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"Project Breeze" episode 169 · DMV Mess Hall

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Hi folks, this is Rick Doc. Walker to DOC.
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This is John Kime and you're listening to the mess hall with
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Rally Captain and Tailgate 10. What's going on?
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Rally. How was your week, man?
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Hey, man, you know, I said it last week and I'll say it again.
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The temperatures are getting warmer and it just lets you know
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that football is right around the corner.
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And we got great news this this past week.
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I mean, you couldn't ask for anything more.
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What about you, man? I'm good, man.
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Yeah. For those wondering, it's
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Wednesday the 7th. It's, you know, bosses are
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listening. It's way past work hours.
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So you know, all good. I'm about to go hit the
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pickleball courts after this because it is beautiful outside.
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I'm just staring out this window.
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I can actually see FedEx Field out my window, waste the roof of
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it and it just it's just so nice outside right now.
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So I cannot wait to get out there, hit the courts up and
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then just enjoy some of this nice weather.
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So it's Speaking of. Pickle Speaking of pickleball,
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I'll be hitting the courts on Saturday myself.
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Nice, nice. I was actually curious how well
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that's been going. We haven't had a pickleball
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update in a little bit. Well, I had a little hip issue
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that I think I told you about, but you know, went to the doctor
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and the doctor gave me some meds, some pain meds.
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And so he's like, Hey, you know, you getting older, young man,
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you got to take care of your body.
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So gave me gave me a couple of pills to take.
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And so it feels a lot better. So I was like, all right, let me
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go ahead and get out here and and knock these younger guys
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down. There you go.
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Yeah, I, I, So it drives some of the people crazy because when I
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get out there, I used to when I first started playing, just jump
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out, not even worry about stretching.
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But then I'd feel horrible the next morning.
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Yeah. So now I'll stretch for at least
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1015 minutes. And there are people like, hey,
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you ready to go? Like, Nah, I'm older than you
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guys. I got some salt and pepper going
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up here. You're going to take me a
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minute. So if you want to grab someone
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else, go for it. Or if not, you guys can warm up
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on the court and I'll see you in a minute.
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So I know it it drives them crazy and it is what it is.
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But actually, I don't think we've ever talked about it.
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I ended up competing in a tournament 2 weeks ago and part
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of the bonus of it was I typically play with my boy Mike
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who is he's not even 30 yet. So if you compete in a
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tournament you have to play basically in the age bracket of
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the youngest person on the team. So when I would play with Mike,
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I would play with a bunch of younger kids.
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Well, Mike doesn't want to play in tournaments anymore, so I
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don't know if I stressed him out when we play it or whatever.
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So I picked up my boy Will and Will is 44 and I'm in my 40s.
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Don't want to get too many details.
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So we ended up playing in the 40 and older bracket.
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So the brackets actually get sent to you a couple days ahead
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of time. There was a guy that was 69
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years old. There was a guy that was 73
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years old, right? And then there were some other
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guys that were closer to our age, but in the beginning of the
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tournament, there's a director that goes over the rules and
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then she and I played in a bunch of them.
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Then she goes into if you need oxygen, there's a trainer over
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here and just all this other stuff.
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And I'm just like, what? She's got to be joking.
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But no, she was actually dead serious.
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And we ended up getting silver. We lost one match.
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So we played a bunch. We lost one, but we lost at the
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gold medal team. So that was kind of frustrating,
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but one of the matches, one of the guys basically looked like
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he needed some of that oxygen to come down and take care of his
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ass. Because we, we worked them
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pretty bad. And I mean, it's, it wasn't
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fair. We were 30 years younger than
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they were. Maybe not not exactly 30, but I
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kind of wish that there was like a cut off was like, OK, like in
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the 40, like 55 range because it just wasn't fair to the other
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guys. But still had a good time.
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Got a $4.00 plastic silver medal to go with it.
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Well, that's like me, clearly a novice and I'm playing on the
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court that is open to all, you know, freaking everybody that
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can play. And so I'm telling people, hey,
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look, if you want to go over there and play with those people
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who look better than me going over there.
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And I think I told you that Lady came out there and just totally
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pickled me. And, and I'm saying I don't mind
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you doing that. I mean, but at the same time,
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you shouldn't feel good about yourself.
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And so, you know, the competition to people, they're
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like, no, I don't care. I got you.
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That's all that matters. Yeah, no, it was one guy.
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When we're walking on the street and back to my car, I didn't
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recognize him. He's like, man, if I was your
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age, you know, I would have been whooping up on us, too.
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It's a shame that it was just, it was fun.
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It was a good time. So it's like I didn't really
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post anything about getting silver because it's like we did
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beat up on some old dudes. So like, yeah.
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So is it really a win or did we lose because it was a bunch of
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some old dudes and we end up getting silver, you know, second
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set of first. But it was a good time, man.
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I had a blast at the point of my boy Will.
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Looking forward to playing in some more down the road.
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Yeah. But Speaking of interactions on
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the street, we got a lot of interactions with last week's
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episode. If you guys haven't heard it,
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it's titled Personal Seat license.
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Go back, take a look at it. You can find it on YouTube
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anywhere. You know, you found this
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podcast. Let's go back to last week and
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the name of those personal seat license.
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And we really we want to talk about, you know, what's coming
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to us fans and what's happening. And I'd want to say this is
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definitely a big topic for the fan base because we got the most
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interaction out of, you know, we've done 168 episodes.
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This episode got the most interaction from any of the ones
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that we have done. And we wanted to talk about some
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of the comments you guys have made.
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A appreciate you guys listening. Definitely.
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B Appreciate you guys chiming in because you know, it makes this
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and the work we put into this worth it, right?
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And just going off of some of their comments, they're too many
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to go over, but right, this is 1 from Jason Farris.
