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"London's Calling" episode 202 · DMV Mess Hall

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Hi folks, this is Rick Doc. Walker in DOC this.
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Is John kind? And you're listening to the mess
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hall with Rally Captain and Tailgate 10?
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What's going on, Rally? I don't know about you man, but
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I'm looking out my window and I am damn sick and tired of the
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snow. Well, you know, the snow is here
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and I'm not going to say I'm tired of it because just because
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this is the area that we live in.
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And so it's it is technically still winter time.
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So you got to embrace all Four Seasons, man.
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So don't be a party pooper. Embrace this.
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And the sooner that you embrace it, the sooner it will go.
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All I know is I was looking up recipes for Groundhog.
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Right, Let's go find punks. That's already fell and we can
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throw them on the grill, chop them up right, make little
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Groundhog burgers or something if that's going to help us get
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out of this. Because it took me forever to
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get back to my pickleball courts.
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And then I was in at the beach this weekend and then got out
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there and I guess people that live there just don't want to
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get out if it's below 40° or maybe right around 40.
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And I was thinking, man, this week to be nice.
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And then all of a sudden it just, I'm listening to B Mitch
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and Finley and J PS talking about it snowing.
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Like what? I must have just missed the
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forecast. And yeah, it's coming down right
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now. Those wondering, it's Monday
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afternoon and it's definitely it's not sticking at all, at
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least not where I am in DC. But it's just a pain in the ass.
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Yeah, it's not sticking down here either.
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I will say that, you know, like anything else, you get too much
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of something and it becomes a problem.
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And so I am on that, that that curve, if you will, to where
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it's starting to become too much.
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But I'll deal with it if it means that I can see tomorrow.
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So you know what I mean. It's just one of the things
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where so you're, you're looking at on the selfish aspect.
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You couldn't play pickleball, you couldn't do this, you
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couldn't do that, brother. I'm just happy to be amongst the
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living. Do you, do you understand what
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I'm saying? Ted I.
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Hear you, man, I hear you. Who?
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Who did not make it man who who would love to be in our position
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to have some snow right now? So that's how I look at it.
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That it's definitely being on the bright side of looking at
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things, man. I just from my standpoint, it
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doesn't make you want to move. But I am looking forward to some
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warmer weather. We got teased last week, right?
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This past Saturday was amazing and the next thing you know,
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it's what, 20° out right now? I'm just, I don't know, winner
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this time of year. There's no football, right?
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We got nothing to cheer on sports wise.
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I mean, a lot of people are going crazy about NASCAR because
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Michael Jordan's team has won the first three races.
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I think that's the first time that's ever happened.
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I'm not a NASCAR guy. No offense to anybody that likes
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NASCAR. I've just never gotten into it.
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So there's just no sports right now that I actually care about
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watching. So I'm just kind of bummed out
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waiting for, I guess, you know, maybe the defender season to
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kick back off again or something.
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I don't know. What do you do sports wise this
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time of year? Moto GPI like to I love my
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motorcycles. You know, I never got into
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racing. I, I got close to it until I
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found out how much it cost. So, you know, I just decided to,
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in my younger days, burn it up on the street, not the track.
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Yeah, I know it's not right and I'm not advocating it, but
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that's just how it is, all right?
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That's just how it is. We we would be on the on the on
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the Beltway doing our thing back in the day.
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So I think, I think all kids grew in growing up did that in
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some shape, form or fashion, whether you had a car, whether
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it was at V street back in the day, it was V Street that that
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people used to race on, you know, so I heard the stories on
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V street, people bringing drag, drag cars on V street, but
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nevertheless, motorcycle racing. And I'm, I, I, I believe it or
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not, this is when I also start to, you know, ramp up the SB
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events stuff because just in a, in a next month, you know, we,
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we will be getting some news on dates and things of importance.
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So a lot of little things behind the scenes are going into effect
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right now, so I got stuff to keep you busy.
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Yeah, I think it's saying what I'm asking.
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The schedule itself should be right around May 13th, 14th, the
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full schedule, they'll start announcing different leaks right
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around draft day, so April 23rd, 25th.
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But one thing that they did announce was we're going to
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London, right? And curious out of all the
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locations that we could have possibly played, Look, forget
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that so and so team had rights here and this team had rights
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there. And John Allen pissed off the
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Germans so we couldn't go play there.
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Like, where did rally captain want to go?
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What was your preferred location?
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I wanted to go to Munich. I wanted to go to.
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I wanted to go to Munich, Germany.
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I really did want to go there because things are, are they're
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kind of Americanized over there. You know, I'm not going to say
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that a lot of people want to go to Brazil, and I heard that, but
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I don't want to go someplace where I got to look over my
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shoulder. I, I just as much as I, yeah, as
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much as I, I did the allure of Brazil and Rio, that type of
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thing. You know, I, I would like it,
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but just, I want to be able to walk freely, if you will.
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So that's kind of a a no brainer for me.
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Australia wouldn't have been wouldn't been bad either.
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But once. OK, so you said where would I
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have wanted to go? So you know, actually Ted, for
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Australia, yeah, I take that back.
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Australia is because Australia you can still walk around and
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kind of be free Americanized, if you will.
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So Australia first, Munich second.
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What about you? So I'm with you.
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I didn't really want to do Brazil right.
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I just heard horror stories from Eagles fans and Packers fans
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that went out there and just saw the people.
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And I traded that WhatsApp community of all the fans that
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were going out to London, and there's a bunch of people that
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were chiming in like, Nah, Nah, Brazil's fine.
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I go there all the time, this and that.
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But everyone has their own experience.
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Like you. I was thinking Germany, Munich
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for Oktoberfest would have been awesome, right?
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To me to be able to go there and hang out.
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I actually I wanted to go to Paris.
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I wanted to be able to play in Paris.
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To be the first team that plays out there, I think would have
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been kind of fun. I went there in 16 after we
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played the game in London against the Bengals, which was a
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blast. The food was amazing.
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Didn't speak it like a French but with all the different
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translator and tools. I mean.
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Now with all the different translating tools you got out
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there, right, I feel like it's not that hard to communicate
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nowadays, whether it's Google Translate or I had my Airpods
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and we were in Spain that did live translate and then, you
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know, got the meta glasses that do all that.
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I don't think it would have been that bad.
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And just the flight to get to Paris, I feel would have been
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easier out of all the stops to get to like London and Paris, I
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think would have been the easiest for any of us to fly to
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just because they're hubs. It's not a long ass flight, but
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the thrill of being able to go all the way to Australia,
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knowing that my ass probably ain't getting to Australia
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anytime soon just because it's so far a flight to get out
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there, right? To get out to that part of the
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world, it's no damn near 2 days. No, not two days, but damn near
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24 hours. So to get to do that I think
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would have been fun. To also do that and cheer our
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team on would have been bad ass, but I think it would have been
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Paris for me. OK, well, you know, like you
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said in 2016 we did a day trip to Paris and like you said, I I
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did enjoy it. So you know, you got me thinking
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Paris, Paris would have been nice as well.
