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The Season with Peter Schrager: Peter's LA Adventures · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Schreeger is a production of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's off, everybody, Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the Season with Peter Schreger. I'm Peter Schreger, your host.
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  Speaker 1: It is a hot and steamy Thursday. As we record this.
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  Speaker 1: It is August first, and I have no idea where
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  Speaker 1: I am. I have no idea what time it is.
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  Speaker 1: I am freaking exhausted, and I want to give you
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  Speaker 1: a recap of what's been going down the last few weeks,
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  Speaker 1: which includes football, includes a lot of travel, it includes
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  Speaker 1: getting up to speed with the NFL. I welcome in
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  Speaker 1: my beautiful producer slash co host on this sucker, mister
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Wong Kaufman, who is beaming in from what looks
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  Speaker 1: to be a cabin in the woods Ted Kazinski style.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on, dude.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about take Azinsky style, but yes, I
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  Speaker 2: am with you from the woods of Maine. I'm in
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  Speaker 2: a barn.
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  Speaker 1: Barn it's badass. Take your time in Maine. I'm hitting
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  Speaker 1: the ground running. I was away for quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't do two weeks of these podcasts, and we
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  Speaker 1: were like, let's just hold off until we're back on
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  Speaker 1: Good Morning Football, and then we'll get going. Let me
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  Speaker 1: explain what my last twenty four hours had been, and
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  Speaker 1: then we're gonna go backwards and I'll give you some nuggets,
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  Speaker 1: some stories, and we can talk a little NFL. But
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  Speaker 1: Aaron I was up at two forty five in the
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  Speaker 1: morning in a hotel room in Manhattan Beach yesterday. Manhattan Beach,
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  Speaker 1: not being the beaches of Manhattan, New York, Manhattan Beach, California.
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  Speaker 1: Woke up at two forty five in the morning, which
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  Speaker 1: is the alarm clock time for what I'll be getting
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  Speaker 1: up when I do Good Morning Football out in LA.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: If you've not read the news or seen Good Morning
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  Speaker 1: Football is back and I am in a bi coastal
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  Speaker 1: slash hybrid New York LA schedule. I did not I
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  Speaker 1: want to move my family out there. I still wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do the show, so we came to an agreement
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  Speaker 1: where many episodes I'll be doing from LA, living in
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  Speaker 1: a hotel, waking up at two forty five in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: doing four hours of television that starts at five am Pacific,
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  Speaker 1: but also eight am Eastern Time, and doing that from
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  Speaker 1: the awesome LA Sofi Stadium NFL Network Studios, which is
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  Speaker 1: maybe the coolest studio I've ever been in, but is
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  Speaker 1: also on the West Coast when it's dark out, so
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  Speaker 1: I've got to get used to that body clock. Then
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  Speaker 1: I got done with the show, race to the airport,
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  Speaker 1: flew home, got in and around ten ten point fifteen Eastern,
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  Speaker 1: and then was up at five point thirty in the
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  Speaker 1: morning New York time to prepare for a show, which
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  Speaker 1: we are doing from a studio in downtown Manhattan. I
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  Speaker 1: would say more Spring Street, so I guess like the village,
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  Speaker 1: but all the way on the west side, which is
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  Speaker 1: if you watched Thursday's Good Morning Football, you saw I
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  Speaker 1: was in a box. That's how I'm gonna be doing
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  Speaker 1: the episodes from New York. So getting used to the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: But as we were doing this podcast, which is midday Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: before the Hall of Fame game, before we get what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in the Olympics on Thursday, with Simone Biles
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  Speaker 1: about to take the beam this this is a man
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  Speaker 1: who is on fumes and it is August first, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to figure out the balance of traveling, sleeping,
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  Speaker 1: resting because Aaron I do the weekly LA and it's
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  Speaker 1: like I stay on East Coast time. But I'm telling you, dude,
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  Speaker 1: it was so nice out there. The weather was insane
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  Speaker 1: that like at six o'clock on the West Coast, which
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  Speaker 1: would be nine o'clock in the East coaches, what a
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  Speaker 1: prudent Peter Schugger should be getting in bed under the covers,
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  Speaker 1: like it wasn't happening. I wanted to be outside. I
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  Speaker 1: was staying in Manhattan Beach. I wanted to see the water,
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  Speaker 1: and like I didn't go to bed until you know,
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  Speaker 1: ten o'clock Pacific, which is like one o'clock am. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got to get that down. But Aaron, as I
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  Speaker 1: tell you this right now, we're on day four of
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  Speaker 1: Good Morning Football from the cross country flights. I'm having
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  Speaker 1: a blast. The show has been awesome. I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to get adjusted on these travel days because as I'm
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  Speaker 1: spitting fire right now, I feel like I have been
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  Speaker 1: talking for four days straight and there's been very little
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  Speaker 1: sleeping going on. Have you done cross country cross international travel? Like,
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  Speaker 1: because I might need a little guidance, And Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 1: says like power through the jet lag, like I'm figuring
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  Speaker 1: it out, dude, But like, I've got to get a
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  Speaker 1: hold of this thing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think the more you do it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: then your your evenings will start to feel more like
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  Speaker 2: a regular evening hopefully, and at some point. You know.