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Jason said let's enjoy the next few years because all I see with
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this new stadium is huge personal seat licenses, more
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ticket price increases, nowhere to park, tailgate traffic.
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Never thought I'd say this, but I'm sure going to miss Landover,
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MD. You know the saying all great
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things must come to an end. So, and they're not all
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negative, right? Some of the comments, one person
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is, if we want a new stadium, we want something nice, then this
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is just the cost of it, right? And some people chimed in and
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said, hey, it's hard to imagine. I'll say I'm down in Georgia
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now. And at UGA, there's no parking
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lot, 93,000 people suddenly come to Athens on weekends, Huge
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tailgating scene. Tailgating happens all over
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every random open spot in the city, sometimes a mile or two
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away. I haven't been around RFK in a
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very long time so I'm not sure if it's feasible in that area of
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DC compared to Athens. Not saying this is OK but just
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wondering. And one guy chimed in and said
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screw you guys for talking this into existence and.
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Wait a minute. The fact is, we aren't talking
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it into existence. It's it's happening.
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It's happened at every other freaking stadium.
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And The thing is, before, before anybody gets they think about
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one way or the other. As I tell people, don't get mad
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at us for regurgitating the news.
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This is what's coming down the pipe.
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It just is. And we know that, hey, if you
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buy a Mercedes-Benz, you're going to have freaking expensive
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service. It comes along with it.
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We know that when you get something new, it comes along
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with it. But The thing is, a lot of
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people didn't know and a lot of people still don't know.
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They are just finding out and they're and they're saying,
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wait, wait a minute, run it by me again because they just don't
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know. So that that's the thing, Our
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job, if you want to call it a job, our mission is to enlighten
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folks of the sports that they love, which is the Commanders
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slash Redskins. OK, That's what we're here for.
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Yeah, we had a couple people. They're new subscribers.
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One of them said, thank you so much.
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I just found this podcast. So glad I found it.
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I've been a season ticket holder for several years while living
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out of state. This is a huge topic for us.
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We support the team and their bad days.
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Hope we can agree on something that benefits both sides.
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Right and like you said, a lot of people just didn't know this
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was a thing. I had family in town visiting
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this week and I did a an episode on Fox 5 called Take 2.
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So I'm on with them and we start talking about a personal seat
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license. The other people on the show had
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no idea what in the world it was.
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And one person commented and said, why are you giving them
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ideas? And back to your point, we're
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not giving them ideas. This is something that has been
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happening for a long time now, when you know, these owners are
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building a stadium, right, They institute these licenses.
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And I talked to my buddy Greg, who I think you might have met
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with a Big Blue Crew up in New York.
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He's a huge Giants fan, right? When they got their new stadium,
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MetLife, his lower level seats, he had to pay, think it was
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$5000 a ticket for his seats. So it's just, I hate to say it,
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but we're just trying to educate people to let them know that,
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you know, save money now. And the good news is I did see
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that ownership has seen our video, right?
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I'm not going to say how I saw that or what's going on, but I
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do know that they have seen it. And really part of this is to
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let them know that the fans are worried about this.
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And I know that they know that I know they know we're concerned
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about what the world's going to happen.
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But if we don't collectively voice our opinions, then it's
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100% not going to be known to them how we feel and we don't
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get a chance to affect it. And I'm not saying us talking
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about this on the podcast is going to make them change their
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minds, but the fact of the matter is we know that they're
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seeing it. And if you guys complain and
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voice your opinions to your reps, whoever it may be, or on
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social media, then that's going to help us out down the road as
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well. The fact of the matter is this,
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I would rather know and we talked about it much more in
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advance than just hit me over the head, which brings me right
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back to the point that I'm going to continue to make until they
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announce it. And I, I, I thought that the
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schedule for the international games will be out by now because
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there's a little bit of a lull in the NFL news, but it hasn't
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been put out. So we'll have to wait obviously
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until next week. But I would just ask from here
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on out, guys, international games, let us know earlier than
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later. That's all we ask, and now we
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can get back to our really scheduled program.
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Yeah, it's, it's super annoying. And I Rodgers in town and he
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was, you know what we'll talk about here in a minute, but he's
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in town. He was just the White House.
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He was meeting with DC Council members to try and sway the vote
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for the stadium and RFK because some of the council members are
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saying that this isn't a good deal for DC.
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And have you ever sold a house? Yes.
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So when I sold a house a long time ago, they actually told me
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to leave some things for the home inspector to find, like
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blatant things like, you know, the light cover isn't on a light
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switch or something like that. Because someone's paying this
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home inspector to come up with something.
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And if he finds nothing, then they're going to dig even deeper
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to try and find something. So I almost feel that this deal
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that Bowser put in front of the City Council, because the
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council has now seen two versions of the budget.
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And I almost feel that the deal itself, they left some bad
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things in so the council members could come back and say, hey,
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this isn't cool. I'm going to fight for this
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change. All the wild knowing on the
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other end, Bowser and the commanders, we're going to give
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that concession anyway. So just let them feel like they
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got one over on us and that they actually did their constituents
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a good thing. That, to me, is what it almost
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seems like. I'd have to agree with you.
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I mean, you don't want them to be.
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It's almost like it's perfect. Find a mistake if you will, hint
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hint and fix it. But it's already been written in
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the back door that they didn't know about.
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Hey, Speaking of the the whole stadium aspect, did you see that
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rendering that I posted? And I said, hey, this is just a
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rendering, but look out for Ward 7 and the district because this
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thing is is going to be so huge. I'm not sure if you saw them.
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That rendering was unbelievable man.
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I'm pulling it up now and yeah, it that thing does look bad ass.
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So it's so many things are coming out because I saw a
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rendering of the commanders potentially putting out a second
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helmet or third helmet. No, actually, I think it'd be a
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second helmet for the black unis and this and that.
