02-05-25 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Loco's Country tonight. Ben's with all.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Brian Grant Smith here with you short, super short show
tonight as the Colorada Buffalo is taking on the utah
Utes here at about a little bit. Coverage starts here
about thirty minutes bottom they are here on Kaway, the
nine and twelve Colorada Buffs taking on the utah Utes.
Tip should be seven o'clock.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Will this be the game they finally break the losing streak?
Oh my goodness, how many? How many is it in a row?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Now?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
I lost count?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, it's been pretty pretty brutal. See you down to
nine and twelve now after significantly higher hopes for the season, hopefully.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
They get it turned around.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Here they are the underdog here, six and a half
point underdog, six point underdogs to the utah Utes over
runner on that game looks like it's wun forty two
and a half with a favor of the under so well,
I have.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Coverage for that starting here bottom of the hour, six thirty.
Mark Johnson, of course, beyond the call right between the
eye every time I love it. I love Mark Johnson
would call. It'd be great to listen to that on.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
My drive home. Five six, six, nine zero is the
text line. You guys want to get involved in the conversation.
I want to jump right to it because there's a
lot to get to it. A short about his time here,
our own Anthony Rodriguez was down there is down there,
I should say, in New Orleans forst super Week that's
presented by Chevron Colorado.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
And he got a hold of I believe it was
Chris Jones. Was it not Cam Jordan? I'm sorry he
got to hold both of them. I met Cam Jordan. Uh,
you gotta hold the Cam Jordan? Who has an interesting
comments on Sean Paye.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
John Payton in the last couple of years.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Man, he's been turning around.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
You know him better than most. What do you think
about that? What do you think about that?

Speaker 4 (01:28):
We know I knew he were turned around as a
as a leader of men, as a as a coach
SA that has success. When you have success, you have
confidence that can create recreate that success.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
What do you think about the future now with bow Knicks, Man?

Speaker 4 (01:39):
I mean, bo Nicks is clearly a guy who has talent.
That's the reason why Sean drafted him. He's trying to
recreate Smiths and special magic.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
I mean we'll see what happens.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
To be clear, there in the AFC where they have
to fight Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow and Pat Mahomes.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Good luck, good luck.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, the AFC obviously much tougher when you look at
the quarterback situation. He neglected dimension, Josh Allen in that conversation.
I mean, you could even go to the division and
a guy neglected dimension of Justin Herbert. You know, this division,
the Anincy West, is clearly going to be the toughest
in football in the coming years, and it's it's gonna
be gonna be fascinating to watch. Is now the Raiders

(02:17):
have Pete Carroll and Chip Kelly run on the show.
There for the Raiders who've got Jim Harball. We all
saw the difference in quality with the Chargers this past year.
In fact, Charger swept the Broncos this past year. They're
they're a better coached football team. And for the Chargers,
that's been the problem for a while.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
The Chargers have had personnel.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
They've just been unable to get out of their own
way or get over the hump with all this stuff.
And you know, Jim Harball, well, especially once they get
another receiver to in there, another pass catching option in there.
They're really gonna be something. So's it's gonna be an
interesting division. I mean, whatever we think of Bo and
Sean and obviously making the playoffs is a huge deal
for the Broncos that hadn't done that in a decade.
This vision is rapidly improving, and so you can get

(03:02):
better by proxy and worse by the standings potentially.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
UH in this coming season.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Something to kind of sort of keep your eye on
as far as that stuff goes. Again, short show tonight,
we're out of here about in the hour. They're gonna
chant things over to see you. Buff basketball coverage with
with Mark Johnson.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Pre game starts six point thirty.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
UH.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Taking on the Utah Utes on the KWAI Sports Show today,
which you failed I did.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
I sat in with UH with David Ryan.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
They were gracious enough let me let me sit in
maybe park in the back of the lot.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
It was weird, but they did let me sit in.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
It.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Got a chance to interview an idol of mine.

Speaker 6 (03:38):
UH.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
And and this is the thing I gotta really talk
about that, I guess you know, my own personal idols.
As far as the count stuff'd oladly talk about that
love like Kenny Namee was one of those guys who
made talking about sports fun. You could you could bridge
the line between comedian uh and and and sports talk
and the Golden Age, the Golden era.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
For me, anyway of this sort of sports talk would
have been.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
And the Olberman and Dan Dan Patrick, Patrickscott. Well yeah,
but I mean Patrick and Olberman and Maine especially and
whatever you think about whatever they became after all that.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I'm not trying to get.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Into people's political beliefs or whatever, but Dan Patrick and
Keith Oldman you had sort of the Dan Patrick sort
of everyman southern drawl kind of thing. You had Keith
Olberman to look how many big words, I know, uh, elitist,
you know, sort of guy. And then Kenny Maine with
sort of a Bill Murray esque dead pan approach. That
the combination was just gold. And getting the chance to
just chat with him for a couple of minutes. I

(04:36):
wish could have got it a little bit more, uh,
you know, especially about his his charity event he's got
going on.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
But we've got a chance to talk to him today,
and here's that interview.