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But but has anybody played in Germany?
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Has has an NFL team played in Germany?
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Yeah, the NFL has played in Germany.
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I know that for a fact because we were supposed to play there a
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couple years ago and we've talked about it on the pod
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before, but the rumor was the NFL changed the schedule because
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John Allen, for those that don't remember, he was a former
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defensive tackle to play for the team.
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He plays for the Vikings now actually might get released, who
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knows? Yeah, he did ask me anything on
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his Twitter account and I I could be wrong here.
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But the question was if he could do dinner with three people, who
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would he do dinner with? And one of his responses was
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Hitler, that he wanted to do dinner with Adolf Hitler.
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And the Internet went crazy. And his explanation why was he
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was big into military strategy and I think just strategy in
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general and kind of wanted to understand that.
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And this has happened a long time ago, so I could be getting
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some of the story wrong, but that was what happened.
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And the rumor was we were slated to go play there.
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The NFL immediately just scratched us out and sent a
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different team there. So we never got that chance.
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And we hadn't actually played overseas for damn near 10 years
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since the the first time we were out.
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And I don't know if it's because John screwed it up, but that's
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what everyone was talking about. I like to believe that that
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would not have stopped us from playing because once the young
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man, now if he just said Hitler, then that's OK, But but he he
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expounded and said why he wanted to.
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And, and there's a big part of me who understands because I
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don't take this the wrong way, but I love World War 2 stuff.
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I mean, I don't like what happened obviously at World War
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2, but when you look back at World War 2, which wasn't that
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long ago, some of the technology that came out from World War Two
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we are still using today. And it was it was just a cutting
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edge war. And on one aspect, I understand
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what the young man was saying, because when you really study
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World War 2A, the man, he, he, he made it a lot of cutting edge
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choices. And then I mean, obviously what
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we know what happened, but as far as military is concerned, I
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do understand that. So there's just, I got World War
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2 movies on right now that I watch.
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So, you know, it was just a, just something that, that I, I,
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I, I look at as far as excuse me, I look as far as going
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there. And one of the things that I
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that I am going to do, I am going to actually, while we're
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there, I'm going to go to Poland because I want to go visit
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Oswitch. It's not something that's on
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everybody's bucket list, but it's because I am a World War
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Two guy. I, I want to go there.
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And if I could go to, if I could go to to to where the landing
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was, I'd go there too. But you know, there's not only
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so much time today, but I said if I ever got back on that part
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of town in the world, excuse me, that this is something that I
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would do. And so I'm going to do it.
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And what John actually said was if he could have dinner with
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three historical figures, who would it be?
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1 was John F Kennedy, because he found his presidency and
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assassination interesting. I don't know what Kennedy's
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going to say about the assassination.
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The guy died, so he doesn't really have too much to know
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about that. But Lee Harvey Oswald, because
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he was curious about the assassination and Oswald's
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motivation, and he said he wanted to understand what Hitler
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was thinking. And that is kind of what sparked
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the controversy and a bunch of online backlash.
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And this was back in 2022, right?
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And I mean, I get it. I guess there's just some things
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that you just don't touch. But for people that are
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interested in that kind of history, like military history,
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whatever it may be, you know, I completely get that, right?
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I mean, I know people that have been to Japan and they wanted to
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go to the locations that, you know, where my family's from the
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Philippines, right? So they wanted to go to some
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different spots where Douglas MacArthur was there in the
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Philippines and had some like famous speech.
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And it was just kind of a historic spot for them to go to
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and go visit. And I just remember they had the
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best pineapples I've ever had in my life because it was on a Del
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Monte pineapple farm. But apparently it was also known
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for more than that. But I'm.
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Sure. I'm sure it was.
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So, yeah, I would love to go to visit the beaches of Normandy.
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I really would. I mean, but, but it's one of
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those things. Well, since we're going to
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London, I know a lot of us are planning on making it a just
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kind of a home base, if you will, because last time you did
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the trip with SP events, you guys went to Barcelona and took
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the train there. I know you've got a trip planned
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right now, at least I think when you and I were chatting, I think
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half of the trip is already filled up.
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We're like 3/4 now. It's filled up so and that and
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that's just deposits. Obviously what's going to happen
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is once people find out the exact date, they may have some
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entanglements as far as their travel dates, current travel
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dates that they already have going on.
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So some people will get a refund and back out of it, but then
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they'll just make more space for everybody else who wants to come
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once they actually see the dates.
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And, and that's what I'm waiting on with bated breath, the actual
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dates of the, of the trip, because once that happens, we're
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going to take off And, and right now, as Ted said, we, I am still
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accepting deposits at $300 a person.
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Well, that's. Nothing.
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No, that $300 a person that, that, that reserves your spot.
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It doesn't have anything to do with your airfare.
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I, I have so many requests of first class, business class.
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I'm like, guys, that's not what this is about right now.
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This is just to reserve your spot on the trip so that we we
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can get an idea of what we're working with and to be able to
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to get your name on the list. That's awesome.
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So I'm looking at the website SP events dot net, and I'm seeing
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here people can make a payment, credit card or Zelle.
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So it's refundable until the date the games become available.
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So that's great, man. Because a lot of people were
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asking, hey, they want to make sure they can get on board this
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time and they missed out last time.
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And there is another rumor. This is all speculation.
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Yeah, we all thought that we was rallied.
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I thought we were playing in london-based upon the people we
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talked to, Right. And turns out we're playing in
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London. The same people that I talked
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to. There's a rumor floating around
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that we are not playing one, but we are potentially playing two
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Games in London. And before anybody says
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anything, the 49ers, guess what? They're playing one game in
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Australia and they're playing another game in Mexico City.
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The Australia game, they're the road team to the Rams.
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The Mexico City game, they're the home team and the opponent
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is TBD. So the Jaguars are getting, I
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think it's three Games in London.
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We play the Jaguars four games, OK, We play the Jaguars as the
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road team this year. So the rumor is we could be
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playing as a home team against somebody and then as the road
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team against Jacksonville. On top of that, we do play the
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49ers this year in San Fran, which means we could be playing
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them in Mexico City. On top of that, the Cowboys are
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playing in Rio and guess what, we play Dallas every year on the
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road. And for those saying they
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wouldn't do a division game on the road, I just said the Niners
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are playing the Rams division in Australia.
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The NFL don't give a damn if it's a division or not.
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Not only that, the 49ers, if I'm not mistaken, play the
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Cardinals. Yeah, they passed.
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Yeah, and that was overseas, so don't say it can't happen.
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So there, there is a chance that we can play 2 games.
