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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, Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the Season with Peter Schrager On Peter Strager my host,
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  Speaker 1: Good Morning Fall on the NFL Networks every morning from
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  Speaker 1: eight to ten Eastern and up on the Fox NFL
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  Speaker 1: Kickoff show on Sunday mornings at eleven am Eastern. But
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  Speaker 1: my pride and enjoy right now this podcast, and we've
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  Speaker 1: got a good guest today, Joe McHale's gonna tain us hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: He's also on about sixteen different shows for Fox right now.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna get mchaelan in a moment. But before we
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  Speaker 1: talk about his career, his thew I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the Bears and what went down those twenty four
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  Speaker 1: hours Thursday and Friday and break it down and then
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  Speaker 1: kind of take it from there, all right, So they
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  Speaker 1: lose in historic fashion, crazy, you know, discombobulated play. And
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  Speaker 1: then Mattibraflus was a press conference afterwards, and you could
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  Speaker 1: tell he's still frazzled by the whole thing, and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: I liked what we had. I liked it. So it's
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  Speaker 1: like the third or fourth different press conference they lost
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  Speaker 1: at the end where eber Flus has had some head
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  Speaker 1: scratching stuff, and then we turned the TV off because
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  Speaker 1: that Cowboys Giants game. I don't know. That's when you
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  Speaker 1: eat and then you watch the Packers game at night
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, all right, what's gonna happen tomorrow in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Here's my perspective on the whole thing. I'm hosting Good
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  Speaker 1: Morning Football Friday morning, but I got an alert saying
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  Speaker 1: iber Flus is talking to the media at nine am
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  Speaker 1: Central time. Good Morning Football is from eight to ten Eastern,
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  Speaker 1: So as our show is ending, I knew there was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be an eber Flus press conference. I said to
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  Speaker 1: the producers, I said, guys, keep an eye on that.
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  Speaker 1: If they have the press conference, it means he's kept
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  Speaker 1: his job. They're not going to bring him out there
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  Speaker 1: and trot him out there to do a media session
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  Speaker 1: the next day after that loss and then fire him.
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  Speaker 1: But if there's an alert at some point that that
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  Speaker 1: media session has been moved has been pushed back, he's fired.
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  Speaker 1: He's done. So I'm watching the clock like a hawk,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm checking my emails and all my texts to
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  Speaker 1: see if the Matt Eberflus Friday morning media session is
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  Speaker 1: being moved. I have done this for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: They do not trot the coach out there for a
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  Speaker 1: press conference the day after a loss and then fire
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  Speaker 1: him after. It doesn't happen. It's just not a coordinating thing.
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  Speaker 1: Ten Am Eastern happens. Good Morning Football goes off the
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  Speaker 1: air and there's Matt Eberflus on a zoom getting grilled
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  Speaker 1: for twenty minutes by local reporters, taking the bullets and
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  Speaker 1: talking about the game against San Francisco next week. Like, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: the mccaskeys really really do not like firing people mid season.
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  Speaker 1: And Ryan Poles, I don't know if it's a credit
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  Speaker 1: to him or it's a loyalty to Iberflus or what,
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  Speaker 1: but like, if ever there was a window the fans
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  Speaker 1: would understand, you could have fired him, but they didn't,
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  Speaker 1: and he'll coach another week and we'll see what the
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  Speaker 1: story goes. Literally twenty minutes later, I get a text
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  Speaker 1: from a source Iberflus fired. I'm like, what so the
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  Speaker 1: Bears and it's McCaskey. It's Kevin Warren. Kevin Warren was
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  Speaker 1: the big ten commissioner. Then he was the president of
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings, and now he's the president of the Bears,
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  Speaker 1: and the stadium is the big story with the Bears
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  Speaker 1: and Kevin Warren, and that's gonna be his big, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obvious talking and mission for the next few years. And
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  Speaker 1: it's polls the GM. And the way I heard it
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  Speaker 1: was that Iberflus's press conference was scheduled, but they had
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  Speaker 1: at the same time a meeting scheduled with the owner
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  Speaker 1: of the president, and the general manager to discuss the
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  Speaker 1: future of the head coach. They had not decided or
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  Speaker 1: determined the head coach's future or fate before that meeting.
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  Speaker 1: But as they hammered it around and they talked about it,
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  Speaker 1: they said, Okay, we're gonna fire him. My thing is,
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  Speaker 1: can you not move that meeting with the owner, the
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  Speaker 1: president and the GM two hours earlier given the circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: I know, Thanksgiving is a special time, and I know
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  Speaker 1: everyone flew back. I just felt that was unfair to
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  Speaker 1: Matt Eberflus. So they fired Eberflus. And then on Monday morning,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Warren and Ryan Poles do a press conference and Warren,
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  Speaker 1: who I didn't hear anyone saying that Poles's job was
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  Speaker 1: in jeopardy. It's like, I just want to make it
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  Speaker 1: clear that Ryan Poles, the GM's job is not in
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  Speaker 1: jeopardy and he's our guy. And I'm like, this shirt
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  Speaker 1: sounds like a vote confidence when no one's really asking.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think anyone was wondering whether Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Pouls is gonna keep his job. Ryan Poles drafted Caleb
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  Speaker 1: and made that incredible trade to get not only that pick,
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  Speaker 1: but DJ Moore. And it's the press conference on Monday
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  Speaker 1: was head scratching. Also, fast forward to today and it's Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: and at this job opening, you're gonna hear every name mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the names that keeps popping up is
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan's name. And let me just lay my cards
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  Speaker 1: on the table. I don't think Kyle Shanahan's being fired
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  Speaker 1: by the San Francisco forty nine ers. I don't. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think John Lynch is being fired by the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers. Mike Florio is a reporter for NBC Sports
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  Speaker 1: and Pro Football Talk. Mike Florio over the years has
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  Speaker 1: broken a lot of Niners stories. Mike Florio is very
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  Speaker 1: plugged in and he has done a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: media tour, so I'm on eyes in him on I
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  Speaker 1: think Dan Patrick I saw him on his own show,
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  Speaker 1: being like, I'm not so sure Shanahan's coming back to
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco after this disastrous year. This is the beauty
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  Speaker 1: of coach hiring season. You can get names like Vrabel
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  Speaker 1: attached to the Jets, you can get names like Shanahan
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  Speaker 1: attached to the Bears, and I can't say no to
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  Speaker 1: any of it because I have seen crazier happen. I
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  Speaker 1: would like to think San Francisco isn't gonna just end
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  Speaker 1: this entire thing, and the coach and GM, we're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna flee, and that Shanahan's gonna want to come back
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  Speaker 1: and say let's go for this thing again and let's
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  Speaker 1: try to rebuild based on what a disastrous thing that is.
