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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I Ben's been Olbright here with you DRAFTSMI effect there
behind the glass five six six nine zeros at sex
Line Jampacks show tonight. We're going to do something we
don't normally do and leave right off by going out
to the KWA Common Spirit Health Hotline and bringing on
an honored guest. He's been selling out rooms all over
the country for about thirty years now.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I used to see him on Comicview, def Comedy Jam.
He's got the.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Netflix special all that kind of stuff, Comedian Earthquake.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome to the show. Brother.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
What's happening? Brother? How you doing today?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well and I hope the mahis treating you well.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Obviously, I know you've got the show tonight.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
You got two more shows this weekend, or excuse me,
two more dates this weekend, four more shows Friday and
Saturday over at the Denver improvverybody want to getut and
see the what we appreciate you taking some time before
the show tonight, I hit I must confess I've been
a fan.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
For a long time.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I saw you in a little rock back I think
in two thousand and four, and you would have noticed
me in the audience because me with the complexion of
an iPhone flashlight and the rest of that room, I
was a huge, huge earthquake fan.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Loved, loved the spades bit.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
I don't want to give that away case you gonna
run that one, but that I've just been a fan
for a long time and I love the comedy man,
and I am glad we get a chance to have
you on.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Now. You can use it. Man. I rotate these jokes
like my underweed. I get a new pan every day.
You should keep on going with it. Well, thank you
for being a fan. It's great to be here, uh
in here. You know, I'm a football fan, so you
know I love listening to you talk about your den,
you know, sitting down here talking about your boy the Broncos.

(01:34):
Just uh you know Sean Payton, you know, he he
had more words for uh my boy Russell Wilson.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, he had a few.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
He and Rust did not not exactly get along and
led the bow knicks, you know, coming out here. I
guess Sean's kind of found his guy now, but he
certainly had some had some words for us back on
that Detroit sideline.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Uh as we all.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Saw what what what got you in cause you got.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Your start up.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
You know you were you were in the Air Force
for a while, former Army. I love the Air Force
every time I went to Ward Guys gaming ride. But
I you know, I've been I've been a fan of
finding out why guys.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Get into comedy.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
What was the thing where you just said, this is
my calling?

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Well, it really was it was It was no, it
was just what I say everything. It was just the
best decision that day. It was no epiphany. It was
just let me try it, and nothing better came along.
So I said, I guess this is my destiny, this mark,
this is my my reason for living, you know what
I mean, my purpose because no better job came along.

(02:40):
Who's getting me this this amount of money for one
hour work?

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well, you know what, I'm on that opposite plan over
here doing the radio where they multiply the hours and
reduce the pay. So maybe I need to look into that,
although you know, I guess I'd have to be significantly funnier,
uh doing that. I did love you had the Netflix
special out not too too long and go the legendary special.
Now from what I said, did you just finish taping

(03:05):
another one?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Here fairly recently.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yes, I did. It'll be coming out this fall, and
it's called Joke Telling Business. I am in the joke
telling business. You have a lot of comedians, say the comedians,
but they're doing everything else but telling Joe's. They're procrastinated,
they're putting their relationship with special experts, but they're not
telling jokes. So I wanted to let them know I'm

(03:29):
in the joke telling business. So it'll be out this fall.
And I'm also developing my own TV show with the
great Bill Burgs. Oh yeah, Fox Television. Yes, well, I'll be.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Looking forward to that too. A huge Bill Burr fan
as well. I just love comedy. I love I love
the various different aspects of it. It is the telling
of jokes, the observations, it is the you know, it
is the speaking truth to power. Sometimes it is.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Uh the roast you know stuff that you see out there,
of the roast.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Culture and the banter back and forth. I love the
fact that that, uh, and it feels like we've lost
some of that. I love that we're able to, or
we used to be able to kind of poke fun
at each other a little bit and not take ourselves
so seriously, and it feels like lately that that just
hasn't been the case. And I think that the comedians
feel such an important role in being able to bring
out the laughter in us in a world where it