Speaker 7 (04:44):
You use up every last moment of sick time described
in One's Company Benefits pamphlet, except to keep their company
Benefits pamphlet. Randall Cunningham sought no time off to recover
from his knee being scope last Monday, he said God
would heal him, and on Sunday more Vikings disciples than
ever came out to find out the great Kenny Maid.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
I do miss that so much.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
I miss that.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
It brings a big smile on my face as we
head out to the Klee Common Spirit Health Hotline and
bring on Kenny Maine Kitty, thank you so much for
the time today.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
You know, Dave Logan, Ryan There Wass and Benjamin all Bright,
how are you, sir?

Speaker 3 (05:17):
I think that tape auxtor I think my voice sounds
different when I hear Old Sports Center. It always weirds
me out. I guess the words does change over the years,
but maybe I was nervous.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
You know what. From from our perspective, it was it
was vintage, and you know, and as a guy who
played in the league for a long time and now
still covers the league, I always appreciated just the way
you went about it on ESPN, And for some people
that may have sort of lost track since you decided
that was enough of that, so to speak, what what

(05:52):
exactly keeps you busy these days?

Speaker 3 (05:55):
I was gonna say. Others didn't like it. I remember
my countdown stories and Bill Parcels would be next to
Berman and my story would end and then cut to
the foreshot. It looked like you wanted to kill Blacks.
The me a, dare you joke about football? What am
I doing? The second, I'm elevating my ankle on my
bed because Mike blew up. All right, that's that's part

(06:18):
of tonight's story. Actually, so I wrecked. We'll go back
in time. First, I wrecked my ankle playing football at UNLV.
Now I'm old, I'm medicare now I mean I qualified.
So that's great. I mean, that's the real solid movie
you want to be involved in. Mad I made a
movie called wiffle Ball, and it's about a day in

(06:40):
nineteen eighty nine when Ken, Griffy and I threw whiffle
balls for feature story at my little station in Seattle,
right before well before espn yeh and I hang out
of the tape all these years, and Griffy and I
bumped into each other and he actually brought it up
just I forget what he said. But if you reference
that time we threw wiffleball and I went, one of
the greatest players in the history of baseball is somehow

(07:03):
still thinking about that one day when we did that,
because I think he knows that beat him is what
I think it is. But because I contend that I did,
I swear he might not have been throwing full speed,
but I could throw. I still can't. But that's all
I have really, Just as Warren Moon said, the arm
is the last thing to go okay. So I decided

(07:24):
I'm going to make a movie about whoofleball, about that day,
and we were Ken Burns in it. We got a
bunch of people and it's like a little comedy documentary.
Thirty minutes is on Fubo Sports right now on demand.
Do it now. And then over the holiday I dreamed
up kind of part two. I was like, what if
I could make like fifteen twenty half hour of stories

(07:45):
about my childhood that lead to whippleball, which is sort
of a node to everyone's childhood, right. And I got
a hold of Jimmy Kimmel and I said, I see
a hole in your schedule at your place in Vegas.
He got a hold of Vegas guy. He got a
hold of me, and we put it together a couple
of weeks. Nice and I did it on Monday, and
then tonight Theser's here in New Orleans. Very nice of them.

(08:06):
They're giving me a space to bring in one hundred
people or whoever shows up, and we're gonna do it
again and do it as a fundraiser for Run Freely,
which is my vet's organ It is a complicated story,
but I got a ruined ankle. It's up on a pillow.
I wear a leg brace when I need to. I
probably should have done it today. And then we raise
money and we buy these for rentionans. So tonight's a

(08:27):
total free event. We hope people are generously donating. When
it's like a Radiohead album, you know.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
They'll like it, right. I love that. Oh, Jenny, you're
also involved in another movie.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
With Colorado natives Trey Parker Mats Stone Basketball.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
You were on that one for a little bit.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
What was it like working with those guys and doing
that movie.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Oh, that was fun.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
I liked it.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
When that one gets people will repeat it when there's
you know, like in the NFL week whatever and where
they play thirty games. Now I forget me. They're up too.
But when they get toward the end of all, if
this thing happens, when that happened.

Speaker 7 (09:01):
To Hi, there, I'm Dan Patrick and I'm Kenny Man.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
With the first seven months of.

Speaker 7 (09:05):
The basketball postseason out of the way, the playoff picture.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Is now starting to emerge.