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  Speaker 2: The great thing about California, I think, is there not
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  Speaker 2: much going on, So you know, after a couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 2: you'll have nothing to do out there, You'll go to
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  Speaker 2: bed early. It'll be easy.
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  Speaker 1: We go back a couple of weeks. Can I kick
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  Speaker 1: you through some of my travel journeys and we only
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  Speaker 1: do this. This is not self centered. I do this
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  Speaker 1: because my Travis Kelcey Kansas City Weekend cast got more
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  Speaker 1: listens than anything that we did in interviewing Coordinator X
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  Speaker 1: or Special Teams Coach B over the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Although those are some of my favorites. But let's start
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  Speaker 1: July seventeenth and eighteenth, So let's go back two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I get on a plane on a Wednesday, and I
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  Speaker 1: travel out to La to the glorious Terranea Resort which
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  Speaker 1: is in Palace ver Days, California, and it's on the
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  Speaker 1: cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean and it's one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite hotels and I get the honor to be there
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  Speaker 1: for two days every year. And that's with Fox Sports,
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  Speaker 1: my weekend employers and my longtime employers who I've written
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  Speaker 1: for Fox Sports dot com and appeared on Fox Sports
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  Speaker 1: one since two thousand and seven, So you go back
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  Speaker 1: all those years. I am now entering I think year
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  Speaker 1: seventeen with Fox and every year they invite anybody on
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  Speaker 1: air who works on their NFL coverage to this terran
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  Speaker 1: Air resort, which is beautiful and it's an off site
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  Speaker 1: get away, and we're told no social media, which I respect,
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  Speaker 1: no selpies, and nothing recorded from what goes on inside
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  Speaker 1: the room. But now that we're a couple of weeks removed,
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  Speaker 1: I think I can give the highlights of that weekend
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  Speaker 1: and I can share that I arrived and you get
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  Speaker 1: settled in your hotel room, and I immediately I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to walk these grounds a little bit, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, I'm on East Coast time.
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  Speaker 1: I've been working out a little bit. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go to the gym. I go to the gym and
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  Speaker 1: the first person I see is Michael Strahan in a
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  Speaker 1: full lather, and I pulled stray aside, and it's like
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  Speaker 1: the last thing he wants to do is with me.
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  Speaker 1: But guess what you see, Schrager and Straighthan. You're seeing
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  Speaker 1: two morning show hosts. We're going to talk about life,
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  Speaker 1: but we're also going to talk about the incredible recovery
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  Speaker 1: that is his daughter is making from what was a
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  Speaker 1: very grave diagnosis earlier in the year. And I just
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  Speaker 1: gave stray a hugg the first time I seen him
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  Speaker 1: since the news came out that she's in recovery mode
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  Speaker 1: right now. So it was cool to see him and
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  Speaker 1: we talked a little bit, and I love Strahan, and
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a key thing for any of
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  Speaker 1: us in my side of the camera or any of
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  Speaker 1: us behind the cameras. Like, I don't think Strayhan is
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  Speaker 1: a single person in this world who has a negative
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  Speaker 1: thing to say about him, and that might be the
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  Speaker 1: goal for everybody. And I can tell you this, the
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  Speaker 1: reason that Strahan is such a stud is, Yes, he's
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  Speaker 1: great on air, and he's awesome on Good Morning America,
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  Speaker 1: and he's fantastic on the Fox Sundays, But like, Strahan's
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  Speaker 1: also great to everybody in the hair and makeup department.
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  Speaker 1: Straight Han's also great to everybody that he deals with
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  Speaker 1: who like books the travel straight Han's also great to
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  Speaker 1: everyone at the top of the ORG chart to the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the ORG chart, and I think that's just
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  Speaker 1: how he is. And I had a really cool opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to be with Strahan in June. The Giants were celebrating
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  Speaker 1: celebrating their one hundredth years a franchise, and I was
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  Speaker 1: really honored and blessed to be asked to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of the group that was going to mc the event.