(04:18):
feels like there's less laughter these days.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Well, I think it's coming back because I think we're
the third eye, and you know, comedians to let you know,
we're all beautiful, flawed people, and we like to bring
up the flaweds this and let you know. The jokes
are not personally about you. It's just an observation and
if you fall in that category, laugh at yourself, you know,
especially right now it's time to laugh, because there's not

(04:44):
things out here to make you cry. So I think
right now it is very important. And they can come
and see me because you know, I go to the
end to the end, and I'm you know, wragging new
jokes now because I just sold the old jokes to
the next flip. So I'm doing a whole new special now,
getting ready for my next one.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Looking forward to that.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
By the way, guys, if you want to check that out,
you got to show tonight seven thirty to Denver Improv.
You got the show tomorrow night seven thirty at the
Denver Improv nine five. Also tomorrow night over there at
the Denver Improv and then Saturday six thirty as well.
You guys can go to improv dot com slash Denver
and get to look up those tickets if you want them,
and I highly recommend it. I as as you mentioned

(05:22):
a minute ago, you're you're developing something with Bill Burr.
Is that going to be like a like like a
comedy show, like a series? What is what are you
developing there? If you don't mind my asking, No, No,
Fox is.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Going back to uh back to the day when they
had the mont Launch show Lived in Color, and they
got me and Bill Bird to come back to dose.
I'm doing the sitcom about my life and we're developing
the now. And I was so privileged that the president
of the networks wanted me on his on his television
and I mean on his station. So I'm very pretty

(05:55):
in Hollywood. Now these women, you know, I'm so attractive
that you'll be amazed how cute you get when you
get a TV show. Yeah, everywhere, I'm don Jail now,
you know, I'm Leah Lean Cacaprio. All right, I'm talking.
I'm finding in the government job. Well, government jobs ain't

(06:15):
fine no more, that's Trump because they let you go
on them. I'm fine.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh well maybe that's what I Hey, that's what I
need to do to improve my dating life. Right, I
need to go. I need to go get myself a
TV show. Too easy?

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Right, Oh, you become handsome. You see I do that, Tyson.
Look once he was a heavyweight chym Let me give
you one. They give you, they give you then and
say no, go ahead, We'll give you away before your face.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, I'll get the TV show.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
I turned from a Cincinnati six into a into a
ten man.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
That's uh, that's how that stuff works.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Talking with comedian Earthquake, have you how many times you
been out to Denver before? Is this one of your
favorite stops along the way or what are some of
your favorite stops as you tour across the country.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, you gotta understand, Denver was the second place of
a when I left d C was the second place
I have a visit when I left in the city
because I used to be station here for tech school
for the Air Force base a long time ago. I
know about coach. I used to go down to Fax.
You know that in the contractors a good time, contribute

(07:19):
to the to the local economy. And when I was
in the military for tech school, I used to be
stationed out here and me and they have to go
way back beyond the times, the statue of limitations. You know,
have a good time.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
I love that time with earthquake. Comedians could be out
to never improv uh tonight. You know you've you've gone.
You come a little way from like just you know,
doing the stand up stuff. Now you're everwhere you just
mentioned the Bill Burr, you know, working on the sitcom
Batch Life.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
You got a couple of Netflix uh specials. I haven't
seen you in some some movies. What is the most
enjoyable part part of that for you?

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Is it still doing the stand up or is it
maybe branching out into some of these other avenues.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Well, I'm really really looking forward to my TV show.
You know that is the Karem Krim. Since we talked
in football metaphor be League, I feel super Bowl. It's
when a comedian gets his own TV show. That's when
you got your ticket to the big band. So I'm
looking forward to that spreading my my comedy with and

(08:26):
putting it on. But I love doing my friends show,
Sediagant entertainment entertainer, his show The Neighborhood, and in movies voiceovers.
I'm doing a couple of more of those. I was
in Barnyard for that and I love voiceover and I
love what you're doing. I have my own radio show
on Kevin Hart's Lap. I allow. It's number one on

