April 11, 2025 • 19 mins
Tony and Austin talk with Frank Caliendo ahead of his shows in Cincinnati on ESPN 1530!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back since he three sixty hour number three ESPN
fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Frank Caliendo is with us.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Just Caliendo, that's I'm just I'm already.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Being you over here.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sure, and you got two of us.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
This is a great start right now. Just Frank on
stage dot.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Com that wow.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, the two of us making fun of the what's
six five when you're six five six six six six
six six?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Uh yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
So uh yeah, what did you said? You say I
wo'd be in the funny MoES. I was just like
I was.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I was just scared you were going to throw a
ball at me.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Look at this guy, He's only got about two throws
in him, and then he keeps coming down the pike.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That's that's a that's a line we hear all the
time around here.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Wearing a golf hat? Is that what you're doing? You're
wearing a golf hat right now? That what you're talking
about it Augusta. You've ever been to Augusta? Man, tell
you what you want to green jacket. That's the only
thing that I like, even close to football. Yeah, I've
talked about it that I never know what I've talked
to people about but Gruden's favorite. My everything about Grudon
is when you gets somebody in the room, he goes
a bit, you don't love football as well.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What do you say to that? Yeah, what do you know?
I do? Yeah? I don't think you do.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Man, You know the answer is no, Like nobody loves it,
nobody he really. I've been to the the FFCA, the
Fire Football Coaches Association. I've been to what that is now.
It's actually moved around a couple of times, but the
same look of it. The place he has, I don't
know if it's a condo or if they rent it
or what. In Tampa, you go there and it's a
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museum of all this stuff. He's got videotapes, He's got
vhs videotapes that haven't been changed over to digital at
this point.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
This thing.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It's too much for a server.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I think that go back to his dad coaching at
Notre Dame and film at Notre Dame and stuff. It's unbelievable.
Here's me playing at the University of Dayton right here. Man,
it's pretty good. I grew up in San Duskyo. Hi.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You ever been to you ever been to or you
just stay at King's Island.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
What do you think of his transformation from a football
coach to a content creator?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Uh? I think it's a middle. I think he probably
will get back to football coach. I think he loves it.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Is he a content creator? Is he just a box opener? Now?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I think I'll tell you what, man, You know Biden
box and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Right man? Their whole equipment room over there.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It is something the boxes. Now, what's in this box?
It's an equipment manager.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Look, he's gonna present stuff like Van of White turning
a letter on Wheel of Force. You ever watch Wheel
of Fort open the boxes correctly?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No? Man, he just starts ripping. He is like everything.
I love these guys. There's not I've never loved anybody
more than these guys. Man. You know what I you know,
I love the letter C.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You know why? Because it's what a kind of grades
they used to get. Man sees just enough to dat
so I could spend some time on football.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
That's a level stuff right there. Man.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, the he's something when you get with him, is
he's he is that guy all the time. People don't
know he's he's Uh. I don't know what word I
can say. But he's a buster, you know, And I
said ball buster? You see, I mean he's the rooster.
When he walks into the room, it's like cock a
doodle doo.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
He's like, he looked at me and he goes, how
about that chess here? Where do you get that? What
are you doing? Get that chess here? You drinking heavily?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Man?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What are you doing? You eat the crust on your uncrustables?
Is that what's happening? So he's clearly embraced it.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Who is I think? I think he's just looking for it.
He loves football, he loves to teach football. He's working
with high school kids. When people thought, oh me, yeah, yeah, yeah,
oh yeah, we've been friends ever since I went to
quarterback camp. Well, the first the way it started was, uh,
I did an impression. I went to ESPN from Fox.
I got let go fired at Fox, and UH didn't
know what I wanted to do. ESPN said, can you
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do people from over here?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
If there's anybody to do, which I did know that,
But then I started studying. The more I'm like, okay,
I've got something. So I started doing, Gruden was one
of them. I knew it would work if I got
it good enough. And I did it on TV. And
then I met him at the Super Bowl and all
the suits, all the executives and suffer stand around waiting
to see how this is gonna go. He's holding a
cup of coffee. This is in New Orleans at the
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ESPN tent backstage, and he's like looking at me.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
He's like, so you're the guy who does me.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'm like, how'd you figure that one out? Einstein. He's saying,
where are you from? And I looked up where he
was from. I was like San Dusky, Ohio. He's like really,
I'm like no. He's like good because you were blowing
my mind.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And then I went to do quarterback camp one time
and Derek Carr was there. It was Derek Carr's birthday.
