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  Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's Up, Everybody, This is
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  Speaker 1: Peter Schrager. This is the Season with Peter Schrager, and
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  Speaker 1: this is the Wednesday after the Super Bowl. If my
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  Speaker 1: voice doesn't seem as strong or as powerful as it
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  Speaker 1: usually does, it's because I've been talking working, partying, networking, eating,
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  Speaker 1: not sleeping, being in an airport, being in an airport,
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  Speaker 1: being in an airport a lot over the last eight days.
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  Speaker 1: I was mister airport on Monday, just when you thought
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  Speaker 1: you were finally done, and you have that feeling after
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  Speaker 1: like a long bachelor party, where you're like, I just
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  Speaker 1: want to get home, or you have some regrettable time
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  Speaker 1: in Vegas, like I just need to get home. I
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  Speaker 1: need to get home, I need to ge, I need
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  Speaker 1: to be in my bed, I need to be with
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  Speaker 1: my family, and then the plane is delayed four hours.
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  Speaker 1: It was only fitting after a New Orleans Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: where I was there for eight days, that we got
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  Speaker 1: every last second of that New Orleans Airport experience. Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, you could turn a lot of places
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  Speaker 1: for a recap of the game, but I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: give you a different look at it as a recap
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  Speaker 1: of the experience for someone who's on the inside, and
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  Speaker 1: that person on the inside would be me in this case,
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  Speaker 1: at a really cool week the assignments, whereas follows Monday Night.
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  Speaker 1: I had to be in there on Sunday because I
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  Speaker 1: was going to host the NFL and Fox's opening Media
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  Speaker 1: Night broadcast, which is to me, an ultimate honor short
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  Speaker 1: of calling the game, short of hosting NFL honors, short
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  Speaker 1: of being the anchor of the studio pregame show like
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  Speaker 1: a Kurt Menafee, This is a pretty cool deal super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl Week. It's the first time the fans are and
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  Speaker 1: the two teams together, and it's the only time those
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  Speaker 1: two teams are together aside from when they face off
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  Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. It's always now on Monday Night,
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  Speaker 1: and in this case, the NFL Network aired it and
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  Speaker 1: FS one simulcasted it. Now at every podium is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a star player, but that is like an
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  Speaker 1: absolute free for all. Before the players get to the podium,
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  Speaker 1: they announced both teams, and when they announced both teams,
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  Speaker 1: there was a section where I got to interview one
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  Speaker 1: of the star players as a one off. So I
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  Speaker 1: did my Homes for the Chiefs and I did Saquon
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  Speaker 1: for the Eagles. Both interviews were great, and then I
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  Speaker 1: had a really cool opportunity to be backstage while the
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  Speaker 1: five captains from both teams and the two coaches were
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  Speaker 1: hanging out before being introduced. Interesting to note, not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of co mingling although we were all in the
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  Speaker 1: same area backstage. Not a lot of small talk, not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of band There was a moment where Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: and Hurt dapted each other up, and I believe Lane
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  Speaker 1: Johnson came over and was talking to Travis Kelcey for
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  Speaker 1: a bit. But there wasn't this like jovial hug or
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  Speaker 1: this wasn't this, Hey, let's bust chops. We know each
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  Speaker 1: other from recent Pro Bowls or whatever. No, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that these teams were dialed in. And then I got
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity on television but also on that stage to
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  Speaker 1: interview Sirianni and read together. I asked Nick Sirianni, I said, hey, look, Bud,
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  Speaker 1: not in those terms, but this team was two and
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  Speaker 1: two went on the BI and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: heat around this squad. You guys rattled off sixteen of
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  Speaker 1: seventeen wins to get to this point. What changed, Sirianni said,
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  Speaker 1: we looked in the mirror, we looked at ourselves. We
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  Speaker 1: spent our bye week tightening things up, and we never
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  Speaker 1: looked back. But the body language was one that was
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  Speaker 1: either a you could view as all business and a
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  Speaker 1: guy who was so locked in for his game plan
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  Speaker 1: that he was ready to play tomorrow, or just tight
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  Speaker 1: in that Sirianni was not looking to huh and crack
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  Speaker 1: jokes and smile. Then I went to my guy with
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  Speaker 1: the Pelican shirt on, and Andy is all smiles, he's
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  Speaker 1: all warmth. And I think my question was what makes
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  Speaker 1: this team different than the team that we saw last year?
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  Speaker 1: And his whole bit was, it's different story for every team,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got DeAndre, we've got Kareem Hunt, and we've
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  Speaker 1: got new people in this building, and every team's different.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, the weight of the three peat was real,
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  Speaker 1: but Andy seemed locked and loaded and relaxed. Wednesday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: I had the amazing honor of being interviewed by a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of outlets, and after the interviews, I was asked
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  Speaker 1: to go attend Chiefs practice, something I've never done. Before
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl week practice. I got to attend Chiefs practice.
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  Speaker 1: I was a guest of Brett Veach in the Chief's
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  Speaker 1: pr department, and it was myself, it was Julian Edelman,
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  Speaker 1: it was Christina Pink, it was Kurt Menafeine, it was
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson, all from the Fox side. I was at
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs practice on Wednesday, And if you were to ask
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  Speaker 1: me Wednesday, based on all the practices I've been to
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  Speaker 1: with teams before games, and I've been to a lot
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  Speaker 1: through being with Fox and being able to go to
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  Speaker 1: production meetings, I would say the Chiefs were as dialed
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  Speaker 1: in as I've seen a team before a game in
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  Speaker 1: recent history. Like I, only the ball touched the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes was completely locked in. He came over, said hello briefly.
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  Speaker 1: Kelsey came over, said hello briefly. Andy Reid came over,
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  Speaker 1: said hello briefly. But that was it for the frivulty
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  Speaker 1: and for small talk. They ran with precision. Their defense
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  Speaker 1: looked locked in. Like I'm telling you Wednesday, I'm leaving
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  Speaker 1: that practice. I'm like, I don't know how this team loses.
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  Speaker 1: They've won seventeen straight one score games. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how this team is gonna lose socially, we got it in.
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night was a big dinner with Fox. Got to
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  Speaker 1: talk to Tom Brady for quite a bit, sat with Gronk
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  Speaker 1: and his wonderful girlfriend, Camille Edelman, Burkhart, Carissa and Aaron
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  Speaker 1: who are fantastic at what they do, and of course
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different Fox colleagues who are from behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes. That was Wednesday night, and then I went
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  Speaker 1: to the Volume party afterwards, which felt like a radio
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  Speaker 1: and television convention after dinner drinks event. I got there,
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  Speaker 1: the first person I see is Nick Wright. Talked to
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  Speaker 1: Nick for a while. I didn't realize he was starting
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  Speaker 1: a podcast up with Coward's Network on the Volume, but
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  Speaker 1: the two of us have been, you know, chiefs guys
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  Speaker 1: for the last several years, so it was fun to
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  Speaker 1: actually hang with him in a social setting. Nick's a
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  Speaker 1: cool dude. And then from there, Terrell Owens was in
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  Speaker 1: the house, talk to Teo for a bit, Kyle Van
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  Speaker 1: Noi was there, Gerald McCoy was there. Interesting scene, and
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  Speaker 1: then of course Coward was there and I talked to
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  Speaker 1: Colin for a little bit but not much. He was
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  Speaker 1: like me in and out. Had to go in there
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  Speaker 1: and make my presence felt as Colin has been very
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  Speaker 1: good to me over the years and it was cool
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  Speaker 1: to chat with him. But my takeaway going into like
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  Speaker 1: Thursday was like, I think I'm leaning Chiefs. I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm leading Chiefs. Thursday, of course, very busy day. We
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  Speaker 1: have the Fox production meeting because in addition to my
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  Speaker 1: job on Monday night with Fox Sunday, I had a
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  Speaker 1: very busy afternoon ahead. I would be starting the Fox
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  Speaker 1: NFL pregame show off. I'm the first face you see,
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  Speaker 1: and I was doing so from the Eagles team hotel,
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  Speaker 1: and my assignment was as follows, and this is my producer,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Richards, my producer Jeremy Minnel. They said, there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of talk about this game. There's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of reporting from the team hotels all
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  Speaker 1: week long. I don't want that, but Richard said, I
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  Speaker 1: want something fresh, something that no one else will have.
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  Speaker 1: And you're the first person on our air schefter. Better
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  Speaker 1: not have it in the morning rap report. Better not
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  Speaker 1: have it in the morning. You're gonna be there at
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  Speaker 1: one oh seven Eastern and you're gonna have to break
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  Speaker 1: some news or give us something fresh. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I want to do something that was up to date,
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  Speaker 1: story about you know, Cooper de Jean's path to the
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  Speaker 1: NFL is not up to date. You could write that
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  Speaker 1: on a Thursday or a Wednesday, a story about something
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  Speaker 1: that you know. Lane Johnson told me at Friday's media availability,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't really have much effect on Sunday morning. So
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  Speaker 1: my goal was I wanted to get what was inside
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  Speaker 1: the room Saturday night when Nick Sirianni addressed his team
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  Speaker 1: assigned to the Eagles. What can I give that's fresh
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  Speaker 1: for that moment? So sure enough, I'm planting all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of seeds. I'm working the phones. I know people in
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  Speaker 1: the Ogles organization, and to their credit, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: those guys, one of them who I told them afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: like I really respected it, A good friend who we
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  Speaker 1: have dealt with a lot over the years. I said,
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  Speaker 1: do me one favorite here. It's Super Bowl Sunday, it's Fox,
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  Speaker 1: it's a millions of people watching. Just let me know
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  Speaker 1: what Sirianni's key points were in his speech to the team,
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  Speaker 1: and his response to me was, Hey, team meetings are sacred, dude.
