Speaker 1: Welcome to This Guy Gets It with Mark Sessler. This
Speaker 1: week's episode injury prevention and corresponding success in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. Injuries are a part of sports. They're a
Speaker 1: part of football, after all. Football has been described as
Speaker 1: a violent game large men piled one a top the
Speaker 1: other above the treasure an oblong ball covered in pigskin.
Speaker 1: The NFL has made a series of rule changes in
Speaker 1: recent years to protect its players, especially in the areas
Speaker 1: of special teams, protecting defenseless players, and of course, around
Speaker 1: the game's crown jewel, the quarterback. That being said, injuries
Speaker 1: still occur, both in games and even in practice. I'd
Speaker 1: also point to the time that Nate Burlison was injured
Speaker 1: while attempting to prevent two entire deep tishue pizzas from
Speaker 1: falling off the passenger seat of his moving vehicle. Players
Speaker 1: twist ankles, mash their groins, and suffer bloody lips, but
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Speaker 1: for all. Join me next week as we take a
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Speaker 1: better love story than Twilight love, his love, his love,
Speaker 1: his love. Welcome to another edition of Around the NFL
Speaker 1: from Moroccos here in West Hollywood, the heart of Boys Town,
Speaker 1: during Pride Month. My name is Dan Hansis, and I'm
Speaker 1: in on a patio filled with some heroes. Greg Rosenthal
Speaker 1: housing a sandwich, Connie Fox, Mark Sessler, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: she's already back. Ricky Hollywood, Erica tam Posey, what's up? Gang?
Speaker 1: Couldn't get rid of me that quickly? This is the
Speaker 1: Ricky you know, every year we will be here. It
Speaker 1: was a glory. I will look back on that first
Speaker 1: podcast forever because it was the first time we ever
Speaker 1: did it after the pandemic. We were so giddy just
Speaker 1: to be together in that moment. But like, I don't
Speaker 1: even know what of NFL talk we did, if any
Speaker 1: at all, but a helicopter landed in the middle of
Speaker 1: the podcast. Like it was all so perfect, Which is
Speaker 1: not to suggest that we're jaded now, because I am
Speaker 1: very excited to be here. You know, we got some
Speaker 1: drinks in front of us water. Of course, we have
Speaker 1: our friends here. We have Randy sha Vez, we got
Speaker 1: Sean Kelly, you got my brother Kevin, Danger hands let's
Speaker 1: give it off for Kevin Danger. We actually we actually
Speaker 1: saw a film with Danger on Monday night called Daughters
Speaker 1: of Darkness at the New Beverly and I was quite
Speaker 1: an experience then. That's very had to lightly scold the
Speaker 1: kids table right before we started the podcast, just to
Speaker 1: tell them to keep it down a little over there.
Speaker 1: I was hoping that Justin Graver, the Great Digger, was
Speaker 1: going to step in and say something and I and
Speaker 1: I did. I can't help it. In my head is
Speaker 1: like Erica would have said something already. Bout yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: I was seconds away from asking them to quiet their
Speaker 1: conversation in a big spot. Very exciting to be here together,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we've been together for so long
Speaker 1: now and there's been good times and there's been bad times,
Speaker 1: and I feel like we're in a good time cycle
Speaker 1: right now. So let's all appreciate being able to be
Speaker 1: together here in the middle of West Hollywood. This is
Speaker 1: so cool. The pridecast during Pride Month with Ricky and
Speaker 1: and a lot a lot to get to and by
Speaker 1: the way, Mark excellent debut Epp of this guy gets it.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Um. You know I thought when I when
Speaker 1: I like to listen back to these just because it
Speaker 1: a newer show. UM a complete report to start with,
Speaker 1: a trenchant report, and that's what I'm going for, and
Speaker 1: I hope that the listeners each week will be loyal
Speaker 1: and come back. It delivered on its promise, which was
Speaker 1: here's the floor mark. Obviously, now he signs a new
Speaker 1: contract and they want more from him, and what's he here?
Speaker 1: He's here to deliver takes And I didn't catch any
Speaker 1: real take in the first half. That was the light
Speaker 1: thing I would say like it was informative. It was
Speaker 1: more it was informative. Colleen nailed it. That's your opinion.
Speaker 1: I thought it was rich with takes. UM, what's up
Speaker 1: too again? What is the episode number? Episode two? No,
Speaker 1: that's actually was episode was episode twenty two We just
Speaker 1: listened to in twenty three next week is uh? It
Speaker 1: looks a deeper look at the various UM choices teams
Speaker 1: have made about turf for grass, very sober minded and
Speaker 1: information although very like Dick shot a chap on the
Speaker 1: sports reporters kind I wasn't expecting that from you, but
Speaker 1: I think there's a space to be filled there and
Speaker 1: that's what I'm attempting there's also it does crack the
Speaker 1: door open for my dream is that we're one step
Speaker 1: closer to sports with We're not going there, are you sure?
Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, listen, we're here today. I
Speaker 1: could make some decisions today that could change my entire life.
Speaker 1: It's happening. And now let's now let's turn our attention
Speaker 1: so much to get to today. By the way, we
Speaker 1: have uh news. We have a nice segg looking forward
Speaker 1: to uh here in Boystown. We'll get to in a
Speaker 1: little bit, but we need to talk to Ricky Hollywood Erica. Yes,
Speaker 1: what First of all, this is fun, right, this is
Speaker 1: all together right in your neck of the woods here.
Speaker 1: You're happy to be here, right? Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: am so excited, so excited to be in Kansas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been it's been amazing. Um you know the past
Speaker 1: how long has it been now a month since since
Speaker 1: you left us? Yes, it's been amazing. Moment it's been
Speaker 1: so to you. It's yeah. Um no, I mean, let's
Speaker 1: pull back the curtain here. You guys did know some
Speaker 1: stuff was coming up on my plate that I'm very
Speaker 1: excited at. And today is a phenomenal celebration because I'm
Speaker 1: out here bitches. Sorry, justin tomorrow is my last day
Speaker 1: at the NFL. Hello here, you know you're out of here?
Speaker 1: She goes. She's like, out of the closet? Or is
Speaker 1: that what you're gonna badcast a second, I got Ricky,
Speaker 1: you have a glow to you. Is it the removal
Speaker 1: of us that has allowed that glow to start to
Speaker 1: emanate from your sto? No, No, it's been. It's been
Speaker 1: um sad. You know we're talking about plans for us
Speaker 1: that with a big smile on. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Greg tweeted out this beautiful thing about your amazing contract
Speaker 1: and no pictures of me, no inclusion for the last
Speaker 1: five years, and you know when inclusion Greg good? Yeah? Greg?
Speaker 1: The problem? I don't know. I'm just it's bitter sweet
Speaker 1: to see you guys. You know, I wish I wish
Speaker 1: you would. I texted Dan, I was like, could you
Speaker 1: be any happier that I'm gone? And he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: shut up, Like the show has to go on. And
Speaker 1: I was like, but be a little sad, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're not sad. It's just it's just like I
Speaker 1: feel like it's great because it removed like the responsibility
Speaker 1: for you, and now you can just like hang out
Speaker 1: and have fun. Like That's how I feel when I
Speaker 1: come on the show. I don't have like a true
Speaker 1: work responsibility, like in terms, I did the levels and
Speaker 1: like the drops and like that. That seems stressful, Graver,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're doing great. I can't even help it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, are we recording? Yeah? Levels are incredibly important,
Speaker 1: but I had to check, like are you? Are you recording?
Speaker 1: Justin I'm like, wait, what am I? Sot Erica? You
Speaker 1: gotta stop? Well, you're a mentor. Where are you going? Um?
Speaker 1: I am going somewhere that I'm very excited about. And yeah,
Speaker 1: a couple of places. Actually, we've got some really cool
Speaker 1: things on the horizon. One one big thing that I
Speaker 1: am not able to announce yet. All right, well, you
Speaker 1: know this was we talked about it when you left
Speaker 1: that this just made sense for your next step to
Speaker 1: do your ricky thing. And if you're more successful than us,
Speaker 1: I will resent you. But if you find that, it's
Speaker 1: like Sam Donald when he left the Jets. If you
Speaker 1: find an acceptable level of success, I'm very happy for you.
Speaker 1: If you find too much success, resentment with you, I'm
Speaker 1: like super happy before you keep going, keep working hard,
Speaker 1: and then bring me along for the ry. What do
Speaker 1: you think about Grave Digger, how he's done so far?
Speaker 1: Be honest, I think he's done a phenomenal job. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know, how would you know? There's no way
Speaker 1: you've listened to our podcast sets, and I don't blame
Speaker 1: you for that, but there's no jams. Actually, a couple
Speaker 1: of times I would listen to the beginning and end
Speaker 1: just to find out, like what you guys did during
Speaker 1: the weekend, because I like don't get texts anymore, like
Speaker 1: about what but I what the tweets celebrating? Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: the truth is, the truth is yes, because you did
Speaker 1: send me that text, and we worked together for so
Speaker 1: long and you're such an awesome part of the show
Speaker 1: and you're forever be a part of the show. But like,
Speaker 1: you know, again we talked about the contracts you talk about.
Speaker 1: Me and my brother went to Hanano's in venice Um
Speaker 1: last week and kind of had a beer and a
Speaker 1: burger and felt the presidence of Chris and like, like
Speaker 1: it's still hard to believe that, like two weeks after
Speaker 1: we lost Chris we were doing episodes again. And because
Speaker 1: that's just kind of what this job is. You know,
Speaker 1: you just keep moving. So that's what I said to you,
Speaker 1: basically that like, it's not like we forgot about Ricky.
Speaker 1: It's like this is a machine, the tank. There's no
Speaker 1: reverse gears in this tank. Mark of your questions, do
Speaker 1: you find grave digger? Um? Is he is his ambition?
Speaker 1: Is you too ambitious? Is there a concerned They're on
Speaker 1: your front? You're a supervisor? Is on Mark's front, but
Speaker 1: he's trying to use you to so so honestly, it's
Speaker 1: a direct reflection on me because Justin has been my
Speaker 1: second for the past year. So for the last year
Speaker 1: I have been training him to get him to a
Speaker 1: trade erb level. And that's why I felt comfortable leaving
Speaker 1: you guys in the best hands. Do you have advice
Speaker 1: for Graver, like just like one last piece of advice
Speaker 1: we're producing this podcast. Yeah, No, I I think, Um,
Speaker 1: it's important to to stay grounded and know that Greg
Speaker 1: is always going to come off as brutally honest, but
Speaker 1: it comes from a loving place. Dan cares more about
Speaker 1: the show than his own children, almost and I respect
Speaker 1: that because he really wants to get it right. So
Speaker 1: get it right for him and Mark just wants to
Speaker 1: know what time to start and when he can leave.
Speaker 1: So as long as you have those timings and you
Speaker 1: know what's happening, then you're gonna be great. It's deadly accurate.
Speaker 1: And shout out to Jack and Harrison. I do love you.
Speaker 1: There are limits, alright, this is awesome, Ricky. I love
Speaker 1: having you here with us. Thank you. I love having
Speaker 1: everybody here with Yeah, where's Kevin Danger? He left Sexy
Speaker 1: by the way into Danger. I mean he's got the
Speaker 1: rolled up sleeves is not ridiculous. He's not bringing me back.
Speaker 1: But the Jaws shirt with like the blood and gore
Speaker 1: on it is like con of sexy. Um the song
Speaker 1: like are you threatened at all? Before we get into
Speaker 1: like I would feel he is the younger brother, you know,
Speaker 1: he's almost six years younger, so but he's like, he's
Speaker 1: like Beefy, He's like, you've done a super Bowl week
Speaker 1: with Danger, and I would I would say he does exude.
Speaker 1: And it's not just my observation although I feel this way,
Speaker 1: but Um has raw sex energy coming off him. And
Speaker 1: we've we've been to events where like women were coming
Speaker 1: out of the woodwork and taking pictures with Kevin Danger.
Speaker 1: So that's my report on that, right. But family, do
Speaker 1: you have other brothers too? Yeah? I have a sister,
Speaker 1: a rarely discussed sister. Um. So it looks like my
Speaker 1: TikTok filter review Dan and Dan. No. I'm very happy
Speaker 1: that Kevin's here and if maybe this is the neighborhood
Speaker 1: for him, maybe it's not, you know, after the show.