We're singing Happy birthday to him. Some of that stuff
never get on, but that's why I became friends with
Derek Carr too. And so it's really just he he
gets it because it's and that's why he had me
come talk to the Raiders a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I've got this is. This is crazy thing. This is
the kind of thing. I'll make you mad, but make
alignment even angrier.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Like guys who played in the league for eight ten
years or something never gotten a game ball. I've given
two pregame speeches. They won both games. I have two
NFL game balls like it's it's I talk about things
you don't deserve, and I am one. You're getting a
game ball man, spray painted raiders. It's unbelievable. We're getting
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you a game ball, man. We're sending it what they
sent it to me.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
In a box. I should have been I was the
original on boxer Man.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You know what you should do is put it back
in a box and then make a video unboxed.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That's I think.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I was just as we were thinking the same thing
as it was going, I was like, oh, this is
a good this might be the bit.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Frank Caliendough, Let's see what's that? What's his name? Frank Klamari?
Is he? What was he? Breaded? Squid? Is that what
this guy is?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Man? Has there ever been anybody that really gets like
mad at you for doing it in the sports room? Yes,
of course A great take call, not a fan incredible
phenomenal Ah Rugulah. In fact, guys friends that guest hosted
for uh Jim Rome years ago in in in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
The guest host he's not on here? Is he no
no good?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He's not on here Twitter. I actually loved him, but
I guess show on Twitter?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Is that what that is?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
So I had friends who guest hosted for him, uh
in from Arizona. They brought me on. They had guest
hosted him many times. They brought me on one time.
They were never on again.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Rack them. These guys are out incredible.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
What a bad idea to bring Frank Collendo into the
jungle and ruin the essence not going on.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
But people usually like Chris Burma was like, what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
You eat eat eat big baby by big big big big, big,
big big bag to the drawing board ration videos.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
People get a little weird about it till you do it,
and then they're they're like, they see it's in fun.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Stephen A.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Smith, when I first met him, was like, mister Calliendo,
of all the impressions and impersonations, you do do me
a favor, don't ever ever do me.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Not gonna run for president?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I was wondered about that because I went back and
I remembered Stephen B. Smith.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Is that what? And you were on the air with him?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Was one of the Yeah that was with Mike and
Mike back in the day when they were ruining the airwaves.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Man, that was Steven A. Smith and Stephen B. Smith.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And uh, I was congratulatory, like everything was just me
with a thesaurus, just looking up words like that guy's
grasp of the language like unbelievably. And I was asking Stephen,
I think he was another one. He was like Bill
Walton where he had a stutter as a kid and
he's he just read a lot, and he was a
reader and he read and people who read having a
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huge vocabulary. As you can tell, Mine is I was
gonna say minis school, but that would be the opposite
of what actually what I was trying to prove.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
The point of it was small.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, a big week. Now you got tariffs coming in,
tremendous tariffs.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
They're gonna we're gonna tariff everything. We're gonna tear iff
the tariffs. There's a new tariff in town. And it's
that's what we call Baeydon Manning. He was he was
the sheriff, and now we're gonna call him the tariff.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Gruden, by the way, claims he's the guy who coined
the that the sheriff for.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So I came up with that one man interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
J J.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Swatt it' smie man.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
What would a debate sound like between Trump and Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Smith?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Well, I think it would be contiguous to the situation.
I understand. I'm not even sure some of the things
he's saying. He's saying very he's he's got a lot
of big words, big words in fact, that humongified. See,
I'm not even sure if that's real. I'm not sure.
But we're trying to get things, but we're not trying
to get in trouble politically.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
That's just me. He bailing.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I'm fascinated when you go to cities.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Where are you from originally that you have that accent. Really,
his voice is all messed up. Yeah, he can't something nasal.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Language on the show.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I've got a bullie. I don't. I didn't. You didn't
even have to warn me about that one.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I've talked to speech path speech language pathologists about the
way he talks, and they say a lot of it
is just laziness like he can't say he can't say
n C A a tournament like even your a's. But
you have a there's a lot of interesting like I
look when I see people study it, Yeah, I start
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to see things I can understand, just because even the
way your teeth match up.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Uh, there's a there's a thing.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
There's definitely a lot and you should have a little
more of a southern drawl than people around here. I've
noticed that, So that's interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I don't know what they've heard. They can hear a
little Peyton Manning.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, I could hear that. There was somebody else I
just heard in there too. I'll have to think about
it because it's gonna take me too long to come
up with it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But there's Peyton Maan's got a little bit of deeper voice.