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  Speaker 1: That's one line I will never cross and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good answer. I'm like, I can't be angry.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. Of course, there were people in that room
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  Speaker 1: who were more than willing to cross that line, and
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  Speaker 1: they gave me the information. And what I got was
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  Speaker 1: a voice note, not a text, a voice note from
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  Speaker 1: a very trusted source who laid out minute by minute
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  Speaker 1: how the team meeting went and what was cool was.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout the year, Sirianni has relied on like movie clips.
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  Speaker 1: He's shown clips from like, you know, I'm just giving
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  Speaker 1: examples like you'd go to, like, you know, Chariots of
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  Speaker 1: Fire or Gladiator. Here's the movie and here's the clip,
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  Speaker 1: and Sirianni usually has some really cool message, whether it
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  Speaker 1: be based on a historical event or the thing that
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  Speaker 1: this team has been through. On Saturday night before the game,
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  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni seated the microphone. He said, I'm gonna bring
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  Speaker 1: up team leaders and anyone else who would like to speak.
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  Speaker 1: And the guys who spoke were interesting. It was of course,
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  Speaker 1: you get Saquon who gave an incredible speech, I'm told,
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  Speaker 1: and then Chauncey Gardner Johnson, who's a defensive back leader
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  Speaker 1: of that defensive back room of young talent. He spoke,
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  Speaker 1: Lane spoke. But what I loved hearing, and what was
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  Speaker 1: my big report on Sunday morning, was that Jalen Hurts,
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  Speaker 1: who was rather soft spoken for a guy of his stature,
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  Speaker 1: got up there and gave a riveting four to five
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  Speaker 1: minute speech that motivated the team and sent them on
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  Speaker 1: their way. And that was my opening hit on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: Nailed it, did it perfectly? Tossed back to Kurt Menafie
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  Speaker 1: screaming fans on Bourbon Street. I get the note in
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  Speaker 1: my ear on Sunday morning, Hey, Shrake's great job. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, did that first it? Second hits an hour later?
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  Speaker 1: Give us something else, something that's even more up to date. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it was Saquon's birthday, and I wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that the crowd knew what Saquon's morning was like on
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  Speaker 1: his birthday, and I went out of my way to
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  Speaker 1: say Saquon's with his family early on, he was at
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  Speaker 1: the team breakfast, He's getting his stuff ready together in
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  Speaker 1: the hotel. I talked his sources close to Saquon. If
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  Speaker 1: you were looking for cakes and balloons and a happy
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  Speaker 1: birthday song, it wasn't happening, locked in, ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: As someone who had never won the Pop Warner level,
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  Speaker 1: had never won a national title in high school or
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  Speaker 1: state title in high school, never won a national title
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  Speaker 1: in college, Saquon Barkley was looking to bring home his
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  Speaker 1: first title trophy that he'd ever won, besides that Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten trophy that he won at the Big Ten Conference
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  Speaker 1: with Penn State. So delivered that report. Nailed it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we could go back to Thursday, Friday, Saturday in a second,
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  Speaker 1: but I have to explain what happens on game day.
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  Speaker 1: And I was debating having on one of my Fox
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  Speaker 1: producers to go through it with me. But we finished
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  Speaker 1: that hit at the Eagles team hotel, which I could
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  Speaker 1: say now is the Hilton. They were very careful for
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  Speaker 1: us not to say where the Eagles were, saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: they're staying at the Hilton. So we then rush out
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  Speaker 1: of there at a crazy pace. And because it's a
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  Speaker 1: Fox Super Bowl, we have a a you know, a
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  Speaker 1: security guy, We've got a producer, We've got a driver,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, all right, maybe we got like some
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  Speaker 1: sort of escort. Now we got so we're sitting in
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  Speaker 1: traffic for the next you know, twenty minutes, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, get we get out of the car.
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  Speaker 1: We run from our set with our credential. We run
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  Speaker 1: from our set. I'm running through a sea of fans.
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  Speaker 1: See I see like you know, actors and celebrities like shregs.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, how are we doing, Miles Teller, Good
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  Speaker 1: to see you. Like I'm running like I'm just we
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  Speaker 1: got to get to the set because I still had
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  Speaker 1: two hits that we're gonna be at the super Dome
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  Speaker 1: outside and those are happening in like thirty minutes. So
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  Speaker 1: me and my producer Chuck McDonald and our security guy, Scott.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get Scott's last name, but if you're a
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  Speaker 1: security guy who worked with Fox at the super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: and you're a dude out of Fort Lauderdale, you know
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  Speaker 1: who you are. Scott. Hell of a job we navigated.
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  Speaker 1: We ran from the Hilton to the super Dome. I'm
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  Speaker 1: in like terrible like you know, brown shoes that you
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  Speaker 1: would wear to a bar mitzvah or a wedding. I'm
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  Speaker 1: running in my suit. I get there. We arrived, securities
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  Speaker 1: waiting for us. I get on a golf cart, zoom
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  Speaker 1: up there. Get into the green room at Fox and
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  Speaker 1: it's Edelman, it's Gronk, it's Eli, it's Peyton, Marshaun Lynch
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  Speaker 1: is hanging out, Chris's in there, and then we bang out,
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: you know, two different you know, pregame hits and in
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  Speaker 1: my last pregame hit with like fifty million people watching,
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  Speaker 1: I look to the camera and I'm like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Montana had one of his best career games in
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  Speaker 1: this building in the Super Bowl. Tom Brady won his
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  Speaker 1: first Super Bowl and had one of his most dramatic
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  Speaker 1: wins in this building. In the Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: is going for three straight. It is something to do
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  Speaker 1: it in this building. And I look at the camera
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, and I have no doubt he will.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what he did not He had his worst
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  Speaker 1: game as a pro. Social stuff will come in the
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  Speaker 1: last part of this podcast with my interview with my
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  Speaker 1: guy that I'm going to bring on shortly, but I
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  Speaker 1: just want to tell you about the post game then,
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  Speaker 1: because I had this wild ride the game itself. I
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  Speaker 1: watch in a green room underneath the super Dome and
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  Speaker 1: that's with straight Han Terry. How we all the Fox
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  Speaker 1: guys were basically in a sports bar that they built
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  Speaker 1: for us, and there's TVs up there, and it's one
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  Speaker 1: of these deals where I'm kind of like still the
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  Speaker 1: rookie on the team, so I'm not trying to chime
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  Speaker 1: in with my thoughts, but straight hand shouting out his observations,
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  Speaker 1: Howie Long shouting out his observations. Then at halftime it's
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  Speaker 1: a blowout. They rush out to the field. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do their show, but I wanted to see Kendrick Lamar.
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  Speaker 1: Admittedly not a Kendrick guy, Like they don't have a
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  Speaker 1: history with Kendrick obviously. I know the music, and I
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  Speaker 1: know his place in the culture, and I know that
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  Speaker 1: the NFL was gonna, you know'll pump this up as
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  Speaker 1: much as possible. So I'm like, I've got it. If
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the building, we're gonna go sit and watch
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  Speaker 1: this thing. So me, Vick, and Woodson couldn't imagine a
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: better duo to go with. We sneak onto the field,
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  Speaker 1: Edelman joins us, it's the four of us, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you it was cool. It was great. Like there's
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  Speaker 1: a wild scene out there, but you don't get the
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  Speaker 1: same experience in the building as you do at home.
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  Speaker 1: I then watched it on YouTube and thirty two million
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  Speaker 1: people have and it's amazing choreographic excellence and in his rappings,
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  Speaker 1: great whatever, and it's a fantastic show. And Serena's that
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  Speaker 1: like when you're out there and I'm among stadium workers,
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  Speaker 1: who are you know, singing all the lyrics, but like
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  Speaker 1: you can't see, so I'm just on the field, like
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  Speaker 1: this is cool, this is loud. I know, the not
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  Speaker 1: like us be is coming throughout. I'm like, this is great,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, but I can't wait to watch this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on the back end. And I did, and obviously you
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  Speaker 1: see that it was successful. It was the most widely
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  Speaker 1: viewed and highest rated halftime show of all time, all
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  Speaker 1: right back to the green room blowout. Game is over.
