try to use
your speed. You gotta outthink the horse. Does you gotta
outthink the horse? I I I was taken with it.
Right at the end of the video, Does Bryant kind
of walks by the camera and they're like, what happened? Does?
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And he goes I don't know, like I know what happened.
You just race the horse. That's probably. And Chris Johnson
and all these guys they always try to race these
really fast animals. There was a whole Chris Johnson versus
a Cheetah thing for a while. It's every offseason this
this pops up, and in the NFL players genuinely believed
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that they're gonna beat the horse or beat the cheetah,
and it never happens. They always lose. It's like your boy,
like Taylor, he was saying he could beat Carl Lewis
in a race, and there was no you know, Carl
Lewis and his prime versus like Taylor, He's gonna take
him out, and there's a hundred percent belief that it's
that they actually it's gonna happen. I liked, uh the
only kind of animal like racing that I enjoyed. I
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liked when Joey Porter had two pit bulls that killed
a show pony pits the gut out of his the
gut out of his fence. He just went and killed
a little Shetland pony, one of those mini ponies. I'd
like to see that video. This is gonna be my
mom's least favorite part of the show. If you're sinking
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that song, it's because you're not really paying attention, you
know what I mean. It's the notes that he doesn't
play that make it so amazing. Aaron Hernandez boy appeared
in court. Why would he be your boy? Because he
killed a couple people. He's a murderer, the best patriot
of all time. M it's really crazy that he it's
(25:30):
one of the most underrated things. That they signed him
to a massive long term deal just now, right before
this all happened, which basically bankrolled you know, all his
lawyers and all of that. Like he had already been
in the middle of a multi murdering spree at the
time that happen. He gets about he's actually really cool guy.
He appeared in court yesterday for a hearing for his
(25:53):
next murder trial, not the one that he's in jail
for now that everyone really followed. That's over right, yeah,
but there's gonna be another child. He appeared in court.
He wore a T shirt and for the first time
he revealed a new tattoo on his neck, and it
was a uh tattoo with a five star symbol. Which
(26:17):
is commonly associated with the gang the Bloods. I don't
I don't know how well you you know all this not?
You know. I first saw it and I thought, kind
of cowboy. Maybe the Cowboys had signed him to some
under the table deal. Kind of looked like the Cowboys star.
So maybe when he gets out Jerry Jones thinks, you
know that he'll he'll be at a cheap value. But no,
(26:38):
it's a gang type of thing. I mean, I thought
that it was funny because I had to read up
a little bit about this, um that the five pointed
star means the Bloods aren't all stars five pointed all
stars have five points um, and it does. It does
kind of look he got time by the Cowboys, which
I think is funny. I think it's funny that the
Cowboys have a blood symbol as their as their logo. Um.
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But as a life along crip Greg, I'm gonna have
to say I give a thumbs down here. I know
Goodell has my back. He beat me into the crips,
(27:25):
you know, I don't know. I'm like, now that I
listened to this more, I'm going deeper and deeper into it,
into this cut. I feel like I don't know if
my least favorite or my favorite part is the squeak
sound is the you know means all xylophone and click, yeah,
a little clown one in there. I don't know if
that's my favorite and my least favorite, but the whole
thing is my favorite at this moment. Memorable. What did
(27:45):
you say? What? That's what the mutant buttons for Brandon for?
When you talk? You better edit this whole the whole
thing out. What the heck Brandon? I thought we were
all like a group here, the three amigos. We got
Brandon on the ones and two's playing Goodell's greatest hit,
and you're gonna get through attitude. You're gonna throw a
shade and me, I don't think so he is your
boss's boss's boss's boss's boss's boss, Roger Goodell because he
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finds out this is the stuff he's passionate about. I
I think it's the worst part of the song though.
It's like it's like he didn't have faith in the
music and he had to resort to some sort of chicanery,
you know what I mean. I'll tell you what happened
is that he was he was laying it down and
somebody just kind of walked in. Do you know what
I mean? That was one like, hey, can I be
a part of this? He want to be rude. He said,
here take the clown horn and uh get a co
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written credit on the song. Now, Greg, this has been
a good week for me. Uh. The Steelers have kind
of laid claim to the sixth seed. I think, Uh,
I was I was opening the Jets would lose to
the Cowboys, but they pulled out. They pulled it out.
But still the Steelers one and an hour in the
sixth seed. Makes me think if the playoffs started today,
what would happen. Yeah, we're we're all done with headlines
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and we're getting close to the NFL playoffs and r
G the Rosenthal and Justin Nick Vanity project. We'll continue
throughout the playoffs and hopefully beyond, you know, if you
guys keep supporting us. But I wanted to break down
some of the playoffs scenarios. We do a lot of
jokes on the podcast, but I just wanted to basically said,
if the playoffs started today, what would the NFL playoffs
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look like? And start, you know, looking at it as
a preview. So if the playoffs started today, the New
York Jets would be out, as you mentioned, the Steelers
and the Chiefs would have the final a f C
wild card spots with Pittsburgh Your Steelers looking great lately.
Opening in Denver be a tough, tough opening game in
Denver right now. But if the playoffs started today, that's
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how it would happen. I will smoke Denver. Um. You know,
if the playoffs started today, I would just think, where's
my life gone? Did two weeks just disappear completely? Have
I experienced some sort of trauma that I kill a man?
Have I lost a child? What could have happened that
I would black out this much? Time the playoffs start today?
What has ended? Then? The time would play such a
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cruel joke. I'll kill you, I'll kill you dead. Yeah. Oh,
(30:19):
let's take it to recommendation station, which is I'm gonna
start calling we recommend things I want to do westerns. Uh.
This week, Greg, Um, I saw I saw a great
one of my I've saw two of my favorite five
movies of the year this week, just randomly. Wow is
on on demand right now. You guys, You've got to
see this movie. I can't believe I slept on it.
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It's called Bone Tomahawk. It's a Western starring Kurt Russell. Uh.
Patrick Wilson is in it, Um, Matthew Fox, a couple
other people. It is a badass kind of Western slash
horror movie. Actually, I made my friend watch it last
night at one in the morning, UM, and I don't
remember any of it, but I've seen it three times
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in the past, like four or five days. And that
is a great movie. You've got to see Bone Tomahawk
and The Revenant. I saw the I got a screener.
I saw The Revenants from the guy who did the
Moris Paros the Director movie. We saw it together. Um.
One of the many subtitled films we've seen in the theater.
It's an incredible movie. The Revenants incredible, one of the
top five of the year for sure. I don't have
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as much history with westerns as you, um, but I
did see one that's coming out, and I got to
see a little bit of a preview of it, and
I'm excited. I think this might wind up being one
of the greatest westerns of all time. From the creaters
of air Bud and Air Buddies, Get Ready for the
Best and the furiest talking monkey has been living in
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my house? Was that the monkey's voice at the end,
Let's see the clip that was the monkey's voice. And
in that scene he ends up getting in a bathtub
with a naked woman. Hilarity. And what's the movie rated?
I don't know. They're they're they're still looking at that.
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It's coming out soon. But but the makers of air Bud,
they're not willing to just lie down and uh and
let life come to them. They're still moving on. They're
going with Monty the Monkey. You know, they're they're still
getting royalties from the air Buddies save Christmas movie, which
is another great one for the kids at this time
of year. But they're going Monty the Monkey in January.