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  Speaker 1: But like, I'm not out of hand, saying Shanahan to
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  Speaker 1: the Bears is ridiculous. It's unlikely. I would imagine it's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna happen. But this is where we're at and
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  Speaker 1: why the NFL is unlike any other profession. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Rex Ryan's name was mentioned for the Jets job, and
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't pooh pooh it because I know that wood
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  Speaker 1: he loved Rex and Wood he makes. The hiring Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Shanahan to the Bear sounds absurd. Why would you leave
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco for Chicago? But then you think about New
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  Speaker 1: Beginnings and Caleb Williams and Wow, to take on that
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  Speaker 1: franchise and bring that and that to prominence, Well, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe there's a way that he can get
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  Speaker 1: out of San Francisco. I mentioned Marcus Freeman, and I
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  Speaker 1: was the first with that on Sunday's Fox Show for Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: and I will stand behind that. I got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of feedback and also a lot of buzz around that report.
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  Speaker 1: No one had reported it up until that point. He's
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of Notre Dame. I think he might
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  Speaker 1: be a candidate as well, and I don't say that
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  Speaker 1: without knowledge of the situation. So that job is interesting,
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  Speaker 1: Jet's job really interesting. I don't know if anyone's reported
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  Speaker 1: this besides me. I have no indication that Woody Johnson
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  Speaker 1: is actually going to Europe for an ambassador role. From
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  Speaker 1: all I gathered, that job was filled in the UK,
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  Speaker 1: and I have no confirmation or indication that he's taken
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  Speaker 1: another one. What he's got a kid in college, a
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  Speaker 1: kid in high school. I'm not sure what he wants
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  Speaker 1: to go away for four years and be a part
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  Speaker 1: of the Trump administration. That was assumed that he would
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  Speaker 1: go do that, but I don't have any indication of that.
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  Speaker 1: Jet's job is open. Bear's job is open with an asterisk.
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  Speaker 1: I do think there's a way that Thomas Brown, the
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  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, well really the guy who was recently promoted
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  Speaker 1: as the interim offense corner an internim head coach, could
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  Speaker 1: possibly win games down the stretch, and he's beloved in
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  Speaker 1: that building, and he's really well liked by the players,
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  Speaker 1: Like there's a chance that he could still be a candidate.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Olbrik's a candidate in New York. And
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  Speaker 1: then you have the Saints job. But there are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be other openings. There will be other ones, and it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna get really interesting to see which names pop up,
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  Speaker 1: who's attached to where. And I said it on Bill
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  Speaker 1: Simmons a couple of weeks ago, who everyone just assumes
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  Speaker 1: Vrabel's getting a job and Belichick's getting a job. Belichick
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  Speaker 1: to the Jaguars sounds like it makes sense, like seod
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  Speaker 1: Con just being like just I don't want to just
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  Speaker 1: just go just do your thing, Vrabel, I don't. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a team yet. I don't. I don't envision
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  Speaker 1: a world where Rabel's not going to be a head coach.
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  Speaker 1: But there are so many hot coordinators too. So Ben
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  Speaker 1: Johnson's out there, Joe Brady's having an amazing season. Uh
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  Speaker 1: you go through the names. Cliff Kingsbury, what he's done
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  Speaker 1: with Jayden Daniels has been outstanding, and then there's Jesse
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  Speaker 1: Minter out in LA who has had an out incredible year.
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  Speaker 1: And then an older guy, Todd Todd Munkin, who's been
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  Speaker 1: in oc at Georgia and the Ravens and has rebuilt
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  Speaker 1: both offenses and brought them to to great places. So
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  Speaker 1: really fun time of the year for us as fans,
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  Speaker 1: really devastating time of the year for the fired coaches
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  Speaker 1: and for coaches on the hot seat. But uh, Bear's
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  Speaker 1: got interesting and that job is very coveted, even with
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  Speaker 1: a lack of success over the last few years. People
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  Speaker 1: see that logo, people see that fan base, and they
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  Speaker 1: look at a team that is actually really good on paper.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be curious to see how that all plays out
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  Speaker 1: real quick. Great week of football up ahead, some really
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  Speaker 1: good games. I made a comment on Good Morning Football
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  Speaker 1: and I wrote about it for my Fox column. I
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  Speaker 1: believe this is the best Buffalo Bills team we have
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  Speaker 1: ever seen. I say that with confidence. And the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety team went thirteen and three, went eight, you know
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  Speaker 1: at home, and then rattled through the playoffs before losing
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  Speaker 1: to the Giants. On wide right, they won an AFC
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  Speaker 1: championship game fifty one to three against the La Raiders
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  Speaker 1: that year. I'm watching this Bills team. They get better
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  Speaker 1: and better every week. They're getting healthier and healthier. And
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  Speaker 1: last week's victory on Sunday night, I know the Niners
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  Speaker 1: came in, you know, banged up, but like in a
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  Speaker 1: previous year, I think the Bills they don't blow them
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  Speaker 1: out thirty five to ten. I don't think they're doing
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  Speaker 1: snow Angels. And I think allan Engagement included is like
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  Speaker 1: as happy as he ever been. And Aaron wan Koff
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  Speaker 1: and my producer, who is a diehard Bills fan, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not jinxing you. I'm not putting the hoax on this team.
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  Speaker 1: I think in a year where everyone is talking about
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin, Kevin O'Connell. You know, you go through Sean
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  Speaker 1: Payton and I guess who's the other hot name from
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  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell? Like, I think my Coach of the Year
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  Speaker 1: might be Sean McDermott. Considering what they lost and what
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  Speaker 1: they were expected to be missing with Diggs and Gabe
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  Speaker 1: Davis and Hide and Poyer, I might if I had
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  Speaker 1: to vote right now, I might go MVP Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 1: Coach of the Year Sean McDermott. And for someone who
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  Speaker 1: grew up as a Bills fan during those four Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl losses, I think this might be the best team
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  Speaker 1: they've ever had.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they can't. They can't defend the run. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not getting too excited.
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  Speaker 3: You watch it every week?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: I mean?
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  Speaker 2: You know, watching CMC in those first couple of runs,
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  Speaker 2: he was incredible every single time. You know, we lost
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  Speaker 2: to the Ravens. Dereck Henry ran all over us. They
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  Speaker 2: will I also think a little bit. I am trying
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  Speaker 2: not to get my hopes up too much. I just
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  Speaker 2: was on the phone with my dad last night when
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  Speaker 2: for a Walk called him. We were talking about the game.
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  Speaker 2: He stayed up for the entire thing. He very rarely
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  Speaker 2: stays up for the Sunday night game because it's so
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  Speaker 2: late on the East Coast. He stayed up for the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing. He loved it, loved watching it. I'm just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, playing in the in the snow is fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome to see them win. It's awesome to see
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  Speaker 2: that Amari Cooper lateral and Josh you know everyone's oh,
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  Speaker 2: the only quarterback to get a throwing and a receiving touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Since Brad Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just they still have some problems depending.
