Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's talk to another producer, one who isn't lazy or
complaining or complaining. Let's talk with producer A Rod, who
joins us from Broncos training camp where he's wearing very
stylish and exceptionally reflective sunglasses and he's just checking out
what's going on out there in the first day of
practice with pads, right, A.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Rod, That is right, the first day with pads. They
just wrapped up a little bit of a team period.
Now kind of looks like the entire squad looks to
be doing some sort of sprints all the way down
each sidelight, each end of the field here. So I'm
not sure whether that's planned or punishment based on how
the team periods are going.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
But but yeah, the pads have been popping.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We've seen a couple extra players shine more out here
on this day.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
But it's always a good day when you get the
pads on.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I'm kind of curious, so when I was out there
on when was i there Friday, It was a warm
day but not terribly hot. Yesterday was hot, Today is
hot again, and now they're in pads. Are you can
you tell.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Anything from your vantage point.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Of whether the combination of pads and temperatures is affecting anything.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It absolutely is.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I selfishly am and have been enjoying the little bits
of shade that I can find, so ninety percent of
my time has been in the shade. But these players
cannot say the same. And I'll tell you one example
that immediately gave away the fact that it is very
hot out there, and that much more so with the
pads linebacker new edition the Broncos, Drake Greenlaw, came over
from the San Francisco forty nine ers. He was tasked with.
(01:27):
I think it was the play he was trying to
chase down rookie running back RJ. Harvey down the sideline
and had to do it so much speed that he
seemed to be pretty darn gassed after doing so. I
think that was a factor. And he's obviously a guy
that's trying to get worked back in. He's missed some
time early on in the off season program with the
injury he's been dealing with. But he was gassed, had
to be on his knee quite a bit, went up
(01:49):
and down from that knee. I think that's kind of
a microcosm of the heat out here. So it's impacting
these guys for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Wow, tell me a little bit about how how it
feels to you having the spectators in bleachers kind of
behind where you and I set rather than what we
had known for many years over on the hill to
the side.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, it's definitely, it's definitely, very very different. I mean
with the with the berm over on that side near
the Pat Bowl and field House as it's called.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
As what it was called, I should.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Say, uh, you know, the number was about three thousand
fans that that we were able to fill up that thing,
and then it was a real more a more personal experience,
especially for the fans after practice. The only really, the
only thing separating the fans from the players after the
practice was that thin that thin rope where players could
go right up to the to the fans afterwards and
get that personal touch with the autographs, have little conversations
(02:41):
with them and take pictures.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
They still are doing, you.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Know, autographs, and I'm not necessarily sure about pictures, but
they do walk up to those that bleacher side over
here to the left of our broadcast area. But it's
you know, it's down from three thousand fans to I've
been told, I find it hard to believe. But the
number there looks like they could fit eight hundred over there.
I don't know about that, but I don't know. It's
doesn't look like a hindered to me. No hundred would
be pushing it. It's a little less personal. But but
(03:04):
the but, but the players are still making a concerned effort.
Whether they're being you know, asked to do so or not,
are they doing on their own delision. They are walking
over very often early on in the practice to get
the crowd all ramped up.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
They're they're throwing their hands up in the air. They're
coming over in.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Packs at times to keep keep those the smaller amount
of fans still engaged.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, I noticed that on Friday when I was over there.
You know, maybe there would be some play that was
going in that direction with two or three players running
that way just as part of the play, and at
the end of the play they just keep going and
run all the way up basically to right in front
of the bleachers and kind of you know, like raise
their hands up in the air and get everybody cheering,
which is kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, it is fun. And again, you have to you
have to do what you can with this situation.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I was talking with with Nick Ferguson yesterday, who's who's
been chatting with some of the higher ups, uh you
know here here here in the organization, and and they
think that this, you know, this should be, should be
and could be a really short term thing, maybe just
a one year thing. And you know, there's there's talk
that this the main building that is being really replaced,
could you know, could be fully taken down.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
We have I've never read or seen any confirmation on that,
but that could be where.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
A new berm could be. It could be, it could
be permanent stands if they decided to.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Go that route.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So so this stand that what they've did in a
short period of time and for it, it for it,
you know, potentially being only a one year temporary situation,
they've done done a pretty darn good job.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And again it's it's it's training camp.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You know, a lot of us are still out here,
you know, we're we're covering this thing for the fans
that can't be here. Now that's obviously even a smaller number.
So so they're doing the best that they can and
they've they've done a really good job. The situation they
have over here with these fans and the cool little
setup they have behind with the with the water stations
and the merch and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
They're doing a good job with it.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
All right, last question for you, a rod Uh, You're
you're watching this pretty closely and you're over there every
day now, So picked just for fun one player, not
counting a quarterback who has been kind of standing out
to you, uh today or today and yesterday.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Well, I'm a quick talker.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I'm gonna give you really fast too, because number one,
I have a big time running backsky and the rookie
running back RJ. Harvey is showing it. He is special.