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I mean, the rendering is is absolutely gorgeous, right?
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To see if they can pull this off.
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Who knows? I mean, it's going to be right
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there on the water and the family I had come to town like,
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oh, where's you guys new stadium going to be like where you drove
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past the old one, right? It's going to be right there in
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that exact same spot if all this goes through.
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So fingers crossed. And we just got a tweet.
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It was from Paulie 0963. Hope this helps as a
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representation of the Bills PS LS to date.
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So this is color-coded and it's from yards per pass.
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Another updated PSL map courtesy of Michael Weingarten.
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And they've got different colors here of how much the Bills fans
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are paying for their PS LS. So I'm color blind, Rally I.
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This is going to give me a freaking headache but I'm just
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looking in the end zone where you sit.
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OK, it looks like it's blue or purple.
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So that looks like what, $5500 a seat?
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I can't see the it's too small for me but.
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On the left, no worries. We'll put this up on the YouTube
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so you guys can catch it there, right?
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So you're looking at 50 yard line seats here are $15,000
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APSL, right? So there's just different pieces
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of this and we're just going based on other teams, right?
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And I talked about how I was texting with some of the Chicago
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Bears fans and they reached out to me.
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They're doing focus groups to try and gauge, you know, what's
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going to happen. And I don't know or I don't
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think we're going to get those focus groups considering how bad
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the focus groups went last time ownership try to do something.
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Granted, that was Snyder and it was the focus groups about the
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team name, but changing the team name is about as popular as
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talking about PSLS in a new stadium, so who knows if they'll
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even waste their time with something like that.
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There's one person though, who said they should go back.
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Commander in chief says they should go back.
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He feels it should be the old name.
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So, you know, I don't know how much juice he really has to make
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that happen, but could you imagine?
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Yeah, you know, you know, the commander in chief saying that
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no, you guys will change your name back or else you won't get
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any funding or something like that.
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Could you imagine that? So for the people wondering who
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Rod he's talking about, he's talking about President Trump,
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right? And a reporter a couple weeks
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ago ask Donald Trump, since RFK is coming back to DC, you know,
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do you think the name should go back to Redskins?
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And this was actually a topic that we talked about when I was
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on Fox 5 with Elizabethan. And if you go through the entire
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clip, he pretty much says, you know, it's not equal to the
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chiefs and the other ones. Mayor Bowser.
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And we're jumping ahead a little bit.
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Mayor Bowser and Paul Tat, not Paul Tat, Rodger Goodell and
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Josh Harris were at the White House earlier this week to
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announce that the NFL draft is coming to DC in 2027.
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And he actually used commanders. And we're not going to get
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political here. I, I saw Robin and some other
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people comment about how they're not going to go with the draft
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to support it because of him. Whatever you guys, however you
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vote left, right, whatever, I don't care.
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That's up to you, don't matter to me.
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Not for the show. Back of the matter is Goodell
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was there, Mayor Bowser was there and Harris was there
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talking about the draft coming to DC, right?
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It had 600,000 people in Green Bay, estimated in a city that
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has 100,000 person population, right in Detroit, which was a
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record. Several 125,000 people attended
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the draft in Detroit, you and I included, right?
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They are expecting over a million people to attend the
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draft in DC. Now.
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My guess is that is over the, you know, Thursday, Friday,
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Saturday period, the three day period.
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So I'm just happy about it. But you talk about commanders
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and the name Josh Harris actually gave Donald Trump a
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Washington commander's jersey and made a little pun talking
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about, you know, the commander in chief and you know the
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commanders at that point. So I don't know.
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I was actually waiting for something else to come out of
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that. But we're beating a dead horse.
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It ain't changing. It ain't.
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Going back, it's not, it's not going back.
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And I don't even think that that even though he, he made that
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joke and he said that, that it, that it, it should be this go
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back to the name. I don't believe it's going to
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happen. And, and so, you know, like you
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said, we, we can, we can move on from there.
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It's just a matter of the fact that he brought, they brought it
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up and a lot of times everyone waiting bated breath to hear
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what he has to say. So he said it the but the owner
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says no. And like you said, we're going
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to keep it moving. And I actually got a bunch of
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hate once. Again, God Dang brother, you
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should be tailgate hate Ted, my God.
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Man, it's just I didn't even do anything.
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I posted the clip and for people to comment on anything on
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Instagram, you got to follow me. So, you know, I just I got tired
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of all the BS from all the Phillies fans, Elizabeth and he
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tagged me in hers. And there was a guy that said I
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lost a ton of respect for tailgate Ted after reading the
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clip and my whole argument, which is the argument I've been
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going with this entire time about the name, right?
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And for those that haven't, listen, if you're lucky enough
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to have a child and let's just say it's a daughter and you
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raise that child, you drop them off at, you know, school for the
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first time. You go to, you know, Grant
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Paulson just did his daddy daughter dance with his kid.
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And so did JP family, right? You know, you are there for
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their college graduation, right? You end up walking them down the
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aisle when they get married and they decide to change their last
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name. None of those memories you had
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with that child up until that point have been vanished and
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washed away. All those memories are there for
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me. That is the exact same thing
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when it comes to our name change.
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All those games I watched with my dad sitting on the couch, The
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first game I ever went to an RFK with my pops, none of that goes
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away. And there are some people that
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just decided to chime in and say well that's a stupid argument,
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blah blah blah. I'm like OK tell me why I just
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don't reply back to the haters anymore.
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To me it just, it acknowledges them and it goes through.
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And I appreciate Elizabeth Bethany and Mike Plogger, the in
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game host for the Caps and the Nats who's no good friend as
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well for standing up for me and defending me.
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And then they decide to chime in and say, Oh, well, you know, at
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least he'll always have the Hard Rock.
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And this was an Eagles fan saying this.