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I might have to show that to the kids. I
don't like that they have to say the creators of
air Bud and air Buddies you know, I mean something
the air Bud Yeah, we know, we know you can't
do one without the other. And and then this whole
monkey thing. I think that's gonna be the end of
the Airbud franchise. I think people tuning in to see
Airbud they want to see they want to see a
dog getting hit with hit with balls touched unless that
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monkey gets hit in the face by a golf ball.
I'm gonna assume the not then I'm not. I'm not
gonna see it. So Greg, you check it out with
the kids, and then you let me know if I should,
if I should see it. You know, I feel bad
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for are the parents who have only a couple of
days before Christmas when they've got to run out and
try to get a xylophone for their kids. Kids are
gonna be screaming for this, screaming for their own xylophone,
and you know, stories are just not gonna I'm gonna
have them. It's gonna be it's gonna be rough, but
it's it's a great instrument. I can't play it, But
just because I can't doesn't mean that you shouldn't take
lessons from Roger Goodell. I'd love to see, like an
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advanced metrics study of how how big a percentage the
xylophone has been in this show. It's been like it's
been like, yeah, it's been it's been a xylophone heavy episode.
But wait next week, Wait until next week. You haven't
seen nothing yet. Patrick Greenaway is our listener that sent
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in to ask Anthony this week. That's our weekly segment
of course, where we asked for questions on Twitter. Patrick
Greenaway asked Anthony, what is your definition of true love?
Real love? What's my definition of real love? Um? Okay,
I had to think about it for a second, but
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this might take me a little bit. Um my definition
of real love? Yes, indeed, once again, for those who
don't know what the sounds of the youngest DJ and
charge ron G, I want to say, what's up to Mary?
And then this uptown classic, give it to him, Take
him uptown to the polo ground, Take him uptown to
the polo ground. Take him uptown to the polo ground,
(34:52):
take him uptown to the polo ground. We are lover
is true and through and then we made it through
the storm. I really want to realize. I really want
you to put on I've been searching for someone to
satisfy my every need. Won't you be my inspiration? Be
the real be the real love that I need, real love.
I'm searching for the real love, someone to set my
heart free, real love. I'm searching for real love. And
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when I met you, I just knew that you would
take my heart and run until you told me how
you felt for me. You said I'm not the one.
So I slowly came to see all of the things
that you were made of. And now I hope my
dreams and inspiration lead me towards a real love, real love.
I'm searching for the real love, someone to set my
heart free, real love. I'm searching for real love. I've
(35:36):
got to have a real love. Love so true and
oh baby, I thought that love was you. I thought
you were the answer to the question in my mind.
But it seems that I was wrong. If I stay strong,
maybe I'll find a real love. I'm searching for real love,
someone to set my heart free, real love. I'm searching
for a real love edited for too much hate, ouration
(35:58):
in this dancery. Look at the sky, it's bird, it's
a plane. Nope, it's Mary Jane in a damn thing
changed kicking ill flava with the teflon don record shop
getting props. She got it going on. So what's it
gonna be? The real one? The fake one? You need
a minute to think? For whom you better take? What up?
My time is up? Peace out to Brooklyn helping Daddy.
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Oh hey, yo, bring the verse in so I try
my best and pray to God, and he send me
someone real to caress me and to guide me towards
the love my heart can feel. Now I know I
can be faithful. I can be your all in all
and give you good loving through the summertime, winter, spring
and fall. Real love. I'm searching for the real love,
someone to set my heart free, real love. I'm searching
(36:38):
for real love. You see, I'm searching for real love.
I don't know where to go. I've been around the
world high and low, and still will never know how
it feels to have a real love because it seems
there's none around. I gotta end it in this way
because it seems he can't be found real love. I'm
searching for the real love, someone to set my heart free,
real love. I'm searching for real love. It's that flavor.
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That's what I'm talking about. Ain't no other way to
explain it. Anthony, Did you just read the lyrics in
their entirety, including every chorus of Real Love by Mary J.
Blige Andoris P I G and Puffy. Yes? I did, Yes,
I did um great acting, by the way, by asking
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me that question at the end, it really seemed natural
and not like we planned it. What was that? Okay?
(37:52):
Ob um? Cool? Now I want to read it again?
Do another chance? You want to do? You want to do?
I wanted to do it again? Yeah, try Anthony? Did
you just read the lyrics in their entirety of Real
Love by Mary J. Bligeorious, b I G and Puff Daddy?
Let me let me do it, Anthony? Did you just
(38:13):
read the entire lyrics to Marry J. Blige's Real Love
featuring Biggie and Puffy? A little better? That's better? Thank
a lot better? Thank you do. We have a listener
of the week, Greg, We do on iTunes. We encourage
you to leave your comments each and every week, give
(38:34):
us five stars, do all that fun stuff because that
helps us in the iTunes ratings. And it's cool just
to hear from you. We uh. We got one from
a listener. I can't say his name, so you gotta
be careful with what what you use. But he says
this podcast is funky, funky fresh, says a Cowboys as
a Cowboys fan this season, this podcast is the only
(38:54):
joy I get from the NFL. I followed Greg from
around the NFL to hear had no idea way Anthony was.
But after just four episodes, it's safe to say I
like Anthony more than Greg. Roger Goodell dropped a lot
of heat between segments, and I often find myself having
to put pat the small fires that burn my ear heirs.
Mm hmm, I like uh, I like that. That was
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a that was a nice one. I think it's kind
of a shame he can't say his name. Um, but
that's I think your problem. Let's uh, let's do some
predictions here. No, no, but don't edit this either. Let's
do some predictions. Uh, Greg, I've got four this week,
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and I've got a segment I want to couch my
predictions within a segment called if Santa Claus is real?
You know what I mean? You like Santa Claus. Probably
it doesn't exist, no one knows for sure, but if
he is real, I think we could see some topsy
Turvy results and uh in this week's game. So once
you go ahead and give me predictions all. My brother,
in a big jerk move, opened my door when I
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was three or four years old and just screamed that
me that Santa wasn't real because uh, you wanted to
get back at me. For something. It sounds like you've
been thinking about that for years. It's not how you
found out that you didn't exist. I mean, I don't
really remember I was three or four, but probably I
remember when I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real
that I was furious, furious at all the adults who
tried to like perpetrate that live for so long you
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just feels stupid. I don't think I ever really got felt.
I never really got too deep into it because we were,
you know, we would didn't really do the Christmas Santa thing.
They didn't do it too hard, and he told me
too early before I ever knew. But if Santa was real,
I think that's really going to inform these picks. And
so I'm gonna start by giving you my picks, starting
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with the Jets Patriots, which I think is one of
the most fascinating games of the week. A lot of
people think the Jets are gonna win this game because
the Patriots are so banged up, but those are the
types of games the Patriots always win when when people
start picking against them and things don't look great. This
has been almost an underrated Tom Brady season at this point.
Cam Newton getting the end VP Carson Palmer this and
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that it's been one of Tom Brady's best seasons of
his career. He's gonna have his best game against the
Jets and get a win on the road, clinch that
number one seed. Just such a homer. But this is
actually the one time I'm rooting for the Patriots all season.
I went the Jets to lose. I went a little
breathing room. I'm a little little unsure about my playoff
chances right now. Washington at Philadelphia. Now, Washington should win
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this game. But but Greg, if Santa claus is real,
then Philly over Washington. And I shouldn't have spent five
years in jail for throwing reindeer off my roof. I
had a theory. Who else was going to test it out?