But the only thing I can say is Peyton is weird.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Weird.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
That's a that's kind of weird. He's got four syllables
and weird. But there's somebody somebody else. I don't know
who it is.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I'm gonna have to think about it, but that it
just it just hit.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Me when you go so you're doing you're doing a show,
tonight show tonight when you do two shows, is there
a little bit difference in the show?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
A little?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
But I mean I'm yeah, but I'm working on new stuff,
so it's always there's lots of different stuff each show.
But I'll forget what what I've done already. So that's
the tougher part of it. Uh for me. Uh, I did,
and I didn't even.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I don't even.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I started doing a bit two times last night and
I caught myself and I just morgan framed it.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
That's when he realized he'd already and said this joke.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I'll tell you what, man, if if you practice properly,
that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's all about preparation, man. So yeah, so it's, uh.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
There's little differences, but uh, I mean every show is
going to be different right now because I'm really trying
to work on some of these other bits.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
On stage tonight and still trying to figure out what
the hell's wrong with my voice.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, I probably will. Oh man, it just hit me again,
like I like, I see something flash in front of me,
and it may not even be a famous person. It
might be somebody I know. That's but I just also
know a lot of famous people. You guys want to text,
let's talk. I'll call JJ. We JJ was about to
be a Bengal for a while. Did you see that
story His goalkeeper at that soccer.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Team he owns? Oh, really his goalkeeper there as a
Bengals fan. Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
He says, Hey, come out of retirement to play for
the Bengals. JJ says, if you don't give up a
goal for the rest of the season, I will, oh, okay,
And then it went like eighteen games in a row,
the guy didn't give up a goal, right, And it
got down to, like.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I don't know, ten games start JJ.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
He went on like Dan Patrick, and he's like, I
will actually do it, like I will come out of retire.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Keep this guy's word. That's funny. Yeah, I mean I was.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Trying to think it was it with JJ. Now I
was thinking I was conflating two different things. It was
I almost like ruined the I should say some like
Yahoo or somebody took the news.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I was.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I'm friends with Steve Kahm, who is the GM of
the Cardinals, the Arizona Cardinals at the time, and I
was sending him like voice messages from Gruden pretending, but
it was from my number, so he knew it was me.
I told them talk about that on Dan Patrick and
then I think it was Yahoo News, like I said,
took and said, I almost ruined the draft picks like nothing.
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Knew it was me from the beginning, but I didn't.
I did the thing I always would try to put
the kebash on it and stop it. And I was like,
you know, I'm gonna let it go this time and
see what happens. And sure enough it blew up and
it was on news stations and all sort of stuff like, well,
that's why I realized, never try and stop it if
you don't care, like if you wanted to have it
and just blow up into something and it's nothing, it's zero,
none of it based in fact, and just let it go.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Are you just getting at your shows just random people
yelling out?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
At the end, I let people do it. I like people.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
If I haven't gotten stuff yet, I say, here's the time.
I know I wandered around as Joe Biden for too
long and made a bunch of people mad as Trump
or whatever and so, and I walk at the rot
line politically, right down the middle of the road. So
I make fun of everybody, but I do a lot
of stuff that doesn't get me to some of the
impressions they come to see, so I know they come
to see them. So the last ten minutes is usually
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just me letting people call things out. Yeah, but you,
I don't think i've heard your Biden.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Folks come on, No, a young man growing up a
scram Preservati three four or five six hundred eight d
far the Roman Empire and Romans Mario Luigi. Folks come on,
they're plumbers.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
That's incredible. That is do you have a favorite, your
absolute face?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Whenever they're new, Although if I could, I just pretend
to be Roppertunity Junior the whole time so I could
burp through sentences. It's just the way to go about it. Yeah,
when they're new, they're fun. When they're not just new,
but when they're new and I can do something with
them because there's a difference. It's it's almost like being
fluent in a language. Can you say a couple of
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words or can you talk like the person in a
different situations? So once you can once I can like
almost foe think like the person. That's when they're they're
really fun. So I don't know if I have a
favorite right now, it's uh, it's it's yeah, it's just
it's it changes whatever people like.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I just kind of go with more of what people
are getting.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Do you want to run back to two thousand and
ten In the.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
NFL DR we did print out Tony's so excited about
Tony's draft profile job looking at a four point nine
second forty yard dash, a little bit better than Baker
Mayfield and guys at that level, But I think that's
not a guy who's gonna be eluding the defense at
any time, because guys, guys rushing the pass, they're going
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to be somewhere at it. I don't know, four five,
four to four. Now they could actually run through your
ten yard split one point six to nine. Great for alignment,
but this guy's playing quarterback. And then you take a
look at the vertical leap to a twenty eight point
five inches tremendous job. Could actually get one of those boxes.