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  Speaker 1: Listeners are listening this week fourteens that we're at. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is this week a classic trap letdown game.
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  Speaker 2: I have a feeling that they will get up for
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  Speaker 2: every game going out because I think they want to
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  Speaker 2: catch Kansas City. I think if they could take that
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  Speaker 2: buy that will mean so much, and so I think
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  Speaker 2: they want to win out, Like, I don't see any
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  Speaker 2: reason why They've got to keep their eye on Detroit
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  Speaker 2: coming up too. So maybe this is a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a trap, but I don't know. Yeah, I would
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  Speaker 2: love for.
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  Speaker 3: Them to.
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  Speaker 2: Not stumble and get healthy. I mean, get Kean Coleman back,
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  Speaker 2: get Kincaid back like Knox has been playing. Well, Mac
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  Speaker 2: Collins out of nowhere is suddenly like barefoot. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: mean yeah, lying down in the snow, shirtless or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's good. I was so determined at the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of this year to be okay with them having
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  Speaker 2: a rebuilding year and just and just.
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  Speaker 1: They have two losses. They lost when they were all
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  Speaker 1: banged up to the Ravens they got killed, and then
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  Speaker 1: they lost the Texans second. And I think Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: went like nine to thirty at ACAD and if you
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  Speaker 1: remember it was like Stephan Diggs and him had the
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  Speaker 1: side eye like that Funds like six years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was when everyone was like, oh, Josh
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  Speaker 2: Allen's turning back into who he was rookie year, and
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  Speaker 2: since then it's been completely different.
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  Speaker 1: Le me P. Can we play a clip from the
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  Speaker 1: NBC broadcast. I want to hear the audio of a
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  Speaker 1: report from Melissa Stark about Khalil Shakir talking about Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 4: Khalil Shakir is ready to run through a wall for
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  Speaker 4: his quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: And you think I'm kidding.
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  Speaker 4: No, he told me that if Josh came to him
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  Speaker 4: and said, grab your shield, and sword. We're going to
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  Speaker 4: battle with no other details. He would fall in line
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  Speaker 4: behind him, no questions asked. Khalil said, when your quarterback
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  Speaker 4: is putting his body on the line every single play,
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  Speaker 4: it makes you want to go above and beyond for him.
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  Speaker 1: Josh, all right, So you.
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  Speaker 4: Threw for a touchdown and received a touchdown on the
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  Speaker 4: same play.
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  Speaker 1: Can you walk us through that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I threw a bad balls. I was worried I
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  Speaker 5: was going to get tipped up in the air pick,
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  Speaker 5: so I was just kind of chasing it. I made
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  Speaker 5: eye contact with Coope. He's a vet, saw me. I
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  Speaker 5: put my hands out, he tossed it to me, and
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  Speaker 5: they had to.
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  Speaker 1: Make a play.
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  Speaker 5: Is that how they score it? I get a passing
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  Speaker 5: end receiving you do. That's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: And Chris collins Worth is very excited because he started
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  Speaker 4: you on this fantasy team.
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  Speaker 5: I love that, so did I.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, good to hear it. I love that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's so cheesy in a way, like I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 1: my sword and my shield and go fight for this man.
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  Speaker 1: But like, I don't think. Melissa like asked him that question, saying, hey, Khalil,
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  Speaker 1: if you had a sword, and a shield. Would you
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  Speaker 1: go fight that? He's bringing that up himself. So they're
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  Speaker 1: all playing Allan's obviously the man Diggs is not there.
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  Speaker 1: That seems to be auditioned by subtraction personality and whatever
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  Speaker 1: else wise. Uh, right now, if I had to vote,
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  Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen's my MVP and Sean mcdermot's my
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  Speaker 1: coach of the year. All right, let's get to our guest.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited to do this because I think he's
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  Speaker 1: hilarious and he's also a smart, knowledgeable fan and also
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  Speaker 1: played college football at a high level. Joel McHale is
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  Speaker 1: up next. Our guest is one of my favorite people
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  Speaker 1: in the world to watch, to text with, to hear
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  Speaker 1: him on podcasts, and then also to see him talk football,
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  Speaker 1: which he does quite often on our show Good Morning Football.
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  Speaker 1: And he's great with no further ado, the Seattle Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: fan in my life, mister Joel McHale, what's up, dude?
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  Speaker 3: Go Hawks, Go Hawks, Go Hawks. Event Hold on, I'll
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  Speaker 3: let me. What do you I'll complete it here.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking, we're looking for memorabilia. What do we have here?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, helmet grow helmet?
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  Speaker 1: Tell me the story of acquiring this helmet. Whose helmet
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  Speaker 1: is it? How'd you get that? And who gifted do this?
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  Speaker 3: I was doing a bit for the Seahawks and I
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  Speaker 3: can't remember what the bit was. And then I was
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  Speaker 3: wearing the helmet and then they said, then I said,
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  Speaker 3: can I have the helmet?
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  Speaker 6: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Went really expensive and I was like, I know, and
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  Speaker 3: then they went, all right, just take the helmet, and
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  Speaker 3: then uh, and so I just carried around the house
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  Speaker 3: like you know, after a game, and my kids are like,
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  Speaker 3: what are you doing. I'm just like, yeah, you know
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  Speaker 3: who it was rough out there, but we we pulled
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  Speaker 3: through guys and yeah. And then you know, when I
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  Speaker 3: football helmet out of context kind of makes you look insane.
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  Speaker 1: It does. I'm gonna quickly, as a Seahawks fan, rapid
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  Speaker 1: fire some Seahawks questions for you. Then we're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: all stuff, but not trivia or anything. Jim Warn, Jip Torn.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Dave Craig.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Where were you when they won the Super Bowl when
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: it was in Jersey the day before that horrible blizzard?
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: I was in.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: I was at the Super Bowl.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: You were there, You're you're at the game.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I was at the game, and uh, my wife and
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: I went and it was I was it was so
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: great and I think I've never taken heroin. Where's this going?
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Where is this going? Peter? I was like, Oh, this
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: is what it must feel like. I'm so euphoric. I'm
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: so happy, and I cried. We were sitting next to
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Will Arnett, who, as you know, a famous hockey fan. Yep,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: uh and so and he had he was promoting the
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Lego Batman movie. So it was this weird group of
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: people and uh, and he was making fun of me
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: the whole time. He was like, Joela, looks pretty good, buddy.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: And I was like, we didn't get called for icing
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: one and yeah. So I was there. Where were you?
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I was there too. I was on the field. I
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: was working for Fox Super Bowl. I did all the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: postgame interviews. And that's the one was interesting because there
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: was so much build up and then like within two plays,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning spite us, you know, hikes the ball over
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the center, hikes it over his head and you're like, oh,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and then it just the Broncos never had a chance.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And then Percy Harvin, who had been hurt all.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Year, opens the second half right after Bruno.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Mars do you what do you when that? Because I
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: made a joke of a prediction. They were like, what
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: do you think the final score is going to be?