And the only reason those reindeer didn't fly as I
forgot to add the bells. But I know that now,
and that's the accomplishment. I don't regret it at all.
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My second pick this week Packers Cardinals. What a game
could be? A playoff preview. Two of the top four
seeds in the NFC, certainly two of the best quarterbacks
in the league. The Cardinals though, to me, are as
I said last week, best team in the league. They
showed it again against Philadelphia. They're at home. I think
they're gonna send a message that the Packers really are
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in their league. Win this game comfortably over Green Bay. Okay, okay,
that's not a bad pick. Uh. Indianapolis at Miami. India
has a lot to play for. So if Santa Claus
is real, then the Colts win at Miami and I
should be able to cut down any tree I want,
any time I want to do it. It's my property
if I'm standing on it. That's how my mind works.
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Christmas Spirit is no joke. I'll pay a god to
cut down all the trees. Get your oxygen from your
mother's teeth. Oh that's right, you can't. She suffocated in
yule tied celebration. It's a gift of the Magi situation.
My third game this week Seattle St. Louis NFC West Tilt.
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You might not remember back in Week one the Rams
actually won the first time these two teams played, and
the Rams have beaten the Seahawks quite a bit over
the years that Jeff Fisher has been there. Not very
good outside of the Division, very good inside the division.
So is this game gonna be close? No, it's not.
Seattle is playing better than any team in the league
except for Arizona. They're gonna be angry and they're gonna
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win by thirty. Seattle is gonna I was a curve boy.
I thought you were going going rams and he turned
it around on me. Uh, New York at Minnesota. Minnesota
has a lot riding on the game, but the Giants
are playing for pride. So if Santa Claus is real,
then he must be exhausted, an exhausted, bitter skeleton of
a man. His wife died so long ago from the
Great Fever that he can't even remember her face. He
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takes no pleasure in life, and the only food he
can hold down his sour milk. He just wants to die,
But every win of those little elves push him into
that sligh full of presents, and he must deliver. He
only knows he must deliver. Giants win mhm. My final
pick Cincinnati in Denver. I would argue, this is the
most important game of the year in the NFL. I'm
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not I'm not trying to be funny. It is the
winner basically it's a playoff game. The winner wins a
playoff game essentially, because they'll be either the Bengals a
clincher by there in the final eight, or the Broncos
will have control of that by and they're in the
final eight. But if the Broncos lose this game, they
might fall right out of the playoffs. They're gonna they
might not win the division, they might not even get
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a wild card. Maybe Pittsburgh passes them, for instance. So
it's as big as it gets. And I think Cincinnati
is a better team from top to bottom than Denver,
and I think they're gonna go on the road a J.
McCarron or not win that game. You're crazy, You're crazy,
but I think that about you. Uh. Final one from me,
Pittsburgh at Baltimore. Pittsburgh screw themselves out of the playoffs
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at the bad game against the division rival. But if
Santa Claus is real, then expect the Steelers to win
big on the road. Also, if satan Nick really did
exist and he was arrested for child molestation, no one
would be surprised. Literally every single person would say, yeah, yeah,
that makes epic sense. It all makes sense. The presence
while you're sleeping. You see him on public and you
if you're sit in his lap for one of his
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sick pictures, you know he gets copies of the good ones.
It all makes sense. Pittsburgh wins very Christmas. I cannot
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wait to be blasting that in my car as I
drive out of here, blasting it and I drive a
nice car. Greg Before we get out of here, I mean,
I'm going to see them this weekend for Christmas Christmas Day?
But tell me, how are my god kids doing? How
are your How are your son and daughter? Walker? And Ellis? Well?
Walker is doing well. And Ellis is out of school
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this week and she's really been looking forward to Christmas
each and every day she talks about what kind of president?
Happy Holidays? Yeah, m all right, this is Mark Cesler
(46:11):
from the Around the NFL podcast. You know, I'm sitting
here with West and we don't do bits. We just
sat through that entire podcast. What were your thoughts? People
like hip hop and humor and towing the line between
what you're allowed to say and what you can't say.
The jessel Nick and Rosenthal Vanity Project that's been our
g VP. You were supposed to be promoing the Around
the NFL podcast Mark and telling them that you can
(46:34):
listen to the Week sixteen preview. Where were you'd all
the gamest hardcore football and you just totally forgot. If
you're my supervisor, keep me in line.
It's episode nine of the Rosenthal and jessel Nick Brandity.
It's two days before Christmas and the creatures are stirring
in the podcast studio. If you ask me, there are
too many songs about Hanukah. Welcome back. This should be
(00:33):
a fun one. A special Christmas edition of The Rosenthal
and jessel Nick Vanity Project and also a birthday edition.
We are fresh off Anthony jessel knicks thirty seventh birthday
on Tuesday's right, Happy birthday, Thank you, thank you. It's
the day after. This is my most hungover episode by far. Yeah,
(00:55):
that's why I think it should be an interesting one. Brandon,
what brandons are? Producer? Of course? Brandon? What did you get? Ant?
Did he? Uh? I got nothing? Awesome? He stolen unblocked
me from Twitter, So that happening, That's right, what's kind
of like you gave me everything you had? Um. Now,
last night was fun. We had a dinner I took,
I had some friends come and join me at ruth
Stress Steakhouse, one of my favorite places to go eat.
(01:18):
You reminded me that's what we went for your if
your bachelor party, yeah, which you basically organized that. That
was in l A too, Yeah, it was a great
time last night. It was good, very good time. I uh,
my memories will hazy. Yeah. I I I double double martinis,
which I don't which I'd like to do. Um, two
martinis with a couple of bottles of wine for for
(01:38):
seven people, and then I think some scotch at the end. Probably. Yeah,
you made us all stay and watch you, uh drink
some scots through purse lips and you couldn't even come
close to finishing it by that point. It was almost
like disgusting to you, even though it was a blue label,
because I really knew things. I knew things were going
into a different place. When you asked the entire table
(02:01):
for the fourth time whether we were going to come
back to your apartment, he went through each and every
person each time. Yeah, And I mean I enjoyed repeating
myself when I get that drunk. I was a very
happy drunk. I think that I woke up this morning.
I went to bed about three in the morning, had
had friends come over, and then I made people watch
a movie with me, uh which I watched the whole thing,
(02:22):
And I woke up laughing this morning because we got
back to my place. One of my friends who was there.
Ricky said she had she had like presents. We used
to go give it. I'll give it to you once
we had to get back to your apartment and then
gave me with like like with a flourish like it
made a big deal out of presenting this to me.
Gave me two like very comfortable, very nice, high quality
blankets from my couch, and then five minutes later I
(02:44):
was like, Ricky, what did you get me for my birthday?
And everyone even at that point then I was like
gob smacked that I did not remember five minutes before
her giving it to me. Um a lot of a
lot of things I'm being told that I did, but
all good things I'll I'll give. People were pretty gobsmacked
when you when you kept being kept asking over and
over again. He's like, oh wait, you have a babysitter,
(03:06):
Ammaica and I my wife. We had to go head
back home. We did. We did not go to the
after party or anything, but it was a great time Ricky. Ricky,
by the way, made a very touching uh toast to you.