Speaker 1: But let's see what happens. What kind of energy emanates
Speaker 1: for Danger. We got a lot to get to, transition,
Speaker 1: so much to get to. But let's start, you know,
Speaker 1: like we do. I have to say, Greggy, you know
Speaker 1: you send your in the it's the messaging client that
Speaker 1: we use this time of year. Sometimes when you send
Speaker 1: this is the news that I kind of saw. Kevin.
Speaker 1: You just missed like a hardcore like conversation about you,
Speaker 1: specifically about your sexuality. You'll have to listen to any
Speaker 1: went to the bar. Love is love is love is
Speaker 1: love and this beer is full and I'm back. Maybe
Speaker 1: there he is Danger exuding that bed end. Um. Let's
Speaker 1: now talk about the show. Okay, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: things that we're feeling gay for here in the middle
Speaker 1: of the boys town. But before we do that let's
Speaker 1: hit the news just maybe let's look a little bit
Speaker 1: of all of us. You know, everyone's a little bit
Speaker 1: ah Oh. My point was sometimes when Greg sends the
Speaker 1: news run down, it's like this sucks and like Mark
Speaker 1: and I will privately text about right, it's like news
Speaker 1: rundown was like where does he get off? Even thinking
Speaker 1: this is news? We do like a twenty minute back
Speaker 1: and forth about it. But this time Greg, it was like,
Speaker 1: this is a real good, beefy news. You gotta stretch
Speaker 1: in O t A season. Some of it's unfortunate news,
Speaker 1: but it is beefy. It is meaningful news by its
Speaker 1: nature's it's something that you don't know and probably find unpleasant. Typically,
Speaker 1: we used to back in the day when we did
Speaker 1: three shows a week in O t A and Mini
Speaker 1: Camp season, and we were writing articles like Mini Camp Takeaways,
Speaker 1: winners and losers for Mini Camp. We were stretching. And
Speaker 1: now we don't do almost any news from Mini Camp
Speaker 1: of like who's the starter and who's gotten good. We've
Speaker 1: we've given all that up. We'll save it for another
Speaker 1: episode of this guy gets it with Mark Sessler because
Speaker 1: that's a great app idea. Yeah, that's two from now
Speaker 1: I'm starting to work. I'll write that up and i'll
Speaker 1: get that to you. Thank you. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: to the news. Let's start with the Rams. They've done
Speaker 1: it again, signing big deals with their greatest stars, locking
Speaker 1: them up for another Super Bowl run to come. Let's
Speaker 1: do it in order in which they occurred. The Rams
Speaker 1: restructured Aaron Donald's contract. We you know, we went through
Speaker 1: the old process of oh, is he gonna retires it?
Speaker 1: But no, he was never gonna retire. He just wanted
Speaker 1: a raise, and guess what, he got a raise. An
Speaker 1: extra forty million over the next three seasons, keeps him
Speaker 1: on the field, and it makes him the highest paid
Speaker 1: defensive player in football, which is bang exactly where he
Speaker 1: should be, where he should be, and it pays him
Speaker 1: like a star quarterback, which makes sense. And then two
Speaker 1: days later, Cooper Cup signs a three year extension the
Speaker 1: star wide receiver. Uh, it's essentially a new five year,
Speaker 1: a hundred ten million dollar deal puts him in that
Speaker 1: category of the highest paid wide receivers in football twenty
Speaker 1: two million a year, coming off an All World season.
Speaker 1: So here we go, Greg and people are going to
Speaker 1: hem and haw and get all fired up about the
Speaker 1: Rams salary cap situation, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: they know what they're doing, They've proven it, and they
Speaker 1: are getting into bed with two guys that are cornerstone
Speaker 1: of their Super Bowl championship. The job this episode just
Speaker 1: to point out anything like sound vaguely perfect, that's the
Speaker 1: Donald deal is the one of the crazier deals. And
Speaker 1: it makes sense because he's maybe the greatest football player ever,
Speaker 1: one of the best football players are one of the
Speaker 1: best defensive flip football he's in the mix. I'm just saying, um,
Speaker 1: but to get more than thirty million dollars a year,
Speaker 1: where you didn't even get any extra years tacked on,
Speaker 1: it was just like, we're gonna give you more money.
Speaker 1: Here's you know, ten million more year. Here's you know,
Speaker 1: basically a hundred million dollars guaranteed. It's basically like a
Speaker 1: two year deal. But it's just a sign that like
Speaker 1: the teams with the owners who have a ton of
Speaker 1: cash have a huge advantage because everyone's like, how does
Speaker 1: this all work with the salary cap. It's just because
Speaker 1: you're giving him cash. St Stan Cronky has just got
Speaker 1: cash to burn. He's just throwing money away lately. I'm
Speaker 1: not being real about it, but like they're signing bonuses
Speaker 1: that they can give and just spread the money out,
Speaker 1: Like the Giants cann't do that. There, you got a
Speaker 1: broke owner. You know that the Steelers can't do that.
Speaker 1: You got the Titans can't do it. That he couldn't
Speaker 1: do the deals that Cooper cup. And this is not
Speaker 1: necessarily a good thing, because it's true. I think it's
Speaker 1: the thing for the future of the league. I sti't
Speaker 1: understand what the salary cap is at this point because
Speaker 1: the Rams have three players that are making each making
Speaker 1: over million dollars. I'm getting like about a cap with
Speaker 1: the signing bonus and you could pro rate it. And
Speaker 1: it's this thing, this is that these deals are going
Speaker 1: to be the one that make at the talking point
Speaker 1: now because now everyone's fighting about it. I saw Andrew
Speaker 1: Brandt went on Pat McAfee's show and then they were
Speaker 1: bagging on Pellicero, who came on Good Morning Football this
Speaker 1: morning to like defend himself that the salary cap does matter.
Speaker 1: But what it comes down to, like the very like
Speaker 1: from what I understand, cap over cash. If you are
Speaker 1: a rich owner who's willing to spend and take a
Speaker 1: risk and not getting caught with a horrible contract with
Speaker 1: your great stars if they fall off, you could spread
Speaker 1: out that that bonus money and then your cap will
Speaker 1: be okay by the time you get to five years
Speaker 1: from how big is the salary cap gonna be? But
Speaker 1: this is not new Washington and Dallas, We're doing this
Speaker 1: twenty five years ago. This is not a new thing.
Speaker 1: And this comes from someone who's a big baseball fan
Speaker 1: who's seen the disparity and salary caps, even in salary
Speaker 1: even as a Yankee fan, has had a negative effect
Speaker 1: on the sport. Now that like there is there's a
Speaker 1: light being shined on this in a different way. It
Speaker 1: does make me again worry about Joe Burrow. It makes
Speaker 1: you worry about Justin Herbert. What's gonna happen for these
Speaker 1: teams that aren't willing to do the same thing that
Speaker 1: the Rams are right football, one of the reasons it's
Speaker 1: become a national sport where no matter who's playing on
Speaker 1: Thursday Night, it's gonna blow the ratings of any other
Speaker 1: athletic competition out there is because the NFL focused for
Speaker 1: so long on equitable scenarios between all thirty two teams
Speaker 1: going back to when there were twenty eight teams, that
Speaker 1: this is starting to become an issue. It's not good
Speaker 1: for football on any level. And I don't think the
Speaker 1: cap thing is an issue at all. But they do
Speaker 1: in two seasons from now have a hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: eight million tied up in four players. That said, they
Speaker 1: look at that, they know that, and they know they
Speaker 1: can manage that, and we'll see what those contracts situations
Speaker 1: are in two years anyways, But if they win another
Speaker 1: Super Bowl butter and what's their defense without Aaron Donald?
Speaker 1: Everything changes. So they just had to do this. It's
Speaker 1: not this thing where it's like, oh, the bill is
Speaker 1: gonna come do someday. No, you can just keep doing
Speaker 1: this that I've been doing this. That's what I was
Speaker 1: gonna say. Like the Rams are a perfect I think
Speaker 1: that's why they're such an interesting TALCUPI with this because
Speaker 1: they're the perfect example in both directions. They did the
Speaker 1: same thing with Golf, and they did the same thing
Speaker 1: with Gurley and it backfired, and you would think, oh,
Speaker 1: if you backfire with these type of deals, you're screwed.
Speaker 1: For five years, they won the Super Bowl. So it's like,
Speaker 1: maybe it's just I don't know, maybe Greg, because you
Speaker 1: say you're not as concerned about it. Maybe it just
Speaker 1: comes down to the league is changing, the way players
Speaker 1: are paid is changing, and teams will adapt because ultimately
Speaker 1: they are all very wealthy people behind these teams. I
Speaker 1: hope it does, but my concern is that some teams
Speaker 1: won't be able to do the things that a team
Speaker 1: like the rent I think it's an edge, but it's
Speaker 1: it's still a hard cap in some ways. It's not
Speaker 1: that huge of an edge, Like it's not gonna turn
Speaker 1: dumb franchises into successful ones just because they have an
Speaker 1: owner that can spend a lot of money. That Donald
Speaker 1: thing is is unique, But cups cups Steal is more
Speaker 1: him saying like, actually, I won't try to max out,
Speaker 1: and these are two players that like, you can't be
Speaker 1: wrong on one of the greatest three defensive players of
Speaker 1: all time and the best receiver in the league last year.
Speaker 1: It's like, you can't really be wrongst episode. I think
Speaker 1: we've covered that topic in a rich fashion. So cup
Speaker 1: Steal reminds me more of a little bit like Rob
Speaker 1: Gronkowski's deal He's signed early in his career that he regretted,
Speaker 1: like and Cups getting seventy five guaranteed, that's second or
Speaker 1: third among receivers. So he's happy, but he he didn't
Speaker 1: try to break the bank with this. If anything, his
Speaker 1: deal will look below market sooner than later. But is
Speaker 1: there a better place to be than to be in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles? To have a team that's going all in
Speaker 1: year after year and like to do it here in
Speaker 1: California and having won a Super Bowl too. I mean,
Speaker 1: it feels like they just have everything going for them.
Speaker 1: They have Sean McVeigh who everyone loves and adores and like,
Speaker 1: you know, we just got married and he's eating Lombardi
Speaker 1: cake at his wedding. Yeah, I don't know about the wedding.
Speaker 1: And he's going to resign there. This team feels like
Speaker 1: it just has that like it factors, and you have
Speaker 1: the Chargers who are really fun, exciting team on the rise.
Speaker 1: It's it's a good time for ELI. But to your point,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty big difference in ownership. And we're about
Speaker 1: to talk about like another part of the Walmart dynasty,
Speaker 1: which Stan Cronkie is too. He married into it. He
Speaker 1: was already rich then he married into Walmart, that's sure,
Speaker 1: And that is such a difference between them and the Charges.
Speaker 1: The Chargers are essentially what the Jets used to be
Speaker 1: in Giants Stadium, and they're a family run operation that's
Speaker 1: never really made their own money, you know they came from.
Speaker 1: So if there ever was gonna be a dichotomy, it's
Speaker 1: those two l A teams because because the Chargers, I
Speaker 1: don't think have a lot of cash. Truth, bro Truth,
Speaker 1: all right, let's uh those a weird transition, it's a plus,
Speaker 1: but it is true. I'm feeling good about your Celtics.
Speaker 1: Celtics and five Celtics and five now, oh, I hate
Speaker 1: to take whatever. I'll take whatever. All right, we got you.
Speaker 1: This story is not gonna go away, and you and
Speaker 1: you could say you're sick of the story, but facts
Speaker 1: are facts, and and things keep coming out and it's
Speaker 1: just important and to the NFL season to come, and
Speaker 1: that's what we're doing here to talk about this stuff.
Speaker 1: The New York Times reported Tuesday that Brown's quarterback to
Speaker 1: show Watson, booked massage appointments with at least sixty six
Speaker 1: different women over seventeen months from the fall of two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen through the spring of two thousand twenty one.
Speaker 1: The list of sixty six includes the twenty four women
Speaker 1: who have filed lawsuits against Watson, including two in the
Speaker 1: past week, a woman who sued Watson but then withdrew
Speaker 1: the complaint, two women who filed criminal complaints against Watson
Speaker 1: but did not sue him, a list at least fifteen
Speaker 1: therapists who issued statements of support for Watson at the
Speaker 1: request of his lawyers. At least four therapists contracted with
Speaker 1: the Texans, And it goes on and on and on.