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: And I said two to four, just because usually I'm like,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: usually i'd be like Broncos thirteen, Seahawks two hundred and six,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: and but I said two to four. And then the
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: first play was the safety.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Two. Yeah.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: I was like, it's happening and I can't believe it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: And what do you like? Obviously I know all sorts
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: of people that bet money on football legally or legally
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: now depending upon what state. But what do you think? What?
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: What do you think the odds were for the first play?
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Like somebody had a bet? Like just like what would
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: be the Like, okay, if you put down ten bucks
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: and the first play is a safety?
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Aaron, Aaron, We got to producer Aaron here, Aaron, why
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: don't you google last year's Super Bowl first scoring play
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: safety and tell me what the odds are. I would
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: say it's probably one thousand to one.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, like yeah.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Figure that. I'll tell you my story with that. I
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: was assigned to the Seahawks all week. Fox Sports one
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: had just launched cable network for our dear friends at Fox.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: We Love Hello, Lachlan and the crew, and I was
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: working for them.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Look, Animal Control on FI was on Fox, I Get
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: It Kitchen on Fox.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Fox, and I was assigned to that team. And that
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: was the year that like Marshawn would and talk to
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: the media and Michael Robinson was doing all the talking
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: for him, and I was with them at the hotel.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: And I could say the hotel now at the time
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: it was like top secret location, but it was like
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the w in Jersey City. Oh I'm sorry, it was
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the Weston in Jersey City. And like around that team
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: after they beat Crabtree and the Niners, they were the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: most confident, borderline cocky group of guys, like at no
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: point did they even think they would lose. That Later
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: we'd find out there was a fight during the week
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: involving Golden Tate and and Percy Harvin. I don't even
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: remember the story, but there was something. It doesn't matter.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: They kicked the crap out of Peyton Manning and the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Broncos that day.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: It was and I've been on that Monday night football
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: broadcast between that, which is such a good broadcast. He
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: his brother and then I brought it up, and I
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: was like, oh shit, I mean, there were such good
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: sports and I can't I realize, Oh, this is obviously
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: like I'm taunting them a little bit. I'm like, I'm
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: just some fan and I'm like, you were in the game,
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: and this is like bringing up.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Like legacy stuff like yeah, yeah.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Like oh you were in like you were in this beat.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Like if it were me, it would be like you
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: got in this big, huge movie and you kind of
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: it didn't really you know, it didn't happen, you know,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: and I would I'd be like, oh, I'm not that
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: he was hurt and any because he's such a in
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: such a cool guy. But I'm like, what, why am
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I being a dick? Yeah? Yeah, he's the light. And
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: I was there speaking all right.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: So twelve months later, we're in Arizona. Katy Perry's tearing
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: it up at halftime. Uh was the was the Canadian
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Football League wide receiver Chris Matthews has the game of
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: his life and he's tearing it up and and curse
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: has the butt catch? Where were you for that whole less?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I was there again with my wife Sarah, standing next
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: to Meredith Vieira and matt Lower I love it and
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: and triple h and uh McMahon's daughter. Uh. Yeah. It
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: was a very again, like an interesting group and it
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: was obviously the Patriots. And Meredith Vieira is a huge Patriots.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Fan, is she Okay? I didn't know that, yeah.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: And it was we we I as confident as I
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: was the year the year before. I was like, oh
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: my gosh, we're gonna win this year. After that catch,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I was like, we're gonna win. And then it was
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: like somebody had tied our shoelaces together. And it was
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: like my son, who's sixteen now, like whenever we see highlights,
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: if those come on, he just takes off.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Was he old enough to like appreciate it, because that's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: now we're going back ten years now, Like was he
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: old enough to like be a fan at that point?
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: So he was six and I think it was enough.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: So he had so been indoctrinated by his parents, like
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: we were some sort of fundamentalist Mormon cult and I yes, So,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: I mean you can imagine walking you were probably there,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: he's there and walking out with the with you know,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: walking out with the crowd. I like just stunned, just absolutely,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: I'll never forget as half be as I was. There's
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: just the stunnedness as the year before it was. It
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: was not good.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a great what if? Because
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: obviously that game is a horrible loss for the Seahawks
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and their fans and they haven't been back to Super
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Bowl since, and whatever if they had won two straight
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and then you go into the next year and your
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: rolling looking to be the first team ever to go
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: win three straight. You don't. Then obviously from that all
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the stuff with Russ and the defense and Pete and
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: it all comes undone. But like, it's one of the
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: great what is It's not just one game to me,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that one that's not just like, uh all right, it's
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: it's Nick Foles does a Philly special like this one
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: that could have been the team of the generation, and
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: that could have been the team of the decade. And
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: that kind of just was one super Bowl and then
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I lost from the Super Bowl. That's what it was.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: We went, Yes, to get there twice, as you know,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: to get there at all, and then to get there
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: twice in two years, Yes, all those things, and it
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: felt like Nicholas Cage in The weather Man or whatever
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: that movie is where he imagines this other life and mean, yeah,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: so yeah, no I go back and so all yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I mean even like I talked to Gronk because he
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: was on Animal Control, a very nice man, as we've already,
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: and he was like, oh, I broke your heart, didn't.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: I like, like like I had broken up with someone
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: and there or they had broken up with me and
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: they were like, oh I I see it was like
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: it was was not I wasn't as into the relationship
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: as you were.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: And I understand how hard that is for you now,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: And isn't.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: It Isn't it chilling when you talk to the players
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: like it's a fan and they're like like they're so
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: not affected by it, and it's just like, oh, yeah, no,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: that was a part of my career, but like you're like, no,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: this is like the best day of my life. And
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: they're like yeah it was, yeah, that's cool, and we
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: want a super Bowl. That's good.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: And you know he told me when we were shooting
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Animal Control, he goes, yeah, I was like because he
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: we were talking about the past play and everyone's looked
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: to believe they called that, you know, he said in
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: the huddle or said like on the sideline, he said Belichick,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: And this is why Belichick was brilliant. Belichick said, they
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: might run something like this, they might try this, and
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: so it was in the back of the player's brain
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: so like they might throw a pass here, and then
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: it happened, and they were like, that's his sort of
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: his his amazing ability to predict, you know, like what
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: could happen? So anyway, it was what it was. It
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: was yeah, bad, bad, bad times. But the fact that
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: I can even talk about it is really this counseling
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: session has gone, well.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and have you do you have a relationship with
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Marshawn or with Russ or with Shirm, Like, do you
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: have a relationship with those guys from that era?