(08:49):
Serious X and my headaches were about to let Hoyle
Stern go, so they got to make the money over here. Yeah,
I was talking about he's taking nous. I'll say I
take whatever cut leave.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, you can sprinkle a little loft, you can sprink
a little long for the earthquake.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
I'm feeling you, man.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, don't put it on my plate. I'm just saying
to me on one, I'll make a sandwich out of it.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, that's hey, I'm looking them right out. You know,
how I don't need Howard money. You would have give
me like ten percent of Howard.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
I'm good. Like wherever you put that on my plate.
We're good talking with comedian. Earthquake again. You got to show.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Tonight then for improv at seven point thirty. You have
to show tomorrow seven thirty at the Denver I Provate
nine forty five as well, and then Saturday six thirty pm.
Hey man, I appreciate you taking just a few minutes
out to talk to us tonight, and good luck with that.
I'm gonna get on out there on Friday.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Please come on through, and anybody else want to come
to the show, just slide in my dim and say
you listen to me today on the radio. Only stipulation
and restriction I have on my tickets, my free tickets
is I'm all out of men tickets, so you know, man,
don't slide on my damn.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
All right, well, I'm trying to recall that message right now.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
That's right, you know, that's right. Thank you, bub and
the drink boat when I've seen you tomorrow night.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
All right, man, looking forward to it. Earthquake out at
the Denver improv.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Appreciate you, man, and uh again seven thirty to night,
seven thirty Tomorrow night, nine and forty five Tomorrow night
and six thirty on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's a great time. It's a great show. It's a
great comedian.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
I've always loved, you know, watching his stuff from from
Comic View def Comedy Jam all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
So, uh, you guys want to get on out there.
Of course they got the Netflix special.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
If you guys haven't seen it, the Earthquake Legendary Netflix
Special is fantastic.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
One of the one of the guys out there right now.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
John mulaney talked about Earthquake as being one of his favorites. Uh,
one of the people that he wishes he could sort
of mash up you know, some of his uh, some
of his stuff, you know, into what that he does.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
And it's it's to me, it's fascinating to watch because
I again, I saw the first time I saw quake
was was two thousand and four. Uh, just hold the
Wall Comedy Club in the Little Rock, Arkansas back in
the day.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
And I for me because I used to watch this stuff.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
I used to watch you know, BT and a Deaf
comedy jam and all that stuff, just because I love
to laugh.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I love to make people laugh. I love to laugh.
And I saw I went out there and say, oh man,
this dude's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Someone gon watch him. And I was the only white
guy in there. I was the only white person in
that joint. And I promise you I was probably laughing aloudess,
and everybody's looking at me like I'm the idiot, especially
when he's doing the part about spades. Because if you've
ever been in the military, and you know how it
is when you're deployed, there's a whole lot of boredom
in downtime followed by intense action periods. Right, So when

(11:32):
you're out there, you know, when you're when you're trying
to entertain your stuff, you plant spades with the boys,
or you know, you get the phone, or your plant
dominos or whatever. And if you if you've seen this bit,
If you haven't seen this bit, watch it if you don't.
If you have, then you know what I'm talking about.
It's just it's just a funny observation about UH guys
playing spades.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
And you know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
I just have a lot of respect for guys that
have been able to do it and are able to
do it for a long time, and are able to
do fresh material too, you know, not just coasting by
on something they did UH years ago, or ripping off
jokes or anything.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
It's this isn't like that.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
So get on out there, Denver, improv and uh and
get a chance to watch him I promise you won't
regret it.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
I didn't realize how many things he had been in
as an actor. Yeah, but what I remember him from
is everybody hates Chris. Yeah he was Uncle Mike got
that show and hilarious. Yeah, he's so funny.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
That bit about I mean it obviously wasn't even a bit.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
There was some truth to it, I think, but walking
up and down Colefax and give him back to the
local economy, Yeah, that got me good.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, he was.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
He was in the Air Force for I think there
or four years or whatever. Did one you know oncet in.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
It is funny because I think there's a quote out.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
There on that somewhere where he said, you know, nothing
else came along. I'm as well, you know, I got
barked out by my mom. Wouldn't get a check for it,
So I figured out, how hard could you? Basically, yeah,
good dude, And I encourage everybody to go on out
there and uh and get and get a chance to
see him.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
We've got we got Rick Lewis coming up the bottom
of the hour.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Get a chance to to get a little what the
funk here on a Thursday, Uh, previewing the preseason game
the Broncos have on Saturday against the San Francisco forty
nine ers.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
It's cool to talk about Anthony Richardson getting the Yeah,
he get the mess it and it was his fault too.
It was right in his face. How do you not
see that blitz?