Speaker 7 (09:10):
So with last night's victory over Boston, next week, the
Beers must beat Indianapolis in order to advance to Charlotte.
That's in an effort to reduce their magic number three right,
and then the Beers can advance to the National Eastern
Division North to play Tampa. So if the Beers beat
Detroit and Denver beachs Atlanta in the American Southwestern Division
East Northern, then Milwaukee goes to the dens Look Cup.

(09:30):
Unless Baltimoreking upset Buffalo and Charlotte ties Toronto, then Oakland
would play La and.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Pittsburgh in a blind choice round robin.

Speaker 7 (09:37):
And if no clear winner emerges from all this, the
two man Sack Race will be.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Held on consecutive Sundays until a champion is crown. They
had a new one this year that I had never
even heard of. It was gonna be like the Seventh
tidebreaker that I was unaware of. I was also unaware
that the referee could just a word a touchdown.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
I learned that this year too.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
If when they were jumping and jumping and jumping from
the cup, and I didn't think they were even doing
it to be jerks. They were just trying to anticipate,
and you know that thing's going to happen. I think
Philadelphia is going to run a fake quarterback sneak. You know,
it's just like the old fake Neil like Marino did
Randall do. I think, fake one half step into the

(10:15):
pile and then either flip it on a reverse or
throw to the tight end. I feel that's coming.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
I wonder if I can put some bet on ad
or something like that.

Speaker 6 (10:23):
That would be you feel like you've bet almost everything
in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
I never I'm sorry, I diverted my own story. That
was great fun doing that. I was saying, when there's
a complicated thing, people will run that clip of Dan
Patrick and I talking about, you know, two man sack
race or whatever is the final tiebreaker. I still get
tiny checks. I get baseball residual checks every quarter. Sometimes

(10:48):
it's like, you know, five dollars eighteen cents or something.
The one I get a little more on because the
recency bias is what was it called? Was the one
with hater and come on as a train wreck?

Speaker 8 (11:01):
Train wreck?

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, I got caught though.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm on the DVD extra and I thought I did
a good job. They told you, they said the director's Epputode.
He says, go up to Amy Schumer and and pretend
she's at a big event, like a black tie event
or whatever, and just hit on her. Just be kind
of a jerk. You're like, I said, you want me
to just like like be really weird, and like, yeah, exactly,
just do whatever you want. So and she was Bill

(11:26):
Hayter's love interest, right, And I said, so are you
a doctor's wife or a prostitute or is there really
a difference?

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Wow, I can't imagine why.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
I can't either saying I don't mean to really allege
that old doctors who I said, prost So it's just
be a jerk. Yeah, that was just my line. And
then there Tony Romo was in there, and and then
Mary thought of Myron and they cut that as well. So, hey,
I protest, But yeah, I did that, So right now
I got with the ball. I got another one planned
and right now a very tentative plan is to kind

(12:05):
of do like these short comedy things and kind of
make a show around it. That sounds like a fun
job to me.

Speaker 6 (12:10):
That's incredible. Kenny Magan joining us. Last one I have
for you. Really appreciate the time Your Style. Obviously we
played it as we were coming into the segment Your
Style and Sports Center. Was that something that you had
to sort of sell to ESPN? Is that one of
the reasons that they bought in and wanted to bring
you on.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
I don't know why. I mean, I beat down the
door for like four years freelancing, and it finally sent
them a letter and it said, please check the appropriate box.
I'm trying to sort out my future. And the first
box said stand by the mailbox, contracts on the way
bechel one said keep up the freelance work, and the
third one said we'll hire you about the time ESPN
five hits the air and this real story, and they

(12:48):
check the middle box, keep up freelance, keep up the
good work. And then I got hired like two weeks
later or two months later, I should say, and I
started on ESPN too. I was like the sports smash
anchor guy. They moved me up in here and there
and it was fun. Well last night, I mean, I
missed the people and I missed the hour, but I'm
kind of happy doing these little weird one off projects

(13:09):
for now.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
So great.

Speaker 6 (13:11):
Well, hey, Kenny, this is a lot of fun to
catch up with you. We're all really really big fans.
And again check out wiffle ball.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
And yeah you.

Speaker 6 (13:17):
Said you're at the UVESA at Caesar's New Orleans, and
that's tonight's eight o'clock, right at eight o'clock.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
That's for all the people listening to you but happen
to be here because they're listening to it on a
streaming platform.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yes, yes, that's right, that is correct. Correct?

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Are those people? Those are people?

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Right?

Speaker 3 (13:33):
They could they might go.