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I text with Russ once in a while, and I
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: am and everyone's look to believe that good. I'm I
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: truly am thrilled for him.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Everyone has to be. There's no way his career could
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: end the way it did in Denver. That's not cool.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: No, And he and his like he's the night like
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: that dude went to the Seattle Children's Hospital every single
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: piece and was just so and uh, I don't I've
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: done a couple of things with Sherman. I'm going on
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Marjahn's podcast next week, I believe. And uh, there was
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: nothing funnier than when he wasn't answering questions and then
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: he realized he had to say something or he'd get fine,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: and he would just go uh huh. And then there
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: would be posters in Seattle of him like looking off
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: into the distance and it just said yep, and they
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: were so funny. Oh yeah he was, and he was
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: really And you can tell when players are cool to kids,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: you can like there, they were always being with my kids.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: So that it went along with.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Let's go back to your childhood. Obviously grew up in
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Washington State and you were in theater as a high school. Yeah, okay,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: so go on tell me and then you.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: I was, I was such a bad student, and uh,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: the only thing I was good at was chasing a ball.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: And like, so I was like a golden retriever of
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: a human being because of my ADHD and my dyslexia.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: So I was just like ball and I would run
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: after ball. So I played tons of sports and then
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: I did a couple of plays and I was like, oh,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: this is really fun if I can just kind of
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: because I just thought sports and theater they were kind
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: of these like people didn't take them.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Oil and water dude, like totally they they really there
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: was a very I mean, obviously we've had uh, you know,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the guy who played Hunter, and you've had Jim Brown
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: like there's been, there's been.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I've got a professional sports ability the way they did.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Is Fred Dryer still around?
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I love spread Dryer.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Aaron Wang Kaufman. Look up Fred Dryer.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: And I'm still waiting on that safety odds question.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what what kind of are you doing this?
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I put the safety odds in the chat?
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, it just looks like you're a band
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: member from Weezer.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. You look like Brian Bell from Weezer. How's
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: that reference? Everyone goes Rivers Cuomo, I go the bassist.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: I already forgot that. You asked me about Fred Dryer too,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: So at this point you're not getting that information, but
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: I got you the safety information.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: It's with us.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I have a chat. Yeah.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: The chat says odds for a safety in the Super Bowl,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: we're plus twelve sixty odds for safety is a first score?
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Were plus four thousand. Wow, that's good.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: And Fred still living in Los Angeles and he has
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: a production company.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, Joe, should we do dinner with Fred Dryer next
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: time I'm out in La.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Do you think he's going to be mad that I
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: thought he was dead?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: No, I thought he might have been dead too. We
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: don't hear much from Fred Dryer.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's been retired for thirty years now,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: and Hunter.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Is not exactly getting your reboot these days.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: If you get dinner with Fred Dryer, he has excluded
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: red meat from his diet. So just keep that you're
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: not taking the mistakes.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: All right, Good, the dinner is off. Dinner is off.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: We'll take Richard Dean Anderson instead.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Richard Who I mean? I guess Joe Namath had a
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: pretty storied acting career for a what was it Nameth?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah name, it was in things he was in the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: more commercials and talk shows. I mean, there's a long
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: history of uh what was his name, the guy who
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: was on Mister Belvedere, what was his name?
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, well this is Alex Karras.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and father father Murphy, Uh, you know, from a
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: little house in the prairie. What's Merlin Olson?
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: One of the fearsome foursome a.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Very good football player. See I didn't have the athletic
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: I was good, but not nothing. You know, I was
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: never that level.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, So what plays do you remember? I like the
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: plays first. What plays were you in?
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Oh? The first play I was ever in was in
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: hadd And Field, New Jersey. I was raised in Seattle,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: but we lived for two years in New Jersey, and uh,
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: this was the play and I'm not kidding it's it
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: was a Disney Uh, the theatrical adaptation of the ride
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: It's a Small World. So again, that's how the indoctrination,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: how early it began was we we did It was
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: like a play in a book. And then they were like,
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: you're gonna be wearing later hosen. Yeah yeah. And I
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: was like, and then you're a snake charmer and it's
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: I'm sure I can't imagine how culturally insensitive it is.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's it's it's been canceled twenty years ago.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: My question is is that like an original or is
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: that something that other high schools were probably doing or
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: did your theater teacher say I'm whipping up one bay.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I'm saying second grade that was this is I don't know,
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know how yeah, no, no, yeah. In high
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: school we were already Oh in high school, we felt
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: we were doing important work. Yeah, we were like we're
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: doing waiting for good do, but this time we're skipping
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: every other word. And I did ibsen in college. Look
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: at our Baron Wang Kaufman, a lady from the sea
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: running an exciting play go rid of dolls house.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: It's a real, real happy one.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: So I was good at that and terrible at school.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: And uh so my mom, who was a newspaper editor,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: two of her three sons were full dyslexics, which was
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: a real joke from God, which was like, you have
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: someone who is so good at grammar and spelling and arrangement,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: and then you have this yea who. It really accentuates
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: it when you're wearing a football helmet, and uh you
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: have this ya who and who. Yeah. So I I
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: kind of did that through great. Then I moved to Seattle,
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: and I did all the sports I could, and uh
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: then I just kept doing theater with these two friends
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: of mine, Dominic, our three friends Dominic Delao, Ethan Sandler,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: and John Atkins, who are all uh two of those
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: three guys are are in the business. One of the actors, Yeah,
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: one of them is, he's Ethan's gonna be on American
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Horror Story. And John Yeah, and John is a very
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: prolific musician. He was in a band called and six
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: four Hero that did opened for Modest Mouse for years
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: and years and years and if you look up them,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: they're a storied Seattle band. And then, uh, Dominic Delo
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: played man Kiny on the Suit for twelve years. Uh,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: so we're it's going He moved back to Seattle, so
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: he kind of retired, but I I would hire him
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: in a second if you would do it. And uh,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: but so yeah, we did. We all did theater and
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: the two of the three of us did. Uh, two
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: of the four, three of the four of the sports.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Ethan was the captain of our of the Mercer Island
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: freshman football team, like legit.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: So then you were you were doing both. But then,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, I see these footage, these pictures of you
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: as a tight end wearing a University of Washington jersey
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: in front of the Rose Bowl and you're jacked and
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: you're on the actual rose ball team. So how did
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: you make the leap from high school to like playing
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: at Washington. That's legit.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: I tricked as I I just tricked everybody all the time. Uh,
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: just like acting.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: No.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: Well, Don James was our coach and had a very
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: active well, you know, one of the greatest coaches in
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: the Husky history, and he was he had a very
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: active walk on program which he wanted fresh blood to
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: always be there, to always be pushing the scholarship players,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: and it kept fresh meat and cannon fodder firing at them.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: And then you know, there was some real gems in
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: that like John Fiala, who became the captain of the
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Steelers way back when he was a walk on and anyway,
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: so I was a walk on, but I just would
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: nail skit night. I mean like they were like that.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: You were funny who was on that.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Who was on that Washington team? Because I mean Ernie Cronwell, right,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: was on that team.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Conwell was, Yes, he went on to the Rams of
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Saint Louis and Mark Brunell who storied quarterback. Damon Heward
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: was on that team. Dave Hoffman who was an All
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: American linebacker, his brother Steve Hoffman. Lincoln Kennedy I came
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: in at right after Steve MPMan.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, number one overall pick.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mario Bailey the receiver of course, Napoleon Kaufman who
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: went to the Raiders and did well and then retired early.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: There was Let's lawyer Malloy was on that team.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Bro Y are legends and like when you when you
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: show up on the soup are they like what the like?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Did they or did you? Guys keep into like that's
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: incredible that you were with all these guys and then
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: you get one of the most coveted jobs like in comedy.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Well, I think there were more. If it were me,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: I would be more confused and or they would be like,
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: well that's about right for that guy. Okay, it wasn't
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: like it wasn't he was like it was like showtime
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: when I walked on the football field and I'm all
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: taped uff, but I've got the stuff under my eyes
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: ready to go. There was more. I was on the
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Scout offense, which would play against you know, the the
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: best players in college football defense at the time, So
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: I think they were when I talk to them now,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: like because I am friends with Dave Hoffman and Damon
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Hewart and Mark Brunner also was on that team and Ernie.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: They both worked for the NFL. I think Bruner works
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: for the Steelers, I think, And uh, so they're they're
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: very nice and and very cool. I'm actually gonna see
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Damon Hubert tomorrow. And so yeah, no, believe me, if
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: you had said that that this is how it would
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: work out, I would be like this that I don't
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: know like that the fact that they like they started
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: giving Oh, DeMarco Farr was on that team.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: And Ernie last week because they honored the ninety nine
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Rams at halftime of the Rams versus Eagles game.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: That's in that so and it's so they Yeah, they
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: were extremely nice and I think ESPN or was it
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: ESPN there we was this or maybe a Sports Illustrated
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: did these things? These things called like were they actually good?