They probably don't remember uh during dinner, so you should
ask her about that. I don't remember it. What was it? Oh,
just just basically that you were you know, despite you know,
people might think you were a jerk or anything, but
(03:28):
basically that you've got everyone's back. When when you become
friends with Anthony jessel Nick, he's got your back. Okay,
I kind of remember that now. That was very that
was very nice of her, and I do I have.
I have all my friends backs, uh when I'm black
out drunk on my birthday. Um. But yeah, that was
a good that was a good time. Thank you for
thank you for coming. Yeah, you're coming for Christmas to
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give the God Kids. Uh, you watch them open the
presence that you got them. It'll be fun. I'm excited
about quite a week. Puppets in a truck. That's what
they're getting. That's what the God Kids are getting. Um,
let's do uh, let's do what was cut. That was
(04:10):
Roger Goodell. Uh. We are, of course, uh still with
the NFL rules. If you listen to the podcast, we're
allowed to play two hip hop songs uh, and then
we have to play um NFL mandated music that Roger
Goodell himself produced and oftentimes played on. He doesn't always
play every instrument, but he can uh and he does
and that's him on the xylophone, so that counts as
one of the hip hop tracks, I think. And we'll see, Yeah,
(04:33):
we'll see what comes after that. Let's get into what
was cut from last week. A couple of words, A
couple of a couple of words. I think I said
the word uh slang for a cat um which I
I think I said that, and Greg dropped an F
bomb I believe um. I talked about a joke was
cut where I talked about edited because we bawed too hard.
(04:54):
I'm sure I made some inappropriate joke about what went
on there. I don't remember the exact joke, but that
was certainly cut. I made a joke about Pagano Chuck
Pogano can't be eaten by his bosses because of the
disease that he had, which I'm not allowed to joke about.
I also compared a junior say ow to air bud
(05:15):
ah touchdob a bud in a bad way. If you
know anything about junior say o um. And then I
we joke got cut where I said the commission edited
to add more xylophone. That's gotta get cut again. Fifty
nine miles to Jacksonville. That that dune stuck in my
(05:36):
head this week. I'm not even joking if kind of
kind of you know, it's running through the head a
few times. Plus one of our our podcast listeners left
some comment fifty nine miles to our j V peak,
So I like the shout out there, that's a good uh,
that's a good one. Um, fifty miles to Jacksonville. That
was still maybe one of the worst titles of of
this song or any other. Uh, let's get in the headlines.
(06:08):
That was Roger Goodell. It was another I think that
was the same song. There's a different part of the
same song. If you have If you know Roger Goodell,
you know he can play the spoons like nobody's business,
and he plays that tune a lot with the spoons.
But this was a xylophone. I think it was one
of the xylophones that that I got him for his
birthday last year. He wanted to just lay something down
(06:29):
and uh and uh and and knocked it out of
the park. I think that's a that's a great song.
I still need to get you a birthday present. Maybe
you would want a xylophone. I thought we all took
you at the dinner. I guess that's kind of a present. Yeah,
I mean it's it's as much as a present as
I expected from you. Um, but I could not kick
a xylophone down the stairs. I have no musical talent.
I'm like the I'm like the opposite of Roger Goodell.
(06:52):
That's true in many ways. Uh. This week another man
who's the opposite of Roger Goodell in so many ways.
Odell Beckham has been in the was I don't think
anyone listening to this could have avoided this story. As
we tape here on Wednesday, there working hard right up
until the holiday. He has been suspended one game by
the NFL and his appeal on that suspension. You might
(07:14):
not even know this had happened on your drive over here.
Anthony has been upheld, so he will be suspended for
one game for his excessive fighting with Panther's cornerback Josh
Norman throughout Sunday's game against the Panthers. Yeah, one little
nuts was kind of a bit of a meltdown. I
do not buy any of the excuses that he has
(07:35):
given for for this behavior. I mean, no one's had
a meltdown quite like that, And everybody talks trash right. Well,
there's been reports that have come out that you know,
Michael Irvin, who works here, you know, said that people
have been questioning Odell's sexual orientation all season long and
that was getting him angry. There was also the story
(07:55):
that the Panthers had a bat out on the field,
uh the Giants. Hunter Brad Wing, who went to l
s U with Beckham, recounted a story before the game
where one of the Panthers had a baseball bat and
approached the receiver and he said, I'll be the reason
you don't play today and others and other days, which
(08:16):
is pretty aggressive. It's very aggressive, borderline unacceptable, just because
of the baseball bat. Like that's what made me laugh that,
Like they saw Good Fellows the night before and like,
you know it would be cool is if we threatened
him with with equipment from other sports, you know, football
is not enough. Like they saw like the bow Jackson
black and blue poster and thought, you know what that
would look tough, like someone who must have had golf clubs.
(08:38):
I bet somebody thought about throwing basketballs at him before
the game. Sounds like an airbud an idea for an
airbud movie are they still making sequels. That would be uh,
that would be a good one. I would I would
watch that movie like I've watched all Airbud movies. Yeah.
I like. I like how the Panthers coach Ron Rivera
(08:59):
called out the Giant basically for leaking this information. I
always like it when the when the coach gets down
to it and kind of shows you how the sausage
was made, basically saying, the Giants are leaking out these
stories about the bat and about the sexual orientation, and
that it's all nonsense because he should have, you know,
stayed under control and it doesn't really matter. And they
had been bringing the bat out for weeks and weeks.
(09:20):
It was some stupid motivational ploy where they you know,
it was supposed to be something about toughness, you know
that that they carried the bat out with them. I
don't know, was something that they're gonna hit home runs
and they're gonna hit people hard. Whatever. Does None of
that makes sense what you said, but it's true. It's true.
The Saints actually used to do this too. They would
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bring a bat out. It was like we're gonna we're
gonna knock them out. I don't know, but coaches do
this sort of stupid stuff all the time, and for
whatever reason it's acceptable. Build ourselves used to put up
mouse traps with cheese in it in the locker room
as a way for the players to say, don't take
the cheese, and that's supposed to be don't take the
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compliments that people are giving you. Don't take the cheese.
That's that's so dumb. I mean, the players must have
lost so much respect for him when he did that,
like mouse traps with cheese because they were eating. He
was considered one of the greatest motivators in NFL history.
I only like, I only like when coaches bury things.
Oh yeah, burying the ball. They got to bury the ball.
I forget about bury the ball. That's that's a parcels thing.
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That's us BROWNO. Think my favorite one was Jack del Rio,
the old Jaguars coach. Now he's the Raiders coach. He
got in serious trouble because one of his motivational things
was they gotta keep chopping wood. And he had an
axe in the locker room and they after every game
or every practice, someone would take the axe and you know,
hit some wood, but their punter. I forget who is
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name it is now, it's about ten years ago. He
axed his own leg and he was out for the season.
But you know, the the heavy axe and he just
chopped himself right in the story. I believe it. But
the most ridiculous thing is why was his slogan we
gotta keep chopping wood? Like that's a terrible it's a
terrible slogan. It's not motivational at all. It's an insulting
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It shows how little NFL coaches think of their players,
basically that they can be motivated by these childish antics,
which wouldn't work. You wouldn't think it sound like he
would have to think of like the coach had to
think of a motivational ploy and then just like like
I had five seconds to think of something and came
up with chopping wood. A lot of people think that
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was Goodell. Again that people would't think it was the
same song. It is not a lot of imitators of
Roger Goodell, and that was one of one of the many,
one of many knockoffs of his uh of his song Xylophone,
My Xylophone. I mean, we couldn't be complimenting Roger Goodell
more that you know we we could be going to
the two authorized hip hop tracks. I know that first
one was was one of them, Thore Roger Goodell. But
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just the people demand more xylophone over and over again.