Speaker 6 (13:35):
They could probably catch flight right now down there and
check it out right now.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, Hey, whoever shows up will be great. If you know,
if it's small, great, if it's big great. We're going
to get the word out about our little foundation run
freely dot org.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
All right, Kitty, thanks thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
What an absolute treat to get to talk to an
Isle of mine, Kitty Maine and run Freely.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Dot orgus are you and f R E E L
y uh dot org.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
It's a charity that was this founded with the mission
to provide financial support for veterans with limb salvage conditions.
He needed a solution to avoid amputation. And the great
works that they've done is a vet that that you
know speaks to me.

Speaker 6 (14:16):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
I hope a lot of people show up at the
New Orleans event tonight that he's got down there half
hour from now.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, what a treat.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
So you know, you can go to run for the
dot org if you want to, you know, give or
get involved in that.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
And what a great uh. You know, what a great
thing that Kenny Maine is doing.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
And just a just an awesome chance to get to
talk to somebody who was a staple of my formative years.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, of my childhood.

Speaker 8 (14:40):
I mean that I gambled, well you were talking about
it before he brought him, or before we.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Tossed that interview.

Speaker 8 (14:46):
But like him and Dan Patrick, like that's the reason
I fell in love with Sports and Sports Center, you know,
Like that's the reason I still watch it to this
day and it's hard to watch anymore nowadays other than
Scott van peltz Hower. But that's like the reason I
was so tuned in every day was to see what
kind of quip or what kind of you know, line

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they were going to have about some certain highlight.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Like that was a staple of my childhood.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
It was creative back then, and now it's just people
yelling at each other. And like, I don't know, I
haven't watched any of those programs in years, Like I seriously,
I mean, it's we have some of those things on
in the background TVs. Obviously the audio isn't on here
in the studio, but I have not I have not
actively watched any of those programs Ian.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
I mean, it's been at least a decade. I couldn't handle.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Like when they switched to the Skip bayless coal pizza stuff,
like right, that's right around the time I started check
it out.

Speaker 8 (15:37):
Same first take, I mean, and I think Stephen A
is a quality analyst when he's on shows like NBA
Countdown and things like that, But that first Take show,
I mean, people aren't watch The guy.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Who who started that format had worked in political television
and he just basically took the format with people yell
at each other and applied to sports talk. And I mean,
to be fair, it works for some people. Some people
love that stuff, but I just absolutely loathe. I despise
that format.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
I hate it.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
I hate watching it.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
And you know, the people who my favorite is the
people tell me they do hate it, and then they
do watch.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
It, and you're contributing to it.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Like this is just the reason they still do it
is because you hate your hate watching it.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
It's like the Howard Stern effect, right, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
They did.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
They did a study a while back back in the
nineties and the average Howard Stern fan listened to the
show for an hour to see what he would say,
and the average Howard start hater listened to the show
for two hours to hear what, you know.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Just to see what he would say.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
And so that's that's exactly the premise that they're playing
off of there, and it tends to work.

Speaker 8 (16:35):
Yeah, And that's what I always try to remind you of.
The haters are gonna hate all that, but they're always
going to be tuned in.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well, that's that's you know.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
It was one of the things, I think four or
five years ago, one of the best things I ever
did for myself to get into therapy for a myriad
of reasons.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
But one of the one of.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
The things that that kind of came out of that was,
you know, the haters are just a more engaged segment
of your fan base.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
At the end of the day, they're just a more
so you know, like I over the recent years have
sort of played into that a little bit. I'll still
be performance art on Twitter guy, you know, in terms
of being mad or what really not, I don't care.
You don't affect my life. It's you know, but it's
it's fun to you know, it's a or of fun
to remember that they're just a more engaged segment of
your fan base.

Speaker 8 (17:17):
Yeah, and I think I know you're not the biggest
fan of the Pat McAfee Show, but I am. And
I think that's why people love it so much and
why it has such a huge following is because they're
not yelling at each other all day. They're talking to
interesting people and they're having funny moments, and that's what sports.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Talk is about.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, I mean, I appreciate it for what it is,
and it's it's about the only original content that it's
out there right now in terms of a new format
for talks, but I like, for me, it's just a
little too broie, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Fratle I'm like, man, this is just not my demo,
you know.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Like I love with I love the fact that they've
got something new and interesting out there, it's just not
really my.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
I don't hate that show. I just I don't listen
to because it doesn't do it for me right and
you know it is. I wish they would quit talking
about wrestlings all the time.

Speaker 6 (18:00):
That the part.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh and that honestly, that's probably the biggest stumbling block
for me because I am just so nodded too that
at all.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
So anyway, we got.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
To CEU Buffs basketball coming up next, taking.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
On the utah Utes. Great Dame starts next right.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Here on K

Speaker 1 (18:19):
I'm right,