John Gruden's opening up underneath them broad jump nine foot zero.
Not even sure if that's good. But when you're six
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foot six, standon towering over the defenders, I'm not sure
if you're ever gonna use a broad jump as as
a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And let's say take a look at the over you
what happened to Pike.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Pike's a bit of a product in the system that's
been in place with the Cincinnati Bear cast. He gets
out of complete, he gets a lot of completions due
to their dinking dunk passing attack. Then spreads the field
and out and relies primarily on the passing game to
move the ball. He knows how to recoverages, but will
get stuck in his primary receiver at times, locking in
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on guys he's not supposed to lock in on the
next level. He can't do that at times rather than
go to a second or third option. You know, needs
an effective thrower from the pocket or when rolling to
his right. But we're struggling rolling left. But that happens
to a lot of guys rolling the left. Thrown against
the body you go, you know, if you're going with
the body momentums going that way, he's got to be
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careful not to throw against the defensive back against the grain,
which is what they're talking about here. He's struggled to
stay healthy. That's a that's a difficult situation for a
guy that's only mediocre talent.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's not in there, but we're putting it in. Uh
And and why I say.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Mediocre, I'm not talking about guys of the professional football
level starting, but I'm talking about guys who are like him,
were just trying to make the team. He's struggled to
stay healthy for a full season of college, and we'll
need to bulk up if he wants to survive in
the riggers of the full NFL season. I want to say,
I think I take a look at pie Pike has
good characters battle back from injuries, which is pretty much
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the opposite of what we're saying before the one ideal height.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I mean, this is a guy who can see you
over the lineed. He can see all his receivers. He
knows where they're gonna be.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
It's not like a Russell Wilson type of situation where
he has to get into the passing like Kyler Murray
e e tiny little Kyler Murdy baby very accurate in
the short unders passing.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I mean, but he's productive playing.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
He spread off fens and he's gonna go where he
needs to be. He shows very good touch and feel,
and I understand about touch and field. When it comes
to the abilities of this John Tony Pike right here,
and I say this with all gratitude, we know where
this is going. I'll tell you what, I'm gonna go
through some weaknesses right now, man lax the necessary bulk
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to withstand the pounding at the next level. Facts, I'll
tell you what. I'm glad that's that held up. The
sentence is about sports right now, has been injured and
durability is a concern. I mean, it's pretty amazing when
they just say the same thing over and over.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And over a different ways.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Atot, I like to do an overview of the guy
writing the overview. Man earned his living underneath in college,
earned his living underneath.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
That's how you guys say it.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
If you said it sounds a little weird or the
other in college and does not possess prototypical arm strength
to drive the ball downfield on the deep out, that
says something that's uh, that's arm Towns.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
You gotta.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Be true la speed to pick up chunks of yardage
with his feet.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
That goes back to that.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Four nine man. Yeah, you're you're you're an interior alignment
for six. Starting to hear a little Peyton Manning in there.
I wish I wish you had a little more Peyton
Manning and we wouldn't be talking to you right now.
You'd be doing pizza commercials. Why did you get to
why didn't why didn't Peyton Manning do a steak commercial? Man?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Oh maha steaks? I see that pretty good idea right there?
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Man, man, this is uh, this is fantastic. Thank you
so much for stopping by. Yeah, thanks for having guys
on stage dot com, Frank on stage dot com and
the shows this weekend? Uh tonight one at the Liberty Funnybone,
Cincinnati Funnybone Liberty dot Funnybone dot com. I believe, maybe
not just go Frank on Stage dot com and then
uh Columbus Funnybone on Sunday, uh and all the other dates.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
All around the all around the world.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Are we going?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I have to ask before we let you go. Are
you a Skyline Chili guy? I'm not a Chili guy
at all.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I don't. Are they sponsor here?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I love them? Before give you that's a great idea.