We could never get sick of it. It's like my
Christmas presence to the world. So we're gonna do the
hot take of the week right now. We usually do
it at the end of the show, but there were
so many sizzling hot takes on the Odell Beckham controversy
that I just wanted to get some sound on. And
we're gonna start with one of my favorites w f
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A NDS Mike FRANCESSA. You tell me. Tom Coughlin was
proud of that. I watched the postgame. Tom didn't even
criticize him in a post game. Well, you and I'll
have a talk. I'm not gonna get into it with
you here. Oh really, no, Tom let him un all
over the field like a clown. Tell me that's Tom
Conflin who came to the team talking about the team
needing this one. When when we drag out Tom's first speech,
the giants are desperate needed discipline. Oh really, where that goo?
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That's how you're supposed to gonna run your team, Tom,
it is time to leave. That is great. It sounds
like my dad doing an impression of someone that hates um.
I love Mike friends. I lived in New York for
ten years. There was nothing better than Mike and the
Mad Dog after like a big Yankees Austin just seeing
him absolutely lose his mind. And usually I disagree with
the hot takes. I definitely don't feel as emotional about
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Odell Beckham as as Princesses did. But he's basically right.
I think this is the end of Tom Coughlin, and
this is gonna be one of the final things that
kind of kicks him to the curve. Yeah. I think
it reflects more more on Couflman it does on on Beckham.
But I just like describing a wide receivers running all
over the field like a clown. Uh is a great
is a great way to describe someone. Let's let's listen
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for Incess. I really had a lot of great points.
They don't got more. Princess. Everything with him is me me,
me make a catch, dance all over the field pre game,
put on a show ware ridiculous stuff on the field.
Go over there to the mug to the fans throwing
the game. I'm not already you're part of a team,
and you're not even part of a good team. None
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of those are excuses for why he shouldn't why he
shouldn't do those things. He's a wide receiver. Of course
you want to do You want to see pregame warm ups.
You want to see uh, you want to see the
blonde hair, you know, you to see him dancing after
a touchdown. A lot of it seemed to be describing
you on your birthday. Yes, except for the dancing. I
don't think. I don't think I danced. No, if I did,
you're not a real dancer. I'm trying to remember more,
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more of the dinner and whatnot. It would have come
to me throughout the show. You're right though, that the
wide receivers. Uh, this is what wide receivers are on
some level. And I think Odell Beckham got punished. He
got suspended for a game. He's losing a game. Check
the Giants have a big game. This for like not
for not for his pregame one ups, which are awesome, Right,
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it's supposed to be who cares. He's an entertainer. It's
all about him. This is a totally separate thing that
he just lost his mind. And I think a lot
of people were going crazy killing Beckham this week and
saying that no one's ever been like this before. Mike Wilbon,
who hosts P t I on ESPN, he tweeted out,
I can't remember ever seeing Jerry Rice, Chris Carter, Michael Irvine,
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or any of the greats behaving as a lunatic as
Beckham has today. Jerry Rice, Okay, that's true. Edited because
Greg took it too far, so they're saying, like, I
can't remember any of the greats, Like the greats did
plenty of stuff. Jerry Rice was so crazy that he
complained aboutknocking enough respect after being named m v P
of goddamn super Bowl. That's how crazy Jerry Rice was.
And everyone else you named had a cocaine problem. All right,
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Odell Beckham can do whatever he wants. I think the
reason it was so crazy was because people liked him
so much before this they just couldn't believe that he
he did this. But all Odo needs to do is
get some cocaine. I don't know what that was, but
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I'm gonna listen to when I work out. Devin Taylor
the Detroit Lions defensive and not a well known player.
He came a little more well known this week when
he showed up to Monday Night Football in New Orleans.
By the way they showed Jockomos during Monday Night Football.
They they were coming in from the Break, one of
the great restaurants in America and certainly in in New Orleans.
(15:57):
Got me excited. Devin Taylor wore a suit on the
way into the Superdome which got some attention. It was
called Gangs the clause. Uh. It had dinosaurs, guns, trees,
snow flakes, and hearts all over the suit. Not just dinosaurs,
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greg t Rex, which is I think is important to note.
My favorite thing about this is that the suits costs.
That is how much that suit costs, like online? And
he looked pretty sharp. You can get it, look Taylor,
google Gangs the clause. Maybe that's what I'll get you
for your birthday. My birthday is over. It was yesterday
and you blew it Christmas. Maybe I would. I would
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love to see the Christmas present that you get me. Um,
what would your suit? If you're gonna get a suit
with the cool pattern on it? What would your pattern be, Well,
I gotta start with football's um start there. Well, yeah,
you know, like that's your base. It pays my it
pays my way. So I would go foot balls, tacos uh,
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symbols of hurricanes, air bud, and then machine guns. Okay,
that's funny because I was looking at your notes earlier
and I was like, what the hell? What what is that?
What did he write down? When I saw symbols for
tacos um? I would have I think my suit would
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just be it would be almost exactly the same, only
my suit would have smaller suits on it, and in
those tiny suits it would have a dinosaur or a
handgun in a Christmas tree. I think. I think that
would be pretty dope or or giant versions of me,
you know what I mean, Like just a lot of me,
but way bigger than the actual suit. I don't know,
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people know what I'm starting. It's sick of that song,
but it's barely not enough to actually change it. But
I think that's a sign of a good song. When
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you can hear it this many times, you just start
to get a little bit tired of Well, I was
starting to wonder, are we gonna you know, each week
we've had different music really on the show, whether that's
possibly going to be scrapped, and it's just all xylophone
all the time until we absolutely prevent anyone from ever
listening to this podcast ever again. Each week the subscriber
numbers go down and down. I'll stop playing it when
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Goodell stops making it, you know what I mean, which
is probably gonna be never that guy. I mean, especially
around the holidays. I think I think he kind of
does it to relief stress. It just seems like after
a long, hard day, you want him, you want to
bang out the zie. Especially with the Concussion movie coming out,
there's there's a lot He scored the Concussion movie edited
to keep Greg's job. I don't know if you heard
(18:50):
Jason Pierre Paul this week. He really spoke at length
for the first time about the incidents that occurred and
lead to his hand disfigurement this off season where he
lost you know, a finger and a half, and he
was quoted finally, you know, talking to the public and
revealing what it was and what happened. He said, quote,
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the fireworks just went off in my hand. I love it.
When I heard this, I laughed, so hard. Hey, Hey, Jason, Pierre, Paul,
the fireworks just went off in your hand. No, of
course it did. The The only other like explanation would
be that you were watching The Simpsons and thought, you
know what, I want my hands to look like their hands. Um,
(19:35):
let me, let me slam a couple of these hands off,
a couple of these fingers off, either in a car
door or with some fireworks, because this would really take
my career to the next level. Was that a new one?
(19:59):
Was that a new song? Is that the same move
been playing? I can't okay, it's a new one, thank you, Brendan.
A little variety, but again that was still that was
still the man. It was definitely a little longer, a
little bit. It's really testing theory. This was a good idea. Jets.