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This was Washington fans. And I'm not going to say
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Commanders fans. These were Redskins fans chiming
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in and saying that. So at that point, I just muted
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them. And then I did find out that you
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can actually mute words in your Instagram feed, so you just
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won't see it again. So I I've muted a couple words.
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I'm not going to say what they are, but now I don't got to
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worry about the hate. Learn something new every day,
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man. So it's just it's annoying,
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right? But what did you think when you
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saw, well, hey, they did Josh Harris wrong?
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Did you see the microphone like covering up his entire face?
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No, I didn't see that. I really wish they would have
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adjusted that microphone. I mean, he looks like, and this
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is, with all due respect, he just looks like a little kid at
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a podium and the microphone is just basically up to his
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eyeballs because. He's going to adjust it.
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I don't know if he couldn't adjust it or he just didn't
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adjust it. But like Rodger, Goodell is
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pretty tall. Mayor Bowser is taller.
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He's he's the shortest one in the group and he just looked
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like a little kid standing at the podium.
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He you know what, I'll say this. He's spoken in in public plenty
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of times. I've spoken in public plenty of
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times. You have as well.
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There's something about the things that you would normally
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do in the course of a day that when those light, the bright
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lights are on. Yeah.
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And, and you're speaking publicly, a lot of that stuff
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goes out the window. You don't even notice it until
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somebody like you says, hey, man, if you see the microphone
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in his face, because that's not even where he's focused.
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You know, you, you, you want to make sure that you're saying the
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right thing, that you're hitting all the cues and, and you don't
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say happy Thanksgiving everybody, you know that type of
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stuff. So.
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Did you watch Mayor Bowser in her speech that she gave before
22:48
for the stadium announcement? See, I don't see that stuff.
22:51
I I hear it, but I don't see it. So it was so just like cringe,
22:55
awkward because she's talking about welcome back to DC or
22:58
welcome to DC and she does a clap and then like a thumb snap.
23:02
It was just so weird. That's thumb snap.
23:06
Yeah, I'll, I'll put in the YouTube video.
23:08
But she did like a clap and a snap.
23:10
Like it's like almost she didn't know what she wanted to do
23:12
because there were times during the pressure when she would do
23:15
little snaps because I guess it's the thing for I know some
23:18
people in sororities would snap and stuff like that and so.
23:21
OK, OK, OK. But she did both awkwardly at
23:25
that point, and then she kept talking.
23:27
It was just weird. But I don't know if you can see
23:29
this. This is a picture of the
23:31
microphone in front of Josh Harris.
23:33
And you can't really see him at all because the microphone is
23:37
just covering his entire face. Yeah, yeah.
23:40
Not not that I even care one bit, but just remember this one.
23:44
e.g. LE.
23:47
Oh, I remember, trust me. I mean, that was one too long
23:51
ago and I didn't want to acknowledge these guys, but.
23:58
Hey, funny's funny. And it goes back to my point.
24:00
We are all we've, we've spoken in the public eye before and and
24:05
you know what, when the white lights get on sometimes, hey
24:08
man, you have those brain parts. So it happens.
24:11
So there is a Eagles like sports blog, right?
24:17
It's called Crossing Broad and I get a text message from my
24:21
tailgate crew. We got a little private text
24:24
message between a couple of us inside there.
24:26
And it goes into, you know, they're sick and tired of the
24:31
commanders getting all this shine, blah, blah, blah.
24:35
The drafts is coming to DC. Guess what?
24:38
They've got a Hard Rock Cafe in DC on East Street downtown.
24:43
Let's go take that damn thing over.
24:45
And it's just like, really, they're already planning in 2027
24:50
to take over the Hard Rock. I think it goes into let's run
24:53
out of room at the Hard Rock and then do this and that and you
24:58
know, screw tailgate Ted and all this other stuff and I can't
25:01
find it now. But it's just, it cracks me up
25:04
that they're still thinking about this entire thing.
25:08
Dude, let me tell you this. Let me let me tell you this,
25:10
man. You, not your team, but Speaking
25:14
of the Eagles fans, your team just won the Super Bowl.
25:19
Commanders fans, you would be so far out of my mind, I'd still be
25:24
celebrating it that we won a Super Bowl, man.
25:26
So it just goes to show you that that the you live in infamy in
25:33
their. Head Oh yeah, man, I just I, I,
25:35
I want the schedule to come out so bad so I can just book the
25:39
time off to make sure my ass is up there and my ass is up there
25:43
the night before and I was joking around with Jim Loke.
25:47
He had he's anchor over at Fox 5.
25:51
I can't remember what it was, but have you seen those?
25:53
I think of the Ray Blaine Ray Ban glasses that has cameras
25:57
built into. Them yeah, the meta glasses yeah
25:58
so. It's like, all right, Jim, you
26:00
got to let me wear these. Fox 5 can have all the footage,
26:04
but when my ass goes up there and I'm wearing my Hard Rock Ted
26:07
shirt and it's #55 on the front and 23 on the back, right, then
26:12
we'll kind of see what happens. But it just, it still cracks me
26:15
up because this is an excerpt from the article.
26:18
Here's the other thing. Are you getting sick of the
26:20
Washington Commanders lovefest? I am.
26:22
They're getting all this publicity and praise for simply
26:24
not being terrible, for finding a franchise quarterback after 30
26:28
years of sticking up the NFC East.
26:30
Oh boy, they had a good season. For the first time since the
26:32
first George Bush was in office, Josh Harris hired some people
26:36
who aren't idiots. They're replacing their crappy
26:38
husk of a stadium with something modern, Right?
26:41
And like you said, you guys just won the Super Bowl to even care
26:46
about us. And I get it.
26:48
It's a dead time right now. There's not a ton to talk about.
26:50
Everyone's waiting for next week when the schedule comes out and
26:53
we can all start doing predictions and see what's going
26:56
to happen and how many prime time games and how many SP
26:59
events trips we're supposed to book.