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  Speaker 1: But my job is to do all the on field
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  Speaker 1: interviews for Fox's post game, and I am like a
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  Speaker 1: bulldog in those situations. I will say this right now,
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  Speaker 1: nobody is better in these situations than me. I'm big,
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  Speaker 1: i use my elbows, I've got a Fox camera, and
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  Speaker 1: I've got the official credential that I'm the guy. So
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  Speaker 1: as much as I love some of those ESPN reporters,
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  Speaker 1: and the the NFL network reporters like don't get in
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  Speaker 1: my way postgame, and we got so many great interviews,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a crying Brandon Graham, who is the heart
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  Speaker 1: and soul of this team, A teary eyed Howie Roseman afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: like moments after the architect got his second super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: ring having beaten now Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes and
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: super Bowls. And then I rattle them off like Mackay
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  Speaker 1: Beckton when you see that clip of him line on
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  Speaker 1: the field, that's me interviewing him covered in confetti, like
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  Speaker 1: I got dirty. I lied down next to Mackay and
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  Speaker 1: Mackay Junior. If you're a Jets fan, you know his
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  Speaker 1: story four years considered a bust. You know we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to resign him. Sure enough, they move him the
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  Speaker 1: right guard, Jeff Stoutlin and the boys get him going
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  Speaker 1: and he's now a super Bowl champion. Dallas Goddard, we
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: led an Eagles eag l e s chant with the
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: fans on Fox, and then I do what I do.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I get the celebrities. Amazing interview with Bradley Cooper. He
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: only did one after the game. He didn't want to
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: be the story but he was wanting to do it
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: with me. We've got a very very small relationship. There's
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: recognition there. He did it, and then Miles Teller sought
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: me out. I sought him out and we did an
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: amazing one where Miles I mean, he's been on Good
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Morning Football close to five times probably, and I've seen
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: him at parties. I saw him at the Fanatics party
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the day before, and like, you know, Miles Teller is
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: a very famous actor, and he's a very accomplished actor.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Between Whiplash and Maverick, that's the two of the biggest
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: movies you'll see in the last fifteen years. He's also
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: a awesome dude, like and a guy that I want
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: to like hang out with and have a drink with.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: So we do the interview and immediately Miles goes into
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: not Hollywood actor mode, but like he's an NFL network
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: or Fox Sports analyst. He's breaking down. He's like, shrinks,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: do you realize that Mahomes had twenty three yards in
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the first half and the Eagles had twenty four points
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: in the first half. And he's like, you know what,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I actually appreciated the fact that we didn't rely on
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Saquone of course we had to because DeVante and aj
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: had their matchups like broke it down, and then I
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: was like, all right, right, enough of this. This is
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: this interview is getting along with Miles Teller as the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: next uh Dan Orlowski breaking down film. I'm like, Miles,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: where are we partying? He's like, I'm parting with the team.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: He's like, I've been here for four days, probably two
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: days too long, but I got a little bit of
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: juice left, and that clip of him saying I got
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: a little bit of juice left went on Instagram and
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: went nuts and gosh, that's what I love doing. Get
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: back to the crew at the desk. We say goodbye
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: to Michael Vick because he's now going to be the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: head coach in Norfolk State. I've worked with Michael Vick
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: for the last eight years. I've hung out with Michael
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Vick the last twenty two Sundays and twenty two Saturdays
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: for the last eight years of my life. He is
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: a brother. We got to say goodbye to Michael. As
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: we're saying goodbye, we're walking off set and again it's Fox,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: so we're like souped up to the nines like they've
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: done these like rehearsals for three weeks. They know everything
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: every in and out of the Super Dome. So we
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: have a golf cart that's going to take us from
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the set back to the dressing room. We're going to
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: change into casual clothes, and a golf cart is going
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: to take us and escort us to a car that's
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: going to have some detail to it, and we're gonna
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: be able to get back to our hotel pretty seamlessly.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: As we're getting off that golf cart, I see this
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: gentleman who is easily in his sixties, and he's kind
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: of walking by in like a like a quarter zip
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: fleece that you would see like Eli or Payton wearing
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: on the Manning cast. And he's got like a Super
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Bowl champion hat in his hand, but he's not wearing it.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, holy, that's Vic Fangio alone walking around
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the bowels of the Superdome. Vic Fangio coached his first
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: season in the NFL in nineteen eighty six, and non ironically,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: non coincidentally, whatever it is, he coached the New Orleans
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Saints defense and they were used to be called the
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Dome Patrol, and they had this great linebacking corps of
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Ricky Jackson and Vaughn Johnson and Pat Swilling and Sam Mills,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the late great Sam Mills, and he was their linebackers
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: coach and then he was the coordinator. And that was
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty six, and Fangio's career spans thirty eight
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: years in the NFL, and he had never won a ring.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: He had coached in that same building twelve years ago
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: for the Niners as their defensive coordinator and came up
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: short obviously in that game against the Ravens and the Harbowl,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, holy crap, Vic Fangio. And then I'm like,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: where are you going? Vic? He's like going to the
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: team buses, but they don't leave in a little bit.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I go, okay, and I'm with Carrissa and Chrissa Thompson's like, Vic,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: do you want to ride with us back to our
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: hotel and we'll drop you off. He's like sure. So
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the night he won a Super Bowl after thirty eight
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: years of waiting, Vic Fangio sat next to Peter Schrigger
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: in a car ride that took twenty five minutes in
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: traffic with Carrissa Thompson Julian Edelman, Charles Woodson, and Michael
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Vick with us pepperingham questions and him just like soaking
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: it all in that he was finally a Super Bowl champion.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Vic Fangio see next to me. I'm asking Vic Fangio about, like,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: tell me about the ninety six Panthers with Lamar Lathan
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and Samuel He's like, Sreger, you know too much. I'm like, no,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I love this stuff. Vic was excited to do it
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: and was happy to win, but like there was no
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: like great like emotion of like crying or elation play
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: winning a super Bowl. Happy for him. We drop him
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: off because there's so much traffic. He's like, just let
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: me out. He was going to the team party where
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Sexy Red is going to perform, and we drop him
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: off on the middle of Canal Street, literally, Vic Fango,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: with no security, no credential to nothing. We drop off
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Vic Fangio in the middle of Canal Street with like
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: a solid mile for him to walk alone back to
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the Hilton, and he did so with not a single
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: fan stopping him on the street. He just walked, just
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: walked briskly and got to the hotel and then was
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: partying with everybody else. One more shout out for someone
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: who won. I gave Howie his love. But I've become
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: really close with Bob Lang over the years. Bob Lang
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: runs PR for the forty nine Ers. If Vic Fangio
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: had a cool story, Bob Lang's got a cool one too.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: So anytime you need to line up an interview with
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Sirianni or Saquan or Jalen Hurts, you have to go
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: through like the gatekeeper, and the gatekeeper's Bob.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I got to know Bob Lang his first stint with
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the Eagles back when Andy was the coach and Bob
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: was working for the Eagles from like two thousand to
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: like two thousand and eight, actually it might have been
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: ninety eight to two thousand and eight. Where his years
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: with the Eagles, there's always the assistant PR guy. He
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: then took a job with a terrible forty nine Ers
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: team to go run the forty nine Ers PR team. Well,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: in that whole window is when they bring on Harbaugh,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: they get you know, Alden Smith and Justin Smith, and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: then Frank Gord develops into who he is and Kaepernick
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: comes in for Alex Smith and they go to all
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: these different you know, big games, the NFC Championship in
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So he went with Andy for all
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: of those early years where the Eagles couldn't get over
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the hump where they would go to the conference championship
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: game every year and they would lose to the Buccaneers
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and the Rams, and then they would win and they
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: would beat the eat the Falcons, and they went to
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, but they lost to the to the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: to the Patriots, of course, and then they went back
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: to the NFC Championship game against the Cardinals that year
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: they lose. So he had all these NFC Championship appearances.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Then he goes to the forty nine ers where they
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: went to the NFC Championship game every year, played the Seahawks.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: They they would lose, you know, all these years they
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: would go to the NFC Championship game with the forty
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: nine ers, goes to the Super Bowl with the forty
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: nine Ers as he did with the Eagles, and loses there.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Then he comes back to the Eagles in twenty twenty one,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: so he misses the Eagles winning their Super Bowl in
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. Member head of pr comes back to the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Eagles and he's with them since twenty twenty one, So
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: what do we have in twenty twenty one, We got,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you know, another Super Bowl appearance in twenty you know,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, they come all the way to the end,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: they lose, and then he gets to go all the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: way again. So in total, he had been to ten
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: conference championship games and four Super Bowls before even entering
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty nine. And Bob tells me this, and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I'm like, holy crap, I gotta do this story. Bob,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: you're the loved in the league. You're the one who
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: broke up the Jim Schwartz Harball fight, Like did all this,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: You're like a beloved guy as far as a as
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: a pr chief goes like, don't say a word about
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: do not. I'm like, it's the funniest thing. Bob is always,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: you know, spreading the word and trying to protect his guys,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: but also be proactive with the media and Eagles and
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: setting narratives and making sure that we get the right
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: stuff out with the Eagles Autism group and all the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: stuff they do. And yet when it came to this,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: he was super sensive. He's like, do not mention this
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: it's not about me. Well, yesterday I had to put
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the tweet out, uh, because on the field there's pandemonium.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I'm one of the only reporters allowed on the field,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and it's Hurts and it's Saquon and it's Lane Johnson
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and it's my Alatta and it's all these guys. And
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I see Big Dom and Big Tom. I don't know
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: if he want this out there. Big Dom's got a
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: little twinkle in his eye. I could tell he was
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: pretty emotional. He was excited. And then I see Bob Lang,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: who's just doing his job, and I stop him and
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I look him right in the eyes, and Bob's got
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: this little this beard and I look him. I go, Bob, Bob, Bob.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: He's like, yes, straight track. They go, You're a super
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Bowl champion, Bro, and he's like, I love you, buddy,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: gives me a hug. It was a cool moment for
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: someone that you've been working alongside in different capacities with
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: and it's that. That's the super Bowl to me, it's
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: that moment. And to see Bob Lang forget Saquon, that's
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: an amazing story that we're going to celebrate for the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: rest of time. To see Bob Lang like an unknown
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: national name by any means, and a guy who even
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the Eagles fans probably don't know because he's so behind
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the scenes. But to see him finally get a Super
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Bowl victory, like that's the special stuff. Then I put
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: out a tweet yesterday and I put a tweet out
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: about Beckton about him getting one, and that got like
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: seventeen thousand retweets. I put one out about Bob and
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: it got about twenty retweets. But I care more about
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the latter because I know the journey that he's been on.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I was all over the place super Bowl Week. I
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: went to some really cool events, and if you're going
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: for the football analysis, you'll get it. But I wanted
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to bring on a guest this week, and a guy
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: who I've known for many years, and a guy who
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I love, who is also a behind the scenes force
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: in putting on the Super Bowl Week in a way
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: that makes it memorable, in a way that makes it
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: pop out, in a way that makes it one of
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: one compared to all these other events that you see
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: during the calendar year. With no further ado, I want
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to bring on our guests for the week. He is
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: one of the greatest publicity men in the world. But
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I also look at him as just a connected dude
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: who knows how to get the party going. He is
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the founder of Burke Communications and a University of Miami
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Diehard maybe the biggest Miami fan I know. He's also
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: fresh off a crazy week. We're going to go through it,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: mister Ron Berkowitz. Ron, what's up baby?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Hey Peter, thanks for having me.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Man. I was gonna wear my Rayos grid Iron Club jacket,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: but I can't even find it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I already wore it on Monday football. Ron.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Let's first, before we get into the week, let's first
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: describe who you are. For those if you were to
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: get in an elevator and say, all right, Ron Burkwitz,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: you've got your own company. Is it PR is it events?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Is it marketing? Tell us quickly who you are, your story,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and really what your company does from the grand scheme?