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  Speaker 1: So it was Bob Poppa, who's the voice of the Giants,
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  Speaker 1: it was Sean O'Hara, who does a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: in house stuff for the Giants and is a Giants legend,
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  Speaker 1: and it was me and a lot of that was
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  Speaker 1: on stage, and I got to interview day Bowl and
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  Speaker 1: Joe Shane, which is it's in my wheelhouse. And I
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  Speaker 1: got to speak to Pete Gogolak, who is the eighty
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  Speaker 1: year old former kicker of the Giants. He spent nine
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  Speaker 1: years at New York in the sixties and seventies. And
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  Speaker 1: then I got a lot of time on set on
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  Speaker 1: the stage there at the massive Square Garden Theater, interviewing
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  Speaker 1: Keavon Thibodeau and Bobby Ocareki, who are two of their
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  Speaker 1: defensive leaders. That's all cool. That's what you probably saw
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  Speaker 1: if you ever saw it on YouTube or you're watched
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  Speaker 1: any of the stuff online. The best part that was backstage,
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  Speaker 1: and I got to witness some of the coolest interactions
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  Speaker 1: between Lawrence Taylor and Michael Strahan, Strahan and Keevon Thibodeau,
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  Speaker 1: Tiki Barber talking with you know, the current guys, and
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  Speaker 1: then you of course you go back to the Legends
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  Speaker 1: and it's Harry Carson and it's Carl Banks and everybody's backstage.
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  Speaker 1: But I also liked watching how these guys interacted with
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  Speaker 1: the fans because there was a lot of fan interaction
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  Speaker 1: and of course Strahan, who doesn't need to do any
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  Speaker 1: of this stuff, doesn't need the money and certainly doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need the fame. It's taking selfies with every single person
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  Speaker 1: out there. So Strahan and I were recap and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But the big attraction at this Fox event was going
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  Speaker 1: to be the unveiling of Tom Brady and how that
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  Speaker 1: was going to go down straight. Hen and Brady obviously
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  Speaker 1: have a great relationship going back to years and years
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, but also production projects that they've done together.
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  Speaker 1: And I've seen straight Han interview Brady on Fox but
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  Speaker 1: also for Good Morning America. I remember there was an
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  Speaker 1: Eagles Patriots joint practice going on back when like Mark
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  Speaker 1: Sanchez and Tim Tebow were on the Eagle. So you
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  Speaker 1: do the math. And straight Hen came down and I
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  Speaker 1: was down there for Fox Sports one long before Good
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  Speaker 1: Morning Football. Straight Han came down all the way to
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  Speaker 1: Philly and he did like a seven minute sit down
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  Speaker 1: with Brady and I was like, I was like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: these guys, these guys are boys. I think they do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of work together with a Chopro's production company,
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  Speaker 1: the two of them. I think it's called Revolution of Sport.
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  Speaker 1: They have done a lot of stuff together. So I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: these guys know each other. So I asked straight Han
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  Speaker 1: that Saturday. That Wednesday, when I first got there, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: do you think he's going to be good? And he
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  Speaker 1: looked at me and he's like, has Brady ever not
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  Speaker 1: been good? Of Like, you're right, you're right, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't know if he was going to be
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  Speaker 1: good at broadcasting. So Wednesday night there's this open cocktails
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  Speaker 1: type deal. And again no social media, no posting, no tweeting.