The New York Jets this week have their biggest game
in three or four years against the Patriots, and uh
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one of the guys helping them out on the practice
squad throughout the week is Joe Anderson. Not a well
known player or name, but he became famous Anthony a
little earlier this season. Six eight weeks ago, he stood
outside the Houston Texans stadium for multiple days asking for
(20:44):
a job, and he took a picture of Instagram on it.
People kind of went by. This is a guy that
had been in the NFL. He had been on practice squads,
on teams during the summer, but never really stuck. So
he basically pulled off this stunt just standing outside, you know,
like a homeless person hole a sign, and here we
are six weeks later. It worked. He is in the NFL.
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He's on the New York Jets. Uh is there is
there a person in the entire league. You think who's
who's less respected than? There's less respected than Joe Anderson
around the locker room. There's no way. There's no way
anyone even talks to him. Odell Beckham maybe right now.
I don't know that's popular popular. It's not a popularity contest.
It's a respect thing. You know, you can be very
(21:27):
popular and still not respected. You're saying it wasn't worth
it for Joe Anderson to debase himself like this. You're
not seeing a People look at this and they're thinking, Wow,
what a story of humbling perseverance that this guy sort
of put himself out there like that. He wanted to
continue his career, so bad. He has two kids, he
has a wife, and he wanted to fight for it
(21:49):
that much that he was willing to basically humiliate himself
to get a job. Yeah, but that's not how jobs work. Like,
that's not what you're supposed to do. Um, you should not.
You should have some pride and yourself, have some self respect.
Joe Anderson, and I hope you're hope you're out of
the league, you know what I mean. The faster we
can get Joe Anderson on the league, the faster we
(22:10):
can get more Golden Retrievers to play the game. Touched.
I'm not I'm not Joe Anderson fan. No one's buying
that jersey. I'll tell you that right now. No, I'm
gonna buy Joe Anderson jerseys and give him the homeless
people so I can try to get get his good name.
But I don't think they have practice squad jerseys anyways.
I don't know that's good. They'll just showing off. You
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think the song is over, and he's like, nope, I
got a little I got a little curve ball for you.
Towards the end, it's amazing he keeps getting longer and longer.
That song does Bryant this week, uh was in the news,
not for anything he did recently, but for a video
that surfaced on a Oklahoma state website where it showed
Does Bryant in college challenging a horse to a race.
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And you know you won't believe this, but the horse won.
It was the mascot, right, the horse was the mask
took out, does Brian? That makes more sense? That must
be true. Yes, it wasn't just like a horse walking
by and he was. I didn't really put it all together,
but that makes more sense. You see, even though you're hungover,
you're really sharp right now. I could not be sharper,
but I'll tell you it wasn't sharp as death. I
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watched the video. Does sucks all right? I would have
killed that horse in a race. You gotta be smart.
Does you gotta outthink the horse? You can't just try
to power past it. You can't just try to use
your speed. You gotta outthink the horse. Does you gotta
outthink the horse? I I I was taken with it.
Right at the end of the video, Does Bryant kind
of walks by the camera and they're like, what happened? Does?
(23:54):
And he goes I don't know, like I know what happened.
You just race the horse. That's probably. And Chris Johnson
and all these guys they always try to race these
really fast animals. There was a whole Chris Johnson versus
a Cheetah thing for a while. It's every offseason this
this pops up, and in the NFL players genuinely believed
(24:14):
that they're gonna beat the horse or beat the cheetah,
and it never happens. They always lose. It's like your boy,
like Taylor, he was saying he could beat Carl Lewis
in a race, and there was no you know, Carl
Lewis and his prime versus like Taylor, He's gonna take
him out, and there's a hundred percent belief that it's
that they actually it's gonna happen. I liked, uh the
only kind of animal like racing that I enjoyed. I
(24:34):
liked when Joey Porter had two pit bulls that killed
a show pony pits the gut out of his the
gut out of his fence. He just went and killed
a little Shetland pony, one of those mini ponies. I'd
like to see that video. This is gonna be my
mom's least favorite part of the show. If you're sinking
(25:10):
that song, it's because you're not really paying attention, you
know what I mean. It's the notes that he doesn't
play that make it so amazing. Aaron Hernandez boy appeared
in court. Why would he be your boy? Because he
killed a couple people. He's a murderer, the best patriot
of all time. M it's really crazy that he it's
(25:30):
one of the most underrated things. That they signed him
to a massive long term deal just now, right before
this all happened, which basically bankrolled you know, all his
lawyers and all of that. Like he had already been
in the middle of a multi murdering spree at the
time that happen. He gets about he's actually really cool guy.
He appeared in court yesterday for a hearing for his
(25:53):
next murder trial, not the one that he's in jail
for now that everyone really followed. That's over right, yeah,
but there's gonna be another child. He appeared in court.
He wore a T shirt and for the first time
he revealed a new tattoo on his neck, and it
was a uh tattoo with a five star symbol. Which
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is commonly associated with the gang the Bloods. I don't
I don't know how well you you know all this not?
You know. I first saw it and I thought, kind
of cowboy. Maybe the Cowboys had signed him to some
under the table deal. Kind of looked like the Cowboys star.
So maybe when he gets out Jerry Jones thinks, you
know that he'll he'll be at a cheap value. But no,
(26:38):
it's a gang type of thing. I mean, I thought
that it was funny because I had to read up
a little bit about this, um that the five pointed
star means the Bloods aren't all stars five pointed all
stars have five points um, and it does. It does
kind of look he got time by the Cowboys, which
I think is funny. I think it's funny that the
Cowboys have a blood symbol as their as their logo. Um.
(27:00):
But as a life along crip Greg, I'm gonna have
to say I give a thumbs down here. I know
Goodell has my back. He beat me into the crips,
(27:25):
you know, I don't know. I'm like, now that I
listened to this more, I'm going deeper and deeper into it,
into this cut. I feel like I don't know if
my least favorite or my favorite part is the squeak
sound is the you know means all xylophone and click, yeah,
a little clown one in there. I don't know if
that's my favorite and my least favorite, but the whole
thing is my favorite at this moment. Memorable. What did
(27:45):
you say? What? That's what the mutant buttons for Brandon for?
When you talk? You better edit this whole the whole
thing out. What the heck Brandon? I thought we were
all like a group here, the three amigos. We got
Brandon on the ones and two's playing Goodell's greatest hit,
and you're gonna get through attitude. You're gonna throw a
shade and me, I don't think so he is your
boss's boss's boss's boss's boss's boss, Roger Goodell because he
(28:08):
finds out this is the stuff he's passionate about. I
I think it's the worst part of the song though.
It's like it's like he didn't have faith in the
music and he had to resort to some sort of chicanery,
you know what I mean. I'll tell you what happened
is that he was he was laying it down and
somebody just kind of walked in. Do you know what
I mean? That was one like, hey, can I be
a part of this? He want to be rude. He said,
here take the clown horn and uh get a co
(28:29):
written credit on the song. Now, Greg, this has been
a good week for me. Uh. The Steelers have kind
of laid claim to the sixth seed. I think, Uh,
I was I was opening the Jets would lose to
the Cowboys, but they pulled out. They pulled it out.