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Sure, well, I mean we do all that PR, marketing
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: and events.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Uh, we represent you know, some of the best and
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: biggest in sports entertainment, you know, and and around the world.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Really corporate companies and people from you know, Meek Mill
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: and Robert Kraft and Alex Rodriguez to the Carolina Panthers,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: and David Tepper and Nicole Tepper to Michael Rubin and
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: all his fanatics brands, tops Lid's, Mitchell Andess fanatics and
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: everything in between, so we kind of handle a little
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: bit of everything. Super Bowl Week for us is pretty insane.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Not only you know, do we have clients like Reyo's.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: There do pop ups which we'll talk about, but but
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: you know, we have a ton of players that we
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: do media tours for all week long, which you know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: you guys see all week when these players are are
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: promoting something that they're representing, plus the game, so it's
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: a it's a pretty awesome week for us, and we
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: get to hang out with guys like you man and
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: have some fun.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Like when I see your face, like a smile gets
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: onto my grill so big and wide because I feel
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: like I only see you in my most euphoric moments
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: like fun. I think of ron, I think of fun.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: And for you, it's work, like you are working. And
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: you mentioned very humbly, very modestly, that you know you're
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: involved with the fanatics in Michael Rubin world. Well, the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: biggest events at the Super Bowl are hosted by Michael
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Rubin and Fanatics and the first one I'll never get
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: to because it's like a very exclusive room. Ever, well,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I'm happy with my place in the in the in
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the Fanatics friends sphere. But I would say there's there's
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: obviously the White Party in the summer, and then there's
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: a super Bowl party on Saturday. But there is a
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: brunch that Fanatics puts on that Michael Rubin's hosts, that
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Michael Rubin hosts. That is a very exclusive room that
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I think is something that is not as well publicized
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and well advertised and as well celebrated that you have
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to help organize and put on. Can you take us
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: through the Michael Rubin Brunch, who's in that room and
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: really what the gist of it is?
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, in a two thousand and
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: twenty in Miami, Michael and Casey Wasserman put this together
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: for the first time. It was their lunch that they
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: decided we're going to put together in one room the
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: one hundred most influential people in sports entertainment business that
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: are at Super Bowl. And it isn't publicized, It isn't
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: something that Michael wants to put out there. You know,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: people post photos on their Instagram and that's kind of
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: how it gets out there.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Or they tweet stuff or whatever it is.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: But it is a amazing room. I mean, you walk into
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: that room and you have you know, Hans Vesper from
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: the CEO of ver Eizen, to Tom Brady to obviously Michael,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: and Governor Josh Shapiro from the State of Pennsylvania, Howie Roseman,
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: you know, great players. It's you know, it's pretty awesome.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: This year when I walked in, it was actually it
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: was actually pretty funny. I came in, you know, it
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: was Friday. I get in there a little bit early
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: to just at our you know, photographers that Michael has
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: make sure they know what they're doing and and we
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: use all this obviously is to get it for everybody else,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: like we're not putting those photos out there again, like
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: the guests want pictures of each other talking together. It's
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: it's pretty unique. So I walk in there and the
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: only people in the restaurant are are Peyton and Archie Man.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: You're just sitting there there like a half early early
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: half an hour at least, this was probably forty five
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: minutes early.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: And I walk in and Archie I got just this
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: biggest smile.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: He's like, oh, Ron, He's like, you know because I
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: just left him the night before him Cooper and Eli
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: at REOs on Thursday night, and when we left that party,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: by the way, and Archie, who you know, had the
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: you know, the demanding's, had the time of their lives.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: I think this week through the Kings of New Orleans, like,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: I mean there the only ridiculous thing is that the
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Hall of Fame doesn't put Eli in while they're in
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: New Orleans.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I think that, I mean, they should shut down the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Hall of.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Fame just put them in a lot of a lot
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: of issues with that different podcast for that one, but
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: that family obviously they're literally obviously like the first family
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: of the NFL, but in that city.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: They own it. And Archie turns and he looks at
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: me and he was like, last night was pretty fun, huh.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I go, yeah, it was great.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: I go, honestly, like, Cooper is incredible. And Cooper was
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: on stage at the Rayos pop up and playing with
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: the Barnstormers, which was the house band.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: They were amazing.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: They were to get into all the rails stuff. Ye
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: hear about Cooper because I work with him at Fox,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and I love the guy.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Archie coast to Peyton because Peyton wasn't there. He was
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: the only man not there. And Archie goes to Peyton.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: He goes, you're idiot, brother, jumps on stage things, he
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: could play like four instruments and just took over the
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: whole party. And I'm like, uh, actually he played the
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: harmonica pretty damn well, pretty good. And he played the
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: washboard even though he had it on backwards, but he
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: was like old school wa washboard and singing. I mean
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: he really. I mean, look, I don't think it's any
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: secret that he's the most and the most talented Manning
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: on a personality side. Peyton might argue that, but but
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: he is Cooper Manning is the life of the party.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: He really is. And it was incredible. I just thought
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: it was so funny.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: How at the you know, at the start of this
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: lunch where the first one is there and he you know,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: they've been there a little bit, and I walk in
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: and they start talking. You know, he's like, oh, it
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: brought him back to last night at REO's and and
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: they go through that story.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the lunch is, the lunch is amazing.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: I don't you know, I don't know what kind of
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: deals get done there, but I will guarantee you a lot.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Of deals get done there.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Casey and Michael do an incredible job of put of
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: of putting this room together.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: You know, like I said, you have you know, Travis
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Scott and.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Meek Mill sitting with Robert Kraft and and and Gail
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: King and and Sierra. It's an incredible table, right Like
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: then you look and you look over there's another table.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: It's like Archie Manning and and Dean Spanos and and
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: you know it's it's it's pretty amazing.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: So you know, that really kicks off the week for us.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: On let me ask some questions from your side of this.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: So is it? And like you know, I saw Burrow
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: was posting photos from there, and obviously there's photos of
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Peyton Manning there, like that's royalty from
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: the NFL. But you mentioned that the CEO of Horizons there.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: You've got all these NFL owners there. You've also got
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: like Rich Kleinman in the NBA contingent there, you got
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: like the Rooks is there. So there's some media there.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Your role in this thing if it's not to promote it.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Are you helping with like the logistics making sure these
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: people are getting in Okay? Are they hitting you up NonStop?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Like Hey, I need to get into the lunch, Like
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: what's your role in that world? Because everyone shows up
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and has a blast, But I know it takes a
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: month to set this thing up.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean listen, I as far as the lunch goes,
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, Michael has an incredible events team that puts
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: it together, and you know they're probably on a plane
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: next week to San Francisco to start to look for
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: the next VEX years.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: In this particular case, it was done at Antoine's in
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: New Orleans, which I believe is the oldest restaurant in
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: New Orleans.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Like eighteen forty pictures.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Looked awesome too. It had this old school like warehouse
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: feel almost to it.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: It's really really cool, really cool. So they do really
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: the bulk of the work.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: My job really is to just make sure, you know,
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: inside like just kind of connect and make sure people
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: are good and kind of keep an eye on things
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: and make sure you know it's it's moving in the
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: right direction. But then also make sure we get the
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: right photos for what people want, right, Like you know,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: it's to your point. You get you get Archie Manning,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Peyton Manning, Tom Brady in a photo together. It's pretty cool, right,
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: and then you get Robert Kraft and and Tom together
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: and you get you know, these these different these different
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: people from different whether it's the same walks of life
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: for different walks of life together to me is pretty amazing.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: And like you said, you know, different years, it's different things.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: It depends who's there, right, So there's sometimes is a
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: larger basketball contendency in Phoenix for example, like you could
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: have a Kevin Durant walk into the party because they