Speaker 1 (13:15):
That is day one high, that is day one install
empty protection stuff that he should have recognized. And there's
a bunch of people online that were trying to argue
this and saying that the back should have should have
chipped or whatever.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
No, the back was to the flat.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
You had to know he was coming in hot and
then you dump it over around him to the back
in the flat.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, for a fifteen yard game, that's it's just yeah,
it's it's fascinating to watch people who Yeah, I don't
know what to say. Daniel Jones was like pretty decent
so far. Yeah, he was always going to win the
job there. This was one of those things.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Remember when they had was they Didnam start one game
and then Nick start the other, and you know whoever
started second was going to get the job right, right,
So it's this is kind of that thing as well.
They called it a finger injury, but it looked like
maybe a finger and arm injury with Richardson. So we'll see,
you know, we'll see how that ultimately shakes out. But yes,

(14:07):
I mean it stinks for him because that's a guy
who needs the reps. The thing about guys like Trey
Lance or Anthony Richardson or that they just need reps.
And the reason probably that he missed that protection was
because he hasn't had enough reps to be able to
auto identify that back there supremely talented guy.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Big guys get the you know, the big arm, all
that stuff.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
But just you know, you just wonder if he'll ever
get enough rep I mean, we've talked about it numerous times,
how little he played in high school and college, but
I mean, what team is going to give him two
years to learn how to play the quarterback position at
the NFL level?

Speaker 2 (14:42):
See, And that's the thing that guys like that, guys
like him, Guys like Trey Lance.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
These are guys that you would think, or you would
hope that the UFL would be perfect for go out there,
get some more reps and then we can get a shot.
We can you know, and look at at you. But
the problem is there's such a what's the word I'm
looking for here? There there's such a there's such a
thing when you when you go to those leagues that

(15:06):
they're like, oh, they're just not cut out for the NFL,
you know, and so they they kind of start to
look past you at that point. Now, position guys can
can move from the UFL to the to the NFL.
But you very rarely see these spring league guy quarterbacks,
which is a shame because that's a developmental league designed
for those guys to get the worst.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Who is your guy that learned how to play close?

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Luis pres is the Spring King, which, by the way,
is the title of his book that came out recently. Uh,
the Spring King. He's won a championship in like every
spring league that there him.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Get a shot.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
He got a cup of coffee with the Rams, got
a cup of coffee with the Chargers, but nothing, you know,
nothing to substantive, you know. And I think if the
game was played the way it was thirty years ago,
he would he would be a guy that would probably
get more of a shot. But at least this does
not have a lot of mobility. He's you know, he's
built built like and has the speed of Joe Flacco

(15:57):
and uh that just doesn't get him and get him
a lot of run.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
But yeah, he's he was a guy Luis. I met
him when he came in to do uh some stuff
with Tim Jenkins.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
We sat down, We're chopping it up on the whiteboard,
you know, doing diagram and plays and all that kind
of stuff. That was That was fun this back of
the day when Tim was just getting started. And now
it's just like, oh, now Tim's got an empire that
does a monster over there at Jenkins Elite.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
But uh, yeah, we just got the It was me,
him and.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Uh I think it was Austin Appadaka and somebody else
and the four of us were just sitting there just
chopping it up on the whiteboard, drawing up plays and
you know, what are we doing this situation?

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Why do you do it this way? That kind of stuff,
and it was it was just so much fun. It
was just a lot of fun. I gotta I gotta
go on down to Jenkins headquarters.