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: And they were very diplomatic about how they answered it.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: It was very talking about like.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: They were like, he was a very nice guy and
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: very fun don't think. I don't know if that was you.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, that's what people are known for,
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: He was funny.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't like his speed in his hands were incredible.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: He was nobody had better like like on field intelligence. No, no, no,
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: he just he had a really good touchdown routine.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: All right, you know, I geek out on the comedy stuff.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: So you go from college to this then commercials. I
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: want to say, if I remember listening to an interview
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: on four. But then you get this incredible opportunity to
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: take over one of the you know, the hallmarks of
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the network, but also one of the great shows of
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the nineties, the Soup, which was Talk Sup originally take
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: us through. How did that even come to be?
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: I well, I lived in I got married in Seattle,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: and lived in Seattle as an actor, and I'm my
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: wife is still agreeing to be married to me, thank you, Sarah,
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: And it's been thirty years. What the hell is together? Thirty?
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: But I got on a show there, well in Seattle
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: called Almost Live right out of college, which started like
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: Bill nya science guy's career. It was a locally produced
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: catch comedy show. And I was on there and kind
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: of learned how to be bad as not bad. But
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: I was like so scared and intimidates. Yeah, and they
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: were so nice about kind of taking care of me
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: and letting me screw up teleprompter because I was so
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: dyslexic and nervous. And then I went to graduate school
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: for acting in Seattle at the University of Washington Go
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: and then we moved to LA and I said to
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: my wife, just give me five years to try and
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: make this work. And that's couldn't get an agent. I
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: couldn't get an agent that would send me on television auditions,
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: but I could get I got a commercial agent AKA,
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: which is a great agency here, and they started sending
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: me out of commercials and that started working. And then
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: this woman named Annie Roberts who just finished casting like
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: retired from E recently and now works for Netflix. She
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: saw me in commercials and would bring me into E
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: things like one hundred and one Celebrity Oops and which
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: were kind of like best week ever. This is for
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: those of you young kids listening, go look it up.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: And then she said, you want to audition for this.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: This it's the new version of talk soup where's not
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: And they were like, we're not gonna call it that,
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: but you're we're gonna make fun of reality.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: TV, right, and it was blowing up like this is
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: because they used to be toxic, would do the daytime
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: talk shows. Yes, show was we're gonna make fun of
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Flavor Flave and we're gonna make fun of.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Joe Millionaire yep, yeah, and uh, Survivor like these there
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: was these like Survivor big shows and then there's Flavor
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: Flav who became a huge and then like Whitney Houston
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: of course, and the real world was still going and
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: it was still and then the real world was figuring
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: out just put insane people on and there it was
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: this open frontier and it was the We had perfect
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: timing and kind of hitting that because there was like
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: RuPaul's Drag Race was the dirtiest show on television, and
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: there was things we couldn't even show and there I
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: was like, they're on regular cable, why can't we do that?
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: And yeah, they were like, we just can't and uh
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: and then we then they made fun They let us
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: make fun of the Kardashians who had just started on E.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: And it was this tiny little show on E and
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: it obviously it worked out and uh and so it
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: was this wonderful open frontier of and nobody watched the
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: show for a year and Ted Harbert, who was the president,
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: liked the show, so he kept it on. So we
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: just crowned and it was I was so lucky because
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: I got used to say the reading teleprompter and doing
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: what I know, they're just kind of telling jokes. I
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: was like, I don't know, we'll try this one and yeah, boy.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: And that was five years in or four years in.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: And so Annie Roberts, who's the executive you give credit to,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: she watched your tapes from the scene comedy or the commercials.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: She saw me on commercials. I know, yeah, I didn't
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: have any I don't have any tape, but nobody cared.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: But I would imagine the job like everyone in the groundlings,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: everyone in Second City. I'm sure everyone was trying out
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: for this.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: I know the two. I know who it was narrowed
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: down to, and one of them was a friend of
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: mine named Matt Corboy, who is who is super funny,
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: and I to this day I'm like, why didn't he
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: get it?
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: He's yeah, he's.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Great, and and so we yes, I think that there
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: was a very long there was a he was it
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: took like six months to get the job. And that
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: wasn't because they were seeing the world. It was just
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: because he didn't. They were kind of, you know, very nonchalant.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: And then when they put us on and saw how
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: cheap it was. At first, They're like, ten, there was
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: a time kids, when programming the actual day really mattered.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: In ten o'clock on a Friday night was a desert.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: It was a dead zone.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: On ABC with you downs.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they were like, hey, you beat a rerun
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: of Sex in the City, and I'd be like, thank you,
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: thank you so much and uh. And then it slowly
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: started started working. And that was twelve years of my life.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Twelve years. And I've been doing Good Morning Football for
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: nine years and I like it's yesterday over those twelve years.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Obviously that and that's why Good Morning Football. So, I mean,
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: you got, you know, the combination of you guys and
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: the comedy, the fact that you guys put so much
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: humor into it, and it's so important because boy is
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: something there. People can rattle off all the facts and
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: everything that happened, but you can't intelligently make fun of
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: it and be be funny. It's who cares.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: It also helps that Kyle and I can rattle off
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Mother love Bone references just like we do Eric Dickerson references.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: We go on culture. It's like you go sports and
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: you're a.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Lot better than me and you know, mother love.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Bone, that's the attle. Let's go all right. So then
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: the Soup obviously is this huge hit and then you're
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: on one of the biggest comedies of the era in community.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: How does that happen?