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I personally if we do do the two game bit, I'd rather both be in
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London. I don't want to have to do a
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trip to London and then another trip to Rio or another trip to
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Mexico City. And I know you're saying, hey,
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you don't have to go. I got to guys, you don't have to
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go. I got to go, right?
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It's like. If if we're playing overseas
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like I'm going so. What what do I, what do I always
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say, hey brother, we could play on the moon.
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I'll figure out a way to get there.
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You know, if I got a morgue at the house, I'm going to the
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moon, so. I started a new job I talked
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about in the last pod. I'm four weeks in and I'm at the
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National Harbor. I'm at the Gaylord.
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At this event. I'm dressed up in basically a
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suit, right? Walking around, shaking hands,
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waving, talking to people and a couple people just they're
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staring at me the entire time. I'm thinking, all right, I got
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like, well, I got a bug. Like what's going on here?
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Made sure it wasn't anything like that.
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Freaking people recognize me as Tailgate Ted.
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And I just, I had my government name on my name tag, which ain't
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Ted. So I was, you know, and then
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they're asking me all. And then it turned into, did you
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hear? We're going to London.
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You going to go? Of course I'm going to London,
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right? Wherever we play, yeah,
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Whatever's happening, if I'm breathing, I am going.
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So I get for those. It's some people aren't sure.
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Some people say, oh, we went to London and you know, 2016, blah,
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blah, blah. We've never been the home team
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for this event. To me, being the home team makes
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it that much more special and I just, I can't wait to experience
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that. It's going to be a completely
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different stadium. We played at Wembley last time.
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This is going to be a Tottenham at the Hotspur Stadium, which is
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a newer stadium than Wembley when we were there.
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And a lot of people are giving me a hard time.
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I was complaining, so I'm packing my old bang.
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I'm sorry. I get that there's good food in
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London, right? But English food sucks.
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It's bland. Right, you have a dish called
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mushy peas, right? Bangers and master fish and
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chips. It's just Indian food over there
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is good, right? But English food I'm not exactly
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excited for. Yeah, it, it, it can be a little
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bland. And you got to you got to doctor
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it up. I mean, it's it's like sometimes
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just imagine your relatives who may have come over for
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Thanksgiving or something or prepared a dish and you're like,
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I'm not used to that being this way.
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And you got to doctor it up a little bit.
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So that's all, that's all. But I can tell you one thing, if
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you if you're hungry, you're going to eat it.
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Oh yeah, it's, I mean, after all the beers that we were drinking
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at the pubs and everything else, I mean.
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What was your favorite moment from the London trip last time?
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Well, we went to London the last time.
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It was during Halloween and just it.
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Was right before. Yeah, right before Halloween.
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And matter of fact, that Saturday they, they treated it
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for all the Halloween parties and just seeing the people
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welcoming us, you know, that was just amazing because I didn't,
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it was my first time ever going there and I didn't know what to
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expect. And they treated me as if I
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lived there. Basically.
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It was, it was, it was just a good vibe.
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So and I I enjoyed just trolling around the city of riding the
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tube, if you will, by the way, it's very easy to read.
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And if you if by chance you can't read it.
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They're they're the customer service guys are there to help
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you and they will help you. They'll tell you exactly what to
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do. But it's very easy to read.
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It's it's almost like B CS metro.
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It's so easy to read. So yeah, I just just the mere
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fact that the the people were were so nice.
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Man, I really enjoyed that. I really did.
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And just seeing everything that I could see in that week's time.
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Yeah, and I think we're going to have more Burgundy and Gold show
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up to London just because it's easier to get to.
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I think it's going to be a cheaper trip.
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I don't think the game tickets are going to be as pricey as the
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tickets for Madrid, just because the NFL plays so many Games in
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London and we're going to be the home team, so it's going to be
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easier for us to get tickets. Everything we had to deal with
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last time was because the Dolphins were the home team and
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the allotment that Washington got was just a lot less.
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So I'm looking forward to whatever rally the team puts on
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and well, I can't wait. I'm going to say this time,
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maybe don't book your trip to wherever you like.
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If you plan on taking a day trip to Paris, maybe do that like a
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different day this time. I know you booked it, you know,
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way in advance before you actually knew when the team
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rally was going to happen. I got to believe our rally is
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going to be on a on a Saturday, not a Friday this time.
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So I'm going to agree with you on that.
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Yeah, I'm going to agree with you on that because I will be
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there, make no bones about it. What if we get to be there for
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two weeks? It's, it's going to be a
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interesting time, but I, I can't wait.
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And it's just, it's cool to see the Burgundy gold abroad.
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There's so many people that we kept in touch with that actually
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live in Europe, in London. I know a bunch of the guys that
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do a podcast out there, a bunch of the commanders fans and
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they're kind of bummed out because for them it's a home
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game. But now they get to actually
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show us around their town. So that's also the other thing
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I'm excited to be next year was all of our, we've got a bunch of
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listeners from the UK to the pod and seeing them and running into
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them out there and being in their hometown.
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Well, I got to say this and I, I got to put that out there.
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Commanders Management, if you're listening, please do not have
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the rally at the pub that we had it at last time.
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Banneker Boy is what it was last it's.
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Been nothing. I got nothing against Banneker
22:43
Boy, but it was just too small. I need you guys to listen to
22:47
this with your ears open please. We need to be in a location that
22:55
can house a 1000 people, whatever the largest venue is.
23:02
I know you guys are thinking about it, looking at it, reserve
23:05
it, please do. Even if it means it's an outdoor
23:09
venue with a huge tent or something, I don't know.
23:12
But but you got to have something that's huge because
23:15
it, We had a rally in London because I'm sure a lot of the
23:19
turnover wasn't there in 2016, but we had a rally in London and
23:24
half of the fans couldn't get in.
23:27
I've got a video of the rest. So Barrel Boy and Banneker.
23:31
It's still in existence and I have a video because I was at
23:35
the top of the stairs just videotaping the entire thing
23:37
and. Yeah.
23:39
They trust me. We'll we'll be talking about
23:41
that with them to make sure. And Lee was around back then.
23:46
So she remembers. Oh, yeah, she definitely was.
23:49
She was around back then. Yeah.
23:51
She, I mean, don't want to put everyone's names out there, but
23:54
she's one of the longest tenure people that's still around.
23:56
And I'm so happy that that's the case.
23:58
But they remember how small, and the place wasn't small.
24:02
It just couldn't handle us being there.
24:05
And there's going to be so many more of us this time.
24:08
And I know that bars are going to be reaching out to you and me
24:11
on socials to make sure that it gets back to the team because,
24:15
yeah, the place has not grown. It honestly looks the exact same
24:20
as when we were there back in 2016.
24:23
I can remember. I was upstairs with you.
24:25
Yeah, It it was. It was you, me, Larry Michaels,
24:29
Levar Arrington and some other. Yeah, Yeah.