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: were in.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Phoenix, right.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: So the New Orleans Pulicans were on the road this year,
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: so they weren't there. But so it just depends on
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: on who's in town and what's going on. But you know,
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: you know, you have the Friday before Super Bowl to
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: have Tom Brady, who's broadcast.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: In the game, and as you know, the way he prepares.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: For it, were and we were busy as with the Fox,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: like we had everything.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: You know, he came for about an hour and he
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: usually stays the entire time. You got to go right first,
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: you brought. He goes, I gotta go watch film. He goes,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: I'm watching more film now than I was when I
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: was playing, because you really got to understand. But you
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: have Goodell there before the game. You have the owners
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: there before the game. You know Howie walks in before
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: the game. The Clark Kant was there. Like these guys
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: are during the biggest game of their life and they're there,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: you know. So it shows obviously the respect for Michael,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: but also what Michael and Casey can do to bring
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: these people together.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: And again it's this.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: This was the I guess the fifth year, and it
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: you know, every year it gets better and every year
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: it is to your point. Yeah, I get hit up
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: a lot for that lunch. That lunch is because you know,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: I'm getting into that lunch. Michael does that all himself.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: He he made he pulls him and Casey pull each
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: person in. That's how it works.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's personally from them because I am sure
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: there are people that are on the fringe who have
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: hit you up. And it's a very awkward conversation to
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: be like, guy, I don't I don't have any help here,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: and also like this is really awkward. How do I
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: tell you, you're just not influential enough.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: I'm being honest.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: I literally don't even try. I mean, you can use
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: this and say for the next time, like, don't even
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: call me, Like I don't even make the call.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: You know, listen, if it's.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: You know, if it's the governor of you know, uh, Louisiana,
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: I'll make the call. There there is you know, if
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: it is Shack wouldn't have the problem anyway, he's been here.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: But like I would make the call. But there's very
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: it's a very fine line. But those people that you
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: were talking about, they're talking to Michael and Casey every day.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: They're in that crew.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: And it's but that really kicks it off for me
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: and for the week, I think, because that's you know
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: a lot of people get in their Thursday Thursday night
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: and that's like the first big, big one, all right.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: So then the bonanza is Saturday afternoon, and I am
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: not you know, I don't kiss heinie. It's my favorite
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: event of the Super Bowl when I can get there.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Last year I couldn't get there in Vegas. I had
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: work stuff. This year, I brought my wife. The fanatics
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: party of the Super Bowl. It is a treat. It
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: is a blast. I will tell you why. Everyone it's
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: a massive party, but it's also chill. Everyone's in their
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: casual clothes and you can wear t shirt and jeans
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: or you could wear a suit, whatever you want. And
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: inside in that inner circle it is the most influential
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: people in sports and media. But I like to hang
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: out in the outside and guess what a cool crowd
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: there as well. Take us into the fanatic Saturday party.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: The booking of guests who performed, and this year's in particular.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, I think Michael has created the ultimate,
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: the ultimate party. You can't pay to get in. People
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: try and pay to get in.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: Hundreds of people have offered a hundred thousand dollars to
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Michael to buy tables to it doesn't It doesn't work.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Again curated by Michael Invite only. It's not like these
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: other big parties. Not that there's anything wrong with those,
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: but there's those are paid to play and this is
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: you o to be invited. So even at twelve hundred people,
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: you know it is. It is a twelve hundred person
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: VIP list as as it can go.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: This year in particular was it was amazing.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: I mean it was perfect Ron, It's like it was amazing.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: There's an inside and an outside. And if it's too
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: loud inside, which I'm an old man, like, you just
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: go outside. It was still great there.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was the space was great. Again,
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Michael's events team did a great job because I was outside.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: It's Chris Malone, Travis, Scott, meek Mill. I mean there
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: was there was ten performers. But you know, the the
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: performance at Michael's parties have become they but they literally
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: become music festivals. It's not we start with three performers
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: and we end up with twelve. I mean, it's it's
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: but again, that's such a it's such a great nod
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: to Michael and his relationships because a lot of these
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: people are just.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Jumping on right. They don't they just want to be
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: part of it, part of the event.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: And and I mean, you know, Peter, because you've come
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: every you know, like you said, you didn't come last
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: year because it worked, but like most years, you're there,
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: you know, not to blow your spot up, but you
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: come with Paul Rudd, the biggest chief fan. You bring
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: you know, you bring, you bring some people in. It's
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: nobody bothers anyone in there. It's not like it's not
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: a fan you know, a fan fest kind of thing.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Like everyone's a mutual appreciation. That's what it is.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: And and what I think Michael and the Fanatics team
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: do so well is they really great about activating their
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: brands inside.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: So you can get your top one of one trading card.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: You could spin a wheel for Fanatics bed and get
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: you know, some money on your account. You can you
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: can get a custom hat Lid's Hats, Like it's really
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: cool and not in an obnoxious way. The other thing is,
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: which I've always appreciated for what Michael and Fanatics have done.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: It's not a branded party.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: It's not sponsored by X and here's mony like that's
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: never what it's been about.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: It's been about his brand and what they do.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: And they own the day, right, I mean it's Saturday afternoon,
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: two to seven.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: They own that day. By the time you're done with
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: that day, you're pretty exhausted, like you're good, like you
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: don't need to do anything.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, I saw you at the Rails pop up
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: that night, like I was ready to go to bed,
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: like I're out of there.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: I mean it was I was exhausted.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Let thet go through. Come of some of the funny conversations.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: So like David Tepper's the owner of the Panthers. Usually
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: when I'm dealing with him, it's in a professional manner.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Here he is with Nicole, his lovely wife. He's in
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: a you know. And the actor David Brianis from the
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: show Bones is there and I'm talking to David bis
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: is an ego spind alright, And David Tepper comes over
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: and gives me a giant bear hug. And then I
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: introduced the two of them now and then from like
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: the corner comes over, you know, Joe Burrows there, so
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: he comes in. The conversation was me Joe Burrow, David Tepper,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: and David borrianis the actor that doesn't happen anywhere else.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, it doesn't listen again, I Michael brings these
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: people together. There was a there was a photo I
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: saw that came across from one of the photographers in
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: the party. It was Burrow, Chase Odell, Beckham, Livy Dunn, like.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: You know, you know, I'm probably I'm missing some but
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: there was like.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson, they were all there, justin Jefferson Malik neighbors.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Like there was this this like LSU connection there that
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: was like, oh my god.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: And by the way, what also was really cool was
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: the Paul Skins won on one card, which you probably
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: heard about where I've heard all out, Yeah it pulled.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: It was on display there.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: Paul never saw it, so we had it there because
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: the kid's gonna auction it, I believe, and uh, Livy
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: Dunn and Michael brought it on the carpet to Livy
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: and Paul to show it to him, and Paul trying
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: to put in his pocket and get out, but sure
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: want what do we do it? My god, this is
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: the like this is the one of one card. It
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: was really really cool. I mean, there's a lot of
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: great things there. You're you know, you had uh uh
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Matt Lionard and Jerry Ferrara live on the carpet for
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: their podcast.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: We should have your podcast live for the carpet. Let's
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: just let's just keep.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: It popped in with those guys. I love liner.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: And there was the card vault was ripping packs of
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: cards and one on one cards, and you had Robert
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: Craft opening cards, and you had post Malone opening cards
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: and Diplow opening cards. It was. It's just really like
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: a fun event, right And and again it's that room
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: you walk in and you see those conversations and you
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: see those people and you know it's like Pete Davidson
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: and Kevin Costner likes best friends over the weekend, Like
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: where does that come from?