Had Cincinnati favorites. I know you've been. Here's similar to
the Robert Downey Junior Belchi three, but going out the
other way.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Thank you, I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We'll be back. ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station
Welcome back since he three sixty hour number three ESPN
fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Frank Caliendo is with us.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Just Caliendo, that's I'm just I'm already.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Being you over here.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sure, and you got two of us.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
This is a great start right now. Just Frank on
stage dot.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Com that wow.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, the two of us making fun of the what's
six five when you're six five six six six six
six six?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Uh yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
So uh yeah, what did you said? You say I
wo'd be in the funny MoES. I was just like
I was.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I was just scared you were going to throw a
ball at me.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Look at this guy, He's only got about two throws
in him, and then he keeps coming down the pike.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That's that's a that's a line we hear all the
time around here.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Wearing a golf hat? Is that what you're doing? You're
wearing a golf hat right now? That what you're talking
about it Augusta. You've ever been to Augusta? Man, tell
you what you want to green jacket. That's the only
thing that I like, even close to football. Yeah, I've
talked about it that I never know what I've talked
to people about but Gruden's favorite. My everything about Grudon
is when you gets somebody in the room, he goes
a bit, you don't love football as well.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What do you say to that? Yeah, what do you know?
I do? Yeah? I don't think you do.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Man, You know the answer is no, Like nobody loves it,
nobody he really. I've been to the the FFCA, the
Fire Football Coaches Association. I've been to what that is now.
It's actually moved around a couple of times, but the
same look of it. The place he has, I don't
know if it's a condo or if they rent it
or what. In Tampa, you go there and it's a
(01:30):
museum of all this stuff. He's got videotapes, He's got
vhs videotapes that haven't been changed over to digital at
this point.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
This thing.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It's too much for a server.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I think that go back to his dad coaching at
Notre Dame and film at Notre Dame and stuff. It's unbelievable.
Here's me playing at the University of Dayton right here. Man,
it's pretty good. I grew up in San Duskyo. Hi.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You ever been to you ever been to or you
just stay at King's Island.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
What do you think of his transformation from a football
coach to a content creator?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Uh? I think it's a middle. I think he probably
will get back to football coach. I think he loves it.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Is he a content creator? Is he just a box opener? Now?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I think I'll tell you what, man, You know Biden
box and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Right man? Their whole equipment room over there.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It is something the boxes. Now, what's in this box?
It's an equipment manager.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Look, he's gonna present stuff like Van of White turning
a letter on Wheel of Force. You ever watch Wheel
of Fort open the boxes correctly?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No? Man, he just starts ripping. He is like everything.
I love these guys. There's not I've never loved anybody
more than these guys. Man. You know what I you know,
I love the letter C.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You know why? Because it's what a kind of grades
they used to get. Man sees just enough to dat
so I could spend some time on football.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
That's a level stuff right there. Man.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, the he's something when you get with him, is
he's he is that guy all the time. People don't
know he's he's Uh. I don't know what word I
can say. But he's a buster, you know, And I
said ball buster? You see, I mean he's the rooster.
When he walks into the room, it's like cock a
doodle doo.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
He's like, he looked at me and he goes, how
about that chess here? Where do you get that? What
are you doing? Get that chess here? You drinking heavily?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Man?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What are you doing? You eat the crust on your uncrustables?
Is that what's happening? So he's clearly embraced it.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Who is I think? I think he's just looking for it.
He loves football, he loves to teach football. He's working
with high school kids. When people thought, oh me, yeah, yeah, yeah,
oh yeah, we've been friends ever since I went to
quarterback camp. Well, the first the way it started was, uh,
I did an impression. I went to ESPN from Fox.
I got let go fired at Fox, and UH didn't
know what I wanted to do. ESPN said, can you
(03:41):
do people from over here?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
If there's anybody to do, which I did know that,
But then I started studying. The more I'm like, okay,
I've got something. So I started doing, Gruden was one
of them. I knew it would work if I got
it good enough. And I did it on TV. And
then I met him at the Super Bowl and all
the suits, all the executives and suffer stand around waiting
to see how this is gonna go. He's holding a
cup of coffee. This is in New Orleans at the
(04:05):
ESPN tent backstage, and he's like looking at me.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
He's like, so you're the guy who does me.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'm like, how'd you figure that one out? Einstein. He's saying,
where are you from? And I looked up where he
was from. I was like San Dusky, Ohio. He's like really,
I'm like no. He's like good because you were blowing
my mind.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And then I went to do quarterback camp one time
and Derek Carr was there. It was Derek Carr's birthday.