24:33
And I remember going outside and the sidewalk at least 1/4 of a
24:41
mile to a mile had fans board across on the sidewalk for at
24:48
least 1/4 of a mile to a mile on the.
24:51
Sidewalk right, so they're just standing there it's you know one
24:55
in one out no one's leaving the place so I I do feel bad for
24:58
those people that got stuck out there, but we will make sure
25:01
that they get the. People it it got to a point
25:04
where the people in line decided that it was a bar owner that was
25:09
like 1/2 a block up, he says. Why are you guys waiting in line
25:13
come and come to my bar and people started filtering to that
25:16
bar about 1/2 a block up. And so we actually did have a
25:21
second rally at at that bar, believe it or not.
25:26
I'm not surprised man. It's what's one thing is right
25:29
the Burgan Eagle represents and that's the other reason why
25:33
rumors are that because we represented so well in Madrid as
25:37
the away team that they would actually have us doing 2 games
25:40
because the Jags play there a ton and they're not getting a
25:44
ton of their fans ago. Even though they were on the
25:46
playoffs this past year. It's not a novelty for their
25:49
fans anymore. It's kind of par for the course
25:51
because they play so many games overseas.
25:53
For us, even though we just did it last year, it is still newer.
25:57
And like you and I are saying, we're going to be there no
26:01
matter what. If we're breathing right, a lot
26:04
of fan base can do the exact same thing.
26:06
So it's it's going to be fun. And I cannot wait for that date
26:10
to come out because I plan on immediately.
26:14
I, I told misses Tailgate, we're taking two weeks off, right?
26:18
I don't know how you're going to do it, but I'm going to be there
26:21
for both games. I'd love you to be there for
26:23
both games, but we're taking two weeks off.
26:25
If you can only go for eight days.
26:28
So you're there for one game and then we vacation and then you
26:31
have to leave after the next game.
26:32
But I'm, you know, we're going to be there.
26:34
So we'll figure that out because I just need to block those dates
26:36
off. And I know a lot of your people
26:38
putting deposits down are curious.
26:40
All right, when's this going to be?
26:41
And someone posted in the chat he asked ChatGPT and a bunch of
26:46
other AI models. Based upon past London Games and
26:50
the Premier League and Champions League soccer schedules, they're
26:55
guessing it's going to be in the middle of October.
26:57
Last time we were there, you know, we just mentioned earlier
27:00
it was right before Halloween. So just plan on it being around
27:04
that October time frame. Yeah, yeah, I, I, I agree with
27:08
you on that. See, I'm hearing that we
27:13
wouldn't play 2 games, but once again, no one knows.
27:18
And, and, and, and I got a bone to pick.
27:21
Once again, every year that that we come out with these
27:23
international games, I have a bone to pick.
27:27
And I say that because I feel that that the NFL does their
27:31
fans a disservice. You guys already know what the
27:34
date is of the game. You know what it is?
27:37
Well, in 2016 when we played in London, the beautiful thing was
27:43
in December of 2015, we knew what the dates were.
27:47
And I remember accepting deposits or not actual, your
27:51
first payment was in January because you gave us the date.
27:55
International games give us the dates because your fans, you
27:59
want your fans to go and we're going to go.
28:01
But do you want your fans to kill themselves to go?
28:04
Give us a little more leeway to be able to save up and where we
28:08
heard this from these PSLS that are coming down.
28:11
We haven't forgot about that. We, we haven't forgot about it.
28:15
So come on guys, help us help you.
28:18
We, you, you have a thriving fan base that wants to go and wants
28:22
to support the team. Make it easy on them.
28:25
And that and that goes for any that goes for anybody as far as
28:28
the international games are concerned in State Games, OK,
28:32
you can hold that till May, that's not a problem.
28:34
But anything that's going to cost it upwards and $4000, you
28:39
know, $5000. I've seen some packages already
28:42
out there that said possibly $5000.
28:44
And I'm like, whoa, give your guys, give your fans something
28:50
to be able to save up for, to be able to put money down.
28:54
The, the, the, the sooner that you can do it, the better
28:56
because you're going to have more fan base there to still
29:00
help support. So that's my only bone that I
29:03
have to pick. Just go ahead and give the date
29:06
up. Give the date up.
29:08
And I don't think that's changing anytime soon because
29:10
the NFL likes to just trickle stuff out when they've got
29:14
nothing happening. Like right now the combine's
29:16
happening. So they don't need to really
29:18
start announcing. And you're people are going to
29:19
say, hey, Ted, this came out during the combine.
29:22
But realistically, like, people are focused on the combine,
29:25
they're focused on the draft. So we start the pop by talking
29:28
off like, there's no sports going on right now that I care
29:30
about, right? It's all right, hockey,
29:32
basketball, whatever. Doesn't really matter to me
29:34
because they've got 82 game seasons so until it gets closer
29:37
to playoffs, I just don't give a damn about it.
29:40
The NFL king. So they're just going to start
29:42
leaking stuff out eventually. So that's why they never really
29:46
kick it all off. But I did see hospitality
29:50
packages through on location. It's a third party company that
29:55
is paying the NFL for this. They were taking deposits for
30:00
the London Games, right? And it kind of cracked me up,
30:03
because guess whose picture I'm seeing right now?
30:07
Whose picture are you? Seeing hog farmer Jeff and you
30:11
got hog farmer Chris here and I guarantee they ain't getting
30:15
paid by on location, but they're taking these.
30:19
They they made me. I, I highly doubt that.
30:22
I mean, it's possible man, maybe they maybe they're doing
30:24
something with them. But yeah, their packages I
30:27
remember from Madrid were insane pricing wise.
30:32
Yeah, and I know you had the most cost, affordable packages
30:36
and the seats were great locations and everything else.
30:40
So I'm telling people, if you guys are serious about doing it,
30:43
and I'm not just saying this because of the podcast I did
30:45
with Rally, you didn't give me a cut on the back end, trust me.
30:48
So it's because it was the best deal I saw out there.
30:52
And a couple of those ticket package companies came to me and
30:54
asked me if I wanted to work with them.
30:56
And once I saw what they were charging our fans, there's no
30:59
way, There's no way I want to work with those guys and do
31:02
anything because to me, I want the fan base to be there no
31:05
matter what. And I don't want them getting
31:07
price gouged in there. And all I'm going to say is we
31:11
know it's going to be a couple $1000 for a trip.
31:13
Just depends on what you want to make it right.
31:15
You can sit in the nosebleeds, you can get an Airbnb and you
31:18
can just be there for a couple days.
31:20
Jeff from B, Mitch and Finley, I want to say he was in Madrid for
31:24
72 hours and was probably drunk for 48 of those, right?
31:29
I heard that story. He.
31:34
He was having a good time and I'd say it to his face, he's my
31:36
boy. But you don't have to go crazy.
31:39
Just know set aside money now if you guys plan on going.