27:01
And oh, by the way, eight of them for all the away games.
27:05
But it just, it cracks me up, right?
27:09
And but now to start getting that from Washington fans, that
27:14
part does annoy me a little bit. Yeah, we're supposed to be on
27:19
the same team, man. And.
27:22
Yeah, obviously we we aren't and and it's terrible.
27:27
You you think we'd all could come together.
27:29
And I have to tell you something that that I heard offline, but
27:34
amongst our fan base, we're some bickering people, man.
27:37
And and I don't understand it. I mean, I get it.
27:40
Everybody has their opinion. Opinions are like butt holes.
27:42
Everybody has one, unless you got a colostomy bag.
27:45
But you know, it's still you got to we got to be able to work
27:49
together with everybody, man. Bernie and gold until they were
27:52
dead in cold. That's just how it should be.
27:54
All right, So anyway, let's move on to the next topic, bro.
27:57
And the next topic is. Yeah, the draft.
28:01
I wanted to hear your thoughts about that coming to town and
28:06
when they made the announcement. So I got to tell you, I was, I
28:09
was excited about that. We knew based upon a previous
28:15
conversation, I forgot we were at some game and they were
28:17
talking about it and said that the commanders that they
28:21
couldn't. If you remember, they said they
28:23
couldn't. I think it was at the mall said
28:26
that they couldn't project events that far in advance
28:31
because there needed to be a permit or something.
28:33
Do you remember that? It was permits, it was doing
28:36
alcohol on the mall and stuff like that that you just cannot
28:39
do. Right.
28:40
And so and so they were like, there's no way that'll happen.
28:43
And I said to myself, and I think I don't even brought up on
28:45
the plot, I said, man, the way that they're talking about this,
28:49
this is going to happen. And I was very excited about it.
28:53
And, and, and somebody asked Muriel Bowser, the mayor of DC,
29:00
well, for a million people, are you going to have enough police?
29:05
And I think a lot of people forget that in 22,000 and three
29:14
2003 we we had NFL opening night on the mall.
29:18
Yeah, we had a kick off on Thursday night.
29:20
Yeah, kick off. And we had about, I'd say
29:23
350,000 people. Now granted it's not a million,
29:26
but where I'm going with that is they asked what would it be
29:29
enough law enforcement. And for those who don't know,
29:32
what happens is because DC is federally funded, the the US
29:39
Marshall can deputize outside police agencies to come in and
29:45
help DC Park Police, Secret Service and everybody else.
29:49
So basically what happens is those guys will from out of out
29:54
of state, meaning Virginia, Maryland can come in, raise the
30:00
right hand in a large group and you'll be deputized for that.
30:07
Those three days, if you will, If you, oh, how many days that
30:10
they need you to be down there starting at XYZ time, ending at
30:14
XYZ what time? So your, your, your powers will
30:17
start and they would end. So there's going to be plenty of
30:21
law enforcement so you guys won't have to worry about that.
30:25
But I was very excited because this is something that the city
30:30
needs. The whole area needs it.
30:32
It's, it's no different than when the new stadium is built
30:36
and several years later we, we host the Super Bowl.
30:40
You know, we've hosted things before.
30:41
We, we hosted it at All Star basketball game here in 2004.
30:46
I think it was 2005, something like that.
30:48
Remember being there for it. Yeah, I mean back at MCR.
30:51
Center back. Then it it was right, the OMCI
30:54
Center and it things went out without a hitch.
30:56
I mean, granted, you're going to have your little petty crime,
30:59
whatever have you, that's still going on regardless.
31:01
But everything else went without a hitch and it it was a great
31:04
time. The city was was basically put
31:08
on the big screen. And this is going to be no
31:11
different. And I look forward to it because
31:14
now I won't have to drive anywhere.
31:16
Or fly. Or fly anywhere because.
31:19
You didn't drive to Detroit, that would be.
31:21
But I will be, I will be driving to Pittsburgh though.
31:24
So I'm, I'm ready for that for next year.
31:26
So I'm, I'm, I'm, I can't wait. So I look forward to that.
31:29
Yeah, part of you wants to go to Pittsburgh next year, but I've
31:31
also been to Pittsburgh a bunch and I just, I don't know.
31:35
But then again, I feel because the people in our inner circle,
31:39
it's always the same people. I'm not knocking them, right?
31:42
So I don't want to miss out on 2027 inner circle because I
31:46
didn't do 2026 inner circle if you see what I'm saying.
31:49
I got you. So because got asked to go this
31:52
year, but I don't want to go to Green Bay.
31:54
I love cheese curds, but I just had no desire to go to Green Bay
31:58
thinking we're not going to pick what's going on.
32:00
So I decided not to. But not going to lie, I did put
32:03
a request in for 2027. We'll see if that person is
32:07
still with the organization or how they're going to do it.
32:11
Or I mean, there are times when I've asked for field passes and
32:16
I've been told that there are a lot of requests from ownership
32:21
because there are 15 different owners, so there's not a lot of
32:25
field passes. My guess is ownership and all
32:29
those requests aren't going to be in the inner circle because
32:32
that's reserved for fans, right? That's usually your die hard
32:36
most boisterous fans that they want on camera representing you
32:40
when your pick happens. So I.
32:43
Don't remember, I don't. I don't remember, but if you're
32:46
the hosting city do you get more seats?
32:50
Historically you have gotten a bigger inner circle because I
32:54
remember in Detroit a bunch of them or friends of mine from the
32:58
PFUFA, they had way more people than we had, just from a sexual
33:04
perspective. Got you.
33:06
And I would think that you would pay, I would think that you'd
33:08
pay homage to the your fans at home and give them instead of
33:11
hypothetically 20 seats, you give maybe 4030 or 40.