Speaker 5 (16:40):
I heard you guys had him on the show one
night went on was out, Yeah, we did. We usually
respond to zach seekers text message.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Right right right as a post of mine. I was
trying to bribeing with seats down there to the Rockies too,
and I was like, man, I got still waiting on
mind Jenkins's elite hat, I got front row. You want
to get down there? And now Yeah, but he's he's
just so busy with you know, I mean they finally
finished that house. They get he's gunning for the Philip
Rivers record on the number.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Of kids they got. I think he's gonna get there.
You might, you might just get there. But yeah, Tim's
Tim's good.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Uh five six six nine zeros in text line, we
got a lot of stuff to get to tonight. Rick
Lewis is going to join us, Prim's going to join us,
Parker Gabriel going to join us.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Of course, you and Seegers.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
I want to talk about this practice that they had
with the Niners today because I saw some spectacularly hilariously
bad coverage of it.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
All over the interwebs and radio.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Here.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
I don't know, I'll say this.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
I received in the span of forty minutes, I got
a half a dozen texts from UH Niners assistant coaches
and beat people that are respectable beat people for the
for the Niners, just absolutely fawning over the Broncos defense
talking about how it's a Super Bowl caliber defense, how
the Niners could do anything. And it was fascinating because

(18:00):
the Broncos had twenty five percent of their starting defense out,
no green Law, no Singleton, no Brandon Jones, and they
were putting it to the I mean they were putting
it to the Niners in practice, according to these guys
I talked to, And.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
That makes you realize kind of like why the offense
has struggled a little bit in training camps so far.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Although I will say the offense did not it was
not exactly lighting it up in practice here they were okay,
but it still was a little little disjointed. And I'm
I'm I don't want to call anybody out, but I'm
a little worried about the center position.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Really. Yeah, the Niners.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Uh again, people I talked to you there on the ground, Uh,
they were getting their pushed. They were getting it up
the middle. And you know that wasn't miners, but they
were getting and then and the Niners were short. They
only had six bodies on the defensive line that were
available and healthy for this practice, and they were they
were getting pushed up the middle, so that that's something

(18:58):
to kind of. I think I want to keep my
eye something I want to focus on on that game
coming up on Saturday. By the way, you can join
myself and Nick Ferguson out there to burn Down on Broadway.
We'll be out there giving away some prizes. Art Ta
Kila is going to be out there. If you guys
are don't have plans to watch the preseason game, come
out to this bar, the Burned Down out there on Broadway.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
We're gonna be there every away game this year.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
It is a phenomenal spot and we're going to be
out there. You get chance chopping up with us and
you can see what we see while we're watching the game.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Come watch a game with us together.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Four story bars got like a Nashville feel to it.
It's a really cool place. They had great food and drinks.
Looking forward to that all years of coming out, we
come back. We talk to the color analyst of your
Denver Broncos, Rick Lewis, What the funk right here? Rocos
Country to Night on Kiawei Rocos color Analyst Rick Lewis, Rick,

(19:51):
your warm up act was Comedian Earthquake. You're the headliner tonight.
I just wanted to let you know so that you
know it doesn't go to your head or anything.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
But yeah, I was gonna say, I was gonna say,
what the fuck earthquake opening for rick Lewis?

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Come on, man, I'll find about you know what, I'll
find a bigger name. I'm sorry, I think I know
what you're doing here.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Man. I see what you're doing, combining sports with comedy,
kind of like the Rick Lewis Show.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Next thing, I know you're.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
Gonna be adding in music and then you're gonna replace
me on the Fox.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
I'm this is my career, Jeffrey, Yes, this is my
this is my career arc.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
I'm literally just trying to blaze the path that that
rick Lewis has already trailblazed for me.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
I can see it, man, this is where it's all going.
I'm so glad I tuned in earlier to hear him,
because the writing's on the wall. I know what my
future looks like now, and by this time next year,
i'll be I'll be in Little Rock. I'll be hosting
a morning show in Little Rock.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
You know, the competition is fierce.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
You know the Timmy the Outlaw has retired, so you've
got David Basel and uh and I think Roger Morda
there now.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
But yeah, good good luck with good luck with that market.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Man.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
It's a it's a cutthrow market.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
Man, he's great earthquake. You probably know he's lost a
ton of weight. Yeah, yeah, he's not an earthquake anymore.
He's a tremor.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yeah, just a just a ill himself.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
I tell you he's it was And you know me,
you know, I've always loved comedy, but that that was
when I saw him. Yeah, it was a comedy club
in Little Rock back in two thousand and four. I
was the only white guy in the audience, and like,
I stood out in that audience, and I was probably
laughing the hardest. I was wheezing laughing at the at
the jokes. And you know, yeah, I think it crosses
cultural divide personally, absolutely, And it's really fun to go