31:42
And damn man, you brought up PSLS which scares.
31:46
I just bought a brand new car because I paid off the last car
31:50
and I'll tell you what I bought off Mike, but I'm travelling
31:55
with the new job and the old car isn't as reliable.
31:59
So I want something where I'm not going to get stuck on the
32:01
highway. Definitely.
32:02
So I'm telling missus tailgate like, do we buy the new car
32:06
because PS LS are coming and this car payment is basically
32:09
your PSL payment. All right, what?
32:11
What do we do here? She's like, no, no, no, just buy
32:13
the car. And then now I'm thinking, damn,
32:15
OK, the PS LS might make me, I'm not going to reconsider
32:20
potentially 2 international trips, but it's going to make it
32:23
a lot tighter. And I really wanted to go to
32:25
Tennessee this year for the game of Nashville that we're playing.
32:30
I might have to scratch that one off the list if we are going to
32:33
be overseas for a little longer than I'm hoping.
32:35
Yeah, I mean, brother, it's in the back of my head.
32:40
It really is because. You're all of them, right?
32:43
You go to every single game, so it.
32:45
Is but once again, that's going to take a curve too.
32:50
I mean, that's just how it is, bro.
32:52
So and that's what that goes back to what I'm just saying
32:55
NFL, you guys already know the dates.
32:58
Help help your international travelers out by coming out with
33:02
those dates. I don't know why you came out
33:04
with it in 2016 or 2015 when the Commanders played the Bengals,
33:09
but you did. You had a date.
33:11
It was you came out with a date and everybody can start planning
33:14
and and it was perfect. But holding on, why?
33:19
Why? There's there's no reason for
33:21
it. Tell us so that we can get you
33:24
the money because ultimately you got some fans who aren't as
33:28
blessed, if you will, as everybody who needs more time.
33:33
And you can say we'll just start putting money aside.
33:36
Well, a lot of people just don't have the the fortitude to be
33:38
able to save it like that, but they see it in front of them.
33:41
Hey, my payment is hypothetically 200 bucks a
33:43
month. OK, I know that I got to put 200
33:46
bucks a month down. And some people can't, as my mom
33:49
would say, that money's burning the hole in your pocket.
33:53
That money's burning the hole. And so if it's, if you see it,
33:56
you're going to spend it. So that's all.
33:58
And that's the last, the last I'll say about it.
34:00
But I'm looking forward to seeing the date.
34:03
And, and I honestly believe that we will get the date after the
34:08
draft. I I believe once the draft, a
34:11
couple days after the draft, we'll get the dates for the for
34:14
the overseas trips. I mean, imagine being a Niners
34:17
fan, right? This is a tweet from Adam
34:20
Schefter. The Niners are going to travel
34:23
over 38,000 miles this season just with who they're playing on
34:30
their schedule normally and then having to go to Australia and
34:33
Mexico City, right. They got to go to Atlanta.
34:36
They got to go to New York. So the rally captain version for
34:40
the 49ers is going to be getting a ton of freaking flyer miles
34:43
right now. Because I mean, if just think of
34:48
a die hard Niners fan like us, you're going to want to be in
34:51
both of those spots. Oh yeah.
34:53
And yes, it's going to be easier to go to Australia from San
34:57
Francisco if you live out there. So I, I get that, that that's
35:00
not lost on me. It's just a lot of travel that
35:04
you have to do. And I, I remember, I think
35:06
couple years ago, we had so many just travel dates and trips that
35:11
weren't beneficial to us because it was short weeks that were
35:14
constantly happening. So I'll be curious to see how
35:18
they concoct this because I don't envy the people that make
35:21
up the schedule, right? I know the guy that does the
35:23
schedule for Capital One Arena. He's a good friend of mine.
35:26
He does the schedule for the Wizards and the Capitals and all
35:28
the concerts and all the events there.
35:30
But I was just thinking the DC Defenders did the defending
35:33
champions of the, it's the USFL, right?
35:37
And they are starting on the road for three weeks.
35:40
I don't know why you would think that you get to raise a banner
35:44
and get your championship rings or whatever it may be for the
35:48
first home game of the season, but they're not doing it till
35:50
Week 3. So there's got to be some rhyme
35:53
or reason to it. But the NFL will get that to us
35:56
eventually. One thing that they didn't want
35:58
to get out was the NFL sued the NFLPA for the team report cards.
36:06
Did you hear about that story? No, I didn't hear that.
36:09
So the NFL owners sued the PA because of these report cards
36:13
that came out and those that might remember, right?
36:17
Josh Harris got an F minus because basically it was report
36:21
cards that he inherited from Dan Snyder.
36:26
Still being the owner, right? Treatment of families, home
36:29
field, team, travel, food, dining, nutritionist, locker
36:33
room, training room, training staff, weight room, strength
36:37
coaches, position coaches, offensive coordinator, defensive
36:40
coordinator, special teams coordinator, head coach, general
36:44
manager, general manager, and team ownership.
36:46
All right, so the NFL won the lawsuit.
36:53
Somehow the grades still got out.
36:57
So this came out last week. Guess what our lowest grade is
37:02
in this report? Is it ABB?
37:06
Minus. Right, we had a.
37:11
Amen. CS get degrees man, but no AB is
37:15
AB. So we had a ton of FS prior to
37:19
Josh Harris taking over. And I have seen the improvements
37:22
out of the park. We've all seen the improvements
37:25
out at the stadium, right? And treatment of families B plus
37:30
and we get new nosters all the time.
37:32
There's a story I told where it was Nick Sundberg's wife was
37:37
talking to Misses Snyder. And I think this was actually
37:42
the Washington Post about how they didn't have a changing
37:47
station for the family's bathrooms, right?
37:51
The team itself at the stadium, there was no changing station
37:54
for one of the team's players, wives to change their child.
37:59
So I'm almost positive they changed them in the stand with
38:02
someone blocking people's view, right?
38:05
It's just stuff like that that's embarrassing.
38:08
Yeah, not. Good and you can pay people all
38:10
you want, but players got to look at these grades, right?
38:14
If you treat my family horribly, if my dining is bad, like the
38:19
locker room is horrible, everything is equal.
38:23
Do people want to go there? I got to think it would affect
38:25
my decision, right? If I actually want to go play
38:28
for that team or not Because that to me shows you how much
38:31
you care about your employees and your staff.
38:34
Good news is I think we were the third highest graded out of that
38:40
report card. That's good stuff.
38:43
Third highest. Yeah, third highest graded.
38:46
The Steelers ranked as the worst organization in the NFL,
38:49
according to the report card players reported in.
38:51
The locker room has only 5 bathroom stalls for the entire
38:55
team, so I mean 5 bathroom stalls for.
39:00
Is it just because that stadium is so old?
39:02
I mean like, come on man. There's got to be it's just I
39:06
don't know man it there are other stadiums I've Lambeau's
39:09
got to have more than 5 bathrooms.