33:16
So yeah, I I think so too. And this was a topic on B Mitch
33:20
and Finley and I kind of changing my opinion on what I
33:24
originally thought. So want to ask you, knowing that
33:28
we're getting the draft in 27 and the Super Bowl should be
33:31
coming, assuming all of this gets approved in regards to the
33:35
stadium, the stadium's happening.
33:37
If you could only choose one event, which one would you
33:41
prefer to go to? The draft or the Super Bowl?
33:45
If the Commanders are in the Super Bowl.
33:48
They're not in the Super Bowl. Let's just say it's a Super
33:50
Bowl. Then I'll, I'll take the draft.
33:53
I agree with you right and I mean, if the commanders in the
33:58
Super Bowl, you and I are finding a way to be there, you
34:01
know, I, it's I mentioned last pot, I might have to sell a
34:04
kidney to pay for my PSL, right? You know, I, I only got one of
34:08
those if I had to said if I had to sell that for my PS:.
34:10
Li won't have another one to sell.
34:12
So I got to come up with another way to pay for the Super Bowl
34:14
ticket. But to me, the Super Bowl A,
34:19
it'll be cold in February here, so outdoors won't be as nice,
34:24
but the draft in April downtown could have some nice weather.
34:29
All the different stuff surrounding it.
34:32
I mean, you were in Detroit. We were there.
34:34
Just seen all the cool different things out there.
34:37
I'm kind of excited to see what they would do, you know, cuz
34:40
when is cherry blossoms? Wouldn't that be around roughly
34:43
the same time frame that the draft is?
34:46
You ever take a couple weeks? Yeah.
34:47
Yeah, I mean, just talk about the the mess traffic wise and
34:51
people wise in the city. But I think I'd actually be more
34:54
excited for the draft because it's just it's a multi day thing
34:57
than going to the Super Bowl experience because how much of
35:01
an experience is it going to be? You can't really build permanent
35:04
structures downtown. I feel like it's just going to
35:06
be kind of cold too. And if our team's not in it, I'm
35:09
saying I'm not going the Super Bowl, I'm waiting to go for my
35:11
first one when we're actually going to be in it.
35:13
But that's just me. I got you.
35:15
Well, for me, I wanted to, I have been to the Super Bowl.
35:19
I wanted to go to the the 50th and I said I don't care who's in
35:24
it. It's the 50th Super Bowl and I'm
35:26
going to be there like the 75th. If I'm still on this earth, I'm
35:31
going to go to the 75th regardless of who's in it.
35:35
That's just my personal thing that I wanted to do.
35:39
And what I like, Ted, is I enjoyed seeing how Detroit
35:44
transform their city to be able to host everyone and how they
35:50
block the streets off to get you.
35:52
Hey, they had it very well laid out.
35:54
If you're in a circle, you go this way.
35:55
If your general population, you go this way, I want to be able
35:59
to see how the coordinators put it together.
36:01
And I loved how Detroit did it because that was my first draft
36:06
I'd ever gone to. And so I was like a kidney candy
36:09
store. I was, I was pretty much
36:11
mesmerized. And you get in in full tourist
36:13
mode. Oh yeah, and you had your GoPro
36:16
on your shoulder walking around catching footage, and I don't
36:19
think I ever saw the footage of that.
36:21
How'd that come out? You know what?
36:24
I, some of it came out good. And then what I need to do is I
36:30
need to get a remote to know when I've turned it on and not
36:35
turned it on because you know, you hear like the double beep.
36:38
And sometimes I'd be so caught up to where I said, did it beep
36:43
once or did it beep twice? I don't know.
36:45
And so there are a lot of things that I missed.
36:48
We'll talk about that offline because I think I got a solution
36:52
for you in regards to that. But I'm right there with you
36:55
because when we went back to Detroit for the NFC divisional
36:58
game, right, I walked around town to enjoy my victory cigar.
37:03
And it's what, 2:00 in the morning?
37:06
And I'm walking around Detroit 2:00 in the morning just smoking
37:09
my cigar. I'm like, damn, that's where the
37:11
stage was and it's just completely gone, right?
37:13
It's just a big, massive empty lot.
37:16
And that's where this was and that's where this was, right?
37:18
So it was kind of cool, and it'd be awesome to see, you know, the
37:21
city transform they're talking about.
37:23
And kudos to the Washington Post for doing this.
37:25
The Washington Post put in a FOIA request, So a Freedom of
37:29
Information Act request to the National Park Service is how
37:32
they broke the story and got this information.
37:35
And there was something called Project Breeze, which was the
37:39
code name for the draft coming to DC and the layout for it.
37:44
So that's how they deciphered all this stuff.
37:46
And there's an article from Nikki Zavala in the Washington
37:49
Post kind of talking about it. So they're saying that the stage
37:54
would be more so down by the National Art Gallery and not on
38:00
the Mall itself. Aspects of the draft would be on
38:03
the Mall. But this is all in the Project
38:08
Breeze layout. It's all subject to change by
38:10
2027 depending on, you know, what they end up making the
38:14
final layout be. So I thought that that was kind
38:18
of a mess to not have like the Lincoln Memorial in the
38:21
background because there is an underground spot in the Lincoln
38:25
Memorial for those that aren't from the city or don't know.
38:28
It's like an underground like vault type space, if you will,
38:33
where you can actually tour and get tickets to.
38:35
To me, to make that the green room for the players and have
38:39
them come out and walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial,
38:44
that'd be freaking iconic, man. That'd just be so bad ass.
38:47
I was thinking the exact same thing.
38:49
I mean, you know, everyone is pretty much given a speech from
38:53
the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and then you've got the
38:56
background, like you said, the, the, the capital, the monument,
39:00
I mean, everything down there. Now, one of the things that they
39:02
said would, would, which before they had all this stuff was for
39:07
the World War 2 memorial would stop people, you know, from from
39:12
being able to, to see things. But what I remember is like, I,
39:19
I came I when you when they had the different parades or they
39:26
had the different things on the mall, they put up these huge.