He has some serious burst. He is a bowling ball
that has some serious speed. He's probably got one of
the fastest spoin moves I've seen of any of the
NFL running back That was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
He's an electric.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
But I will tell you today, even though it's a
pads day, we are now seeing while the Bronco's drafted
a punter with Jeremy Crash out of Florida, This dude,
we were timing it out there and a lot of
our times were close. The NFL's punters typically fall between
four and a half four and a half and five
seconds in terms of airtime. He was closing in on
more of five seconds. I even registered a five point
three second airtime, which for NFL punters is gnarly. So
(05:33):
to have him do that, I think that, you know,
it's a game of inches here in the NFL, So
having him do that's gonna be really big for flipping.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The feel for the Bronco's gonna be really big for
them this season.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You know, it's it's funny that you mentioned him. Well,
not funny, but I when our boss Dave Tepper asked me, like,
you know, is there any Bronco you might like to
try to talk to? Which is not always the easiest
thing to get done, especially for a show like mine
that isn't really a sports show.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But I said, I want to talk to the Hunter.
Do you know why we'll forget to talk to him.
Number one, he's Australian there, you know you know that.
But number two, wait till you see him up close,
because dude's got a wicked mustache. I mean, this thing
has this thing is like a full on caterpillar on
on the on the upper left high. It's got some
curl action and he's got we obviously we interviewed him,
(06:19):
you know, the day he got drafted or the day
after he got drafted, maybe both. And he's got an
amazing accent, gray voice.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Great guy.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And then you want some personality with your punter. I
don't think NFL coaches want a personality with their punter.
They just wanted to punt the damn ball. But if
you're punting, if you're getting airtime of five plus seconds
and five point three was the highest winer registered, you
can have all the personality, all the mustache, the Australian
accent that you want.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So I think they're all about it no matter what
it was. Yes, for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And of course I wanted to talk to him because
he's Australian, because my wife is Australian and I lived there.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
For a while. My fell in love with the guy.
He's really cool. Yeah I'm just saying, yeah, I would,
I would. I would love to put a wife on notice.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, all right, I will.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's producer A Rod. Are you wearing your exceptionally.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Reflective sunglasses right now as you're talking to us?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I am.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I followed suit of Ryan Edwards unintentionally, and apparently people
really don't like when you wear sunglasses and social media videos,
so they don't want to see the reflection of being
being a one man banding holding up a selvie. So
I've got the tripod to appease that one person who really,
really really was upset, yeah about me wearing sunglasses in
a video, but hey, it's hot out here. My eyes,
I'm trying to protect them, but you know, I guess
(07:23):
you know, not for everybody, but I am wearing them
right now. They're very nice and they're Oakley, so they're
really fancy.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
That is Producer A Rod from Bronco's training camp. I
will note one other thing that has nothing to do
with football. Listeners who have been paying attention will know
that that over the course of this month, we have
done twelve giveaways, and one of these days twelve giveaways
of entries into the final giveaway, which is going to
be for a big fire pit. And A Rod is
(07:49):
intimately involved with this whole thing. So A Rod, you
have collected the twelve names, correct, I have.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Collected eleven, and I'm checking literally as we speak, checking
the direct messages of our Twitter account, and there is
one winner right now on Twitter who still has not responded,
So we're have eleven of twelve, okay, and I am
now giving each person that twelve opportunity to keep getting
back in. So if you submitted on Twitter last week,
there's still a chance. If I have to move on
from another potential winner, you may still be the twelfth.
(08:17):
So do me say their name? They're probably listening to
your show, yeah the bus. Okay, well, so what you're.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Gonna give their name and then the person has to
do what respond to you by direct respond to Koa
Colorado by direct message on X.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yes, specifically X.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
This is the second person I had to move on
from the first person that was my choice.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And now Roger.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
If you are a listener to Ross Roger on X
at Koa, Colorado, check your DM because I'm gonna have
to move on from you at the end of the
day because we got to get this twelve person before
we do our big time giveaway later this week.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Okay, yeah, sometime probably either Wednesday or Thursday.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
We'll do the we'll do the final giveaway. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Thanks for your help with all that, a Rod, and
thanks for reporting from training camp. We'll probably talk with
you every day this week at least that I'm here.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I'm now Friday, but we'll probably get to you every
other day. Sounds like a plan. I'll be here all right,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
That's producer A Rod with his reflective sunglasses.