Speaker 1: And this is Connie. This is a situation here where
Speaker 1: it's like the New York Times and Jenny Barrentis, who
Speaker 1: is an excellent reporter, not just a great NFL reporter,
Speaker 1: just great report And that's why she ended up at
Speaker 1: the Times. The Gray Lady, as it's known. Um, they're
Speaker 1: doing the work. They did the work that the Brown
Speaker 1: supposedly said, right, the due diligence that the Brown said
Speaker 1: that they did. And now these two other lawsuits just
Speaker 1: came about, like shouldn't this be enough? Just based on
Speaker 1: I texted you guys about the last episode and Greg
Speaker 1: outlining exactly what some of the suits say and just
Speaker 1: like hearing that language is jarring in and of itself,
Speaker 1: like it feels like it's a violation to just hear
Speaker 1: about it. Shouldn't that be enough? The fact that Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson booked appointments with sixty six women from one he
Speaker 1: said that it was only forty okay, fine, sixty six women?
Speaker 1: And then the fact that in this New York Times
Speaker 1: article that the Texans supposedly we're helping with n d
Speaker 1: A s and basically providing a safe space for this
Speaker 1: to happen. Shouldn't this be enough? When you read the
Speaker 1: latest suit from the woman, it's appalling, like I don't
Speaker 1: even want to say the things that happened because I
Speaker 1: don't even feel comfortable saying it on a mic for
Speaker 1: a for a national news network, because it just feels wrong.
Speaker 1: And shouldn't that be enough that it is uncomfortable to
Speaker 1: even talk about the details surrounding these cases? Why is
Speaker 1: he not suspended yet? Why is he being awarded the
Speaker 1: largest contract to play? Why is there a bidding war
Speaker 1: for his services when he is out treat This is
Speaker 1: a pattern. This is not a one off. This is
Speaker 1: You can't tell me that this is just like a
Speaker 1: coincidence that this is like a money grab. This is not,
Speaker 1: and this is a total violation and it's a slap
Speaker 1: in the face two women across society basically, not even
Speaker 1: just like NFL fans, it's just like being a woman
Speaker 1: in general and hearing about this, and it's just going
Speaker 1: to keep happening, new updates, new suits, anything, and it's
Speaker 1: just it's a lot to to hear about and now
Speaker 1: to have to talk about because it's my job. It's infuriating,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, and there have been so many times where
Speaker 1: I say, I don't want to talk about it because
Speaker 1: I don't want these feelings to bubble up. But I
Speaker 1: am so angry. I'm so angry at the Browns at
Speaker 1: the NFL. He should be suspended full stop. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is absolutely sickening, and you absolutely hit the nail on
Speaker 1: the head as a woman, not even an NFL fan,
Speaker 1: as a woman to to be reading you know, comments,
Speaker 1: and of course there are trolls, but there are a
Speaker 1: majority of people who feel differently than we do, and
Speaker 1: to me, that is so that's sickening in the ax
Speaker 1: itself as well, because it is just like everywhere we turn,
Speaker 1: it is a constant, you know, battle to deal with
Speaker 1: yourself when you're reading this and you're looking at how people,
Speaker 1: I mean, you are showing us who you are when
Speaker 1: we're reading these comments and you think we don't know
Speaker 1: who you are, but it is like so hurtful. And
Speaker 1: I've looked at something that that in his contract. The
Speaker 1: reason why the Browns became, you know, part of the
Speaker 1: race for de Shaun Watson, is because it almost was
Speaker 1: like his agent had written that contract. There like no voids,
Speaker 1: there are all these different type of things that these
Speaker 1: other teams that were in the race for him dropped
Speaker 1: out because it was essentially like Watson's agent wrote it.
Speaker 1: So looking at this and his contract, he's he really
Speaker 1: kind of is bulletproof still to this day, and to
Speaker 1: that itself is makes me stick to my stommach. The
Speaker 1: way he's not though, is if they suspend him. And
Speaker 1: I think that's why the timing and the details in
Speaker 1: this article are so important. The public pressure that has
Speaker 1: come up the last three weeks, Kevin Stefanski has spoken
Speaker 1: the Browns coach on Wednesday and each of the last
Speaker 1: three weeks. On each of those Wednesdays, the day before
Speaker 1: there was a major Deshaun Watson development. We we've talked
Speaker 1: about him in the show. So the HBO um, then
Speaker 1: it was the extra civil uh lawsuit, and now how
Speaker 1: it's this reporting, and I do think the timing should
Speaker 1: influence the NFL's suspension. So not only are the Texans
Speaker 1: now being brought into this lawsuit, according to Tony Buzzby,
Speaker 1: the lawyer who's representing all the women in this case,
Speaker 1: they're now suing the Texans as well, which adds, you know,
Speaker 1: a whole other wrinkle to it. But the details that
Speaker 1: are coming out and I think absolutely provides public pressure,
Speaker 1: and that's what good reporters in good media work can do,
Speaker 1: and I think the NFL responds, unfortunately to public pressure
Speaker 1: and pr more than anything. And the fact that this
Speaker 1: is all happening now, to me is is very meaningful
Speaker 1: because frankly, that claimant, which was very tough to to
Speaker 1: read about, it really wasn't that different than if you
Speaker 1: read them all. And that's kind of what I said
Speaker 1: this whole time, like read all the reporting from Jenny.
Speaker 1: Read all the cases if you want, or don't talk
Speaker 1: about it, but if you're going to like read all
Speaker 1: the cases, it really wasn't that um different than most
Speaker 1: of him. It's just part of a and so but
Speaker 1: I do think that this happening now is going to
Speaker 1: really make a difference. And I was It's so hard
Speaker 1: to guess, but I just feel like he's going to
Speaker 1: be suspended long longer than I thought he was going
Speaker 1: to be a few months ago. Time with you, I
Speaker 1: think there's there's been a quickening on that front. And
Speaker 1: I to your point, Erica, at this point, if you're
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns, you've completely lost your identity and your
Speaker 1: north star and whatever it was you were hoping to
Speaker 1: do with all this, um, it's incredibly cynical. It's left
Speaker 1: a a dark blanket and aura over the entire offseason
Speaker 1: and going forward because the story is not going away.
Speaker 1: And I've tweeted a few things lately. You know, have
Speaker 1: been a Browns fan, was a Browns fan since sixth grade,
Speaker 1: which was a million and a half years ago, And
Speaker 1: I feel so comfortable totally abandoning everything that they stand
Speaker 1: for at this point. But there are, like with any
Speaker 1: fan base, when you tweet something about that, a massive
Speaker 1: group of people that come at you telling you that
Speaker 1: you know you're not a guy, you're not a real
Speaker 1: guy if you've jumped shipped because you don't have any fortitude,
Speaker 1: just stick with it, stick the course, be a real fan.
Speaker 1: Utter nonsense. And it's like, to Greg's point, I don't
Speaker 1: think that many of these people have. And it's not
Speaker 1: just men, it's it's female Browns fans too, And at
Speaker 1: this point, I feel like there's a complete disconnect with
Speaker 1: reality and that that portion of fans that are on that.
Speaker 1: And it's like, to Greg's point, go read what this
Speaker 1: case is about victim by victims, And just one other thing,
Speaker 1: like and I won't get into like the graphics of everything,
Speaker 1: but just like a few things that popped out to
Speaker 1: me reading the twenty four suit here, just about how
Speaker 1: Watson's tone became more aggressive as he repeatedly made demands
Speaker 1: about where he should be massaged, and how that he
Speaker 1: kept piercing eye contact with the masseuse as she was
Speaker 1: clearly uncomfortable, and then even worse things after that, Like
Speaker 1: in times like these, I just so desperately wish that
Speaker 1: West was here so I could hear what he had
Speaker 1: to say, because I know what he would say about it,
Speaker 1: but I just I wish I could hear it and
Speaker 1: there is a and Mark, you're dealing with that, and
Speaker 1: that's very true. Colleen West would be on fire about this,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so. Um, there's a segment of the fan base,
Speaker 1: Cleveland fans that just want us to go away so
Speaker 1: they can get back to having their new superstar quarterback.
Speaker 1: And that's the Browns is an organization that they were
Speaker 1: expecting this to kind of blow over. And Um, it
Speaker 1: hasn't blown over, at least not yet, and we'll see
Speaker 1: it does it doesn't, and it would have, it would
Speaker 1: have if he just offered some level of contrition and
Speaker 1: settled the cases. I mean, that's the thing. He could
Speaker 1: end this all pretty quickly. He'll still get suspended the
Speaker 1: same amount, but if he if he wanted to end it,
Speaker 1: he could end But it's almost like he or less
Speaker 1: from his perspective, he's in too deep now because he's
Speaker 1: been playing this game for so long. The Browns are
Speaker 1: into deep like it makes me wonder are the Browns
Speaker 1: internally how they actually feel about this now. That's why
Speaker 1: I brought up Stefancie. He's had these press conferences and
Speaker 1: he's so uncomfortable about it, and he you could almost
Speaker 1: have seen his face, realizing like this is my life.
Speaker 1: They they completely We talked about it the day it
Speaker 1: happened on March. I think it was like that the
Speaker 1: Browns completely are missing the boat. What this actually means,
Speaker 1: what what this means for the team, What this means morally?
Speaker 1: What this everything? It changes everything about the Browns. And
Speaker 1: and by the way, so is DeShawn Watson totally removed
Speaker 1: from reality. There has not been one word, one syllable
Speaker 1: out of his mouth that suggests authenticity or accountability on
Speaker 1: any level. He seems completely removed from the entire situation
Speaker 1: and what this means for his own life. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a break and we'll hit some more news.
Speaker 1: All right, we're back. Let's get to more news. The
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos announced Tuesday night that the team, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't start my little timer. I can't erstwhile or producer,
Speaker 1: thank Hollywood, Hey hit your time or baby, I can't
Speaker 1: help it. Once you have been in the in the arena,
Speaker 1: you're always a player. It's muscle memory. You never leave
Speaker 1: the arena. Broncos and asked Tuesday night at the club
Speaker 1: and the Walton Penner family have entered into a purchase
Speaker 1: and sale agreement to acquire the team. The Walton Penner
Speaker 1: family is now set to acquire ownership of the Broncos
Speaker 1: from the Pat Bowl and Trust, pending approval of the
Speaker 1: NFL's from the NFL's Finance Committee and at least three
Speaker 1: fourths of the owners uh. The winning bed bid was
Speaker 1: for kind of in the realm of what our new
Speaker 1: deal with NFL is four point six five billion. According
Speaker 1: to NFL Networks James Palmer, this is one of those
Speaker 1: like team these teams now like the Rams, that are
Speaker 1: going to be able to do that cash over cap stuff.
Speaker 1: And it just makes me think, like with Russell Wilson's
Speaker 1: contract coming up, it's it can be a lot less
Speaker 1: complicated now for them that they can just give him
Speaker 1: a monster signing bonus, spread it out in a way
Speaker 1: that the Bowlands could not. Like this has proof that
Speaker 1: any owner who's not really doing a good job, fans
Speaker 1: should be like just sell it, bro or or you
Speaker 1: just like get your billions get you could you could
Speaker 1: sell it for four billions, So if you don't have
Speaker 1: the money, like go sell your team, because four point
Speaker 1: six five billion is outrageous. Like the Bowlands makes like
Speaker 1: what was happening within their family makes succession look like
Speaker 1: my little honey or something like. And yet it could
Speaker 1: not have worked out any better for them. And I
Speaker 1: think if if you're a Broncos fan, ultimately you're happy
Speaker 1: because this ownership group, according to Forbes, is five times
Speaker 1: richer than the second richest NFL owner. They've got seventy
Speaker 1: to nine billion dollars. Like right now, Russell Wilson on
Speaker 1: a really strong roster and you just got bought by
Speaker 1: a mega rich double oligarch scenario Walmart money, right. I
Speaker 1: think Greg naturally underrates the competitive nature of my little
Speaker 1: pony to some degree. That was a bit of a
Speaker 1: bizarre comment by him, But I would say this a
Speaker 1: lot of times when a new owner comes in, if
Speaker 1: you're the head coach, if you're anyone in the organization,
Speaker 1: you're thinking potential overhaul. Not this time, though, this is one.