We're singing Happy birthday to him. Some of that stuff
never get on, but that's why I became friends with
Derek Carr too. And so it's really just he he
gets it because it's and that's why he had me
come talk to the Raiders a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I've got this is. This is crazy thing. This is
the kind of thing. I'll make you mad, but make
alignment even angrier.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Like guys who played in the league for eight ten
years or something never gotten a game ball. I've given
two pregame speeches. They won both games. I have two
NFL game balls like it's it's I talk about things
you don't deserve, and I am one. You're getting a
game ball man, spray painted raiders. It's unbelievable. We're getting
(05:04):
you a game ball, man. We're sending it what they
sent it to me.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
In a box. I should have been I was the
original on boxer Man.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You know what you should do is put it back
in a box and then make a video unboxed.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That's I think.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I was just as we were thinking the same thing
as it was going, I was like, oh, this is
a good this might be the bit.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Frank Caliendough, Let's see what's that? What's his name? Frank Klamari?
Is he? What was he? Breaded? Squid? Is that what
this guy is?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Man? Has there ever been anybody that really gets like
mad at you for doing it in the sports room? Yes,
of course A great take call, not a fan incredible
phenomenal Ah Rugulah. In fact, guys friends that guest hosted
for uh Jim Rome years ago in in in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
The guest host he's not on here? Is he no
no good?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He's not on here Twitter. I actually loved him, but
I guess show on Twitter?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Is that what that is?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
So I had friends who guest hosted for him, uh
in from Arizona. They brought me on. They had guest
hosted him many times. They brought me on one time.
They were never on again.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Rack them. These guys are out incredible.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
What a bad idea to bring Frank Collendo into the
jungle and ruin the essence not going on.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
But people usually like Chris Burma was like, what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
You eat eat eat big baby by big big big big, big,
big big bag to the drawing board ration videos.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
People get a little weird about it till you do it,
and then they're they're like, they see it's in fun.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Stephen A.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Smith, when I first met him, was like, mister Calliendo,
of all the impressions and impersonations, you do do me
a favor, don't ever ever do me.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Not gonna run for president?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I was wondered about that because I went back and
I remembered Stephen B. Smith.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Is that what? And you were on the air with him?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Was one of the Yeah that was with Mike and
Mike back in the day when they were ruining the airwaves.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Man, that was Steven A. Smith and Stephen B. Smith.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And uh, I was congratulatory, like everything was just me
with a thesaurus, just looking up words like that guy's
grasp of the language like unbelievably. And I was asking Stephen,
I think he was another one. He was like Bill
Walton where he had a stutter as a kid and
he's he just read a lot, and he was a
reader and he read and people who read having a
(07:22):
huge vocabulary. As you can tell, Mine is I was
gonna say minis school, but that would be the opposite
of what actually what I was trying to prove.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
The point of it was small.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, a big week. Now you got tariffs coming in,
tremendous tariffs.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
They're gonna we're gonna tariff everything. We're gonna tear iff
the tariffs. There's a new tariff in town. And it's
that's what we call Baeydon Manning. He was he was
the sheriff, and now we're gonna call him the tariff.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Gruden, by the way, claims he's the guy who coined
the that the sheriff for.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So I came up with that one man interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
J J.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Swatt it' smie man.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
What would a debate sound like between Trump and Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Smith?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Well, I think it would be contiguous to the situation.
I understand. I'm not even sure some of the things
he's saying. He's saying very he's he's got a lot
of big words, big words in fact, that humongified. See,
I'm not even sure if that's real. I'm not sure.
But we're trying to get things, but we're not trying
to get in trouble politically.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
That's just me. He bailing.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I'm fascinated when you go to cities.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Where are you from originally that you have that accent. Really,
his voice is all messed up. Yeah, he can't something nasal.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Language on the show.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I've got a bullie. I don't. I didn't. You didn't
even have to warn me about that one.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I've talked to speech path speech language pathologists about the
way he talks, and they say a lot of it
is just laziness like he can't say he can't say
n C A a tournament like even your a's. But
you have a there's a lot of interesting like I
look when I see people study it, Yeah, I start
(09:07):
to see things I can understand, just because even the
way your teeth match up.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Uh, there's a there's a thing.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
There's definitely a lot and you should have a little
more of a southern drawl than people around here. I've
noticed that, So that's interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I don't know what they've heard. They can hear a
little Peyton Manning.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, I could hear that. There was somebody else I
just heard in there too. I'll have to think about
it because it's gonna take me too long to come
up with it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But there's Peyton Maan's got a little bit of deeper voice.