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: You saw him at dinner at Rao's that night too.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: They were together at dinner, but I don't think they've
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know if they've met, but they weren't, like
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: they didn't go to her together.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I'll give you more, give you more great because like
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: this is the stuff that listeners they can get their
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: football breakdowns from better people than me, but like to
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: be in the room and I don't. It's like brag
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: that I was in there. It's just really cool. Like
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Paul Rudd and I were rolling together, and Jeffrey Ross,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: the comedian, the roast Master, so he's with us. So
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: it's the three of us. And then Miles Teller comes
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: over and Paul knows Miles, I don't know. They were
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: they're in some fancy football together. So you've got this
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: great crew and I'm there obviously. And then Big Dom
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: or Dom had never met Paul Rudd. Paul Rudd never
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: met Dom. I'm introducing Dom to Paul Rudd, and it's like,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: this is just think about the Venn diagram of just
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: like the world, and it's like that's that's where that's
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: und Dom is.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: He's literally like the biggest celebrity there. He is.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, everyone wants a picture.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Really funny with him.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Uh. There was a point I looked over and the
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: tempers were talking with Governor Shapiro from Pennsylvania.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Eli was in that mix.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: And Dom walked over with Uh, he walked over with
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Pete Davidson and Dave Yeah, and they and they came
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: up and they were he introduced him. You know, Nicole
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: grabs Dom. Nicole devergrab's Dom. She loves everybody loves Dom
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: and but he's like the glue and it's you know,
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: it's pretty awesome to see to see that, and but
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: to your point, it's like seeing all these people together
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: and look the inside of that party was so dynamic,
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: like who was there and who ends up talking to who,
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: and who ends up becoming friends with who is is
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: and or doing deals is pretty amazing. Like that to
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: me is like the most amazing part because everybody is
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: moving around.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: I mean it's a you know, it's not that party
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: where you go you.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Sit in one vip a, everyone's looking at everybody, everybody's
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: at vi p and everybody's moving all in and around
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: the party. And then once the once the performances start,
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: which is about an hour and a half of you know,
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: music festival. You know that that Betty does a great
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: job of helping put together from the music.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Let's give her some love, Betty.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: So you know there's a there's a great team of people.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Again, like I said, you have Florenca from Michael's team
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: who puts all the who puts all the the the
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: entire event together from the food, from the set up
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: to everything. And you have Betty does music, and you
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: have you know, Michael's got a whole team led by
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: you know, Jamie Solomon who puts together different things from Michael.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: It's it really is uh when you know when people
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: say there's a team effort there. I mean, look, it
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: is not easy.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: To put a party like I can't imagine.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: It is not easy. There's a lot of planning. You
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: have to go find the right space, that space, I
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: mean we talked about a space. That space was the
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: best space in New Orleans.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: It was incredible. It was in the middle of a
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: park and it was just like perfect giant warehouse that
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: was empty and it was convenient.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: It was like and like I just thought, you know,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: if you think about two weeks before it was a
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: blizzard in New.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Orleans, that's crazy.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: It could have been you know, you just get lucky, right,
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: it could have been at you said it was outside
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: inside party, but it was open air, right, So like
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: you know, a lot of events I went to over
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: the weekend. It was hot, it was gross. It was
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: this pack you jammed in. You're in these little spaces.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: That space could have held four thousand people and again
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: we only put twelve hundred in there.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, my wife, My wife was with man. She's
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: not like one of these, like you know, starstrucks. She's
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: not into that at all. She's sitting there and she
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: taps me on the should look behind you, and Shack
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: walks by, and my wife's four foot eleven shack walks by.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: And then the conversation was cool because I've bring because
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: I was with Mike Turico, who's hobbling around on his
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Achilles and his little scooter. For Mike, it's me, it's Turrico.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: And then you know, overcomes Shack, Shack and Tarico of
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: a relationship, so it's does and then a cool contingent
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: of Bobby Wagner, Bryce Young Jaden Daniels get in the mix.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I'm like, again, now it's Wednesday.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: Picture. He was in that one.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he was in it. Annow, it's Wednesday, and
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: it's like, you know, it didn't met in the moment,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: I'm just having a conversation with a bunch of guys.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: But you know, in the now that it's Wednesday, I
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: look back, I'm like, that's the most ridiculous, Like roote
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: and like Bobby Wagner's talking to me about Walter Payton,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: man of the ear Initiatives and how he wants to
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: advance it. And then Shack and Tarrico we're talking about
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: broadcasting because Rico's coming back to NBC, and Shack, of
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: course is with inside the NBA. And then you've got
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels, who's the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: and through my relationship with Cliff like he knows who
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: I am. So we're talking very cool. My coolest moment
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: though from me. My son listens to Shahboozy all day long,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: all night long, love Shaboozy.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: I have a podcast with iHeart that we're doing this
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: on and they had the iHeart you know the Christmas
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: concert Jason, what's it called jingle Ball? And through my asks,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: I get two great tickets to jingle Ball or three
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: great tickets. IM gonna tak my wife and my son
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: and Ron bear with me on this story. It's long,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: but do you like where it goes? And my son
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: doesn't give a crap about Meghan Trainer or Katy Perry.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: It is to see Chaboozy. He wants to see Shaboozi.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: He's eight years old. This is gonna be everything. My
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: wife's like, we gotta do this. The day of my
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: wife is like deathly ill my son. It's the middle
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: of December, and like I have to call the iHeart guys.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm sorry, I can't go. Feel terrible table
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: to my legs. Sure enough, we're at your party. We're
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: at the Fanatics party. My wife and I are talking
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: and as it's like Chris Johnson, the owner of the Jets,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: his wife Doris, it's my wife, it's me and the
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: four of us. And then as we're talking, incomes Shaboozie
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: just walks right behind us. And I didn't stop him,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: didn't do anything. He stops for a second. He's having
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: a conversation and I got a picture of my wife
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: just smiling in front of Shaboozi. We show it to
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: our son. It's the greatest moment in the world. That's
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: what I wanted. That is it. I don't want to
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: talk to him, don't want to bother him. Busy guy
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: could could not have been cooler.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Shaboozi definitely had a good time. You know, it's funny.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: When he was leaving on the carpet, Michael has a
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: like a huge trading card on the red carpet. The
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: carpet was actually blue, so we'll call it the blue carpet.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: On the blue carpet, and everybody that walks the carpet
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: signs it. And I guess Shaboozie he didn't. I don't
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: think he walked the carpet. I think he just popped in.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: He walked around the tent, and so when he was leaving,
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: he wanted to sign it, so he came back in.
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: He ripped a couple of cards because I was right
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: near that, and then signed the thing and he was like,
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: you know, of course I want to sign this thing.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Where's the bullpen? And you know it's it's it's pretty cool.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: You know. One thing on Shack.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: You know, Shock comes to all the events, all the
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: Fanatics events usually, and he was in a phenomenal mood
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: on Saturday.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Was he not the life of the party. He was
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: so friendly.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: And he I'm going to tell you he did our
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: carpet for about thirty minutes and that never happens. Not
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: anything against him, right, he just like because sometimes he's
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: like you know what, you know, I just want to
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: go in and have fun and do what I gotta do.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: He was out on the carpet talking to everybody and
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: we were all like, whoa, all right, Shack, let's go
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: because look, everybody wants to talk to Shack. It was
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: the night, you know, that was the day after his
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: Shock Fun Outs party. He must have thrown a great party.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: Because he was at a phenomenal, great mood. All right, so
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: that's the Fanatics party. What how's that end? I've never
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: been there for the end, Like does a music to
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: shut down and they like to close the tent. I
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: feel like I could have gone on for three.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: Days, if you know, listen, we always extend it. Michael
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: always extends it a little bit because.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: That's gotta cost millions of dollars to extend, because you're
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: dealing with city ordinances and permits.
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: Define it is definitely not cheap, probably, And what happens
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: is it's the musicians right, because they keep popping on.
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: So the party gets longer again because it's you know,
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: it's it's it's fun. Everyone wants to keep going. So yeah,
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: it ended this year about I think about seven thirty
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: maybe seven forty five. It was supposed to was two
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: to six, so it went an hour and a half later.
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: I think that's that's probably pretty good. I think last
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: year a went two hours later in Vegas. But every
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: you know, everything's alonger in Vegas. Yeah, I mean it's
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: like you almost have to get people out right at
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: some point you do got to end the party.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: There's other things that go on that night.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: You know, there's people have dinners and they have events
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: and they have you know, different things that they need
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: to do.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: So you know, you got to but people would they
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: stay there all night? Yeah, of course they stay there
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: all night? Why not?
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: You know, you know, all right, the boos are flowing,
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: the foods out there, you know, it's it's it's great.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: I would say that that would be enough for a week.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: But you also had something going on the entire week.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Now for the for the listeners at home, you have
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: to understand every minute in New Orleans, at every bar,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: every casin, there's something going on. There is a party
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: sponsored by DraftKings, there's a party by FanDuel Direct TV. Serious, iHeart,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: everyone's got something, and you know it's You can get
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: into these parties because there's so many of them that
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: there's access. If you want to pop in, you can.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: The one constant starting on Monday night or Tuesday night
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl was this pop up event that
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: was a collaboration between the famous Italian restaurant and East
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Harlem REO's, and then the really trendy pizza place that's
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: in Williamsburg called Feenie. So you have REOs, which is
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: like old school Italian, you know, the sauce and everything,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: and then you've got Feenie, which is Sean Feeney's company.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: Sean great dude who has a cool story in himself,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: is a finance guy who left started two restaurants that
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: opens this like sensational pizza place. They have this thing,
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: but it's also like a curated situation where there are
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: certain people at each night and there's certain tables that
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: are accounted for, and it's a party. You walk in
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: and there's run DMC's performing, and I got to go
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: both Tuesday and Saturday night. I saw run DMC one night,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: and I saw the amazing Barnstormers, this awesome cover band
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: another night. And when I was there, Chris Collinsworth and
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Mike Tarico are singing like come on Eileen on a
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: stage like it was that good, so absolute party. But
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: you're involved with that as well.