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  Speaker 1: I respect the hell out of it. That's the Fox way.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, we don't need everyone else. This is what
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  Speaker 1: we do. So I get in the little table and
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  Speaker 1: I talk to Edelman and I talked to Gronk, and
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  Speaker 1: then I'm off on the corner and I'm talking to
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  Speaker 1: a guy named Jeff Miller. If you don't know Jeff Miller,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's the man. He's also like the voice
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  Speaker 1: of like health and safety for the NFL. He works
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  Speaker 1: at the league office. He's been there for about eight
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  Speaker 1: nine years, maybe longer than that. And Jeff comes on
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  Speaker 1: Good Morning Football the time when there's a new rule
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  Speaker 1: and he wants to talk about it or there's a
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  Speaker 1: new helmet being introduced or something around the league's help
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  Speaker 1: and safety. And a lot of times you would think
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  Speaker 1: a segment like that is like ough, here's a league
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  Speaker 1: employee coming on to the league network to talk about
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  Speaker 1: new helmets, and it's like, you know, can you can
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  Speaker 1: you write the message? And then Jeff comes on and
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  Speaker 1: he's like normal and he's rational, and he's cool and
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  Speaker 1: it's comfortable and the conversation's always really good. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: just talking to Jeff because I'm fascinated about this new
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  Speaker 1: you know, kickoff rule. And I was like, I spoke
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  Speaker 1: to Bubba Ventrone on my podcast, who's a defensive coach,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's a special teams coordinator or the Browns,
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  Speaker 1: and he said it's gonna and Jeff and I were
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  Speaker 1: talking about it, and what Jeff was saying was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, beyond the health and safety of the kickoff rule,
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  Speaker 1: like only twenty two percent of the kickoffs last year
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  Speaker 1: were even returned, and in the Super Bowl there were
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  Speaker 1: thirteen kickoffs, all of them went for touchback. So he's like,
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  Speaker 1: based on like the XFL we saw forty five percent
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  Speaker 1: of kicks returned, or the UFL, whatever the league was
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  Speaker 1: where they saw this thing. And he's like, at that,
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  Speaker 1: at the very least, if you don't want to think
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  Speaker 1: it's a help and safety thing, you think it's ruining
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  Speaker 1: the game. We're gonna get kickoffs again, and in a
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  Speaker 1: year where Devin Hester is being honored to go to
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, like, it's cool that was a
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  Speaker 1: new kickoff rule that maybe we'll get kickoffs. So we're
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  Speaker 1: knee deep in this thing, and then I feel this
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  Speaker 1: presence like coming over. I'm like, holy, that's Tom Brady.
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  Speaker 1: And Tom Brady isn't coming over because he's walking back.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady's coming over to say hello to me. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So I get up shake Brady's hand, like
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  Speaker 1: I give him his rest bag or whatever. And then
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  Speaker 1: Jeff is there and I'm like, this is Jeff Miller
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  Speaker 1: from the league, and Brady just like starts and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: can you explain the hip hop the hip drop tackle,
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  Speaker 1: and like how you're going to enforce that and why
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  Speaker 1: we're enforcing that, And all of a sudden we were
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  Speaker 1: in a twenty five minute conversation myself, the league's office
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  Speaker 1: representative who discusses health and safety and who is going
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  Speaker 1: to speak the next day at the Fox seminar to
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  Speaker 1: explain some of the new rules and some of the
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  Speaker 1: statistics behind it, and why we're changing the hip drop
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  Speaker 1: tackle and how the hip drop tackle has led to
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  Speaker 1: a twenty or twenty times increase over the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of years of injury because of it, and Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 1: who's the goat, who had thoughts and I said it
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  Speaker 1: on Good Morning football, and I'll say it anywhere, like
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  Speaker 1: based on this conversation that we were having, just three
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  Speaker 1: of us, Like Brady's speaking his mind, and whereas the league,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is often accused of like muzzling people or like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is going to be unfiltered
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  Speaker 1: and completely, like Brady has thoughts on the rules. Brady
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  Speaker 1: has thoughts on some of the ways that the quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: are protected in this era and doesn't think they were
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  Speaker 1: protecting maybe in his early years. And Brady has thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: So I was blown away twenty five minutes like this
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  Speaker 1: guy has takes. The next night, Brady's up there on
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  Speaker 1: a panel and he's talking with straight hand, and Brady's
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  Speaker 1: like amazing talking and straight Hand's asking, and Brady's like
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  Speaker 1: unfiltered talking about some of the ways that like his
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  Speaker 1: team played in the toughness and how Belichick prepared them
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  Speaker 1: and toughness was the key, and how in this day
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  Speaker 1: and age, like he's not sure necessarily toughness his first
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  Speaker 1: and foremost for these days one of these teams, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's finesse, and like I want to go back to
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  Speaker 1: those days. So long story short, Aaron Brady, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: dedicated to this, like has been put in the hours.
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  Speaker 1: What's the Malcolm Gladwell thing, ten thousand hours? He ain't
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  Speaker 1: there yet, it might take a while, but he is committed.
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  Speaker 1: This is not Tom Brady flying in doing games, flying out.
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  Speaker 1: Like Brady has been putting in the work. And I've
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  Speaker 1: spoken to Kevin Burkhart, spoken to Aaron Andrews, I spoke
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  Speaker 1: to Tom Rinaldi, I spoke to rich russo Ch Richie Science.
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  Speaker 1: He's the guys who are going to work with them
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  Speaker 1: every week. Brady's putting the work in. So what's that mean?