Let's talk to another producer, one who isn't lazy or
complaining or complaining. Let's talk with producer A Rod, who
joins us from Broncos training camp where he's wearing very
stylish and exceptionally reflective sunglasses and he's just checking out
what's going on out there in the first day of
practice with pads, right, A.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Rod, That is right, the first day with pads. They
just wrapped up a little bit of a team period.
Now kind of looks like the entire squad looks to
be doing some sort of sprints all the way down
each sidelight, each end of the field here. So I'm
not sure whether that's planned or punishment based on how
the team periods are going.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
But but yeah, the pads have been popping.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We've seen a couple extra players shine more out here
on this day.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
But it's always a good day when you get the
pads on.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I'm kind of curious, so when I was out there
on when was i there Friday, It was a warm
day but not terribly hot. Yesterday was hot, Today is
hot again, and now they're in pads. Are you can
you tell.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Anything from your vantage point.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Of whether the combination of pads and temperatures is affecting anything.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It absolutely is.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I selfishly am and have been enjoying the little bits
of shade that I can find, so ninety percent of
my time has been in the shade. But these players
cannot say the same. And I'll tell you one example
that immediately gave away the fact that it is very
hot out there, and that much more so with the
pads linebacker new edition the Broncos, Drake Greenlaw, came over
from the San Francisco forty nine ers. He was tasked with.
(01:27):
I think it was the play he was trying to
chase down rookie running back RJ. Harvey down the sideline
and had to do it so much speed that he
seemed to be pretty darn gassed after doing so. I
think that was a factor. And he's obviously a guy
that's trying to get worked back in. He's missed some
time early on in the off season program with the
injury he's been dealing with. But he was gassed, had
to be on his knee quite a bit, went up
(01:49):
and down from that knee. I think that's kind of
a microcosm of the heat out here. So it's impacting
these guys for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Wow, tell me a little bit about how how it
feels to you having the spectators in bleachers kind of
behind where you and I set rather than what we
had known for many years over on the hill to
the side.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, it's definitely, it's definitely, very very different. I mean
with the with the berm over on that side near
the Pat Bowl and field House as it's called.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
As what it was called, I should.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Say, uh, you know, the number was about three thousand
fans that that we were able to fill up that thing,
and then it was a real more a more personal experience,
especially for the fans after practice. The only really, the
only thing separating the fans from the players after the
practice was that thin that thin rope where players could
go right up to the to the fans afterwards and
get that personal touch with the autographs, have little conversations
(02:41):
with them and take pictures.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
They still are doing, you.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Know, autographs, and I'm not necessarily sure about pictures, but
they do walk up to those that bleacher side over
here to the left of our broadcast area. But it's
you know, it's down from three thousand fans to I've
been told, I find it hard to believe. But the
number there looks like they could fit eight hundred over there.
I don't know about that, but I don't know. It's
doesn't look like a hindered to me. No hundred would
be pushing it. It's a little less personal. But but
(03:04):
the but, but the players are still making a concerned effort.
Whether they're being you know, asked to do so or not,
are they doing on their own delision. They are walking
over very often early on in the practice to get
the crowd all ramped up.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
They're they're throwing their hands up in the air. They're
coming over in.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Packs at times to keep keep those the smaller amount
of fans still engaged.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, I noticed that on Friday when I was over there.
You know, maybe there would be some play that was
going in that direction with two or three players running
that way just as part of the play, and at
the end of the play they just keep going and
run all the way up basically to right in front
of the bleachers and kind of you know, like raise
their hands up in the air and get everybody cheering,
which is kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, it is fun. And again, you have to you
have to do what you can with this situation.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I was talking with with Nick Ferguson yesterday, who's who's
been chatting with some of the higher ups, uh you
know here here here in the organization, and and they
think that this, you know, this should be, should be
and could be a really short term thing, maybe just
a one year thing. And you know, there's there's talk
that this the main building that is being really replaced,
could you know, could be fully taken down.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
We have I've never read or seen any confirmation on that,
but that could be where.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
A new berm could be. It could be, it could
be permanent stands if they decided to.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Go that route.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So so this stand that what they've did in a
short period of time and for it, it for it,
you know, potentially being only a one year temporary situation,
they've done done a pretty darn good job.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And again it's it's it's training camp.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You know, a lot of us are still out here,
you know, we're we're covering this thing for the fans
that can't be here. Now that's obviously even a smaller number.
So so they're doing the best that they can and
they've they've done a really good job. The situation they
have over here with these fans and the cool little
setup they have behind with the with the water stations
and the merch and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
They're doing a good job with it.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
All right, last question for you, a rod Uh, You're
you're watching this pretty closely and you're over there every
day now, So picked just for fun one player, not
counting a quarterback who has been kind of standing out
to you, uh today or today and yesterday.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Well, I'm a quick talker.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I'm gonna give you really fast too, because number one,
I have a big time running backsky and the rookie
running back RJ. Harvey is showing it. He is special.