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's listen, that's my favorite, you know,
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: dinner portion of the of the evening right, Like I
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: can go there every night and it's just like you said,
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: it's just a great room. It's very chill, invite only
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: also really can't buy your way in there. Kenny Dicktor
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: and Frank Pilagrina Junior and Ron Stars, they they put
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: it together the owners of REOs and Kenny puts it together.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: They've been doing it. I think this is the sixth
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: year from Miami was the first year. This year they
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: took it to another level. The addition of Feene was incredible.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: But what an awesome, awesome addition, like this little slice
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: shop right off the side of the restaurant that was
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: open all day, all night. So Sean did it, like
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: you said, he did a great job. And in that
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: slice shop they had DJ well, they had good Man Brands,
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: which was Russell Wilson, so you could you know, they
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: were gifting shoes to some some VIPs and then they
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: were and then they were selling shoes out of there
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: to people that wanted them, which was really cool. So
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: on you know, on Thursday night, Russ and Sierra were
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: in there and they were they were doing some stuff.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: Eli Eli told me he they threw him out on
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: Thursday night at like three, they go, we gotta close,
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: like you gotta go. Literally he shut the place down
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: on Thursday. It was just really cool to see that
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: the two of the two of those brands, like you said,
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: this like old school Raos, the you know, oldest family
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: run restaurant in the world basically, And and and Fienie.
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: This new hip, cool Brooklyn pizza shop and and putting
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: them together.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: It was really cool.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: But to your point, inside that Rao's party every night,
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: that Rayo's dinner was also another Who's who was there?
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: I mean it was, it was It was pretty awesome.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: You you know, you see you know, top executives of
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: you know, the top top to to the top athletes.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Well, I was there Tuesday night and it's you know,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Roger Goodell's at the table with Jane and I sat
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: with them and we added for a while. And that's like, okay,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: You've got that on one end of the spectrum. And
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: then on Saturday night you said Pete Davidson, but like
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: I've got Ryan Fitzpatrick, you know, running around introducing himself
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: to the CEO of like Clover, you know, like these
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: major companies and it's like an interesting room.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you have and then like you said,
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: you have you know darw from run DMC performing to this.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: I mean we didn't even talk about like I think
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: it was Friday night was Belichick and his girlfriend. I mean,
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: she was she was party. Listen that girl. She definitely
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: is having fun. She's having a moment. She literally she
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: walked into the party. I think it was like one
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: of those like like like DMC was on the was
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: on the you know, was playing and it was like
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: the record skips.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: It was like everyone just like you know, it's like,
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: oh okay, but she had you know, she was there.
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: But Bill was there that you know, he did the
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: they do this ceremonial first meet ball and they kind
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: of get up there, go up on stage and builded
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: the meet all that night. Uh, you know Friday, Thursday
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: night it was Eli and Cooper did the meat ball,
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: you know, Nurday.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Night that night I was there.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: It was Joe Montana, right, Joe Montana. So it's you know,
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Raos is a special, special place.
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: And what's great for the super Bowl is that Look,
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: most people ninety nine percent of the world, probably ninety
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: nine point nine percent of the world cannot get into
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: Rayos in East Harlem, which is the mecca.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Right, But have you been? Have you been been?
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: I have been.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: It's what's because I've been once and I had a tent.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: I would love to go back. It was a I
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: went with Robert Sala and a gentleman named David Edelstein,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: who is like a real estate guy in New York
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: who had become very close with then he came on
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: our show and talked about the jets this year because
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: I think David's hilarious. We went and Dino was there,
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: who is part of the management, in the in the
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: group behind the kitchen. Like, we had an amazing night.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: But I was told, like, you'll get to do this
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: maybe once every ten years because every table at Raos
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: is bought already for and you need to just be
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: either invited or win it in like an auction at
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: like a charity event. The only way to get in.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and listen.
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: But that's why I love these pop ups because you
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: know what, is there one hundred and fifty people that
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: get to experience that and it's look, it's obviously a
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: lot of different Rayos in New York is very small.
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: There's you know, there's forty people in there at one time.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: Oh didle holding court right right?
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: And you know you're the kitchen is you know you
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: you see the Dino's in the kitchen. It's this big.
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: It's like, you know, it's super tight, but you get,
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: you know, you get the whole. You do get the
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: Rayos experience in there.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: The singing.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: You know, Frank pel Green bringing a senior Frank pelgrin
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: a junior's debt. Father since past used to get on
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: the mic and sing with the jukebox.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: So you get it.
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: You kind of get that feel in the super Bowl
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: with the band and and people singing and having fun
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: and and but it's you know.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: To me, it's like that family.
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: It feels like family in there, And it doesn't matter
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: how many people are in there, because you know, after room,
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: you know you were there, you knew half the room.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: I was there, I knew halfter room. Everybody's talking and
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: by the end of the night, everybody knows everybody.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: I was talking to some guy from San Antonio, Texas
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: who works for a bank. He was sitting next to me.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: We were laughing and singing and we were arm in
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: arms Againstweet Caroline but in the night.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: Right, And that's but that's what Raos is.
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: And I think what's great about the pop ups, you
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: know that they do and they do it at the
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: Masters as well for a couple of nights, which is
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: even probably more you know, a lot more condensed, but
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: also a lot tougher to get into. But the idea
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: is like you're in this room, you're eating great food,
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: you're you're talking to really great people, and you're seeing
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: this thing that's going on, and.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: It's there's like zero stress in that room, right Like yeah,
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: everywhere else in super Bowl to get it, it's get in.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: It's extremely stressful. I can't hear you.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: The music's too loud. I don't want to lose my voice.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: I got to be on TV tomorrow like that. That's
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: what I'm fear for. Data.
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: You know, they do a great job, but they bring
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: it to a lot of people, which you can't you
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: just physically can't do it in Harlem because the place
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: is so small. And like you said that, people own
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: the table. So you're getting in. If you're going to dinner,
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: someone's giving you the reservation, they're giving you their table,
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: or they're inviting you.
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: And that's the only way in the place.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, So amazing events all around. It's Sunday night, Monday morning, whatever.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: How do you reflect it was a win for you
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: and your company and that you guys did a good job.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: What is the goal and what's the output? Is it
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: media placement? Is it TMZ and page six or is
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: it Instagram activity? Or is it just gosh, everyone had
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: a blast and it's just a positive halo of like
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: I had a blast and I'll talk about it and
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: have no problem going anywhere and telling me about my experience.
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a little bit of both.
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, our our main job for the bigger
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: events is to is to get pressed, right, I mean,
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: that's our that's our job.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: So yeah, the page six of the World, you know
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: Ian More.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Really there's a glowing article, was it Tuesday's page six?
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we you know in take you know,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: does very well by us. But you know we're giving
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: him and that and that publication really great stuff. You know,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: TMZ and Vogue and the New York Times and UH
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: Entertainment Tonight and Good Morning America and the NFL Network
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: and all these places at Fox. Was that you know,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: everybody come that comes to that carpet, we you know,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: we got to get them.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: We have to help.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: We're kind of like the maestro of that, Like how
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: do we get these celebrities to you so you can
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: get them on. You know, Jameis Winston was on the carpet,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: by the way, my new favorite person on it.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, and I said today on Good Morning Football.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: Who won the Super Bowl week more Jalen Hurts or
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Jamis Winston.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you something I told him. I said, Look,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: this is just from a straight publicity, so.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: I'd like, you can go play if you want and
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: get your ass beat somewhere and get up on Monday
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: and be hurt.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: But you are built and made for TV. My man, like,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: you are that good. And he was amazing all week.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, and he's authentic John. I've known him. I've
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: known him fifteen years. He's authentic as it comes. He's
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: the real deal. And he is a sweetheart.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: Hey, I told him, I literally I said, I go,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: you know, you're a Miami fan into a noll.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: I go this It's hard for me to say, but
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: you are amazing. But he really was.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, he really did win the week and and
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: but you know, that's what the carpet looks like. So
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: for us, you know, the measure of victory is that
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: people have a good time, people talk about it.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: I got so many texts after, like from a from
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: a PR side and the work side of like from journalists,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: you know, from people in the carpet that was like
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: you guys ran a great carpet. You guys did a
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: great job. Thank you for doing this. Look at our
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  Speaker 3: piece how great it is.
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  Speaker 2: Because of you guys.