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  Speaker 1: I and Burkhart have done a ton of games together,
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  Speaker 1: practice games, and they've come into the studio to do
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  Speaker 1: it together. They've done it from a room where the
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  Speaker 1: two of them are doing it, and like they're watching games.
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  Speaker 1: And what I love, what I've been told is that
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  Speaker 1: it's not like they had a chance to prep these
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  Speaker 1: games beforehand, so they're watching games blindly. Yes, they've been
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  Speaker 1: games that have already been played, and they might have
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  Speaker 1: been broadcasted already, but like, all right, pretend like it's
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  Speaker 1: fresh go and it's Brady and Burkhart. So we're about
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  Speaker 1: a month away from the regular season opener, which is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be Brown's versus Cowboys. But I believe we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: see Brady on the CA with Burkehart in a preseason
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  Speaker 1: game in a couple of weeks. And I think, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to set the bar too high, and
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  Speaker 1: this isn't like you know, he needs to hear this
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  Speaker 1: or that Fox needs to hear this. I think he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be really good. And I think that when he talks,
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  Speaker 1: people want to listen. And for all the praise and
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  Speaker 1: awards and love that we have for Greg Olsen, greg
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  Speaker 1: Olsen's still in the Fox family. He's gonna be doing
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  Speaker 1: games with Joe Davis, and if you're watching the NFC
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  Speaker 1: the second best game of the week, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: Greg Olsen on it. Like you're still make get your
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  Speaker 1: Greg Olsen, who we love hearing this podcast, and it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be awesome at whatever he does. But I think
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  Speaker 1: Brady's gonna be different. And I think Brady's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: good too. As we're less than you know, six weeks away.
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  Speaker 1: When I tell you all that, like, what's your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on Brady the broadcast? They're going in as just a
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: fan who has no insight going into this thing.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I guess like kind of like straight hand said, would
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: I expect any less from Brady? I I do love
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: the idea that he took this opportunity of like here's
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: this opening cocktail hour, no one's taking photos, be yourself,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: you can get as sloppy as you want. And Brady
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: walks in is like, sit down, give me twenty five
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: minutes for going through this role, Like I don't know
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: enough about this. I want to hear your thoughts and
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: like tell me so that I can talk about this
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: tomorrow night, or I can talk about this three months
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: down the line. I love that. I mean, I you know,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I also love Olsen. He's been great on this show.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: It's been great watching him on games, and it'll be
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: great that now there are two games with great announcers
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: going like you know, the more the merrier. I think
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: it's awesome. And I also, you know, it'll be so
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: cool to have Brady talking about teams he's played, players
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: he's played against, Like I can't wait for him to call,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: you know, Mike Evans touchdown, like.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're getting that number one game, but week seven,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: it's nine ers cheap on Fox and Brady's on the call.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty badass, you know, that's really cool.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: So that was the Brady part of it. At this thing,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I had a long conversation with Alex Rodriguez. He was
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: invited because he's boxed great also in attendance where of
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: course all the different NFL guys and Gronk and I
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: have a really interesting relationship going on right now. It
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: is expanding beyond our football work, where we text all
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: day about life, about New York. And Gronk embarrassed me Aaron,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and he did so in a way that I'm gonna
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: hear about this for a bit and I want to
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: put my foot down and correct it on my podcast.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: So I texted Gronk after the White Party, I said,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: give me all the gossip, give me all the juice.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I see you in all these pictures, like what do
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: you got harmless? He thought that was the thirstiest, most
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: pathetic thing in the world. And then he wrote back
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: to me, He's like, really, question Mark. I'm like, yes,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: He goes, what type of quote unquote gossip are you
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: looking for? And I'm like, I don't know, give me anything,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Like who is there? What celebrities. He goes, really what celebrities.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: So then we get to this thing and the table
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: is as decorated a table with football accolades as you
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: could imagine we're talking about, just like imagine a round table.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: And it's Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, Howie Long, Julian Edelman,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Michael Vick, Arles Woodson was at the table. Yes, Mark
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Sanchez is at the table, and Greg Olsen is at
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the table. And there was one more luminary that I'm like, oh, oh,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Vilma, who's like badass of all badasses. They're all
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: at this table and we're all just like off the
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: buffet line, hanging out on a giant like resort, you know,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: table well, and Gronk comes over and in front of
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: all of them is like trigger, has anyone wanted anything
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: more than you want that invite to Michael Rubens White Party?