(21:44):
to a comedy club where you're the only white guy.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
You know, black black people love to laugh. And you know,
I've been in that same situation myself a couple of times.
I'm never going to a concert in Dayton, Ohio with
the emotions and slaves. And I was the only white
guy among about sixteen thousand people that day, and then

(22:10):
I had one of the best nights of my life.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, I used to be I used to be the
token white bartender at the Sandpiper down there, a little
rock which was a club that was owned by Broadway Joe,
who's a the Morning Wrap at R and B Station
DJ down there, And that's the you know, legend in
the in all that, and yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
I don't know, I grew up in that in that
sort of culture, I guess. And then you know Arthquake.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Of course, I was in the Air Force for a while,
so he has some some kind of military stuff that
the observations there that I.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Find that I find appropriate or amusing as well. So
they kind of kind of speak to me a little bit.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
But to a legend a little hard to follow. Yeah,
thanks for having me on.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, well, you know, I mean this is what we do.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
You know, we we we put the legend brick Lewis
on after the warm up backs and you know, and
that's the thing. You know, there's there's an aspiring drum
tech out there that you know, that's that's just trying
to get his stuff together for the next Rickulus Project show,
which I.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Believe is coming up here later this month, if I'm
not mistaken.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
September fifth, so beginning of September. It's a Friday night
show Buffalo Rose and Golden Historic Place, and that's where
you started your career as my drum tech. I did.
And we will be sharing the stage with the Freddy
Jones Band, the band out of Chicago that had a
couple of big hits in the nineties. It's a little

(23:30):
fun fact for you. When the Pepsi Center first opened,
the first concert at the Pepsi Center was Freddy Jones Band.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
And my band.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
Oh wow, true fact, true, yep.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
I did not know that. Now we know that.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, we're going to take it back to my roots
where I got my start as a as the senior
drum tech for the Rickulus project and looking forward to
look for to that.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
You know.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Else we're looking forward to, obviously is the Broncos taking
on the forty nine Ers opening pre season action right
here on KOA obviously on Saturday, yourself, Dave Logan on
the calls, who's the origin on the sidelines. And you
know I was telling tell the fellas earlier. I got
some texts from assistant coaches there with the Niners. A
couple of the beat guys that were there, and they said,
the Broncos defense looks absolutely dominate, a super Bowl caliber defense.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, that's good to hear.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
I wish I could have seen that.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
And it seems like pretty much everybody's reporting the same that,
just like we've been seeing a training camp. The Broncos
dominated the Niners on defense. Looks like they hit some
moments too on offense, at least early in the scrimmage,
and then the Niners kind of evened it up in
the back half of the scrimmage. So I think we

(24:43):
can assume that the Broncos are going to have an
elite to defense and maybe maybe a special defense, like
a defense that doesn't come around, you know, too often,
kind of like what we saw in the Broncos Super
Bowl year. That's my plan, That's what I'm hoping for.
And if they have that, they're going to be in
every game and that's going to take a lot of

(25:05):
pressure off of bone Nicks the second year at quarterback.
They can get that running game you're cranked up, and
get Evan Ingram going and whole teams to you know,
ten thirteen points. You got something now. I could see
why Sean Payton came out this week and said he
thinks they can be a super Bowl team. You know,

(25:26):
it takes some pretty big ones to say that as
a head coach, but you know he's always been that
kind of guy. He goes out on a limb all
the time and usually he can back it up. So
ro Uncle Stans got a lot to be excited about
this year.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Rick mentioning something else.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
Sean Payton said earlier this week in that same Yahoo report,
he thinks bo Nicks is going to be a top
five quarterback in the NFL in the next couple of years.
And bow Knicks went out and started his own YouTube
channel with his off season workouts. What did you think
of his decision to do the YouTube channel and Sean
Payton's comments, and what are your expectations for bow in

(26:04):
year two?