But still the Steelers one and an hour in the
sixth seed. Makes me think if the playoffs started today,
what would happen. Yeah, we're we're all done with headlines
(28:49):
and we're getting close to the NFL playoffs and r
G the Rosenthal and Justin Nick Vanity project. We'll continue
throughout the playoffs and hopefully beyond, you know, if you
guys keep supporting us. But I wanted to break down
some of the playoffs scenarios. We do a lot of
jokes on the podcast, but I just wanted to basically said,
if the playoffs started today, what would the NFL playoffs
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look like? And start, you know, looking at it as
a preview. So if the playoffs started today, the New
York Jets would be out, as you mentioned, the Steelers
and the Chiefs would have the final a f C
wild card spots with Pittsburgh Your Steelers looking great lately.
Opening in Denver be a tough, tough opening game in
Denver right now. But if the playoffs started today, that's
(29:34):
how it would happen. I will smoke Denver. Um. You know,
if the playoffs started today, I would just think, where's
my life gone? Did two weeks just disappear completely? Have
I experienced some sort of trauma that I kill a man?
Have I lost a child? What could have happened that
I would black out this much? Time the playoffs start today?
What has ended? Then? The time would play such a
(29:55):
cruel joke. I'll kill you, I'll kill you dead. Yeah. Oh,
(30:19):
let's take it to recommendation station, which is I'm gonna
start calling we recommend things I want to do westerns. Uh.
This week, Greg, Um, I saw I saw a great
one of my I've saw two of my favorite five
movies of the year this week, just randomly. Wow is
on on demand right now. You guys, You've got to
see this movie. I can't believe I slept on it.
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It's called Bone Tomahawk. It's a Western starring Kurt Russell. Uh.
Patrick Wilson is in it, Um, Matthew Fox, a couple
other people. It is a badass kind of Western slash
horror movie. Actually, I made my friend watch it last
night at one in the morning, UM, and I don't
remember any of it, but I've seen it three times
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in the past, like four or five days. And that
is a great movie. You've got to see Bone Tomahawk
and The Revenant. I saw the I got a screener.
I saw The Revenants from the guy who did the
Moris Paros the Director movie. We saw it together. Um.
One of the many subtitled films we've seen in the theater.
It's an incredible movie. The Revenants incredible, one of the
top five of the year for sure. I don't have
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as much history with westerns as you, um, but I
did see one that's coming out, and I got to
see a little bit of a preview of it, and
I'm excited. I think this might wind up being one
of the greatest westerns of all time. From the creaters
of air Bud and Air Buddies, Get Ready for the
Best and the furiest talking monkey has been living in
(31:49):
my house? Was that the monkey's voice at the end,
Let's see the clip that was the monkey's voice. And
in that scene he ends up getting in a bathtub
with a naked woman. Hilarity. And what's the movie rated?
I don't know. They're they're they're still looking at that.
(32:09):
It's coming out soon. But but the makers of air Bud,
they're not willing to just lie down and uh and
let life come to them. They're still moving on. They're
going with Monty the Monkey. You know, they're they're still
getting royalties from the air Buddies save Christmas movie, which
is another great one for the kids at this time
of year. But they're going Monty the Monkey in January.
(32:30):
I might have to show that to the kids. I
don't like that they have to say the creators of
air Bud and air Buddies you know, I mean something
the air Bud Yeah, we know, we know you can't
do one without the other. And and then this whole
monkey thing. I think that's gonna be the end of
the Airbud franchise. I think people tuning in to see
Airbud they want to see they want to see a
dog getting hit with hit with balls touched unless that
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monkey gets hit in the face by a golf ball.
I'm gonna assume the not then I'm not. I'm not
gonna see it. So Greg, you check it out with
the kids, and then you let me know if I should,
if I should see it. You know, I feel bad
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for are the parents who have only a couple of
days before Christmas when they've got to run out and
try to get a xylophone for their kids. Kids are
gonna be screaming for this, screaming for their own xylophone,
and you know, stories are just not gonna I'm gonna
have them. It's gonna be it's gonna be rough, but
it's it's a great instrument. I can't play it, But
just because I can't doesn't mean that you shouldn't take
lessons from Roger Goodell. I'd love to see, like an
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advanced metrics study of how how big a percentage the
xylophone has been in this show. It's been like it's
been like, yeah, it's been it's been a xylophone heavy episode.
But wait next week, Wait until next week. You haven't
seen nothing yet. Patrick Greenaway is our listener that sent
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in to ask Anthony this week. That's our weekly segment
of course, where we asked for questions on Twitter. Patrick
Greenaway asked Anthony, what is your definition of true love?
Real love? What's my definition of real love? Um? Okay,
I had to think about it for a second, but
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this might take me a little bit. Um my definition
of real love? Yes, indeed, once again, for those who
don't know what the sounds of the youngest DJ and
charge ron G, I want to say, what's up to Mary?
And then this uptown classic, give it to him, Take
him uptown to the polo ground, Take him uptown to
the polo ground. Take him uptown to the polo ground,
(34:52):
take him uptown to the polo ground. We are lover
is true and through and then we made it through
the storm. I really want to realize. I really want
you to put on I've been searching for someone to
satisfy my every need. Won't you be my inspiration? Be
the real be the real love that I need, real love.
I'm searching for the real love, someone to set my
heart free, real love. I'm searching for real love. And
(35:14):
when I met you, I just knew that you would
take my heart and run until you told me how
you felt for me. You said I'm not the one.
So I slowly came to see all of the things
that you were made of. And now I hope my
dreams and inspiration lead me towards a real love, real love.
I'm searching for the real love, someone to set my
heart free, real love. I'm searching for real love. I've
(35:36):
got to have a real love. Love so true and
oh baby, I thought that love was you. I thought
you were the answer to the question in my mind.
But it seems that I was wrong. If I stay strong,
maybe I'll find a real love. I'm searching for real love,
someone to set my heart free, real love. I'm searching
for a real love edited for too much hate, ouration
(35:58):
in this dancery. Look at the sky, it's bird, it's
a plane. Nope, it's Mary Jane in a damn thing
changed kicking ill flava with the teflon don record shop
getting props. She got it going on. So what's it
gonna be? The real one? The fake one? You need
a minute to think? For whom you better take? What up?
My time is up? Peace out to Brooklyn helping Daddy.
(36:18):
Oh hey, yo, bring the verse in so I try
my best and pray to God, and he send me
someone real to caress me and to guide me towards
the love my heart can feel. Now I know I
can be faithful. I can be your all in all
and give you good loving through the summertime, winter, spring
and fall. Real love. I'm searching for the real love,
someone to set my heart free, real love. I'm searching
(36:38):
for real love. You see, I'm searching for real love.
I don't know where to go. I've been around the
world high and low, and still will never know how
it feels to have a real love because it seems
there's none around. I gotta end it in this way
because it seems he can't be found real love. I'm
searching for the real love, someone to set my heart free,
real love. I'm searching for real love. It's that flavor.
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That's what I'm talking about. Ain't no other way to
explain it. Anthony, Did you just read the lyrics in
their entirety, including every chorus of Real Love by Mary J.
Blige Andoris P I G and Puffy. Yes? I did, Yes,
I did um great acting, by the way, by asking
(37:24):
me that question at the end, it really seemed natural
and not like we planned it. What was that? Okay?
(37:52):
Ob um? Cool? Now I want to read it again?
Do another chance? You want to do? You want to do?
I wanted to do it again? Yeah, try Anthony? Did
you just read the lyrics in their entirety of Real
Love by Mary J. Bligeorious, b I G and Puff Daddy?