Speaker 1: If you're Vic Fonio and they kept you one more year,
Speaker 1: you're out of their baby. But Nathaniel Hackett, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: it's a great time to take over the team, to
Speaker 1: provide stability, and it's a good time to be Nathaniel Hackett. Yes,
Speaker 1: I wonder if this means that they'll get a new stadium.
Speaker 1: It did catch on fire earlier this year at one
Speaker 1: point seem possibly it's a little weird that that the
Speaker 1: Walmart family owns most of the Denver sports teams, because
Speaker 1: Cronky owns a couple of them too, So Walmart's just
Speaker 1: like putting their steaks down. But it's wrong with Walmart anyways. Also,
Speaker 1: the one member of ownership group that is not connected
Speaker 1: to the Walmart money, Melody Hobson. Um. She's married to
Speaker 1: George Lucas, which I thought was interesting. And they might
Speaker 1: bring in Peyton Manning, you know, as like a partial
Speaker 1: small ownership to Peyton Manning that advised the Jets to
Speaker 1: hire Adam Gates. Let's you know, we don't need Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning and an advisor role, just staying you're a little
Speaker 1: booth with your brother and let's fly. Not George Lucas's
Speaker 1: first wife, by the way, he went through a rocky
Speaker 1: divorce many years ago. Thank you about that. Marks always
Speaker 1: got to get that Star Wars weird um like divorce,
Speaker 1: pop fans opinions on the wives of the creators like
Speaker 1: you have opinions, and George Lucas, she actually like edited
Speaker 1: Star Wars. Correct. She was like a high octane film
Speaker 1: professional positive opinion. When Colin brought it up that it
Speaker 1: was his wife, Mark visibly rolled his eyes because you
Speaker 1: had those facts and you were like, I have to
Speaker 1: get wearing sunglasses. I did not roll my eyes. Was
Speaker 1: some nice note the other news Washington commit What is
Speaker 1: with the Washington commanders? Why is everything so messy with
Speaker 1: the Washingtonanders? Defensive coordinator Jack del Rio apologized on Wednesday
Speaker 1: after you called the January six riots at the U
Speaker 1: S Capitol a quote dust up, And I could throw
Speaker 1: the sound of Jack del Rio um explaining his thoughts
Speaker 1: and and you, if you want to seek it out,
Speaker 1: read it. And I'm not here to tell you what
Speaker 1: to think about Jack del Rio's comments, because you already
Speaker 1: live in your respective echo chamber on this. But my
Speaker 1: bigger point is, like, man, the Washington football team, even
Speaker 1: though they are getting ready, they're starting, they're starting to
Speaker 1: get ready to take command, they also don't seem to
Speaker 1: ever get past the point of like being totally locked
Speaker 1: in on ball and the organization is just distractions forever
Speaker 1: with this team. No, me and Jack del Rio have
Speaker 1: a heart out at five pm for the insurrection hearings today,
Speaker 1: So like, I can't we gotta wrap this pot up soon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it came from del Rio's Twitter account, which uh is
Speaker 1: not the first time he's made news with his Twitter account.
Speaker 1: Not none of this. These opinions that he has are
Speaker 1: surprising coming from him, and they're not that exceptional from
Speaker 1: NFL coaches. I would say more than not, there's more
Speaker 1: Jack del Rio's than not um among NFL coaching. Now,
Speaker 1: they many, they keep the opinions of themselves and they
Speaker 1: don't go as hardcore because uh, it creates a problem
Speaker 1: with your players, um that you might not really respect
Speaker 1: them that much when it comes down to it. And uh,
Speaker 1: I think that's why he had to apologize. But it
Speaker 1: had some real repercussions already. Politicians in the Virginia area
Speaker 1: who were not too excited to help contribute public funds
Speaker 1: were saying like, yeah, we're not contributing public funds to
Speaker 1: this commander's new stadium A because Daniel Snyder is a
Speaker 1: billionaire and they're a mess and we're bringing them up
Speaker 1: to the Congress in a couple of weeks anyways, and
Speaker 1: be because of this guy Jack del Rio. Now they
Speaker 1: might just be using that as a convenient excuse. They
Speaker 1: probably weren't getting that money. But it's like, uh, Jack
Speaker 1: del Rio stepped in as a puppet in political talks,
Speaker 1: which is whatever, but that's part of the problem. It's like,
Speaker 1: you're the d C, you're the defensive coordinator. Dude, pipe down,
Speaker 1: get out of the way, Like why are you bringing
Speaker 1: your attention to yourself and creating this distraction of the team. Well,
Speaker 1: Virginia State senator literally called his comments the nail in
Speaker 1: the coffin on my stadium talks. Now, I agree that's
Speaker 1: been politicized, but Jack del Rio was overtly um in
Speaker 1: writing against Colin Kaepernick's protests from That's what this was about.
Speaker 1: That's what his comments were about. He was diminishing everything
Speaker 1: that happened uh two summers ago after uh George Floyd
Speaker 1: was murdered and saying like that the reaction to that, um,
Speaker 1: he was making an analogy to it. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: that it's not going over well with a lot of
Speaker 1: his defensive players. Well, and I think the good ownership
Speaker 1: probably came. Someone came to Jack Dorion said you better
Speaker 1: apologize now because you're not special enough at what you
Speaker 1: do to be walking around trumping those comments around. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on finally, Darius Leonard. We'll undergo back surgery.
Speaker 1: Cult star linebacker expected to return during training camp. They
Speaker 1: believe Leonard will be ready for the regular season. You
Speaker 1: may remember that Leonard is also recovering from an ankle
Speaker 1: injury that needed surgery, so he's beat up. I'll put
Speaker 1: a linebacker. Uh that's been just a lynch pin of
Speaker 1: their defense for years now. You hope that he's gonna
Speaker 1: come back because the Colts will need him. Erica, he's
Speaker 1: got to bring Arika back in the show. Darius Leonard. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean I really That was actually something in the
Speaker 1: next segment that I was going to talk about. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty gay for the Colts this year with Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: and Pittman coming off his first for a thousand yards?
Speaker 1: Are you stepping on that one or you'll just get
Speaker 1: I got plenty, I got plenty of them. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see Matt Ryan in this Colts offense and hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know, Leonard is there to contribute to. I think
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a real upgrade for the team.
Speaker 1: Dan was talking about how like he has these twenty
Speaker 1: minute long text threads with Mark where he complains about
Speaker 1: what level of news I'm bringing. And I thought about
Speaker 1: that before I threw in the Darius Leonard back story,
Speaker 1: because we're not just doing every little injury and I'm
Speaker 1: thinking dance, thinking, hey, we want to have fun at
Speaker 1: the pridecast, Like do we really need to talk about surgery?
Speaker 1: And it had to be like a high bar to
Speaker 1: get over it. And the fact the fact that it's
Speaker 1: Darius Leonard and it's happening in June. You no one
Speaker 1: wants to have June surgery. That's a surgery you were
Speaker 1: trying to avoid, and it's your back and it's coming
Speaker 1: off of an ankle surgery. This this is their best
Speaker 1: defensive whatever they're saying, like, we hope he's ready for
Speaker 1: the season. He's probably not going to be this season. Okay,
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. The ankle, it was fixed. He
Speaker 1: had that surgery last June and it lingered a little bit.
Speaker 1: The problem was he was not feeling functional movement in
Speaker 1: the ankle, So it's not like it was an ankle injury,
Speaker 1: just the full functionality of the ankle wasn't there. So
Speaker 1: I know I did a little bit comes from the spine,
Speaker 1: how much comes from nerve. So that's what their back
Speaker 1: surgery is. What they're thinking is it was a nerve
Speaker 1: in his back that was pausing the ankle to not
Speaker 1: have full function functionality. So now hopefully it will all
Speaker 1: be good training camp guys. But he'll be back for
Speaker 1: the timetable officially is he'll be back the start easily
Speaker 1: because is he a top ten most important player defensively
Speaker 1: in the a f C. I think he's in that still,
Speaker 1: like a first team All Pro last year with the
Speaker 1: lingering ankle injury. Would you like to come on this
Speaker 1: guy gets it one of these weeks we got kind
Speaker 1: of guest. I always thought they were just kind of
Speaker 1: like fireside FDR relative. It's about a thirty second long,
Speaker 1: so she'd have about maybe eight seconds like an NPR
Speaker 1: type slip. I got it. I feel like you could
Speaker 1: be um. I don't know if you want to go
Speaker 1: to medical school or whatever, but there is an angle.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be a neonatologist when I was
Speaker 1: a medical doctor expert when it comes to football, they
Speaker 1: used guys that aren't very good at it, like that
Speaker 1: guy who got Women's guard that works for the Chargers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a few women. Yeah. So I wanted to go
Speaker 1: to medical school and be a neonatologist, which is like
Speaker 1: a baby doctor working the NIKI or whatever. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then I was like anthesiologists make how much money? So
Speaker 1: then I went to the route. Here I am in
Speaker 1: the NFL network. Dandels revealed that he never went to
Speaker 1: like the neo natal thing. He was too worried about
Speaker 1: the podcast. He wasn't trying to look at let me
Speaker 1: know when the Baby's at Home podcast taking uba. That's
Speaker 1: what's happening in the news. Love you baby. Um. All right,
Speaker 1: First of all, I want to apologize to my brother
Speaker 1: Kevin danger hans is now that he's here. When I
Speaker 1: was a young man in my adolescence, Kevin and I
Speaker 1: shared a bunk bed. He was top punk, I was
Speaker 1: bottom bunk. And you know the old Malcolm Gladwell theory,
Speaker 1: ten thousand hours is the magic number for greatness, to like,
Speaker 1: know how to get great at something, tend to be
Speaker 1: an expert, to be an expert. For me, I gained
Speaker 1: my ten thousand hours throughout my adolescence and into my
Speaker 1: twenties listening to w f A N on the Sports
Speaker 1: Radio Titan in New York and to get to that number. Uh,
Speaker 1: that required the clock radio next to my bed playing
Speaker 1: overnights with the user Steve Summers and my brother six
Speaker 1: years younger than me. So I'm let's say I'm fifteen,
Speaker 1: he's nine. Uh. He was subjected to w f a
Speaker 1: N his entire youth all the way until I went
Speaker 1: away to college. And UM, I just want to use
Speaker 1: this platform. Uh, Kevin, I'm gonna hand you the mic
Speaker 1: to apologize for putting you through that, because I understand
Speaker 1: it helped me get to the ten thousand hours and
Speaker 1: really in a lot of ways. And I mean this sincerely.
Speaker 1: I don't think i'm here right now if I wasn't
Speaker 1: that in love with the idea of sports talk radio,
Speaker 1: but maybe it was at your expense. And I just
Speaker 1: want to say I'm sorry and I love you. Then
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you where you are. And uh, I
Speaker 1: feel like we did that together. And that being said,
Speaker 1: Sports Radio sixty six fan w f a N do
Speaker 1: your every naight, Kevin day your hand, just everybody in
Speaker 1: the county crows round, Okay, that you should apologize for
Speaker 1: more hours didn't get you anywhere the Counting Crows business.
Speaker 1: But August and everything after, I stand by the record,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I have nothing to apologize. That
Speaker 1: was so beautiful as like in sync this I promise
Speaker 1: you which I want to be my wedding song, and
Speaker 1: Jet said absolutely not was playing, but you apologize And
Speaker 1: I felt emotional like I really like that. Maybe County
Speaker 1: Crows like, haven't you put a ring on it? Like
Speaker 1: what's going on? You know? I was like, wait, aren't
Speaker 1: you married? And then I forgotten? Now you know that's
Speaker 1: how I was married away and came back without a ring.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm the producer, so let's not talk about
Speaker 1: the sanctity of marriage. Yeah, okay than others? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're up to over there. Yeah, turned down the walls. No,
Speaker 1: I think in the next year. I think in the
Speaker 1: next year. It's not I would not delay this. It's
Speaker 1: not an exciting story. It's not an exciting story. She
Speaker 1: is getting her doctorate in physical theory base, she's in
Speaker 1: school and a three year program. I just I don't
Speaker 1: I don't need to cut you off. Okay, I need
Speaker 1: to tell you something. Don't wait to tell you something.