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Well that it wasn't the biggest comedy.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Oh here though, and then now considered like it became.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we ate. We were like cheese and or or
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: a festering wound. We just kept growing and bothering people
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: to the point where they're like, we cannot not pay attention.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: At the time Glee, we came at the same year
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: as Glee, and they broke the record for Emmy nominations
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: and they had a big sign and they were also
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: a paramount and the big sign that said like sixteen
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Emmy nominations in our said community zero Emmy nominations and yes,
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: so that we were. I got on that show because
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: I was on E and it was owned by Comcast,
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: and I read the script and asked if I was like,
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: I want if I can get in this audition and
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: Dan Harmon's girlfriend at the time, who was a Soup fan,
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: and she was like, oh, you got to see that guy,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: and uh so I once again got extremely lucky for
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: getting that the chance to audition for it, and then
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: you know, and then Donald Glover's career really tanked after that.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: That was it. That was the height, that was.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: That was it was so it uh it Yeah. No,
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: at the time, we were going to be canceled every
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: single season we were on isn't and then we were
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: Then we were picked up by Yahoo Screen, which was
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: a very short lived streaming service, literally a two year
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: long streaming service. And then when they went down, they
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: blamed us, which I can take. It's like I can
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: take credit for taking down a streaming service. So I'm
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: just thank you, thank you.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Our producer, Aaron wang Kaufman, who you've been so kind
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: to since you joined the podcast, is a die hard
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Community fan and wanted to pepper you with one question.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Go for it, yes, Aaron, so Joel, I actually changed
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: my question. I have three scripts in front of me.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: I have It's a Small World, I have The Lady
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: from the Sea, and I have Community. I'm going to
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: read you a line and you tell me which project
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: that was from. All right, okay, here we go. This
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: is yeah, this is a quiz for you. Character one.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: I was flying home to Neverland, and I was listening
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: out for all the music that I always love to
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: hear when I'm flying home, but I couldn't hear anything.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Pinocchio's house was nearby, so I stopped off to see
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: if he knew what was going on. Is that it's
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: a small world? Is that lady by the sea from
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: the sea, or is that community?
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: I don't think Ibsen did a lot of lying. It
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: was just a lot of like, uh, there's a lot.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: There was a lot that would have been the last
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: thought of the grandma who was dying in a chair
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: for the entire play. Uh. So, obviously it's either community
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: or it's a small world. And I'm just gonna say
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: it's community.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Because that's from the very famous Disney spoof episode that
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: you guys did. No, that's that's the world.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, I wouldn't put it past our
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: playmation episode that if Abed had said that.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Do you uh? If you had obviously you guys had
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: so many great genre spoofs. If you guys were doing
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: like a draft day spoof, who within the study group
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: is going to be the GM, who's going to be
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: the coach, who's going to be you know, the president
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: of the team. Who's going to be going.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: I would have to go back between two thousand and
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: nine and twenty fifteen. But right now, that's a good question. Well,
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: we'd have to have Peter and Kyle Long of course.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: They teaching a class at Green or.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: They were like murderers loose in the school for some reason. Yeah,
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: And then I, jeez, I think we would try to well,
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: it's a good I think we try to get like,
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know, like Roger Federer to come in with
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: a thick Swiss accent and and uh and he would
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know, he would probably be our Tom Brady boy.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: And then oh boy, and you will yet Flavor Flay.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: You know, we referenced flavor.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: That's it, all right, community aside. Obviously, I've had this
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: amazing career. And then I'm at the Super Bowl a
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and I'm in this random group
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: with Paul Rudd and his kid and Baby Face and
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: his kid, and we're at Pizzeria Bianco. And then I
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: see the biggest smile I could ever imagine, and it's
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Joel McHale with Gordon Ramsay walking through the door. Now
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: you're part of the Fox Family and you're on these shows.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: You got two shows. Now take us through how you
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: got embedded into the Fox world and then how awesome
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: these two programs are?
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: Oh? Well that you know again, I cannot believe my
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: when they came to me with Crime Scene Kitchen because
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: I do love food and I talk about it and
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: there were I got this new idea and you do
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: you want to host it? And I was this was
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: after boy, this is like three years or it is
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: right before the pandemic, and uh I that they were
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: just they made me the offer, which I was like absolutely.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: And Curtis Stone, who as the chef I always wanted
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: to know, Uh he's a cool a cool guy, the
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: coolest guy and a genius. And then you'll landa gamp
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: who basically started the whole is it cake phenomenon. Go
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: on her Instagram and go back ten years and she's
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: already been like is this a pair of shoes or
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: a cake? And then he says it's cake. And so
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: that was that's how I got in on that. And
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: then Animal Control came up, which happened to be at Fox,
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: and they were like, do you want to play this
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: old man? This curmudgeonty old man. I was like, yes,
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: and so that I got again, so lucky, and they've
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: been really cool and allowing me to tell my silly
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: jokes and yeah, they've been They I Fox, you know,
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: like to be on the same network as the Simpsons,
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: you know, or Bob's Burgers.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, with children, let's go.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And then I got to, you know, hang out
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: with Gordon one the another extremely kind and possibly the
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: most intense man I've ever met.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: But bro, how how smooth is he walked in this restaurant.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: This is like the smoothest cat I've ever seen. And
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: then he's at the super Bowl the next day and
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: he's on the field and I'm walking with Sean payton
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Field like a big shot, and Gordon Ramsey's there and
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, that's the coolest guy in the building
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: right there. That's him.
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: He's that. Yeah. It was like jay Z and Gordon
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Ramsey's rotting along and my my I brought my son
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: and Chaer was in the box next to us. Cool
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: and he was way more impressed with Gordon Ramsey.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: All right, So so they they have a Fox Super
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Bowl this year. I assume I'm not going to make
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: any assumptions, but I hope you're there. I hope.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: I think I've already started the campaign. I was like,
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: maybe I can't hide in the wheel well of the Hagen.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: We'll be Hagen. We'll do that, but they I'll take
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: you back. A couple of months ago, probably before the season,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: I saw a jelly Roll for like the fifth time
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: in concert. I love this guy. And I go on
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Good Morning Football, NFL Network show and I'm like, jelly
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Roll should do halftime. Everyone loves jelly Roll jelly rolls.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: And I got a text from someone that knows these things.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: It's like, it's not gonna be jelly rolling, Like General
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: pres shouldn't do halftime. Like that's just not really, Like
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: it's not the best thing. I think you should host
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: NFL Honors on Fox this year, and it's been Keegan
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Michael Key in recent years, it's been Steve Harvey before that,
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: it's on Fox. Joel Am, I am, I am, I
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: barking up the wrong tree here.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: Can I make terrible news for you? It's Kendrick Lamar.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: I'm available. I'm happy to do.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I want this. I feel like you'd be so funny.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: I would work on your writing team. We would take
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: the piss every I mean, no one's made a joke
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: about Belichick dating a twenty four year old until we
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: do it on NFL Honors.