39:12
That's I just think that's being lazy, right?
39:16
Not wanting to just invest money inside it.
39:19
So who knows, But I'm just glad to see that Harris is putting
39:26
his money where his mouth is. Right.
39:28
The Chicago Bears for their treatment of families got AC
39:31
plus, right? So we're all NFL teams ranked.
39:36
Let's see here, This is a report.
39:40
Yeah, we were up there. Dallas coach got an A minus.
39:44
Owner got ABI. Think that's kind of funny.
39:46
I think people are just kind of scared.
39:49
Arizona's owner got an F, right? He's actually the only owner on
39:55
here that got an F. I'm kind of surprised.
39:57
I would have thought Cleveland would have gave their owner an F
40:00
treatment of families, Cincinnati, F minus, right?
40:04
Pittsburgh treatment of families F, right?
40:08
So I'm just, you know, happy that they're putting investments
40:14
into these things. And I am happy the grades came
40:17
out. I do think it was BS.
40:18
That the ownership sued the PA and didn't let it get out and
40:22
somehow it still made it through.
40:25
Well, Speaking of, you know, ownership and everything new and
40:30
old and things of that nature, have they finally finished
40:35
taking everything down from the old RFK site?
40:38
I know you live around that area close by.
40:42
What can you tell us about that, Ted?
40:44
You can't see it, man. It's, it's gone, right?
40:48
There is no more skeleton, no more bones to that thing.
40:52
And I'm not sure if they've actually started digging or
40:55
building anything. But I was in a meeting with the
40:59
National Planning Commission. I can't remember if we actually
41:01
talked about that on the last pod.
41:04
Just going back and looking at the notes now.
41:05
We didn't actually talk about it.
41:07
I was invited. Anybody can go to these
41:11
meetings, right? I went to the meeting because I
41:15
wanted to make sure that I'm up to speed with everything that's
41:18
happening, A, in the city, because I'm ADC resident, and B,
41:22
what's going on with the team, right?
41:24
And if I needed to talk to anybody.
41:25
So I did a couple interviews with NBC and CBS and ABC after
41:29
the fact. The commanders came out with
41:32
this report and basically pitch, if you will, for the RFK campus.
41:38
Then it has to go to the National Capital Planning
41:40
Commission and they vote on it. They do their own research and
41:44
everything else. There's a board and I want to
41:47
say maybe they were more than 10 people.
41:49
Each person goes through and gives their opinion and votes
41:52
yay or nay. It passed unanimously, right?
41:56
The first iteration went through.
41:59
So good news is everything is on the right track.
42:02
And a couple of things that they were curious about was how do
42:06
you clean that roof? Because of the the ceiling pitch
42:10
is kind of a dip so you can look through.
42:13
I said, we've already thought about that, You know, it's not a
42:15
not a worry. There'll be access ways for
42:17
people to get up there. One guy thought it was
42:19
interesting, asked where's the ugly side of the stadium going
42:23
to be? Because if you look at all the
42:24
renderings, right, if you drive past Northwest now there's a
42:29
loading dock, you can tell where it is.
42:31
You're saying there's no ugly side of this stadium, right?
42:35
All that stuff is going to be underground in turn, right?
42:38
Just the way Sofi is all these other stadiums are.
42:41
So I just seeing some of the renderings and everything behind
42:44
the scenes. It's, it's exciting, man.
42:47
I know that there are some people that are, they're all
42:49
frustrated about the whole tailgating thing.
42:51
One thing I brought up during this, and team officials were
42:55
there, architect officials were there, was the parking garages,
43:01
communal grills, communal griddle space, have natural gas
43:06
lines, propane lines put up top there.
43:09
And just like you go out to Merriweather now, you ever go to
43:12
a concert out that Merriweather back in the day used to all be
43:15
just a big massive field. That's all changed, right?
43:20
They've got so many shops out there, so many stores out there,
43:23
restaurants now, those fields are pretty much gone.
43:26
So you're parking in parking garages.
43:29
People are still terminating in the parking garages, right?
43:33
So what I was telling them is we're going to have these
43:35
garages, put the spots up top where people can cook their
43:38
food, whatever else, bring up the plate of burgers, bring it
43:41
back downstairs. And the way it is, is it's
43:44
basically open air to the garage and just tail getting by your
43:46
car, right? It's not what we're going to
43:48
have, what we're used to, but it's, to me, it's a happy medium
43:52
where we can still have their camaraderie and still that fun
43:55
experience with everybody there. And it's just a different way of
43:58
doing it. OK.
44:00
So my other question is we always see the photos shoot of
44:06
the gold shovels and the hard hats.
44:09
Is that when they actually start the the construction process or
44:14
have they already done that? They haven't done that yet.
44:16
That is not done yet. Because when that happens, best
44:20
believe I will make sure my ass is there somehow, whether I'm
44:22
just photo bombing the mayor and figure it out.
44:25
But no, that hasn't happened yet.
44:26
So I've. Because I would imagine that
44:28
that magic, the, the Harris group, everybody will be there
44:31
with their, with their, their hard hats and the gold shovels
44:34
and, and putting their, their, their shovels in the ground.
44:37
So I, I, I'm with you on that. I I need to be there for that?
44:40
Yeah, the ground breaking date hasn't been announced yet.
44:43
I mean, it's it's supposed to happen this year, right?
44:45
2026 they're saying, right, it should be.
44:48
The demolition should be done by the middle of the year, but
44:53
there's still clearance up and I know a lot of people don't care
44:56
about this. 90% of what they demolished and removed never hit
45:01
a landfill. They're able to recycle all that
45:04
stuff. So to me that's just impressive
45:07
considering how old that stadium was and the fact that they
45:11
didn't want to blow the stadium up or implode it because of all
45:15
the asbestos inside the stadium and everything there.
45:18
So I'm just excited to see that this is happening.
45:23
And you reminded me, I got to reach back out to them about
45:26
these PS LS because that is the, we know about London, right?
45:31
We don't know the dates yet, but we know about that.
45:34
Now. Next big thing is tell me how
45:36
much is PS LS going to kill me, right?
45:38
Give me give me some kind of idea so I can start setting
45:41
aside that money, because between that, the car payment
45:45
and the international trip, I might have to get a second job.
45:51
Become a pickleball instructor. There's actually a course I saw
45:55
coming up at the end of the month for me to get certified,
45:59
so maybe I can do that or? Do what you love brother, do
46:02
what you love and make money from it.
46:04
So come on man, because I don't want to hear any excuses if if,
46:07
if I got to get a second and third job.
46:11
I mean, the team just saved some money by getting rid of be
46:14
honest. So maybe they can sprinkle some
46:17
of that cheddar that they're not paying him this year.