Speaker 4 (26:07):
So year two we're talking not two years from now
right right this year he said he thought he'd be
top five in two years. I could see that. I
could see that for bow Knicks. He's got everything you'd
want in an NFL quarterback. He had a great rookie year.
I think he'll have an even better second year. Under
Sean Payton, and for Sean Payton to say that he
knows he knows more about bo Nix than anybody, and

(26:31):
you know, it does put some pressure on Bo by
saying something like that publicly, but I think he knows
bo can handle it. Otherwise I don't think he would
have said. I think everything Sean Payton says he says
with a purpose. So those two things he said this week,
which got a lot of attention nationally, as it should,

(26:52):
he said that for a reason. You know, maybe it
was to try to instill some confidence in the team
in bow Knicks or just saying, hey man, you know,
he's a guy that is not afraid to boast. You know,
he'll tell you when he's doing a good job or
when somebody's doing a good job. And I think there

(27:12):
was a little bit of that as well in that conversation.
So he's all in, So Broncos Country, you should be all.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
In too, Tugler Rick Loss Project obviously, the color Anamosphere,
Denver Broncos. Yeah, Sean has not lacked any sort of
confidence in speaking to the national media about expectations, whether
it be four bo Nicks or for this team where
he's talked about the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
Is that See?

Speaker 2 (27:38):
I like being underestimated.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
I liked it last year when the national media was
sleeping on us, the sports books had us at five
and a half wins, and I just sort of like
that being underestimating thing.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Do you do you like that or do you like
having the pressure the standard being set and then you
got to go out there and meet that.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (27:55):
Me, personally, I like being under the radar just about everything.
I like to seed expectations and so that's how I've
always been my entire life. I wouldn't be that guy
that would go out and say, you know, we're going
to win the Super Bowl this year. That's just not
me and everybody's different. But I do think there's a

(28:17):
benefit to being under the radar. As you mentioned last year,
Bronco's kind of snuck up on some people last year.
Then it's going to happen this year, especially the comments
that Sean Payton made and really the rest of the
NFL media seems to be on board. Bronco's got a
lot of hype around him this year, and man, it

(28:37):
just makes you realize how fast he turned this around.
It's phenomenal what he's done here going into year three.
It's really unbelievable what he's been able to do. And
maybe in a way he is patting himself on the back,
but he knows.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
I think he knows more.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
Than anybody what the team is capable of.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, I should Rick. Last question for me, what are
you most looking forward to out of this game?

Speaker 3 (29:03):
So preseason games.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
From me, I look forward to watching these rookies compete.
I think it'll be really interesting to see how r. J.
Harvey plays and Pat Bryant, how Pat Bryant going to
look Taveon Jones, I'm really looking forward to watching these guys.
I'm looking forward to watching some of the other younger
guys like Troy Franklin, who reportedly had another really good

(29:29):
day today, this time against the forty nine ers. Troy
Franklin seems like something happened over the winner where he
just figured things out. I think he's gotten a little
bit bigger, a little bit stronger, a little bit better
understanding of the game where he's supposed to be on
the field in this scheme. And then if that's true,