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, stop it, stop it right now now.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Three members at that table straight hand, Brady Gronk, We're
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: at the party. Edelman chimes in and says, I've been
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: invited three times. I've never had the opportunity to go.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Vic says he's been invited. Whinson says he's been invited,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and now Gronk is like, oh, it would be Sregger
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: would retire, and like it would be his dream. All
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: he wants to talk about is the White Party. And
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this obsession with the White Party, it is
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: not true. I don't want to be at the White Party.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I've said it on my podcast. I've said I promise
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you I am not begging to go. The question is
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: would I go if I was invited? So I'm denial
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: on it, and then you know, Straighthand just pops in
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and is like if I got you an invite, would
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: you go? And I was like no, and then they're
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: all like yeah, and I was like, I probably would go.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I think I would go, Aaron, would you go?
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I think if you if someone invites you to a party, uh,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: you know, like if the host invites you and it's
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: a normal thing, you can say no. But if a
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: legend invites you to come with them, I kind of
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: thank you, got it?
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Like if Straighthn's like Sreggar, you're my plus one?
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah that you don't want to disappoint straight hand,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: you know, yeah.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Or like Gronk like leaves his his sports illustrated swimsuit
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: girlfriend Camille Costeck behind and says, shregar, you're my plus one?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Then I and and then do I get to pose
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: in the photos with Drake and and with a little
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: with and with who else? Kevin Hart and all the
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: NFL like look as a post with c J. Stroud
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and Joe Burrow.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: You can hang out with Hard and he gets so
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: you know, and then you can text Gronk all the
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: gossip afterwards, although he'll be there too, but he'll be there.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: The rest of the evening was great. Roger Goodell was there,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: had a really good conversation with him. But my MVP
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: of the weekend, my MVP of the weekend, the guy
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: who I had the most fun with and who I
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: see myself being lifelong friends with and I think we'll
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: have him on the podcast soon once the college football
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: season starts is Cooper Manning. Cooper Manning was hilarious, awesome
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: to talk ball with. And it is one of these
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: guys that's like in a way Forrest Gump, like you
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: could take a conversation anywhere and he has a touch
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: point for it. A he's the oldest Manning brother. He's
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: older than Peyton any Lie and has all of that
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: insight be his son Arch is the number one high
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: school recruit in the country and is going into another
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: year at Texas where he'll be a quarterback and hopefully
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: we'll see the field, or hopefully not if that's not
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: what they're looking for and they want quinn Ewers to
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: go the whole way, and next year it'll be the guy.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: But also a very very very funny human being, like
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: accomplishing his own right from the business sense, was in
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: insurance for years, might still be, but also is one
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: of the key members of people who puts together the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: graduate hotels which are now popping up on campuses everywhere,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: basically an upscale hotel at like major college campus. So
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: for years you would travel to Ole Miss and it's
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: either get have to rent a house or you stay
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: in a courtyard by Marriott or like a holiday inn.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: And Cooper and his investor's thoughts was like, why don't
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: we put up a nice hotel that families who want
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: to put stay in a nicer hotel, Like it's nothing crazy,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: but it's a different version than the hotels that have
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: always been available. So there's a least an option to do,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: so they've thirty seven of them right now. Hilton is
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: buying in on it like a massive find it Anyway,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I say all this because Cooper and I got put
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: together and we were just cracking each other up. I
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: think he's amazing, and I have so much insight on
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a his son and the Texas stuff, but also what's
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: going on in the overall Manning world old from Cooper Manning.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: One thing I did not realize is that like Eli
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: still lives in Jersey, Peyton lives in Denver, Cooper lives
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: in New Orleans, and these three guys are still in
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: like a text chain and talk every single day. I
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: feel like they need a reality show. If we haven't
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: had enough Manning brothers yet, I feel like Cooper needs
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: to be thrown in it because he is the eldest brother,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the funniest of the three, and in my eye, it's
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: like maybe the most interesting because we haven't gotten the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: most out of Cooper Manning and he has this incredible
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: decorated life as always being like the other Manning brother,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: but like in his own right is absolutely incredible. Do
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: you have a feel for Cooper Manning yet? I feel like.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Only there's I forget what commercials they were, but the
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Mannings were doing a set of commercials for a casino
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: or a betting app or something, and Cooper was in
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: them and was the funniest part of it as far like,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: he played it up very very well. And despite like
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: having these two star studded brothers, Cooper was like he
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: was he was the best joke in the and that
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: that sounds like he's a joke. He was providing the
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: most hilarious moment in the pot in the in the commercial,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: for sure.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: It's tremendous. And he's great. And I'll tell you he
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: does these weekly things for Fox NFL Kickoff, So you'll
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: see Cooper Manning on Fox NFL Kickoff. And they're little bits,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: but I'll put them up against any of the stuff
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: that like we used to do with uh Calliendo or
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Wriggle or what you see with Marshall, and I'm like,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: they're good. So Cooper Manning and I we're having a
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: great time. We also we're part of a crazy travel
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: situation because that Friday, what's it called cyber World or
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: cyber strike or whatever.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, what what was that thing?