46:19
And I was shocked, man. I mean, he's doing chunky suit
46:23
commercials with Jayden, right? I thought our offensive line
46:27
played the best. It's played in a while.
46:31
And then all of a sudden this past week, they just cut Tyler
46:36
and. I So what?
46:37
What did that tell? You, oh, we don't know what
46:39
they're doing right. They've got a different plan
46:41
over there. I just, I don't see us drafting
46:44
an offensive lineman again in round one.
46:48
But today they did extend Nick Allegretti, I think 2 years, $22
46:54
million. Nick was a backup or a starting
46:58
guard. They got moved to backup guard,
47:01
right? He lost his job, but he's plays
47:04
guard and center. Are they going to make him
47:07
center? I don't know.
47:08
I'm not too sure what they're planning on there.
47:10
I looked at his PFF numbers and I think be honest, missed the
47:16
last game of the season against the Eagles.
47:20
Allegretti played. He got a 49.1 grade right?
47:24
Not exactly the best. So we do have a ton of money
47:29
salary cap wise. They just told Marshall
47:32
Lattimore that he's not coming back.
47:34
He was never coming back. Yeah, I didn't hear that, but
47:37
OK, we knew. Yeah, the we knew as fans knew
47:39
that he wasn't coming back. They just made it official.
47:42
I mean, I some people got mad at me.
47:44
I said Stevie Wonder knew that he wasn't coming back, right?
47:47
You can see this from a mile away, right?
47:49
It's we're releasing Lattimore and this has nothing to do with
47:51
him getting pulled over and all of the stuff going on.
47:55
This is the fact that he just never lived up to the hype,
47:58
right? We made that trade and I am
48:01
happy that they did that trade, right?
48:03
They went all in James rookie year to try and bring in and
48:08
shore up the defense because we were lacking at that spot,
48:12
right? And in hindsight, it didn't work
48:14
out, but you still had to go for it because if it didn't work
48:17
out, hey, we'd be singing a different tune.
48:20
But they're doing the combine. Like I think BMS calls it the
48:24
underwear Olympics, right? Have you watched any of it?
48:28
I am not I've. I've been too busy, man.
48:31
Yeah, I haven't. I've never been a big college
48:33
football guy just because I'm so busy with getting the tail.
48:37
Get ready, you know on Friday and Saturday missus tailgate
48:42
will get pissed if now I'm watching college football all
48:45
day and then you know, the commanders and everything else.
48:47
So I just I never really got into college football, but I
48:51
haven't really watched any of the combine like you.
48:53
I hear about everyone talking about it on sports talk, but
48:57
from your perspective, obviously we got the 7th pick.
48:59
We need a lot of picks. If trading back is not on the
49:03
table, do you want to go offense or do you want to go defense?
49:10
We just have to have so many needs on both sides of the ball,
49:14
man. I, I just, I, I got it.
49:18
Always go with best player available.
49:21
So it's so if the best player that we can get is on offense,
49:25
then so be it. Whoever that person is, get him.
49:32
If it's a defensive player, what whatever our need is best
49:35
player. So I think that's what you need
49:38
to do. And then continue to build and,
49:42
and, and who knows what's going to happen in free agency.
49:44
So you need somebody in college who is ready to shred the
49:51
college uniform and, and basically step into the
49:53
professional uniform and, and without missing a beat, that's
49:57
what you need. I mean, obviously there's going
49:58
to be a slight curve, but you need someone who's who's who's
50:02
boss to the wall already. Yeah, I hear you and still
50:07
didn't give me an answer. Offensive defense, Best player
50:09
available. I I.
50:10
They're available. I get it.
50:12
And to me, right, defense, we were 32nd in total defensive
50:17
yards allowed, right? We gave up 384 yards a game last
50:21
year. Offense, we were 22nd in yards a
50:24
game, 318, right? We I think scored twenty, yeah,
50:28
20 points a game, really drastic drop from where we were the year
50:33
prior with Cliff and Jaden's first year and everything else.
50:36
And you know, big part of that's Jaden being hurt.
50:39
A lot of fans are going insane about Jeremiah Love, the running
50:44
back from Notre Dame. Dude ran A4340, right?
50:49
They're saying him in the backfield with Jaden would just
50:53
be a freaking crazy 12 combo. And I I get that.
50:59
I understand that. I just I've got an issue with
51:05
drafting a running back that high where our defense has been
51:10
so bad. All right, we haven't had a
51:15
defensive lineman like a true just game changing person at
51:20
that position. And I don't even know how long.
51:23
I wouldn't even call Kerrigan a game changer and he's our sack
51:26
leader for this team. So defense it is for you then?
51:31
I I just I think. So what happens?
51:32
What happens if the defensive player is the best player on the
51:35
board at the time? If the offensive player is the
51:38
best player to be. No if the.
51:41
Defense I I want a defensive guy.
51:45
Right. I, I just, that goes to what I
51:47
was saying, the best player at that time who you can get.
51:51
So if he's an offensive player or a defensive player, and I get
51:54
you, we need defense. And is it could be a situation
51:57
where you might be able to trade back and get another two
52:00
defensive guys. I don't know.
52:01
But if, if, if it can be done, give me the best of the best so
52:06
that we can build around it. Yeah, it's, I mean, some people
52:10
are raving about Sonny Styles, a linebacker from Ohio.
52:14
I don't know if he's going to make it there, Grant.
52:16
I would rather we trade back, but I'd rather we get some more
52:19
picks because like you said earlier, we got so many holes
52:21
and so many things to fill and I don't know what they're going to
52:24
do. Good news is the salary cap went
52:27
up, I think another $20 million, if I'm not mistaken.
52:31
So that is even $22 million. It's going up.
52:35
So that's just even more money we're going to have.
52:37
Now that they just announced that they're letting go of
52:39
Lattimore, that's even more money that's coming off the
52:41
books restructuring. Be honest.
52:44
They did say, and this is actually, you know what Adam
52:48
Peters had to say about Laramie Tunsil because to me, he is the
52:52
biggest player we need to worry about this offseason that's
52:55
actually on the roster. Adam, you talked about?
52:58
How important? Laramie Tunsil.
53:00
Yeah. How important is it to get that?
53:05
Done before the yeah, I don't want to put a timeline on it,
53:07
JP, but it is really important for us, you know, and and we
53:11
we've been having talks and we've been having good and
53:12
productive talks with Laramie and his team.
53:14
And, you know, we're as motivated as ever to to get that
53:18
done. But I don't I don't want to put
53:20
a timeline on it. Obviously I don't think either
53:22
side wants to drag it on, but I don't think the the league year
53:25
is is anything that's going to be a deadline of sorts.
53:30
There was another clip, the audio was horrible but there was
53:33
another clip of Peter saying how Tonsil is under contract.
53:39
That comment scared me because last season we all remember Tara
53:46
was also under contract right? So negotiations did not go how
53:50
anyone had hoped. And some fans blame Terry
53:55
holding out for the season being bad and Terry's injuries, right?