Let me let me do it, Anthony? Did you just
(38:13):
read the entire lyrics to Marry J. Blige's Real Love
featuring Biggie and Puffy? A little better? That's better? Thank
a lot better? Thank you do. We have a listener
of the week, Greg, We do on iTunes. We encourage
you to leave your comments each and every week, give
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us five stars, do all that fun stuff because that
helps us in the iTunes ratings. And it's cool just
to hear from you. We uh. We got one from
a listener. I can't say his name, so you gotta
be careful with what what you use. But he says
this podcast is funky, funky fresh, says a Cowboys as
a Cowboys fan this season, this podcast is the only
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joy I get from the NFL. I followed Greg from
around the NFL to hear had no idea way Anthony was.
But after just four episodes, it's safe to say I
like Anthony more than Greg. Roger Goodell dropped a lot
of heat between segments, and I often find myself having
to put pat the small fires that burn my ear heirs.
Mm hmm, I like uh, I like that. That was
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a that was a nice one. I think it's kind
of a shame he can't say his name. Um, but
that's I think your problem. Let's uh, let's do some
predictions here. No, no, but don't edit this either. Let's
do some predictions. Uh, Greg, I've got four this week,
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and I've got a segment I want to couch my
predictions within a segment called if Santa Claus is real?
You know what I mean? You like Santa Claus. Probably
it doesn't exist, no one knows for sure, but if
he is real, I think we could see some topsy
Turvy results and uh in this week's game. So once
you go ahead and give me predictions all. My brother,
in a big jerk move, opened my door when I
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was three or four years old and just screamed that
me that Santa wasn't real because uh, you wanted to
get back at me. For something. It sounds like you've
been thinking about that for years. It's not how you
found out that you didn't exist. I mean, I don't
really remember I was three or four, but probably I
remember when I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real
that I was furious, furious at all the adults who
tried to like perpetrate that live for so long you
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just feels stupid. I don't think I ever really got felt.
I never really got too deep into it because we were,
you know, we would didn't really do the Christmas Santa thing.
They didn't do it too hard, and he told me
too early before I ever knew. But if Santa was real,
I think that's really going to inform these picks. And
so I'm gonna start by giving you my picks, starting
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with the Jets Patriots, which I think is one of
the most fascinating games of the week. A lot of
people think the Jets are gonna win this game because
the Patriots are so banged up, but those are the
types of games the Patriots always win when when people
start picking against them and things don't look great. This
has been almost an underrated Tom Brady season at this point.
Cam Newton getting the end VP Carson Palmer this and
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that it's been one of Tom Brady's best seasons of
his career. He's gonna have his best game against the
Jets and get a win on the road, clinch that
number one seed. Just such a homer. But this is
actually the one time I'm rooting for the Patriots all season.
I went the Jets to lose. I went a little
breathing room. I'm a little little unsure about my playoff
chances right now. Washington at Philadelphia. Now, Washington should win
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this game. But but Greg, if Santa claus is real,
then Philly over Washington. And I shouldn't have spent five
years in jail for throwing reindeer off my roof. I
had a theory. Who else was going to test it out?
And the only reason those reindeer didn't fly as I
forgot to add the bells. But I know that now,
and that's the accomplishment. I don't regret it at all.
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My second pick this week Packers Cardinals. What a game
could be? A playoff preview. Two of the top four
seeds in the NFC, certainly two of the best quarterbacks
in the league. The Cardinals though, to me, are as
I said last week, best team in the league. They
showed it again against Philadelphia. They're at home. I think
they're gonna send a message that the Packers really are
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in their league. Win this game comfortably over Green Bay. Okay, okay,
that's not a bad pick. Uh. Indianapolis at Miami. India
has a lot to play for. So if Santa Claus
is real, then the Colts win at Miami and I
should be able to cut down any tree I want,
any time I want to do it. It's my property
if I'm standing on it. That's how my mind works.
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Christmas Spirit is no joke. I'll pay a god to
cut down all the trees. Get your oxygen from your
mother's teeth. Oh that's right, you can't. She suffocated in
yule tied celebration. It's a gift of the Magi situation.
My third game this week Seattle St. Louis NFC West Tilt.
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You might not remember back in Week one the Rams
actually won the first time these two teams played, and
the Rams have beaten the Seahawks quite a bit over
the years that Jeff Fisher has been there. Not very
good outside of the Division, very good inside the division.
So is this game gonna be close? No, it's not.
Seattle is playing better than any team in the league
except for Arizona. They're gonna be angry and they're gonna
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win by thirty. Seattle is gonna I was a curve boy.
I thought you were going going rams and he turned
it around on me. Uh, New York at Minnesota. Minnesota
has a lot riding on the game, but the Giants
are playing for pride. So if Santa Claus is real,
then he must be exhausted, an exhausted, bitter skeleton of
a man. His wife died so long ago from the
Great Fever that he can't even remember her face. He
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takes no pleasure in life, and the only food he
can hold down his sour milk. He just wants to die,
But every win of those little elves push him into
that sligh full of presents, and he must deliver. He
only knows he must deliver. Giants win mhm. My final
pick Cincinnati in Denver. I would argue, this is the
most important game of the year in the NFL. I'm
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not I'm not trying to be funny. It is the
winner basically it's a playoff game. The winner wins a
playoff game essentially, because they'll be either the Bengals a
clincher by there in the final eight, or the Broncos
will have control of that by and they're in the
final eight. But if the Broncos lose this game, they
might fall right out of the playoffs. They're gonna they
might not win the division, they might not even get
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a wild card. Maybe Pittsburgh passes them, for instance. So
it's as big as it gets. And I think Cincinnati
is a better team from top to bottom than Denver,
and I think they're gonna go on the road a J.
McCarron or not win that game. You're crazy, You're crazy,
but I think that about you. Uh. Final one from me,
Pittsburgh at Baltimore. Pittsburgh screw themselves out of the playoffs
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at the bad game against the division rival. But if
Santa Claus is real, then expect the Steelers to win
big on the road. Also, if satan Nick really did
exist and he was arrested for child molestation, no one
would be surprised. Literally every single person would say, yeah, yeah,
that makes epic sense. It all makes sense. The presence
while you're sleeping. You see him on public and you
if you're sit in his lap for one of his
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sick pictures, you know he gets copies of the good ones.
It all makes sense. Pittsburgh wins very Christmas. I cannot
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wait to be blasting that in my car as I
drive out of here, blasting it and I drive a
nice car. Greg Before we get out of here, I mean,
I'm going to see them this weekend for Christmas Christmas Day?
But tell me, how are my god kids doing? How
are your How are your son and daughter? Walker? And Ellis? Well?
Walker is doing well. And Ellis is out of school
(45:45):
this week and she's really been looking forward to Christmas
each and every day she talks about what kind of president?
Happy Holidays? Yeah, m all right, this is Mark Cesler
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from the Around the NFL podcast. You know, I'm sitting
here with West and we don't do bits. We just
sat through that entire podcast. What were your thoughts? People
like hip hop and humor and towing the line between
what you're allowed to say and what you can't say.
The jessel Nick and Rosenthal Vanity Project that's been our
g VP. You were supposed to be promoing the Around
the NFL podcast Mark and telling them that you can
(46:34):
listen to the Week sixteen preview. Where were you'd all
the gamest hardcore football and you just totally forgot. If
you're my supervisor, keep me in line.
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