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Strike World? I don't know. So the we get
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: on a plane, Cooper Manning and eyes. We're both flying
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: back to New York. He's got business to take care of.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I'm going back to New York to my family. And
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: we get on the plane and we get all messled
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: in and we're taking a red Eye and it's Thursday
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: night or whatever it is, and the pilot comes on
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and is like, folks, we're gonna be delayed a little
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: bit here, we're actually going to dplane. I'm like, oh,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: that's not good. That's not good. You get off of
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: red Eye and you look and you didn't even get
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: off the runway, and you look at the Lax gate
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: and you see people starting to lay out their sweatshirts
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: as pillows because you might get rescheduled, you might not.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Cooper and I, fortunately enough, we're like, let's let's just
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: get out of here. We went back to the hotel.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: We got on a different flight the next day, not
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: on the airline that was affected, and we escaped. And
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I feel like he and I it was like escape
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: from La Cooper Manning and I always in coordination, taking
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: ubers at like two in the morning from Lax back
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: to Palas Verdes and another uber at like five am
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: from talis So Cooper Manning and I are forever length.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: One of the key things that came out of that
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: whole Fox you know we call it a seminar, is
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: that the rules are changing and I you're gonna this
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: is gonna be dated because I think Thursday night at
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame game, you're gonna see the dynamic
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: kickoff rule. And I tried getting ahead of this with
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: having Bubba Vitron a couple of weeks ago, and if
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you're listening to this podcast, go find that he explains
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: it all like it is going to be wild. The
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: response is and I think teams are gonna handle differently.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Some times are just gonna boot it out of the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: end zone and say, you know what, touchback. I know
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: it's the thirty, but like we're gonna do a touchback
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: because I don't know how to defend this thing. Other
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: teams are gonna get super creative with it. I'm fascinating
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: to see the reaction. I think it will. It'll be
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: nuts tonight as they do the Hall of Fame game
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: because it's really different and I can go through all
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the rules, but you'll fall asleep. But like just when
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you visualize it in your head, know that there's not
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: a ton of footage of this thing. So teams have
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: been trying everything in practice, and special teams coaches have
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: been going, you know, hog wild. I talk to one
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: this week who's like, I've been up all night and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I've got about eight hundred ways to attack this kickoff.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin said in a feature that we ran on
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Good Morning Football that he contacted the guys at Madden
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Electronic Arts and asked them to simulate a few different
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: schematics that he might have with the dynamic kicking rule,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and they came back with all this footage of like
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Madden simulations of it. So I say all that, I
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: just think the kickoff rolls be crazy. And Walda Anderson,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: who's kind of like the old Mike Pereira, Dean Blendino,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Al river On now doing that for the NFL. He
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: sit up there and answered a million questions at the
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Fox thing from all the announcers, because the announcers with
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: an open Q and A are like, all right, can this happen?