Speaker 1: I got to talk to you. If you are with
Speaker 1: somebody who's super hot as I was in my dating year,
Speaker 1: and amazing and better than me and still are yeah,
Speaker 1: and still remains. You gotta put a ring on it
Speaker 1: because if she meets some fancy you know, lady doctor
Speaker 1: or whatever, if you don't get the ring on before
Speaker 1: that happens, it's a rap. You gotta get the ring.
Speaker 1: So you're saying, I'm batting way out of my leak,
Speaker 1: is what you're saying. I think you're hot and cool
Speaker 1: and funny and smart, but not mess around. Okay, listen
Speaker 1: to me. Jett said she does not want to be
Speaker 1: planning a wedding while in school. She said that if
Speaker 1: we get engaged in the next year, we can do
Speaker 1: a two year engagement. How much of those are we
Speaker 1: cutting out? You can leave it what Dan just said that, Erica,
Speaker 1: let's keep it. This has been like the most anti
Speaker 1: Pride part of the episode somehow. I don't know how. Yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I just we are. We are. I have the funds
Speaker 1: for the ring put aside. We're ready to go. She
Speaker 1: just wants a two year engagement because of school, so
Speaker 1: by next year we will be engaged. Does dance analysis
Speaker 1: strike any fear in you though that maybe she would.
Speaker 1: She doesn't want along engagement, and she's in school for
Speaker 1: the next two years, so she's like, I cannot plan
Speaker 1: a wedding while I'm in school getting her doctor down
Speaker 1: From advice friend a friend, was that at a bound
Speaker 1: in your opinion? Um, I think that what I see
Speaker 1: differently happening here, a little differently, is that Erica is
Speaker 1: working with jets career and wishes to some degree versus
Speaker 1: like dropping an ultimatum by the time she gets home tonight,
Speaker 1: which could go south. I think ultimatums don't typically work.
Speaker 1: I don't think your advice is is misguided or it's
Speaker 1: coming from a good place. I just enjoyed your backpedal
Speaker 1: explaining to her why she's such a good catch. That
Speaker 1: but we all know you, we all know, we all
Speaker 1: know funny, we all know I'm batting out of my
Speaker 1: leek and I trying my hardest to lock it down.
Speaker 1: I probably means I wish that she just like landed
Speaker 1: in the helicopter across the street, and that was the
Speaker 1: whole proposal, right, but maybe next year, you know. Fun
Speaker 1: fact I actually thought about when I first met her
Speaker 1: for the first time, Lakisha was like, thank god you
Speaker 1: were with her because this, the last one, was a
Speaker 1: total disaster. And then I even said, me and me
Speaker 1: and Jett were talking one night that the perfect person
Speaker 1: that we would want to ask to marry us would
Speaker 1: have been West. It isn't amazing. Yeah, he would have
Speaker 1: been great. He would have been so good. And he
Speaker 1: thought Jet was better than me. But no, listen, I don't.
Speaker 1: I do not stand by this narrative. Jet is better.
Speaker 1: She literally all right, before we take a break, Um,
Speaker 1: this is the podcast. What are we doing after the podcast,
Speaker 1: We're going to go to the abbey to where the
Speaker 1: male dancers are. I'm gonna get Kevin Will loosened up.
Speaker 1: We're getting dangerous. We're getting dipped into the culture cure.
Speaker 1: Anything could happen. Five years ago at the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, I pitched an idea about scuba diving and
Speaker 1: you guys making your picks in the aquarium at the
Speaker 1: Mall of America, and all the suits at NFL said yes,
Speaker 1: And you know who said no, Mark, I'm not taking
Speaker 1: my shirt off and getting in that water. You're getting
Speaker 1: in the water today, big boy. That was a long
Speaker 1: time ago. Also, I'm sure that story has happened. That
Speaker 1: was a long time ago. My world has changed because
Speaker 1: he's hot, he like he's lost. I care about it
Speaker 1: almost nothing at this point. Yeah, he's I don't think
Speaker 1: it's about I don't think it's about being afraid to
Speaker 1: take off shure. I think he's saying he fears nothing.
Speaker 1: I just don't care. I also know probably the driving
Speaker 1: force behind that, and we would have shared. Mark's opinion
Speaker 1: was like, we're not doing all that for something barely
Speaker 1: anyone's gonna watch. That's much where I was coming from.
Speaker 1: Remember you were you guys were cutting fish, you did that.
Speaker 1: Remember what the Quari experience and then and then who
Speaker 1: ended up on NFL network because of their segments? Okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah, you can put me in your little tweet
Speaker 1: next time they did. Let's pace ourselves with the airing
Speaker 1: of grievances before we take a break. Um, it is
Speaker 1: the pridecast. I would like to share my definitive straight
Speaker 1: CIS gender power rankings of greatest queer icons. It's interested, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: question Mark, Yeah, of course, of course. For one, I
Speaker 1: swear to god. Number five Judy Garland. Okay, how thank
Speaker 1: you danger Judy Garland so iconic that once upon a
Speaker 1: time kind of slang for if you're gay. Oh, she's
Speaker 1: a friend of Dorothy m hmm. Such an icon that
Speaker 1: a new gay icon, at least to me. Rufus Wainewright
Speaker 1: one of my favorite musicians, like does entire albums just
Speaker 1: being Judy Garland and does and sells out big places
Speaker 1: doing that. You still it's still happened. He was on
Speaker 1: my also receiving votes list, so I wouldn't expect. She's
Speaker 1: also TCM Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month. Check
Speaker 1: it out. My brother works for a basic cable channel,
Speaker 1: number four. Gaga. Yeah, let me by the way, you
Speaker 1: flag any of these if you don't think they're going well,
Speaker 1: she's an ally right, she's not. Well, that's true. I
Speaker 1: get it. But in an ideal world, maybe you would
Speaker 1: don't tell about your ideal world. This is my last baby,
Speaker 1: isn't it a scale? Aren't we all gay? Greg's right,
Speaker 1: that's true. I told Colleen we're making out this weekend
Speaker 1: at the past. I think Erica said that on our
Speaker 1: episode last year. I agree, we're all gay here. Okay,
Speaker 1: so stop judging my list based on what people's faces are.
Speaker 1: Number three Freddie Mercury. Okay, a man who um never
Speaker 1: came out publicly however, I mean icon and he didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: number two. Listen, I'm gonna stand by this one. And
Speaker 1: it's maybe men of a certain age or people of
Speaker 1: a certain age. Madonna An here's the thing about Madonna
Speaker 1: born in nineteen eighty. The only um window I had
Speaker 1: to queer culture as a like younger person that wasn't
Speaker 1: the um stereotypical was played up for comedy was Madonna
Speaker 1: and some of those videos and like her Truth or
Speaker 1: Dare documentary, like she is, you want to talk about allies,
Speaker 1: she gets a lot of Madonna. What do you think?
Speaker 1: I agree totally. She could have been number one fluid
Speaker 1: introducing fluidity too at a time we didn't know number one.
Speaker 1: He Man stupid, No what go watching app I mean
Speaker 1: I was Sarry you just because it was you. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go out and John So he Man has a
Speaker 1: much better choice, Yeah, much better. My basement was riddled
Speaker 1: with Heman figures. And I can attest to what you're saying.
Speaker 1: I think based on some comments to the episode today,
Speaker 1: it's all checking out. Also receiving votes, John Waters shout
Speaker 1: out Cereal Mom, Johnny Cakes from the Sopranos, No and Eric,
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm glad to have made the last We
Speaker 1: also receive votes. You didn't actually make the list, that's true.
Speaker 1: Thank you, neither of you. Mark. Let's take a break back,
Speaker 1: all right, welcome back, here we go, let's fly stuff.
Speaker 1: We're gay. Four two is just good. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's great. I do think that the community might look
Speaker 1: for the next list of you know, gay IUDs have
Speaker 1: more gays and lesbians on the list. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear Greg. It's like, must course correct
Speaker 1: literally everything that occurs. I'm just adding that as as
Speaker 1: something about that. You got a little note card in
Speaker 1: front of you. I would love coming up with any list.
Speaker 1: I want your list. Don't. Judge's tiniest thing I've ever
Speaker 1: seen in my life. I don't. There's only like six words.
Speaker 1: That's what takes like one through five. Rufus, Wayne, Right,
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you not have that? I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: how do you not have? Rute? Paul? It's like the
Speaker 1: five greatest greatest civil rights leaders and it's like five
Speaker 1: white guys. Alright, God, Dan, you put a lot of
Speaker 1: professional effort into that, and I appreciate. I think we
Speaker 1: all appreciate, outside of one of us, what you came
Speaker 1: up with the podcast bullproof Glass and join us on
Speaker 1: the show. All right, let's get into it. He's googling
Speaker 1: like I'm gay icons a little teller that are doing
Speaker 1: something much. We're going, let's get into it. What we're
Speaker 1: gay for NFL style or maybe not NFL style. We're
Speaker 1: having fun. Yeah, and I just noticed your shirt. This
Speaker 1: is the one I wore last year, like the annual
Speaker 1: Pride cash shirt when we were all on our way here.
Speaker 1: Dan pointed out that it was basically the same thing
Speaker 1: that happened last year. Mark got here early. I was
Speaker 1: stuck in traffic. I don't know what else was it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you were. I was sort of in the middle, like
Speaker 1: slightly late, but not not meaning I was. I also
Speaker 1: ordered my food ahead of time because I was starving.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like you and you're gonna leave early too,
Speaker 1: which you did last I mean it is yeah early,
Speaker 1: hang out with my it's my kids final day of school,
Speaker 1: and I have I have other parents taking them to
Speaker 1: this beach event afterwards. Um, but at some point someone's
Speaker 1: got to go yesaid that you had kids to simply
Speaker 1: get out of social constructs and arrangements. Dan, how did
Speaker 1: you just notice I would rather hang out with them.
Speaker 1: I'm not even you were wearing earlier shirt that's ever
Speaker 1: been a shirt that one started. I did a wardrobe change.
Speaker 1: You've got rainbow popsicles on there. Like, yeah, there's unicorns,
Speaker 1: there's love as love. I don't know human bolts. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of things happening. All right, here we go, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm ready, Yeah, okay, what do you get tweet deck
Speaker 1: and West's lists that are on tweet deck because I
Speaker 1: heard that tweet deck is going away and I don't
Speaker 1: know how to save his lists, and I live and
Speaker 1: die by Wes's list. It's the only way I watch games.
Speaker 1: I have an NFL Beat Writers, I have an NFL National,
Speaker 1: I have every single division he put together, and I
Speaker 1: specifically watch games and bring the lists over so I
Speaker 1: can see them. Now. John told me that there's some
Speaker 1: type of hack I didn't follow. I'm not really sure
Speaker 1: what it is. I need your help, listeners. How do
Speaker 1: I save these lists? Because I need them and I
Speaker 1: want them because I feel like every time I go
Speaker 1: on tweet deck. It's still like a little connection to
Speaker 1: the West. I'm gay for the lists and I need
Speaker 1: them in my life. I think our listeners will know
Speaker 1: a solution, because I'm sure there's a tweet deck equivalent
Speaker 1: out there that maybe you can somehow transfer. I don't
Speaker 1: know anything, but I bet they'll come to could they got?
Speaker 1: I guess it's still around right now, right now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a heartbreak. West would also meticulously update those all
Speaker 1: throughout the off season every year, and when he first
Speaker 1: arrived at the NFL, you know, you'd work shifts together
Speaker 1: if he's a Saturday where he's like, bro, like, let
Speaker 1: me send you all these like various lists, and like
Speaker 1: twenty minutes later when I uploaded his nineteen division by division,
Speaker 1: beat writer by beat writer long form NFL article tweet
Speaker 1: deck forms, like I suddenly was an organized blogger. I
Speaker 1: don't know what I was doing before he had. He
Speaker 1: did the same thing too with RSS feeds back in
Speaker 1: the day when that is like where we look to
Speaker 1: find news Internet read later the that website as well,
Speaker 1: like West introduced me that where you can kind of
Speaker 1: a list of bookmarks, like interesting things when you're in
Speaker 1: the middle of the shift, and then you go back
Speaker 1: and read it. That's like pocket probably. All right, that's good.