(29:52):
now you've got a real number two with speed behind
Courtland Sutton, then they can do a whole lot of
things with I always thought it would be Marvin Mems,
but I'm starting to think maybe it's going to be
Troy Franklin that's going to be that guy that's going
to fill that wide receiver to slot. I know you've
been saying Vyley, You're the Vley.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Guy, right, I am the Veyley guy.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
But yeah, Troy has had a much better couldn't be worse,
but he's had a much better camp this year.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yeah, we haven't heard a whole lot from Dayley and
he's been injured, and he was injured a few times
last year as well, so I've kind of cooled off
on him a bit. And then I'm just excited to
see what Troy Franklin can do. If he can keep
this up through the preseason, we really have something, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
That we do, Rickls, Ricklos Project, and of course Coloradalys
for the dever Broncos. Rick looking forward to this game,
look forward to hearing you the call Saturday night.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Hey guys, thanks for having me on.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Yep, leaving tomorrow on the same fled as Dave Logan
talk about a legend with the Voice of the Broncos,
Dave Logan, We'll be flying together to the Bay Area
and can't wait to call the first preseason game Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Here at Kay looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Thanks to Rick Lewis for joining us in the last segment.
Always goes too fast with Rick, He's the best. Yes,
he's such a great dude.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
I loved his story about being the only white guy
at that concert.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just like it's that's happened a
you like for me, That's happened a few times the
comedy club, you know that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
It happened to my brother. My brother was.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
I think some people who listened to the show. Now
most most people listen to show, my brother was. For
a while, there was a rap producer. If you if
you look at the Nelly in the early videos, he's
the token white guy in the video.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
You can see him. He was talking.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
My brother was telling me one time about being at
a Snoop concert and he's like, yeah, me and one
other white dude there. And he's like, uh, it wasn't Snoop.
Maybe was something else. There's g unit maybe I don't
know anyway, Uh, And he's like, all of a sudden,
that other guy got in a fight and he's like,
I made sure I got a few hits him.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
You're not You're not with him. Yeah, He's like, I'm
not with him. And he's like I made sure. He's like,
I don't even know the guy, but I've made sure
I got a few hits in. I was like, oh
my god.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
So that was yeah, five six six nimes zs in
Texas and we're gonna well, we're gonna pivot to talking
Broncos here in just a little bit. So for those
of you tuned into Broncos Country Night for Broncos stuff,
I probably you will get to that here just met.
We got Parker Gabroe coming up, I think top of
the hour. Uh, we got Remasis coming up in the
next hour, Zach Seekers.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Gonna jump in.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
We're gonna get a chance to talk about this preview
this thing uh coming up on Saturday as we get
some some preseason action going of course right here on KA.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
I'm really looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
I am looking forward to the rookies and some of
these Veterans's a couple of guys I want to see.
I want to see Reevee Taylor, you know obviously, Vele
uh you know, and and and what he's able to
do some of these these younger receivers. A couple of
younger receivers I want to see Julie McLoughlin and Tyler
Baty are really locked into this, this fighting for that
third running back spot.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
I think, uh, well they're both ahead RJ. Harvey on
the duck chart. Well, it's that's who I'm most excited
to see, though. I want to think a lot of
people are. But there's been a lot of hype around
him this offseason, and I want to see if he
lives up to it.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
I think there's just you know, there's a lot of
the I mean, it sounds weird to say.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
I want to sear punter and I want to hear
a punter and game action when everybody's talking.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
About how great he is and he don't get wrong,
he's he's been good. I want to see him in
some game action. I want to see him.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
Rip a punt down the field seventy yards and then
rip off that helmet and see if that glorious, glorious
stash there. Yeah, looking looking forward to that.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Five six, six nine zero is the text slide seven too,
oh me and two other heavy middle guys at BB
King Rainbow Classic Music called nineteen eighty four Only White Boys.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
They are awesome show.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yeah, it's you know, it's just funny the things that
I because I you know, I mean, I grew up
and and so like my first real fanship in music
was a lot of that nineties R and beast off.
So I used to go to these shows where I
was that you know that guy. And then of course
the comedy stuff. All the guys that I liked back then,
Bertie mack uh, Earthquake, you know a lot of those.

(34:13):
A lot of those comedians that I liked when I
first started watching comedy were those guys. And so that's
what it would happen, is I'd be the only white
guy at the Deaf Jam, Comedy All Stars and whatever that.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
I think it was the Laugh Factory in Little Rock.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
I cannot remember what the name of that club was
off the top of my head. They had did two
comedy clubs briefly. One of them came and it had
the best guests, but it went out of business like
so fast. I used to couldn't the margins on the
drinks or something. I don't know, but there were two
comedy clubs down there, but the one, it was the
other one.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
That I saw him at. Anyway, nobody cares. Uh, we
come back. We're gonna get more into the Broncos Niners scrimmage.
Just some Broncos country night, okay with
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