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: How is that off limits?
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Like taboo or something? It's real, guys. He's out there,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: he's posing as a fisherman holding a woman as a mermaid,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: and we're not allowed to joke about it.
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  Speaker 3: How he's not Is he work? Is he he's not employed? Right?
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: Is he employed?
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  Speaker 1: He works for every media company and he's on NFL
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  Speaker 1: Films and NFL Network. So I guess maybe we're not
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  Speaker 1: supposed to it's a it's a fun story. I think
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  Speaker 1: he would laugh.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm you know, he seems to be happy. I mean, sure,
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  Speaker 3: it's crazy, but uh, if you had said this ten
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  Speaker 3: years ago, we'd be like, he's going to be dating
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  Speaker 3: a woman who is uh currently in grade school?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we would say that's that's that's a story to
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  Speaker 1: talk about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, I mean that's my push. He was
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  Speaker 3: always very sexy on the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. All right, So I will talk to my sources
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  Speaker 1: at the NFL you tube, I'm your sources at Fox
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  Speaker 1: I'm in. I would like you hosting that. I'm not kidding.
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  Speaker 3: Who's there? The Kelly Clarkson hosted and she killed She
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  Speaker 3: was great.
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  Speaker 1: She was great. That was a really good one. That
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  Speaker 1: was good. That was in La. I want to say
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: that was where that was?
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  Speaker 3: That was in Arizona, Arizona.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: It was Arizona. You're right, Phoenix.
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  Speaker 3: I think Jim Brown I think that was his last appearance,
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: and I think Kyle Kyle had a run up down
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  Speaker 3: the aisles streaming.
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  Speaker 1: We laughed about that in the green room, you me
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  Speaker 1: and Kyle afterwards, and I think Jim Brown passed like
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: a couple of years later, and I was like, it
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: might have been the last time we saw Jim Brown.
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  Speaker 1: Was you yelling angry runs in his face? That might
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  Speaker 1: have done it?
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: Oh? How killed it? That was good?
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 3: Now that's good. All right, I'm in if I can
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: wear this outfit hosting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. You're the man.
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  Speaker 7: I appreciate it, Uhawk, you and you are look just
• 55:00
  Speaker 7: I remember when you guys first mentioned my name on
• 55:03
  Speaker 7: Good Morning Football and I was in.
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  Speaker 3: I was doing push ups and I was like, Oh,
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: this is what it's like to be on drugs because
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: I was like, this shouldn't be happening. And then I
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: I was so well speaking of honored, I was just
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  Speaker 3: guy like getting to know you, Peter.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: You're the man. I love that. I love that we
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: could do this. I love that you came on here
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: and you spent a full hour both with me. Joe McHale,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: go one more time. Give us the shows and what
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: times they're on another premiere.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: Animal Yeah, Animal Control starts January second. Crime Scene Kitchen
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: is on right now. I think there's two episodes left.
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: They're both on Hulu, so you can catch up on
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: Hulu and uh and then and you can catch up
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: and it's a I look, I've been on a lot
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: of not great shows. Crime Scene Kitchen is a great show,
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: and then Animal Control is a lot of fun and
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: it's a guy. I really love it. It's really fun.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: It's cool. And you had Gronk as a special guest
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: in one of these things.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: We'll be on our super Bowl week episode, so he's
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: for me.
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  Speaker 6: Great.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: Joe mccal thank you, dude, appreciate it.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: Go Hawks having me. Go Hawks.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Love Joe McHale. I love laughing on on a podcast here.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: It's nice to have some levity. He's incredible and his
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Seahawks have a big one against the Cardinals this weekend.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: But let's talk about last week real quick, because it's
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: the season with Peter Shaker's delivering results presented by our
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• 56:42
  Speaker 1: presented to the player or the team that delivered in
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: the biggest of moments, and I'm giving it to Russell
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Wilson who had four hundred and fourteen passing yards and
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: three touchdowns and a shootout with Joe Burrow last week.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: And just as we were ready to jump off the
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Steelers bandwagon when they lost to the Browns in the snow,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: they come back the following week and they put up
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: forty four points and they should. They do have the
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: offensive firepower to compete in the AFC with the Heavies,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: the Bills, and the Chiefs. Russell Wilson, his best game
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: as a Steeler, put up huge yards, the first time
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: a Steelers quarterback has thrown from more than four hundred
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: yards in three touchdowns since Big bended it in twenty eighteen.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: And now Russ has another big game against those same
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Browns that beat them in Cleveland about two weeks ago.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: That's gonna be Sunday, and I am excited to see
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: how that goes down. That was delivering results presented by
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of Aaron Wan Kaufman, on, behalf of Joel McHale,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: are excellent guest, behalf of Jason English, On, behalf of
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: all the folks in LA who work for NFL Media,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: and on behalf of the iHeart team who By the way,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: I believe I can announce this, Aaron, I am taking
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: my son Mel. We're gonna go to the jingle Ball
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: next week. iHeart jingle Balls. See one hundred I believe
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: is sponsoring it. And it's at Madison Garden and it's
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: shaboozy and it's that uh Tate McCrae and Gray Abram
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: who And I want to say, Benson, what's his name?
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Brendan Boone? Berinson Boone. He's got that, He's got a
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: good one. He's got a good song on the radio.
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: Benson Boone.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: He's got a few of them this summer.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: And twenty one Pilots.
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: The twenty one.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Piots is different than twenty one Savage, and I'm disappointed.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: I like twenty one Savage, twenty one Pilots. I can't
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: think of a single song of theirs off the top
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: of my head. They rock, They're like an alt rock
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: pop band. I thought I was getting twenty one Savage.
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: That would be.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: Perform with Shane Gillis so Startingly Live last year and
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: he was, oh, oh wow, yes, yeah, So I'm going
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: to jingle ball. I think if my son's not up
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: for it, then we won't be going. Always be eating
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: the tickets, and I apologize to our friends at iHeart.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: We'll see I don't want to drinx in it. We'll
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: see it's next week, so we could preview the Maybe
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: we'll get one of those artists on next week. Can
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: we get Katie Perry.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: Or Shaboozi on we can look into that will.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: Promote Iheart's jingle and we'll do a day in New
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: York with I don't know if Katy Perry wants to
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: come in studio, she can sounds likely, Isaiah likely. All
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: right on that note, have a good week, everybody, The
• 59:35
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