Speaker 1: Everybody shout out on Twitter at Colleen Wolf with tweet
Speaker 1: deck replacements. All right, let me get a football one
Speaker 1: out there. I'm gay for baker comeback season in light
Speaker 1: of recent events. I've always thought Baker was interesting but
Speaker 1: maybe flawed as a quarterback, right, talks a lot, gets
Speaker 1: himself in trouble, but not bad trouble. But he's a
Speaker 1: he's a as you know, Mark, he's charismatic, and we
Speaker 1: used to talk about it in the uh like Sam
Speaker 1: Donald never said anything, but at least at least Baker
Speaker 1: was interesting, you know, and he puts himself out there.
Speaker 1: Now we're in a situation where here's my dream scenario.
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is suspended the entire season as he should
Speaker 1: be a couple of them indefinitely. Yeah, you can hit
Speaker 1: him with that. The Browns reach out to annual traditions, right,
Speaker 1: They're like, this take is so hot. Were preemptively sending
Speaker 1: ambulances in the fire department. Um, it's a patty wagon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: They're like, come on, boys, Deshaun Watson spending the entire season.
Speaker 1: The Browns, this is the dream scenario. Reach out to
Speaker 1: Baker and they get rebuffed in vulgar fashion, right like
Speaker 1: Baker and his raps are like, get the hell well, vulgar,
Speaker 1: get the fuck out of my face. Okay, I am
Speaker 1: going somewhere else that's not here. Cleveland, aware it has
Speaker 1: no moves left to play, releases the Fumber, the former
Speaker 1: number one overall pick. Now we need a little good
Speaker 1: fortune to come in, whether it's with one of these
Speaker 1: teams we keep connecting them with Seattle or Carolina, or
Speaker 1: a team let's say it's gonna be crazy here New Orleans.
Speaker 1: A team that's good and has a starter, but may
Speaker 1: be could upgrade a backup quarterback and opens a window
Speaker 1: for him if something happens, lands in a good place,
Speaker 1: gets an opportunity, and enjoys his best season while the
Speaker 1: Browns wallow in the mud on the field and off
Speaker 1: The Browns who soured on Baker Mayfield because according to
Speaker 1: people inside the building, they wanted an adults in the room.
Speaker 1: Well you found a different adult, So go go sit
Speaker 1: on that, Cleveland. But I would love to see that.
Speaker 1: I hard root for Baker at this point, Like wherever
Speaker 1: he goes is going to be a candidate for the
Speaker 1: team that I'm most plugged in on. He will land
Speaker 1: somewhere at some point, and I think he's a perfect
Speaker 1: set up for a comeback Player of the Year because, yes,
Speaker 1: I think he got on your nerves at times, Dan,
Speaker 1: and I think he got on a lot of people's nerves.
Speaker 1: But his level of annoying is so different than some
Speaker 1: of these other athletes out there that are doing harm
Speaker 1: and creating issues. Baker Mayfield deserves to land with the
Speaker 1: team and start swinging his sword. I think the situation
Speaker 1: that he's in right now, and base on the things
Speaker 1: that have happened in the past with him, he kind
Speaker 1: of went from one end of the spectrum to the
Speaker 1: other because it felt like he was, you know, just
Speaker 1: popping off a little too much about stuff and airing
Speaker 1: a lot of grievances and maybe saying things that should
Speaker 1: have just less art of it. But now seeing the
Speaker 1: situation that he's in, I think that a lot of people,
Speaker 1: a lot more people are behind him and would root
Speaker 1: for him to be a comeback Player of the Year,
Speaker 1: to come back and absolutely destroy everyone. That would be
Speaker 1: the best story ever. Like I would love that personally, man,
Speaker 1: I mean he was like the guy that brought up,
Speaker 1: brought out like the anti vax All Stars when he
Speaker 1: was like looking for any other NFL player that who
Speaker 1: actually liked him enough to like work out with him.
Speaker 1: And I feel like, why that get you? I'm saying, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's got a lot of support
Speaker 1: within the NFL. I think fans, I think he's a
Speaker 1: compete all time contrarian take from Greig. Are you talking
Speaker 1: like literally the whole story in Cleveland is that clearly
Speaker 1: when the locker room was divided, which I don't really
Speaker 1: believe all this stuff. If he was good enough, he
Speaker 1: would have been good enough. But like the whole O.
Speaker 1: B J. Baker thing, it's a rap, like they were
Speaker 1: fans of O. B. D. He was a great teammate,
Speaker 1: Like there wasn't a lot of that for Baker, Like
Speaker 1: he has to work on. He's talked about it that
Speaker 1: he has to work on, like getting the trust of
Speaker 1: other NFL players. I think he's much better though at
Speaker 1: this point than people kind of remember because his highs
Speaker 1: are very high as low as are low. But you
Speaker 1: could see him having understand the context of my commentary, right,
Speaker 1: I was just talking about colleague. I don't even remember
Speaker 1: what the context of the commentary is, like it would
Speaker 1: really stick it to his soon to be former team
Speaker 1: if he thrived in a new take some limiting some
Speaker 1: of the other stuff, like he's going to be the
Speaker 1: people's champion. And I think he's a divisive guy. He
Speaker 1: always will be, like he's he's kind of h He's
Speaker 1: got some Jack del Real comments out there too, and
Speaker 1: it's past. But I think there's gonna be a segment
Speaker 1: that and there's gonna be a segment that aren't all right.
Speaker 1: I think I hope the listeners understand my angle on that.
Speaker 1: But um, let's go nown NFL. Since you mentioned the
Speaker 1: Celtics the Celtics before, um, I think like with sports,
Speaker 1: you get like what you put into the experience of
Speaker 1: being a fan, and I haven't, like I am so
Speaker 1: gay for this Boston Celtics season. Really the last three years.
Speaker 1: It was the pandemic that did it for me, and
Speaker 1: then me and the kids got super into the bubble,
Speaker 1: and uh, sports are are fun and I never mind
Speaker 1: like Bandwagon fans, like Bandwagon fans are great because they're
Speaker 1: not going to get the same enjoyment that the people
Speaker 1: that have been watching every game, whether it's just that
Speaker 1: season and or the people that have been watching every
Speaker 1: game for twenty seasons, really like get out what you
Speaker 1: want to put into it. And I have enjoyed this
Speaker 1: NBA season so much. We've, like me as a family,
Speaker 1: we've watched like three quarters of the games together at
Speaker 1: least part of it, like every playoff game. It's fun
Speaker 1: experience with them, and it's nice that it's not the NFL.
Speaker 1: You Dan get on me about the Patriots like that.
Speaker 1: I'm not really a Patriots fan anymore, and there is
Speaker 1: some truth to that. It's not the same like you're
Speaker 1: at work, like it's distracting. I love football and I
Speaker 1: but I just love it in a different way. I
Speaker 1: love like the players and different teams and rooting for things,
Speaker 1: and I don't feel the same sort of thing about
Speaker 1: my team, the Patriots. There's still the team I root
Speaker 1: for more, but it's not that like thing that makes
Speaker 1: you feel like a kid where you're just down to
Speaker 1: rise and fall with whatever happens, and then to go
Speaker 1: through that with your kids and see them to start
Speaker 1: going through it and stuff is just so awesome. So
Speaker 1: just the chance greg for the new England region to
Speaker 1: experience another championship with Well, I think that's true. We've
Speaker 1: had a four years here. Well, the Celtics have only
Speaker 1: one one in my life. In fairness, the Celtics have
Speaker 1: only won one since I was eight years old. So
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it felt like they've been rolling up titles. Um,
Speaker 1: but you're right, the Boston region doesn't the national standpoint,
Speaker 1: But I don't count that I was seven years old. Dan,
Speaker 1: your rebuttal to everything that Greg just my rebuttal. I
Speaker 1: feel bad that you were offended about Baker. I was
Speaker 1: responding to Colleen. I wasn't even thinking about everything that
Speaker 1: Greg says. I think that's great. I know exactly what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Greg. That is like I'm watching everyone
Speaker 1: Knows listen to his podcast Knows. I'm a huge baseball fan.
Speaker 1: The Yankees are forty and sixteen, which is awesome, and
Speaker 1: we'll see how the season plays out down the end,
Speaker 1: and the Yankes are no one's just like the Celtics.
Speaker 1: No one's idea of an underdog franchise. But it was
Speaker 1: something I grew up loving, and my boys have fallen
Speaker 1: in love with baseball and watching baseball with me, it's different.
Speaker 1: And I think it's like when you work in sports.
Speaker 1: Um like I I love the Jets just as much
Speaker 1: as I did when I started the company, but it
Speaker 1: is different, like and once you are in the company,
Speaker 1: it's different. Once you're working in the league and covering
Speaker 1: the sport, it's different. So finding that other sport where
Speaker 1: you have no connection to a professionally, it almost makes
Speaker 1: it more rewarding and more fun to watch. Can I
Speaker 1: just ask real quick while we're on baseball corner why
Speaker 1: the Angels decided to play nickelback for every single player
Speaker 1: that went to the plate they were on. And I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened with the Red Sox and Angels yesterday,
Speaker 1: but they were on a twelve game losing streak, so
Speaker 1: they had fired their manager. And it's like one of
Speaker 1: the reasons I love baseball, it is like weird stupid
Speaker 1: things to try to change the tide. So they played
Speaker 1: like the worst rock band in the last tenty five years,
Speaker 1: and you walk up to try to like change the vibe.
Speaker 1: They lost and didn't score a run again, but when
Speaker 1: they did, the nickelbacks, so they're down. Well, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: never you don't pick Nickelback, but you know the Detroit Lions,
Speaker 1: Mark famously, we covered it on around the League way
Speaker 1: back in the day. The Detroit Lions once hired nickel
Speaker 1: Back to do a halftime show on Thanksgiving. So people
Speaker 1: have been making these mistakes for a long time. I'll
Speaker 1: throw one out there, Um, this is a projection. I'm
Speaker 1: more hoping this happens. Uh. The last two seasons have
Speaker 1: kind of sucked, but for a number of reasons, and literally, hey,
Speaker 1: well Corona right, Like I am I'm super gay for
Speaker 1: the consilation every show as like the gape on Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like you're you're like stat boy except for gay
Speaker 1: Putts Mark. Sorry to interrupt, but I am super gay
Speaker 1: for the idea of a season we're not tracking Corona
Speaker 1: week by week and having like key players dropped out
Speaker 1: of the mix and having games on Wednesday night. I mean,
Speaker 1: last year it got us a lot closer to that.
Speaker 1: And I am guaranteeing that the pandemic never returns. Right now?
Speaker 1: WHOA wow, that's a there. That's amazing, right that Greg
Speaker 1: nothing well monkey Poks has sort of been. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's not trying to be a concharyon take. I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm giving the people in my opinion. It just happens
Speaker 1: that I always disagree with you, but you're on you're
Speaker 1: on board with that opinion. I like that, I mean,
Speaker 1: I like the hopefulness of it, and I'm for that.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. You want a football one, I
Speaker 1: go whatever. So Colleen, you're gonna have to brace yourself
Speaker 1: for this. But I'm actually gay for the Eagles, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but I've been very obviously. I didn't really
Speaker 1: didn't really care about the Eagles as a patsman, and
Speaker 1: that that's the Pats Homer and me. Once they beat
Speaker 1: us in the Super Bowl, us being the Patriots, I
Speaker 1: have made it my mission to make sure that they suffer.
Speaker 1: And I don't like it. But but looking at everything,
Speaker 1: all the hypes out of your what kind of impact
Speaker 1: would you say you had? What have you done? I've
Speaker 1: been like putting me an action step. I've been giving
Speaker 1: batteries to fans as they go into these states. So
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about Philly sports fans until I
Speaker 1: met John and Connie, and they're crazy. And now now
Speaker 1: I've learned, if you really want to get them upset,
Speaker 1: you bring up the battery throw batteries, oh boo Santa,
Speaker 1: and they get so much I will lunch across this
Speaker 1: table right now and to strangle both. But as as unfortunately,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm taking a step back and I and
Speaker 1: as Greg always tells me, to be a professional, don't
Speaker 1: just think about the Patriots. The Jalen hurts I ever
Speaker 1: said you have multiple times? Actually, so the Jalen hurt
Speaker 1: type is real coming out of money camp right coming out?
Speaker 1: Thank you justin Oh are you coming saying as the
Speaker 1: gay someone Someone's got to say something, right, So DeVonta
Speaker 1: Smith had his breakout season last year. Right now they
Speaker 1: add a J. Brown to the list. Oh and also
Speaker 1: let's add Bradberry next to Slay on the day I am.