But the only thing I can say is Peyton is weird.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Weird.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
That's a that's kind of weird. He's got four syllables
and weird. But there's somebody somebody else. I don't know
who it is.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I'm gonna have to think about it, but that it
just it just hit.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Me when you go so you're doing you're doing a show,
tonight show tonight when you do two shows, is there
a little bit difference in the show?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
A little?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
But I mean I'm yeah, but I'm working on new stuff,
so it's always there's lots of different stuff each show.
But I'll forget what what I've done already. So that's
the tougher part of it. Uh for me. Uh, I did,
and I didn't even.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I don't even.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I started doing a bit two times last night and
I caught myself and I just morgan framed it.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
That's when he realized he'd already and said this joke.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I'll tell you what, man, if if you practice properly,
that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's all about preparation, man. So yeah, so it's, uh.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
There's little differences, but uh, I mean every show is
going to be different right now because I'm really trying
to work on some of these other bits.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
On stage tonight and still trying to figure out what
the hell's wrong with my voice.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, I probably will. Oh man, it just hit me again,
like I like, I see something flash in front of me,
and it may not even be a famous person. It
might be somebody I know. That's but I just also
know a lot of famous people. You guys want to text,
let's talk. I'll call JJ. We JJ was about to
be a Bengal for a while. Did you see that
story His goalkeeper at that soccer.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Team he owns? Oh, really his goalkeeper there as a
Bengals fan. Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
He says, Hey, come out of retirement to play for
the Bengals. JJ says, if you don't give up a
goal for the rest of the season, I will, oh, okay,
And then it went like eighteen games in a row,
the guy didn't give up a goal, right, And it
got down to, like.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I don't know, ten games start JJ.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
He went on like Dan Patrick, and he's like, I
will actually do it, like I will come out of retire.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Keep this guy's word. That's funny. Yeah, I mean I was.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Trying to think it was it with JJ. Now I
was thinking I was conflating two different things. It was
I almost like ruined the I should say some like
Yahoo or somebody took the news.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I was.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I'm friends with Steve Kahm, who is the GM of
the Cardinals, the Arizona Cardinals at the time, and I
was sending him like voice messages from Gruden pretending, but
it was from my number, so he knew it was me.
I told them talk about that on Dan Patrick and
then I think it was Yahoo News, like I said,
took and said, I almost ruined the draft picks like nothing.
(12:01):
Knew it was me from the beginning, but I didn't.
I did the thing I always would try to put
the kebash on it and stop it. And I was like,
you know, I'm gonna let it go this time and
see what happens. And sure enough it blew up and
it was on news stations and all sort of stuff like, well,
that's why I realized, never try and stop it if
you don't care, like if you wanted to have it
and just blow up into something and it's nothing, it's zero,
none of it based in fact, and just let it go.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Are you just getting at your shows just random people
yelling out?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
At the end, I let people do it. I like people.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
If I haven't gotten stuff yet, I say, here's the time.
I know I wandered around as Joe Biden for too
long and made a bunch of people mad as Trump
or whatever and so, and I walk at the rot
line politically, right down the middle of the road. So
I make fun of everybody, but I do a lot
of stuff that doesn't get me to some of the
impressions they come to see, so I know they come
to see them. So the last ten minutes is usually
(12:49):
just me letting people call things out. Yeah, but you,
I don't think i've heard your Biden.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Folks come on, No, a young man growing up a
scram Preservati three four or five six hundred eight d
far the Roman Empire and Romans Mario Luigi. Folks come on,
they're plumbers.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
That's incredible. That is do you have a favorite, your
absolute face?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Whenever they're new, Although if I could, I just pretend
to be Roppertunity Junior the whole time so I could
burp through sentences. It's just the way to go about it. Yeah,
when they're new, they're fun. When they're not just new,
but when they're new and I can do something with
them because there's a difference. It's it's almost like being
fluent in a language. Can you say a couple of
(13:32):
words or can you talk like the person in a
different situations? So once you can once I can like
almost foe think like the person. That's when they're they're
really fun. So I don't know if I have a
favorite right now, it's uh, it's it's yeah, it's just
it's it changes whatever people like.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I just kind of go with more of what people
are getting.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Do you want to run back to two thousand and
ten In the.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
NFL DR we did print out Tony's so excited about
Tony's draft profile job looking at a four point nine
second forty yard dash, a little bit better than Baker
Mayfield and guys at that level, But I think that's
not a guy who's gonna be eluding the defense at
any time, because guys, guys rushing the pass, they're going
(14:20):
to be somewhere at it. I don't know, four five,
four to four. Now they could actually run through your
ten yard split one point six to nine. Great for alignment,
but this guy's playing quarterback. And then you take a
look at the vertical leap to a twenty eight point
five inches tremendous job. Could actually get one of those boxes.