39:31
Massive screens. Screens, yeah.
39:33
Yeah. Yeah, I was, I was, I was at the
39:34
Million Man March and they had massive screens, President
39:38
Obama's inauguration, they had those huge screens up there.
39:42
That was like the largest inauguration that I've ever
39:45
participated in. And I actually had to work that
39:48
thing. It was the coldest one in my
39:49
life that ever had to work. But but still, it makes me cold
39:53
thinking about it. But they had these huge screens.
39:55
And so just think from people from the Lincoln Memorial all
40:00
way up to like the Capitol. Can you imagine this the Mall
40:04
just being like like the 4th of July when they have the 4th of
40:08
July on on the on the Mall? Man, that from, from the Lincoln
40:12
Memorial all the way down to the Capitol, it's just wall to wall
40:16
people. That's what I foresee it.
40:18
And we take care of the crowd then and we'll take care of the
40:22
crowd with, with the strap that comes in 2027.
40:25
And I, I, I can't wait. Yeah.
40:27
I mean, DC is built to be able to host something like this.
40:29
We've got the infrastructure, we've got the Metro, right?
40:33
We've got all the surrounding areas.
40:34
People are going to be staying in Bethesda, we'll be staying in
40:37
Arlington, we'll be staying in Woodbridge coming up.
40:39
I mean, just all over the place to get here.
40:41
So book your hotels now, you know, if you want to come out
40:45
here for the draft because it's just, it's going to be a fun
40:47
time. And I was blessed to be able to
40:49
be on the press stage for the Capitals parade when we won.
40:55
So I was on there with FOX 5 and I got to talk during the Caps
40:59
parade and just cover it for Fox.
41:02
And I mean, that was a blast. And my friends, you know, a
41:05
bunch of the crew members were actually out on the mall sitting
41:08
out there and they had a walkway that was maybe 3 people wide.
41:15
And that was for like emergency services in case they ever had
41:18
to get someone out of that sea of people and that massive
41:21
people. Then you could go through and
41:24
jump over that wall and go down that walkway.
41:26
I mean, we can host this no problem.
41:29
I, I've got no worries about it and I'm just excited about all
41:32
the revenue that's going to come to not just DC, but the
41:35
surrounding area. It's, there's no downside to
41:39
this at all. And I was shocked that there are
41:41
people complaining about it because of traffic.
41:44
Guess what's probably going to happen?
41:46
Your job is probably going to let you work from home, right?
41:48
Let's just be realistic about it.
41:50
I doubt they're going to have you going to the office that
41:52
week because all the roads are going to be shut down.
41:54
It's going to be a mess. They're not going to want to go
41:57
in either, right? I'm not going to mention where
41:59
Misses Tailgate works, but historically she's by the World
42:03
Bank. When they have their massive
42:04
conference, they'd get to work from home.
42:07
So if anything, if you're pissed off about the traffic, be happy
42:10
about it because you might get to work from home and not
42:12
actually have to go in the office that week or whenever.
42:14
They're setting all this stuff up and I just, I see it's a win
42:17
win and it's going to be a damn good time.
42:19
Oh yeah, I totally agree. Now Speaking of damn good time,
42:27
did you actually watch our first round selection of the draft?
42:33
I did not. I was in bed.
42:36
So I don't feel so bad because I didn't watch it either because
42:41
it was, I want to say 10:30 and I'm thinking we're going to
42:44
trade out of this thing. I waited to see if Shidor went
42:47
to the Steelers and he didn't. And I was just shocked when I
42:51
woke up the next morning and we didn't trade out of the pick.
42:55
Well, some might say we're not die hard fans or whatever else.
42:59
To me, I didn't care because we're going to get who we get.
43:02
And there wasn't a big draft party going on.
43:05
I was just shocked why we didn't trade out.
43:07
And this is actually what Josh, not Josh.
43:09
This is what Adam Peters had to say about why they didn't trade
43:11
back out of that first round pick.
43:14
Adam, you had talked about the possibility of trading back when
43:16
Connor Lee was there at 29. Were you still taking calls?
43:19
Was that still a discussion? Yeah, we, we got a ton of calls,
43:23
excuse me, when we're on the clock.
43:25
We got calls throughout the week, just preliminary calls
43:28
like we talked about earlier in the week in the in our presser.
43:32
And then we got a ton of calls leading up to that.
43:34
And what we had discussed beforehand is really if he was
43:40
on the board, we weren't going to trade back.
43:43
And so there's an opportunity to train back with a few other
43:45
teams and wasn't very far, but in our minds it was not worth
43:50
even risking missing on him. So.
43:55
So I was surprised that a we took a left tackle because I did
43:59
not. So I just a tackle in general,
44:01
did not see that coming. But I'm just, I'm happy that
44:05
they had a plan and they stuck with it and they didn't let
44:09
outside noise really change what they want to do, right?
44:13
We only got 5 picks. I'm hoping in 2027 we have the
44:18
32nd pick, which means we won the Super Bowl in 26 and we're
44:22
picking late and we just go from there.
44:25
I also, I'm hoping that you know, we have more than like one
44:29
first round pick and a second round pick if we're there and
44:32
we're lucky enough to be in the inner circle because it'll just
44:34
be more time focused on us in general as a team.
44:38
But what did you think when you woke up that next morning and
44:42
you saw who we talked and you saw we didn't move back?
44:44
I. Said, oh, OK, well, who is this
44:48
kid? Let me do my YouTube research
44:51
and find out what he's all about.
44:53
And, and, and I was actually surprised.