Speaker 1: I am excited. Sean Kelly is pumping his fist and
Speaker 1: I can actually do a vodka soda. Um. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see this Eagles team this upcoming year. And I
Speaker 1: feel proud of myself for feeling I have a personal
Speaker 1: connection with Nick Sirianni right, we love him. Can I
Speaker 1: ask you a question as you leave the NFL, Ricky, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what will be your like? How plugged in will you
Speaker 1: be on the League of thirty two. I think I'll
Speaker 1: still such a passion. With all due respect, you didn't
Speaker 1: really football when you started. You came to the company
Speaker 1: as a Patriots fan, Yes, and then he spent what
Speaker 1: six years? Seven years? Yeah? When you exit the League
Speaker 1: of thirty two company, well you do you imagine you'll
Speaker 1: go back more to your viewing habits as Patriots fan
Speaker 1: or do you think now you'll take this with you
Speaker 1: and just be more into the league oft Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I think I'll definitely be plugged in. I
Speaker 1: think my whole Twitter feed is is everyone. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: really I'm never gonna not be a Patriots fan ever,
Speaker 1: and that's never going to change. Um mc daddy is
Speaker 1: looking good in camp too. He's looking thick. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: my god, he lust a little way and he's like
Speaker 1: beefed up. Oh it's so good. Um, Bill Belichick plaint Center, Hello, Daddy, Like,
Speaker 1: let's go, daddy, Daddy. So I'm excited about the Pats.
Speaker 1: I'm also l A you know, personal, I'll probably be
Speaker 1: plugged in on the l A teams just by living here,
Speaker 1: but you know, totally, I don't know, yeh, Connie, give
Speaker 1: us one more, Okay, do you want Super NFL or
Speaker 1: my like your hearty? Well, okay, So I am like
Speaker 1: I'm feeling gay for two running backs this season, Handmakers
Speaker 1: and Javante Williams. Like for Acres, I'm just excited for
Speaker 1: him to actually be healthy and himself because he had
Speaker 1: the injury, came back like miraculously for that regular season
Speaker 1: finale and through the playoffs, but like he still wasn't
Speaker 1: the same. So I feel like McVeigh loves him. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be great for that offense. I think he's going
Speaker 1: to do really well. But Javonte Williams, like that's my
Speaker 1: making the lead candidate. Gang had two things going against
Speaker 1: him last year. The fact that they didn't have a quarterback,
Speaker 1: um so defense is never never respected the past. And
Speaker 1: then also he was splitting carries with Melvin Gordon, which
Speaker 1: can't continue. Like I would imagine that Javante, they see
Speaker 1: how talent untied he is and they give him the
Speaker 1: lion's share of the work. But even just pff looking
Speaker 1: at his mis tackles, the fource mis tackles he had
Speaker 1: last year sixty three of them. That was second to
Speaker 1: only Jonathan Taylor, who had the most in the League
Speaker 1: sixty six and you think about all the work that
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor had last year. He had a hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty nine more carries than Javonte Williams. Javonte Williams is
Speaker 1: going to be a beast if they let him be
Speaker 1: a beast. Totally gay for them. See that for making
Speaker 1: the leap Okay, that's a great one. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a great observation NFL stuff this morning. I'm exhausted. It
Speaker 1: makes me think about like early period Nick Chubb. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where that podcast Let's go. This guy's super talented dude,
Speaker 1: and you know he kind of was breaking through, but
Speaker 1: what if he was made the feature guy? What would happen?
Speaker 1: And now you put him in a better situation fantasy
Speaker 1: hats and we got the Fantasy Travaganza coming up in
Speaker 1: a couple of months. I feel like he's going to
Speaker 1: be greggy. You built it brick by brick, rode a world.
Speaker 1: Javante Williams. Is he a top No? Well, you could
Speaker 1: probably check it out there that they've been doing these
Speaker 1: best ball drafts. I doubt it because not now because
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon is there. Why Melvin Gordon is great, I
Speaker 1: mean great is maybe an exaggeration, but very very good.
Speaker 1: So why wouldn't you feature him a walk? Get them both?
Speaker 1: Yea for fantasy. Isn't there a big difference between those
Speaker 1: two guys though in terms of their ceiling? Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I think I'm I think most running backs he is
Speaker 1: getting taken in the top twenty there would not. I
Speaker 1: would not want him because I think would like come
Speaker 1: back Melvin Gordon. Like people just want to think he's
Speaker 1: not a good player, but he's good on all three downs.
Speaker 1: He's good in short yards, he's good on third down.
Speaker 1: Like you should. I sort of the mind you should
Speaker 1: always use multiple running backs if you have them, if
Speaker 1: you can. I'm with you, and I think it's gonna occur.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many Not to devolve into fantasy conversation,
Speaker 1: but it does feel like so many backfields are two
Speaker 1: headed down. The fact that he's in top fifteen is
Speaker 1: pretty talent. I think, I tell you exactly. It tells
Speaker 1: you that there is what what not? Just keep it pushing, Well,
Speaker 1: you can't do it like inside joke last with a
Speaker 1: microphone in your mouth. I'm sitting like a foot from
Speaker 1: her and hearing every little comments, and I'm the Mike
Speaker 1: is hearing everything too. Don't worry. That's what. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I think that's good to have on. Let's
Speaker 1: see what else I got here. That's a good one though,
Speaker 1: That was that was a good football. That was good
Speaker 1: because we haven't really talked about it, right, Mark famously
Speaker 1: um was really exciting kicked off our segment here last
Speaker 1: year by talking about Geo Geo Bernard's role. I'm third
Speaker 1: downs and I asked Mark this week because we had
Speaker 1: already kind of went back in memory lane about this
Speaker 1: and I and I'll ask you here, like, how was
Speaker 1: Geo Bernard's experience for you as a fan? Because you
Speaker 1: were so excited going into it. I think it's totally
Speaker 1: delivered in every possible way. I don't know whether there
Speaker 1: be any question about that. It was Wait, has Mark
Speaker 1: had any Wait? You had one? Only so so memorable?
Speaker 1: Greg has no concept in all? Right, where do I
Speaker 1: want to go with this? Let's see, here's my list,
Speaker 1: Baker comeback season. I have all the Jets are hot
Speaker 1: now literally. The Athletic reported that Michael la Fleur, according
Speaker 1: to Robert Salet, is way more jack this year after
Speaker 1: spending the off season in the gym, he's already How
Speaker 1: is that not a trope? So now we have just
Speaker 1: now we have quarterback went from two oh two to
Speaker 1: one shredded. We got the head coach who's basically like
Speaker 1: one of the hottest dudes alive. And then you have
Speaker 1: even the dudes cut what you don't think so? So?
Speaker 1: I mean that's a tai bar there, one of the
Speaker 1: hot Robert sala Is top ten hottest met alive. No,
Speaker 1: that is so not accurate. If they play like the season,
Speaker 1: maybe you know, and it doesn't work out, they can
Speaker 1: come here and sort of have like a all male
Speaker 1: reviewer something Boulevard. All the Jet now, all the just
Speaker 1: nine now is for Eric Decker to come out of
Speaker 1: retirement and it's the hottest team ever anyway, But that's
Speaker 1: not where I'm going. Let's see Josh McDaniels new daddy voice.
Speaker 1: You guys plugging on this that I have it all right,
Speaker 1: Let's hear the new zaddy voice. This isn't coming directly
Speaker 1: from Josh when it's from who is it? Brandon Bolden
Speaker 1: speaking on how Josh McDaniels has changed as someone who
Speaker 1: used to be in New England. Brandon Bolden and now
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, when he was the o C, but
Speaker 1: now he's the head coach the same he just says
Speaker 1: it a little more stern. Now. It's like if you
Speaker 1: was getting babysited by your older brother and now the
Speaker 1: parents are nowhere at home, you're stuck with your big
Speaker 1: brother for the weekend. It's kind of like that great
Speaker 1: And I was going to say, some of the big brother,
Speaker 1: you're just looking around for Danger. We have lost in
Speaker 1: case you get Danger has been up to the bar
Speaker 1: about five times. But now I don't even see him up.
Speaker 1: I will say, when I went to the bathroom, here
Speaker 1: in the mirror, it's carved Danger. I swear to go.
Speaker 1: He's the women's backroom. So you guys, because I knew
Speaker 1: you guys have done a lot of pushback on me
Speaker 1: about Mike McCarthy's Zadie energy, which I'm all in on,
Speaker 1: But now I'm saying Zadie energy for Josh McDaniels. You guys.
Speaker 1: He literally got the keys to the organization. He's walking
Speaker 1: around making, you know, the tuck rule jokes and all that.
Speaker 1: He thinks he's the hottest thing ever, and I kind
Speaker 1: of buy it. I don't know if I feel like
Speaker 1: if it needs to be pointed out that you're suddenly
Speaker 1: speaking with a more stern voice and you're being told
Speaker 1: that you're just an older brother while the actual parents
Speaker 1: are away. Like I it feels a little ironic to
Speaker 1: me that maybe he's not a total city checking out
Speaker 1: was just like making a joke to reporters and like
Speaker 1: we're gonna we don't need to dissect everything that they
Speaker 1: smart your take. I'm locked in on a little bit,
Speaker 1: But I also want to give Josh. You know, we're
Speaker 1: giving a shot here to clean up some things. It's
Speaker 1: been a little so I welcome the transformation. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that the way that it was phrased kind of
Speaker 1: has some qualifiers to it, right, Like he's trying to
Speaker 1: play the part rather than actually is like he hasn't
Speaker 1: spoken with a stern voice in forty nine years, but
Speaker 1: suddenly now he's in a new role and he's changing
Speaker 1: his voice. It's like I can think of another coach
Speaker 1: that went south and changed their voice and took a
Speaker 1: lot of flak for it, like Daniel, Wait, what Bryan
Speaker 1: Kelly goes down suddenly at a country accent. I think
Speaker 1: most people know what I'm referring to. Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Mark's not taking any ship today. I like it. You're
Speaker 1: talking about Brian Kelly, I am talking and then he
Speaker 1: was he was like from the Bayou Southern draw he
Speaker 1: adopted on the plane ride south. Like any time that
Speaker 1: anyone calls you out for like changing your voice or
Speaker 1: like being something that you're not is not good. Are
Speaker 1: we talking about Russell Wilson again? I'm gonna throw up,
Speaker 1: throwing out just because you're talking like the Jets being
Speaker 1: hotter and more fit, and I will show some of
Speaker 1: my fandom here, uh that I'm gay for Mac and
Speaker 1: I'm gay for this totally bizarre Patriots off season that
Speaker 1: everyone's hating. Now it's like gone on so long that
Speaker 1: I'm I'm countering that the fact that supposedly at practice
Speaker 1: they're doing all this zone uh run blocking stuff, and
Speaker 1: that they're like out of nowhere adopting like a Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan type Sean McVeigh offense, which apparently Bill Belichicks wanted
Speaker 1: to do forever, but like now there's no guardrails. It's
Speaker 1: just like Bill gone wild, Like when Josh McDaniels and
Speaker 1: Nikosia and everyone else were like, well, we didn't really
Speaker 1: have the personnel to do that, and you know, we're
Speaker 1: doing this and that. Now it's like Bills doing whatever
Speaker 1: the he wants. He's snapping the center, he's putting Patricia
Speaker 1: as the play caller. He's trying to be like Sean
Speaker 1: McVeigh on offense. He's got this underrated second year quarterback.
Speaker 1: And it all just seems like, uh messy in a
Speaker 1: way that the Patriots never are. But I'm embracing the
Speaker 1: mess I think than Josh McDaniels and gigantic d g
Speaker 1: a f right. I do kind of enjoy it. He's
Speaker 1: like he's like his his um longtime spouse from now
Speaker 1: this isn't this isn't the truth here, but like, let's
Speaker 1: just say he had a long time spouse. He has
Speaker 1: a girlfriend, we love Linda, but let's say that didn't
Speaker 1: happen where maybe he's embracing new uh frontiers. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: he comes comes here for the Pride episode and at
Speaker 1: seventy realizes to live the way he wants to live.
Speaker 1: Go Shanahan, you know what I'm saying, that's a good
Speaker 1: take because it's way better than the alternative, is it right?