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  Speaker 3: So my team, you know, did a did a great
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: job on the carpet, and and and and doing that
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: stuff and getting getting the word out there all week.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: I mean we have, you know, thank God that we
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: have such a great team of people at Burke Communications
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: that get get you know, the word out there, but
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: bust their ass all week. They're there from Monday this Sunday.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: And we don't sit down to your point, people come
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: through Bill have fun. We don't really have a lot
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: of fun work. We're working our ass off, just like you.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, you reflect on it and it's cool. Like
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: I was watching you Sunday night after the game and
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: grabbing like you said, grabbing Miles and grabbing Bradley Cooper,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: like you're working your ass off, but like after the
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: fact you're looking for that's really cool, Like that's I'll
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: never forget it, you know, that's great. And and you're right,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: I heard you say the Miles the Miles interview was amazing, Right,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: it was amazing, And.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Isn't he But isn't he I mean you've done. He
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: goes to all the Michael Rubens like amazing.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: And that's the that's the beauty of it.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: Like we just want to we all just want to
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: be around good people. Right, It's not you know, look,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: some people get starstrucks, some people get this, but like
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: for us, like we're in this business, it's not something
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: that we it doesn't affect me. Right at the end
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: of the day, Like I look at it and go,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: this is my job. I got to get Miles to
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: where he wants to be, right, and so do you
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: and get him, you know, sitting with the right people
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: where he wants to sit with, or make sure he's
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: he's good and having fun. And then and then make
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: sure that the world knows about it, right like in
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: in you know, the fanatics party, the lunch.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: That's not our that's not what we do.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: But Rayos, we want people to know what's going on. Listen,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: it's it's our job for people to understand what RAOS is. Right,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: because now there's a Raos in Miami that people can
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: go to. You can make a reservation, you can go there.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: It's is it different than Harlem, It's a different experience
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: than Harlem only because you can't get into Harlem. But
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: once you're inside, it's the same food. You know, Dino Gatto,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: the chef is there, Frankie and Ron are there from time.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: It's who doesn't want to be in Miami in the
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: winter anyway from New York, So go there and have
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: But that's our job is to get people to know like,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: oh I can do that, not just buy the sauce
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: in your supermarket, right, but which people do, but that
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: you can still go there, you can try it, you
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: can be part of it. So you know, yeah, that's
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: the measure of success for us, just to make sure
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: people had a good time.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: People see it, and you know, we're we're already you know,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: we'll start playing in San Francisco in a couple of weeks,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: which is amazing.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: My last question for you, so I've called you a cane.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: I've said you're the biggest Miami fan I know, like
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: your real deal, Like if they come to the Crudential Center,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: you're making the trip to Jersey, if they if they're
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: doing a basketball game at the Garden, I see, I
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: know it. And football it's even a different level. Make
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: the case for cam Ward as the first quarterback off
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: the board.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: Look, I know Miami football inside and out.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen everybody that's come through that program over the
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  Speaker 3: last thirty five years.
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  Speaker 2: Cam Cam is just different man.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: He you know.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: I had the chance to meet him a couple of
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: times this year. You know, Mario, I'm very close with
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: Mario crystal Ball the coach. In July, Mario told me
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: he was up up here and we met and he
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: told me Cam is going to is going to change
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: the game for our program.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah, what does that mean?
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: And the minute you saw Cam take the field, he
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: was just a different breed that's been there. He is
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: an alpha. He is super confident. I think he is.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: I really do believe he is.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: I think some people say, oh, these aren't the same
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: types of quarterbacks. I don't know.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: I think he could be very Jaden Daniels like. I
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: think he has a great arm. I think he's big.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: I think command an offense. You know, I'm a Giants fan.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: I hope he slips to the Giants at three. I
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: don't know if that's gonna happen, but I will say,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: if you want somebody in your locker room. That will
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: literally from day one, command the respect and attention that
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: you need to command and and do that.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: Cam Whart's the guy.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, that guy had no problem if you watched
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: all year, go on interviews and say you're going to
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: keep us out of the playoffs. I'm the best quarterback
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: in the country, We're the best offense in the country.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: That to me is old school Miami.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: That's how mine is Johnson Miami.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: Like the only shame of.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: It is that we didn't have him for more than
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: one year in Miami. Yeah, but that was the eighties.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: That was Michael Irvin, that was Russell Maryland, that was
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: Cortez Kennedy, that was the that was the Kenes of
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: the eighties and nineties. And that's why they want right
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: because of that bravado. And you walked in there to
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: the Orange Bowl, you knew you were gonna get your
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: ass cakes before the game started, just because those guys
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: were on the sideline and you were scared.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: That was Camp this year.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: Now, it was unfortunate if we didn't have a defense
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: that could stop anybody, but you know, you knew Camp
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: could put up forty or fifty points every game. And
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: that's what he did. And I think I think he's
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: a phenomenal quarterback. I think he's going to be very
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: good for someone. I think whoever gets him is really
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: getting just a great person at personality and a great person.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: So I love him. I think, listen, I think this
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: draft is actually stronger than people think.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Well, it's very good at certain positions defensive end, defensive tackle,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: tight end, running back, but the quarterback is the position
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: that people are not sure about. So we're see, you know,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: it goes every year in the draft. I do the quarterback.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: I think a guy like Jackson Dart is sitting there,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: He's gonna take him. He could be a good pro.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: I think this draft is deeper. You know, why can't
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: you find bon Nicks, a bone Nicks in the you know,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: in the Jackson Dart right. I mean, look, no doubt,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: you do not need to find a quarterback at one
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: and two only. So I do think there's there's some
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: good quarterbacks that they're but you know, obviously maybe I'm
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: a little biased. I do think Cam's the best one,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: and I think Camp's gonna have a lot of fun
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: in this league.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: I worked with her for years at the NFL Network,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: and I still see him all the time. I think
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: of him as like the faith of Miami football. Who's
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: the guy the legend that you see that you still
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: get starstruck over.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: I mean I don't really get starstruck per se, but
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: I love to see, Like you said, Michael Irvin to me,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: is he is Miami right? Like this year, I went
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: to a bunch of games because it was fun and
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: I wanted to go down. I brought my son down,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: I brought a bunch of friends down. You know, you
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: know Mike was he was. I mean, very'svolved by the
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: way every game, Yeah, designing shirts, wearing wearing new you know,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: putting shirts on sale and designing shirts. You know, this year,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: I thought seeing that back was really good. Edrin James
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: and Clinton Portis and Michael Irvin and Lamar Thomas and
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: these old school guys being there on the sidelines, which
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: is what again, if you watch those thirty for thirties,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: that's what Miami football was.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: It needs to be that. I think Mario Christopal was.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: You know, Mario is a two time champion for Miami,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: so he knows what it's like and and so getting
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: those guys back but I always yeah, I mean, I
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: listen to me. Michael Irvin is the he is the
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: ultimate Miami guy. Right, So you talk about bleeding orange green,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: that guy bleeds orange and green. He is as passionate
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: as you've ever seen. Go go rule Michael Irvin in Miami,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: and you'll see like speeches that are just in your mind.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: But I mean, look, Edy ray Lewis, these are all like,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: these are all legends of the game. So for us,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: you mean, like not only they for me is it
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: like Miami guys, but they're just like the best their
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: positioning ever, right, And that's why I hope and I say,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: I actually asked this to Peyton Manning.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: I said, Peyton, how the hell is Reggie went on
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame?
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: Yet, by the way, another Louisiana guy, a Miami guy,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: How's he not incredible?
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: But there's just.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: So many guys that when you watch them come through,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: and you know, I think maybe eventually, like you might
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: see that through Alabama the way they dominated and there
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: guys start to pop through, but all over the different Right,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: the one thing that's different is that these Miami guys
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: not only dominate the league, but they're you know, they're
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: all most of them are Hall of Famers, which is
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: pretty amazing.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, pretty due. This was great. Hey, I appreciate you,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: Ron Burke with where can we where can we find
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: Burke Communications if we want to find our great publicity
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: firm and guys who can help us enhance our brand.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: Burke Communications dot com. Obviously we're there. You know, we
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: we handle, like I said, everything, if you have a crisis,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: I'm definitely the guy for you to call, So give
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: us a call.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: But uh but.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean listen, if anyone out there needs some
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: pr help, that's you know, come find us per Communications
• 1:09:45
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• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: I know, I know our team can.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're exhausted. I so appreciate you joining us
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: for this.
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  Speaker 3: An absolute blast, dude, absolutely all right, Pete, thank you man,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: appreciate it you And.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: That's a blast. That's Ron Burke. With that guy. You
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: want to talk about someone who's like in the room
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: where it happens, it's Ron and he's such like a
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: he doesn't make it about him, so like you rarely
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: see him and then like you see him in the
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: corner of your eye, it's like, Oh, there's jay Z
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: and Beyonce talking to you know, Lamar Jackson. Oh, and
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: there's Ron behind them. So great dude known him for
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: years and I think he does a fantastic job. And
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: I've been so lucky to get to know him that.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: Through Ron and through some other connections, I've been able
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  Speaker 1: to go to that Michael Rubin party a Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: week every year and it's been really cool. The fanatics, guys,
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  Speaker 1: Not only did we go to Jelly Roll, but we
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  Speaker 1: give him a big old hug, bring them over. And
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  Speaker 1: He did Boys in the Hood? Did that? What else
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  Speaker 1: did he play? Biz Marquis you say She's just a friend?
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  Speaker 1: Did a million covers and what's cool is I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the mosh pit and I get a video the next
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  Speaker 1: It's me singing every word to some song from Jelly Row.
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  Speaker 1: I know every song. I've seen him five times now.
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  Speaker 1: I love Jelly Roll. And the people that Spoon were
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln seats because of like, that's how the theater was.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: But that's pretty morbid. Nothing like that happened at the
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  Speaker 1: Jelly Roll concert and Jelly was addressing the crowd. Jelly
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: was addressing them. Jelly was amazing. He was doing it
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  Speaker 1: in a Titans leather jacket with his drummer, who I
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: just I absolutely love his energy. His drummer wearing a
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: number ten Titans jersey and I'm like, oh, he's wearing
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: a Vince Young jersey. They turned around it was a
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins ten. I'm like, all right, not as cool,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: but I still like it. It's still a Titans jersey
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: number ten. That is that is who delivered. It was
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: one of the greatest concerts. It was only an hour.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: It was perfect. We dipped out. Chris Stapleton then performed
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  Speaker 1: gonna go get some hot tea. I'm gonna go rest
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  Speaker 1: see you at the combine. Hopefully I'll do a combine podcast,
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