53:59
And I'm not saying that Laramie's going to do that.
54:02
But if Peters takes the same negotiation tactic with Tunsil
54:06
that he did with Terry, I just think the Tunsil's the tough
54:10
player that's going to play hardball and just not show up,
54:13
right? And Tunsil is his own agents,
54:15
according to those out there. Well, one thing that we don't
54:19
want to be is Jerry Jones 2 point O we we can't afford to do
54:24
that. All right, Obviously they
54:27
haven't been able to afford to do it either.
54:28
And and the situation that they're in.
54:30
But it's it's time to go ahead and pay the piper.
54:34
And I know that teams don't always want to do that, but who
54:38
else you got? What else do you plan on doing?
54:41
And we need to be firing on all cylinders when this thing pops
54:46
off, you know, not get somebody. Well, we wish we would have the
54:50
the time. There's no more time for
54:52
wishing. And what do they say?
54:54
Hoping? That's not a strategy.
54:56
You know that that's that's not a game, that's a strategy.
54:58
So, you know, it's it's time to to make something happen.
55:02
Now, I'm not saying go bankrupt doing it, but be responsible, be
55:07
smart about it. And I'm sure that guys are going
55:11
to come available who we can get.
55:13
But but sure, up that tonsil thing and and do we know what
55:17
Wagner's going to do? We still know about.
55:22
He basically said that he wasn't thinking about retiring, right?
55:26
You were there for his May of the Year speech, right?
55:29
So there's speculation that he is going to come back, right?
55:33
Yeah. I don't remember if Bobby is
55:35
under contract still and I don't.
55:38
Believe so. I don't think he is.
55:39
I think Bobby is a free agent. And does he come back?
55:44
Hey, I mean, I'm fine if he does, but to me, he can't play
55:49
every down. Yeah, he's a UFA.
55:51
So Bobby's not under contract. He's a free agent.
55:54
He can go wherever he wants to go, right?
55:57
Von Miller was talking to the Sports Junkies about how much he
56:00
loved it here. And then he did an interview
56:02
with another station about how he wouldn't mind going back to
56:05
Denver, right? Just because they were, you
56:07
know, obviously in the Super Bowl or had a chance to go to
56:09
the Super Bowl and everything else.
56:11
So I don't know if Bobby wants to play for us again just to be
56:15
with DQ and everything or go to an actual contender and maybe go
56:19
to New England. Whoever made, you know, it would
56:21
be on that end. Who knows?
56:22
I mean, Zach Ertz said he wasn't at the point of, you know,
56:27
hanging up to. Clayton Yeah, he's not done.
56:31
So legal tampering, which is to me so stupid, but the legal
56:36
tampering window starts next week, March 9th.
56:40
So teams can start talking and negotiating with players, but
56:44
you can't actually sign contracts.
56:45
Contracts can't actually be signed until March 11th.
56:49
So I think we'll know what we're going to do when the draft come
56:54
the let's just say March, 15th, March, like 17th time frame,
57:01
because the first wave of the big free agents will have
57:04
already happened. And we'll know.
57:06
Did the team make a move to maybe bring in some defensive
57:11
players, which would then let them draft Jeremiah Love and
57:15
running back? And there are those out there
57:18
saying, hey, we got, we have Bill.
57:21
We don't need Jeremiah Love. I'm sorry, but Bill's down here,
57:26
right? Bill sealing is here.
57:30
Loves floor of those not watching on YouTube is basically
57:33
where Bill sealing is, meaning love sealing is so much higher
57:38
than Bill's man. The kid can do it all.
57:40
He can block, he can freaking run the ball.
57:43
Obviously he can catch a thing at the backfield.
57:46
He had 40 touchdowns in two years at Notre Dame.
57:49
So that is the only reason why part of me, if he is the best
57:54
player available and we shore up the defense in free agency, I'm
57:59
good with us taking him because he could give the defense a time
58:03
to take a break, catch the breath, maybe we get more than
58:06
three and out he gives us that home run hitter.
58:10
I don't get that from Bill. And I don't know what's going to
58:12
happen with C Rod. The team is just never really
58:15
ridded him as their workhorse. And we talked about Jaden being
58:19
Superman, right? He doesn't have to be Superman
58:24
if we have a love beside him, potentially.
58:27
So maybe that 1-2 combo could help us out.
58:31
But what are we going to do in free agency?
58:33
That's amazed. The big question.
58:36
Well, we've got just a short time to figure it out 'cause
58:42
it's knocking on the door, bro. It is knocking on the door.
58:45
It's right around the freaking corner and I know it's not
58:49
actually sports or anything, but it is nice that we are still
58:53
getting some football at this point.
58:56
Well, Speaking of football and obviously the upcoming cost of
59:01
travel, have you made your mind of whether you're going to the
59:04
draft or not? Now I think I'm skipping the
59:08
draft. I've got just going to
59:10
Pittsburgh. To only have that many picks
59:14
doesn't sound as fun to me at this point.
59:17
You're going. I'm planning on it.
59:22
I'm planning on it. All right, well, maybe if you
59:25
have like a pull out roll away bed and I can like Stow away or
59:30
something, but we'll have to say.
59:34
Everything's refundable, How about that?
59:38
Speaking of, so are your deposits for the London trip.
59:41
So those of you that don't know what's going on when we're
59:45
playing yet, you can still get your deposit down with Rally,
59:48
what, 300 bucks? 300 bucks that's saving spot
59:52
yeah and so and just to get this found a little bit more on that.
59:56
So for everybody that's saying, hey, I don't know as far as my
1:00:02
travel dates, because I have other thing, I don't want any
1:00:04
type of conflict. Once the the dates come out,
1:00:08
you've got 24 hours. To look at your schedule and to
1:00:12
contact me to get your money back after that 24 hour period
1:00:19
you're you're on or it's non refundable.
1:00:22
So that's plenty of time to let me know that it's there's going
1:00:25
to be a conflict once the schedule comes out, those dates
1:00:27
come out. Makes sense to me, man.
1:00:30
I mean, if you're a listener to this podcast, you're a die hard
1:00:32
fan of the team, you guys will know the second the dates come
1:00:35
out, right? So yeah, it's not a bad deal at
1:00:40
all and I can't wait to see everybody in London eating some
1:00:46
fish and chips with whatever old Bay I'm going to half stash with
1:00:49
me and we'll just go from there. Scrambled eggs and beans.
1:00:54
Yeah, see, that just sucks, man. I, I don't know, like an English
1:00:58
breakfast does not sound appealing to me.
1:01:00
Like I would rather go to Paris and whatever the hell they eat
1:01:05
in Australia, but whatever, you know, all they do.
1:01:08
Get you a Vegemite sandwich. No, no, I'll.
1:01:13
Pass. Me.
1:01:14
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