44:56
And once I saw his stuff on YouTube, I said, OK, I'm I'm not
45:01
mad at that. And and as you said, for once,
45:05
we aren't allowing anyone to manipulate us into doing what we
45:11
don't want to do. True adult stuff right there,
45:14
man. Finally, you know the only the
45:18
owner isn't coming in saying no, I want that guy.
45:20
So change everything up and and and and and make it happen.
45:24
No, he hired people who we trust to make the right decisions.
45:31
And all you are hearing are glowing reports.
45:35
Glowing reports? Excuse me.
45:37
Of what? What we did, how we did it, why
45:41
we did it. So I I can't go wrong.
45:46
Yeah, Connelly only allowed two sacks his entire college career,
45:52
right? So they're obviously investing
45:55
in Jayden, in protecting them, bringing in Tunsil, bringing in
45:59
Connolly. Do what they got to do.
46:01
And I'm just, I'm excited, I'm not going to lie.
46:03
I mean, I'm hearing Trey Amos is going to be a stud.
46:06
He's going to be a rock star. We got him for an amazing value.
46:10
The other three guys, we got a wide receiver, Jalen Lane, Kane
46:14
Medrano, and then a linebacker and Jacori Kroski.
46:19
Merritt, I'm probably butchering his name with a 200 and 45th
46:22
pick. I am a little bummed because I
46:25
did try and see if they're going to have passes for rookie mini
46:28
camp for fans. I got the Heisman on that, so I
46:32
don't know if we just don't qualify or if they're not doing
46:36
it. It would have been nice to go
46:38
out there and see that because I know a lot of fans are talking
46:42
about the fact that Gabe Taylor is coming to camp, but they for
46:47
those that don't know, they extend invites out to a bunch of
46:52
other rookies and that just weren't drafted because it's
46:56
rookie mini camp. You have to have enough people,
46:58
people out there to run drills and do different stuff.
47:01
You don't have enough people, then you can't actually run
47:04
practice, which we have had in the past during regular season,
47:07
just actual practice in general because too many guys were
47:10
banged up. So it'll be cool to see Sean's
47:12
little brother in burgundy and gold and see how it goes.
47:16
I'm not holding out a ton of hope.
47:17
He wasn't offered a contract. He's just coming out to do this,
47:20
but what did you think when you saw that?
47:22
Probably going on Instagram or X or something.
47:25
Well, you know, I've talked to him on the sidelines several
47:30
games and and he's always said that it'll be a honor to play
47:33
for the team that his brother played for and to hear that,
47:40
hey, give the kid a shot. You never know, he he could
47:44
impress you, Just you just never know.
47:47
So obviously he, he played college ball.
47:52
It's not like he, he played only high school and and is asking to
47:56
try to step up and play pro. Well, he's he, he played pretty
47:59
solidly in in college. And so give him an opportunity.
48:03
You, you never know, like people say, all they can say is no,
48:07
after some blood, sweat and tears, a good little workout.
48:11
So hey, I'm I'm more power to him.
48:14
And going back to something that you said real quick, though, I
48:18
think last year was the first year that they didn't have allow
48:21
fans to to see the rookie, rookie camp and and because we
48:26
were there two years ago. Yeah.
48:30
And I just wonder, you know, if it helps the team, I will say
48:34
I'm all for it. So you remember last year's
48:37
excuse, though? It's because they were doing all
48:39
our construction. OK.
48:40
Yeah, I you, you're right. They did say that because of the
48:43
construction. Well, that's completed now if
48:45
I'm not. Mistaken.
48:46
It's done. Construction is done.
48:47
You don't got to worry about that anymore.
48:48
So, so obviously we don't fit the bill.
48:52
And maybe no one's going except media.
48:54
And I get it. And it would have been nice.
48:56
And if any of our listeners are going out there, shoot us a
49:00
picture, let us know how you guys qualify.
49:01
We're going to blow up your spot.
49:03
Just kind of curious to see how that goes because you know, they
49:06
gave it as a perk in the past for OTAs, right?
49:09
If you're part of a season ticket holder group, you know,
49:11
do this and reminds me. I got to tell you about an
49:13
event. I'm going to a night with the
49:15
legends coming up. 1 sure if you got that invite, depending which
49:17
group you're in, But I, I wish all those, you know, young men,
49:23
good luck at training or not training camp at mini camp.
49:26
And I can't wait to hear how it goes, whether it's Connerly or
49:29
Gabe Taylor or Trey Amos, cuz I just one step closer.
49:34
You talked about the weather being here, which means we're
49:37
closer to football season. To me, seeing the guys put pads
49:40
on and being back in the facility, whether they're
49:42
rookies or our vets, it just gets me even more excited, man.
49:46
Oh, yeah, because we've got some unfinished business, definitely,
49:50
Yeah, unfinished business. And, and I think that we are
49:56
continually moving in the right direction to bring that Lombardi
50:00
back to the DMV. And I can't wait.
50:03
And also, well, let's I, I hear it.
50:06
I hear it, the music playing in the background.
50:08
Well, let's me know that we are bringing this show to an end.
50:12
Thank you guys for riding with us.
50:14
I still have hope that they will announce the overseas game
50:18
before they give us the regular season games, even if it's just
50:23
a couple of days. At this point, man, I mean, I'm
50:28
not putting money on it, especially after I lost all my
50:30
money last night at the Caps game, but yeah.
50:32
Oh, not good, not good. That'll be for another, another
50:35
time. But thank you guys for riding
50:37
with us. Thank you guys for giving us the
50:39
feedback and and obviously we are here for you.
50:42
So if you got questions on any topic of football, hey, bring
50:46
them to us. We'd love to discuss it and give
50:48
our take because that's what the DME mess hall is all about.
50:51
Remember guys, you RIP it hard or you don't RIP it at all.
50:56
Rally Captain Tailgate Ted, we will see you next week, face.