John Gruden's opening up underneath them broad jump nine foot zero.
Not even sure if that's good. But when you're six
(14:40):
foot six, standon towering over the defenders, I'm not sure
if you're ever gonna use a broad jump as as
a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And let's say take a look at the over you
what happened to Pike.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Pike's a bit of a product in the system that's
been in place with the Cincinnati Bear cast. He gets
out of complete, he gets a lot of completions due
to their dinking dunk passing attack. Then spreads the field
and out and relies primarily on the passing game to
move the ball. He knows how to recoverages, but will
get stuck in his primary receiver at times, locking in
(15:10):
on guys he's not supposed to lock in on the
next level. He can't do that at times rather than
go to a second or third option. You know, needs
an effective thrower from the pocket or when rolling to
his right. But we're struggling rolling left. But that happens
to a lot of guys rolling the left. Thrown against
the body you go, you know, if you're going with
the body momentums going that way, he's got to be
(15:30):
careful not to throw against the defensive back against the grain,
which is what they're talking about here. He's struggled to
stay healthy. That's a that's a difficult situation for a
guy that's only mediocre talent.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's not in there, but we're putting it in. Uh
And and why I say.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Mediocre, I'm not talking about guys of the professional football
level starting, but I'm talking about guys who are like him,
were just trying to make the team. He's struggled to
stay healthy for a full season of college, and we'll
need to bulk up if he wants to survive in
the riggers of the full NFL season. I want to say,
I think I take a look at pie Pike has
good characters battle back from injuries, which is pretty much
(16:06):
the opposite of what we're saying before the one ideal height.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I mean, this is a guy who can see you
over the lineed. He can see all his receivers. He
knows where they're gonna be.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
It's not like a Russell Wilson type of situation where
he has to get into the passing like Kyler Murray
e e tiny little Kyler Murdy baby very accurate in
the short unders passing.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I mean, but he's productive playing.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
He spread off fens and he's gonna go where he
needs to be. He shows very good touch and feel,
and I understand about touch and field. When it comes
to the abilities of this John Tony Pike right here,
and I say this with all gratitude, we know where
this is going. I'll tell you what, I'm gonna go
through some weaknesses right now, man lax the necessary bulk
(16:54):
to withstand the pounding at the next level. Facts, I'll
tell you what. I'm glad that's that held up. The
sentence is about sports right now, has been injured and
durability is a concern. I mean, it's pretty amazing when
they just say the same thing over and over.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And over a different ways.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Atot, I like to do an overview of the guy
writing the overview. Man earned his living underneath in college,
earned his living underneath.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
That's how you guys say it.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
If you said it sounds a little weird or the
other in college and does not possess prototypical arm strength
to drive the ball downfield on the deep out, that
says something that's uh, that's arm Towns.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
You gotta.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Be true la speed to pick up chunks of yardage
with his feet.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
That goes back to that.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Four nine man. Yeah, you're you're you're an interior alignment
for six. Starting to hear a little Peyton Manning in there.
I wish I wish you had a little more Peyton
Manning and we wouldn't be talking to you right now.
You'd be doing pizza commercials. Why did you get to
why didn't why didn't Peyton Manning do a steak commercial? Man?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Oh maha steaks? I see that pretty good idea right there?
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Man, man, this is uh, this is fantastic. Thank you
so much for stopping by. Yeah, thanks for having guys
on stage dot com, Frank on stage dot com and
the shows this weekend? Uh tonight one at the Liberty Funnybone,
Cincinnati Funnybone Liberty dot Funnybone dot com. I believe, maybe
not just go Frank on Stage dot com and then
uh Columbus Funnybone on Sunday, uh and all the other dates.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
All around the all around the world.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Are we going?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I have to ask before we let you go. Are
you a Skyline Chili guy? I'm not a Chili guy
at all.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I don't. Are they sponsor here?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I love them? Before give you that's a great idea.
Had Cincinnati favorites. I know you've been. Here's similar to
the Robert Downey Junior Belchi three, but going out the
other way.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Thank you, I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We'll be back. ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station
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