He has some serious burst. He is a bowling ball
that has some serious speed. He's probably got one of
the fastest spoin moves I've seen of any of the
NFL running back That was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
He's an electric.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
But I will tell you today, even though it's a
pads day, we are now seeing while the Bronco's drafted
a punter with Jeremy Crash out of Florida, This dude,
we were timing it out there and a lot of
our times were close. The NFL's punters typically fall between
four and a half four and a half and five
seconds in terms of airtime. He was closing in on
more of five seconds. I even registered a five point
three second airtime, which for NFL punters is gnarly. So
(05:33):
to have him do that, I think that, you know,
it's a game of inches here in the NFL, So
having him do that's gonna be really big for flipping.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The feel for the Bronco's gonna be really big for
them this season.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You know, it's it's funny that you mentioned him. Well,
not funny, but I when our boss Dave Tepper asked me, like,
you know, is there any Bronco you might like to
try to talk to? Which is not always the easiest
thing to get done, especially for a show like mine
that isn't really a sports show.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But I said, I want to talk to the Hunter.
Do you know why we'll forget to talk to him.
Number one, he's Australian there, you know you know that.
But number two, wait till you see him up close,
because dude's got a wicked mustache. I mean, this thing
has this thing is like a full on caterpillar on
on the on the upper left high. It's got some
curl action and he's got we obviously we interviewed him,
(06:19):
you know, the day he got drafted or the day
after he got drafted, maybe both. And he's got an
amazing accent, gray voice.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Great guy.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And then you want some personality with your punter. I
don't think NFL coaches want a personality with their punter.
They just wanted to punt the damn ball. But if
you're punting, if you're getting airtime of five plus seconds
and five point three was the highest winer registered, you
can have all the personality, all the mustache, the Australian
accent that you want.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So I think they're all about it no matter what
it was. Yes, for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And of course I wanted to talk to him because
he's Australian, because my wife is Australian and I lived there.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
For a while. My fell in love with the guy.
He's really cool. Yeah I'm just saying, yeah, I would,
I would. I would love to put a wife on notice.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, all right, I will.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's producer A Rod. Are you wearing your exceptionally.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Reflective sunglasses right now as you're talking to us?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I am.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I followed suit of Ryan Edwards unintentionally, and apparently people
really don't like when you wear sunglasses and social media videos,
so they don't want to see the reflection of being
being a one man banding holding up a selvie. So
I've got the tripod to appease that one person who really,
really really was upset, yeah about me wearing sunglasses in
a video, but hey, it's hot out here. My eyes,
I'm trying to protect them, but you know, I guess
(07:23):
you know, not for everybody, but I am wearing them
right now. They're very nice and they're Oakley, so they're
really fancy.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
That is Producer A Rod from Bronco's training camp. I
will note one other thing that has nothing to do
with football. Listeners who have been paying attention will know
that that over the course of this month, we have
done twelve giveaways, and one of these days twelve giveaways
of entries into the final giveaway, which is going to
be for a big fire pit. And A Rod is
(07:49):
intimately involved with this whole thing. So A Rod, you
have collected the twelve names, correct, I have.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Collected eleven, and I'm checking literally as we speak, checking
the direct messages of our Twitter account, and there is
one winner right now on Twitter who still has not responded,
So we're have eleven of twelve, okay, and I am
now giving each person that twelve opportunity to keep getting
back in. So if you submitted on Twitter last week,
there's still a chance. If I have to move on
from another potential winner, you may still be the twelfth.
(08:17):
So do me say their name? They're probably listening to
your show, yeah the bus. Okay, well, so what you're.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Gonna give their name and then the person has to
do what respond to you by direct respond to Koa
Colorado by direct message on X.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yes, specifically X.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
This is the second person I had to move on
from the first person that was my choice.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And now Roger.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
If you are a listener to Ross Roger on X
at Koa, Colorado, check your DM because I'm gonna have
to move on from you at the end of the
day because we got to get this twelve person before
we do our big time giveaway later this week.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Okay, yeah, sometime probably either Wednesday or Thursday.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
We'll do the we'll do the final giveaway. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Thanks for your help with all that, a Rod, and
thanks for reporting from training camp. We'll probably talk with
you every day this week at least that I'm here.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I'm now Friday, but we'll probably get to you every
other day. Sounds like a plan. I'll be here all right,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
That's producer A Rod with his reflective sunglasses.
The Ross Kaminsky Show News
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.