Speaker 1: But I'm kind of here for it even if it's
Speaker 1: super messy and it goes like horribly. I kind of
Speaker 1: different the Bill fell off right, It's it's out there
Speaker 1: as a possibility. But he's got this kid, He's got
Speaker 1: Mac Jones, who I truly do believe in. Um has
Speaker 1: a higher, much higher ceiling than anyone seems to want
Speaker 1: to give him credit for that. He could be a
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback this year, that he could be the
Speaker 1: next you know, very good quarterback. Let's go none of us.
Speaker 1: They're playing Sharon Osborne. This was a big song and um,
Speaker 1: you know around the NFL history because uh we were
Speaker 1: maybe we weren't all weren't there, but we were at
Speaker 1: the lesbian bar in Indianapolis with the Wesley brothers. You're
Speaker 1: just kinda guess what's the next song that is going
Speaker 1: to be played? And I put down? Man, I feel
Speaker 1: like a woman. This one. No, I put this one
Speaker 1: down was a karaoke it let's be on a karaoke.
Speaker 1: What if God was one of us? Joean Osborne? The
Speaker 1: next fine song, I take all that money. Greg is
Speaker 1: loose and we are not legally about love to gamble
Speaker 1: at the next drinking water. But at least it wasn't
Speaker 1: at a league event. That's true. That's true. Well, well
Speaker 1: why were in Indian Mark? What else do you got? Mark?
Speaker 1: I have a personal one that I am very gay
Speaker 1: for swimming, for aquatics, Like I just joined a pool
Speaker 1: and I went swimming yesterday for the first time, like
Speaker 1: in a lap pool and probably like twenties something years
Speaker 1: and it was very full, but it was me, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you have to share the lane with another person.
Speaker 1: It was a man who was like eighty eight years
Speaker 1: old and going like one mile an hour. So I
Speaker 1: kind of felt bad because I I destroyed him, but
Speaker 1: it was like, um, I think I have found the
Speaker 1: thing that I wanted to do with my body for
Speaker 1: the next couple there is something. There is a pattern
Speaker 1: emerging Mark with you in secondary sports where you come
Speaker 1: on our show and you explain you were at an
Speaker 1: event and then you dominated everyone else that was there,
Speaker 1: and there's never any other video or any other evidence
Speaker 1: out there, and we we take you on it. Because
Speaker 1: the first example was I destroyed my nine year old
Speaker 1: and tennis. Do you not find that feasible? I mean
Speaker 1: it's like he had never played twice. Now your wife
Speaker 1: was involved as well. You did you dismember the entire family.
Speaker 1: I'm merely I'm merely pointing out that some of these
Speaker 1: exploits don't have a lot of they're they're not cited
Speaker 1: with any evidence. What do you want me to do?
Speaker 1: Like the swim thing where you wear a cap and
Speaker 1: everyone does the same emotion. I think for the people
Speaker 1: that love swimming, it's almost like a religion. It's very peaceful,
Speaker 1: it's probably good for mental health, it's it's good for
Speaker 1: your addies. Certainly those swimmers bodies you know, don draper
Speaker 1: about it. And then and this is where the gay
Speaker 1: odd bood has been should step in. But this is
Speaker 1: asking for a lot. The Swimmer um is maybe one
Speaker 1: of the most and definitely one of the gayest short
Speaker 1: stories uh in American literature history. When they teach you
Speaker 1: short stories, they start with The Swimmer by John Cheever,
Speaker 1: who is a gay icon. He's on my top five list. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that book needs a sequel. We only have two.
Speaker 1: We need three more. Okay, rufus urfus Wow. I think
Speaker 1: that's that was great. That was I'm not a lost
Speaker 1: I'm happy for you. Marsawn bomb. Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe this isn't a bomb. Maybe you guys know this already.
Speaker 1: Better not be coming out of retirement or retiring there
Speaker 1: were there. Yeah, Jason Garrett will replace Drew Brees on
Speaker 1: NBC's NFL pregame show. It's like, I love these tris
Speaker 1: skits that I bought playing, not like the ones with
Speaker 1: the sprinkles on them, just plane trisk its, um, but
Speaker 1: I want something different. Yeah, they have triskits with lots
Speaker 1: of different flavors, but exact garlic whatever's in the studio.
Speaker 1: And it's like, I don't want I don't want main
Speaker 1: trist gits. I want to change it up. I'll get
Speaker 1: the mini triskts, you know. That's what I'll do, Mini trades.
Speaker 1: Understand this analogy you get. It's like you're both placing
Speaker 1: wonder bread with with another type of white bread. He's
Speaker 1: not like I don't care as much about the America. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, well yeah that's a good update. I thought
Speaker 1: you said Marshawn. He meant Marshawn Lynch photo with the
Speaker 1: cleats on the wire. Like the Super Bowl in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: West had to stop down, stop watching the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and write like a six word breaking news item on
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch coming back into the game, by the way,
Speaker 1: breaking news This from p f T who was called
Speaker 1: out by name twice by the way by Jack del Rio,
Speaker 1: which I that was my favorite part of the Jack
Speaker 1: del Rio press conference. How he disagreed with Mike Florio, Greg,
Speaker 1: you have much much to settle with your old boss
Speaker 1: and that will be an offseason. Well, this is one.
Speaker 1: This is one I loved. I know he loved it
Speaker 1: so um. According to Commander's head coach Ron Rivera, he
Speaker 1: said on Wednesday that he really likes Carson Wentz is
Speaker 1: command of our offense. He's getting ready because he believes
Speaker 1: that he can. He just might if we all pull
Speaker 1: together be ready to take command. As we all know,
Speaker 1: decided to really go ahead. And you know, after all
Speaker 1: the other stuff we talked about earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: I'm all the way back into sure, Arrow up, Arrow Up?
Speaker 1: Can I throw out one more thing? Um, I'm gay
Speaker 1: for if anything, just because I meant to tell Mark
Speaker 1: this and I'm just using this podcast to uh to
Speaker 1: give him a recommendation I think he'd like because he
Speaker 1: likes Mike you're a big Michael Man guy. Yes, I
Speaker 1: like Michael Man. Okay. The UM first episode of Tokyo Vice.
Speaker 1: What do they call the first episode? Why am I blanking? Pilot?
Speaker 1: The pilot of Tokyo Vice directed by Michael Man. He
Speaker 1: is the executive producer. It's set in the nineties underworld
Speaker 1: in Tokyo, uh and this the scene. The show is
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I would recommend it to everyone.
Speaker 1: He doesn't direct every episode, he is an executive producer.
Speaker 1: But the show puts you in Tokyo. It made me
Speaker 1: want to go to Tokyo. I will be going in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Shout out to Hedeco Wattanabe forgetting
Speaker 1: a lot of paperwork. They still haven't opened up the country,
Speaker 1: so I gotta get a visa. Whenever Greg suggests a
Speaker 1: book to me, it's been a home run. UM shows
Speaker 1: very similar and so I will watch it. And Michael
Speaker 1: Man also has been busy at work creating and writing
Speaker 1: Heat to the novel. So that's another one to put
Speaker 1: on your radar. But I think you would like the
Speaker 1: show too. I'm gay for Tokey Advices. It's fun. That's good.
Speaker 1: That's been on my list to get to it feels
Speaker 1: like there's so much stuff that it's almost too much.
Speaker 1: It's like they gotta figure it out. The the entertainment
Speaker 1: got in the senting. They gotta dial it back a
Speaker 1: little bit. They have to figure out like pacing, just
Speaker 1: like us to be like, you know what you're getting.
Speaker 1: You're getting original content from September to May and then
Speaker 1: a break and then you could catch up on reruns
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. We need to figure this out
Speaker 1: now for the digital world, the streaming wars, it's a
Speaker 1: barrage because we're just and then their move and maybe
Speaker 1: this is just interference they're running. It's like then you
Speaker 1: must sign up for everything to catch up, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're like dropping twenty grand, you know,
Speaker 1: a year on streaming services. You guys got it. There's
Speaker 1: my take checked out of the show, by the way,
Speaker 1: and he's starting to eat the rest of his last
Speaker 1: that I was gave it. Is it true that Greg
Speaker 1: was flaunting his wealth on the latest episode of The
Speaker 1: Jesslyn Resio I really wasn't. I don't know why. She said,
Speaker 1: no more definitely less than playing backing music. Mommy, I said,
Speaker 1: it was like, oh it was great. It was great
Speaker 1: to finally uh get a nice bump. It wasn't too crazy.
Speaker 1: I think you used the words like, now I'm paid
Speaker 1: like a player. Finally? Is that true? Now? Are you
Speaker 1: sure I said I'm not played? I was like saying,
Speaker 1: kind of like when players talk about like that's a
Speaker 1: big day in their lives when they get a contract,
Speaker 1: when not that I'm paid like a player. But can
Speaker 1: we borrow your credit card? I wish? Yeah, sure, alright,
Speaker 1: let's anything. Let's let's like Greg eat his rap, Let's
Speaker 1: wrap it up? How long is the show? I really
Speaker 1: have wrapped it up? Is the one hour thirty two minutes?
Speaker 1: Any scoreboard for the gay pun um budsman? Like who
Speaker 1: had the most too? I think you you probably did
Speaker 1: unintentionally um, which was good. No. I think it was
Speaker 1: a good showing all around. I think everyone really stepped
Speaker 1: up to the plate. Fun. Second annual Pridecast with you
Speaker 1: around the NFL podcast is in the books a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. Keep doing it, Eric, You're no longer going
Speaker 1: to be with the company in a couple of days,
Speaker 1: but will you continue to come and visit us from
Speaker 1: time to time if your new employer allows it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would absolutely love it, and I'm super thankful and
Speaker 1: grateful for the last you know. However, it's been so
Speaker 1: long at the NFL, and without you guys, and without
Speaker 1: you guys all pushing me to to do more, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be getting offered these opportunities that I am right now.
Speaker 1: And so I am truthfully forever indebted and love you
Speaker 1: guys more than more than words could could say. To supers,
Speaker 1: were all say where you're going next? But um, it
Speaker 1: certainly seems like you're gonna absolutely destroy the position that
Speaker 1: you've been presented with. And I mean that in a
Speaker 1: good way, obviously, not take it down, but you buy it. Marks.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're maybe of similar minds the Sam
Speaker 1: Donald's corollary here, we want her to get to a
Speaker 1: certain level. I don't know if we were a similar
Speaker 1: minds where if she were to be successful, that it
Speaker 1: would keep me up at night the same way that
Speaker 1: I think it might keep you up at night. But
Speaker 1: to your own words, to your own words, do you
Speaker 1: want to announce it and bleep it? Um? I mean,
Speaker 1: what would the point be? But I don't feel good right?
Speaker 1: Everyone knows, but yeah, no, I um, so I am
Speaker 1: gonna be oh amazing. It's like I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, so I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: great at it. Thank you. I'm super super excited, um
Speaker 1: and blessed and grateful and it. But it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: without you guys. It's awesome. So happy to have you here, Ricky.
Speaker 1: Thank you to everybody in the house, uh, including Randy Chavez,
Speaker 1: the grave Digger, Shaun Kelly just on bodyguard duty uh
Speaker 1: today definitely getting paid by the NFL to just stand
Speaker 1: in West Hollywood at a bar. And I love that
Speaker 1: any thought, Sean Kelly. I just want to say thanks guys.
Speaker 1: I I love being a part of this gay for
Speaker 1: all of you guys and just just an amazing podcast
Speaker 1: and I'm blessed every day to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: Oh and also Colley told me, I have to say this,
Speaker 1: go Bird's best team in the NFL. We go Kevin
Speaker 1: Danger Hansas. Yes, we talked about the w f A
Speaker 1: n situation, but maybe revisit Mark and I know we'll
Speaker 1: be on the same page on this August and everything after,
Speaker 1: not just the singles, Omaha, rain King, Murder of One
Speaker 1: Sullivan Street. Maybe Kevin, let's go New York Rangers and
Speaker 1: also Erica Tamposey congratulates Bravo than you appeal I am,
Speaker 1: I am all right, Thank you everybody for listening. We
Speaker 1: will be back on Monday with a new app back
Speaker 1: in the Chris Westmon Podcast Studio. Thank you for listening
Speaker 1: and until then, heed that call, Put up yeah S.