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Like are we gonna see this happen? It's just possible,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: And he had all the answers. But like if guys
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: who call the games had a million questions, just wait
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: for the fans.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: That is going to be something to keep an eye on.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: All right, So we fast forward. It's you know, a
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: couple days I have off say, all right, Football's coming back.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Good Morning Football's returning. Now I've never formally announced this.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I don't like doing formal announcements, but I am back
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: with Good Morning Football. And that was up in the
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: air for a bit whether or how we're going to
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: make this work. I said from the very beginning, I
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: don't plan on moving my family, but I want to
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: be a part of Good Morning Football. So we came
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: to an agreement the NFL Network and I that I
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: am going to do a bunch of shows in LA,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: many of them being Mondays because I'm out there already
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: for Fox, and then I'm gonna do a bunch of
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: shows in New York. And the New York ones are
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: going to be from a studio, not from my house,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: not from my basement, not from my garage, not from
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: a bed. And we're going to see how this works.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: But Good Morning Football is a little different now, so
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: it starts instead of at seven am, It starts at
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: eight am Eastern. It's two hours on NFL Network. Then
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: it's going to reair on NFL Network. But then we
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: have this whole other thing going on, which I'm trying
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: to get used to, no break in between a fresh
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: two hours air and of a whole other show called
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: GMFB Overtime, which airs on Roku, not the NFL network, Roku,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: which I'm getting the hang of because I don't. I
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: didn't know Roku before this deal happened, And now I'm
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: realizing I'm gonna be on the faces of Broku, which
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: is neat. But then starting with Week one of the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: NFL season, it's gonna be on syndication in Fox local
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: markets across the country. This second two hours called GMFB Overtime.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: All right, so we do two hours for NFL Network.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: That's your usual meat and potatoes football show in house,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: everyone knows it. Then the next two hours are going
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to be a little looser, a little more I don't know,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: what can I say, slice of life pop culture more,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: let's say, less talking about the backup tight ends on
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the Saints, and more talking about Joe Burrow's haircut, if
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: that makes sense, and our reactions to that, and that's
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: gonna air on like one hundred and nineteen different local markets.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Apparently that are any Fox marks like Fox Topeka, Fox Albuquerque,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: all throughout the day in those local markets, and that
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: either airs for one hour or two hours, spending what
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: they want and you're saying, well, who's gonna watch that?
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Apparently everyone bought this thing, and also apparently.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Football wins like football sales, like people would rather watch
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: highlights of football, people talking about football and have the
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: NFL in the middle of the day than maybe a
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: daytime talk show or a court drama or.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: One of those judge shows. So I don't know, we'll see,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: but that was what it was. So my deal is
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be back and forth. It's gonna be interesting
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: to see how I hold up with it, but I
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: think I'm gonna be all right. And it's four hours,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: not three, but you'll probably only see it for two
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: unless you're gonna watch two hours NFL Network and then
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: jump over to the ROKU or the syndication. So that's
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: my public service announcement. Oh and McCarty's no longer with us.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: McCarty his contract was up and he was like, I'm
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: not moving my family out to LA for a show
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: that is at those hours. It just doesn't gel with
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: what we have. He's got everything out in New Jersey
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and he's set and he's got other opportunities. So I
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: love Jason mccordy. I'm gonna him on the podcast because
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: that's my dog. He was incredible filling in for Nate.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: But just as Jason filled in for Nate, we have
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: a new host, and it's Akbar who comes from American
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Ninja Warrior and was with the NFL Network beforehand. And
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: then Jamie Erdall did make the move, so she's out there.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: She's with her three kids and her husband. They're living
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: out in Manhattan Beach, so seems like it's kind of stable.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: We're four episodes in. It's going really well. I'm really
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: pretty happy with how it all worked out. We'll see
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: where it goes all right, But now we had to
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: actually launch the show, so I, like Walter Jones, who
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: used to play for the Seattle Seahawks, said you'll see
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: me day one, Like, I don't need to be out
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: there for a week of rehearsals. Kyle went out there
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: for rehearsals. I didn't. I'm a cantankeris. I'm like, no,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I'll be in New York rehearsals and I'll get there
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: day one, which I did. But Sunday I arrived and
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I'm like, do I go to sleep at five o'clock?
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Do I go to sleep at six o'clock? Let's try
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: seven o'clock Sunday night. Well, I'm sitting there in my
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: hotel room and I'm staring at the ceiling, and I've
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: got all the nerves for the first day of school,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: and I just stared at the ceiling till ten o'clock,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: went to bed at one am Eastern, and woke up
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: at two forty five am for the show. We go,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: We do the show. The show is tremendous, it's awesome.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I'm absolutely exhausted. Afterwards, we do a commercial shoot afterwards
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Aaron where I don't even remember it. I don't even
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: remember it. It was like it felt like it was
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: just a blur, like we're all like posing and smiling
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and fake laughing and doing all that stuff and that's
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: going to air on a commercial. And it was great.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: But like, I'm so fried, So I go back to
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the hotel room like I'm gonna work out I put
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: on my shorts, my T shirt, my gym sneakers, and
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I fall asleep in my sneakers on the hotel bed
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: with like my legs dangling off. I crash for like
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: a forty five minute nap. But I wake up. I'm like,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: where am I? What time is it? It's right out,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: but I'm now like getting a second wind. And that's
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: when Andrew Whitworth texts me and says, you're in town.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: You want to grab dinner? That's all I ever need? Yes,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I do. Where do you want to go? Whitworth says,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I'll pick you up. I'm like, what a gentleman. He's like,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: where are you? I'm like Manhattan Beach. He says, that's
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: nowhere near where I am. I'm like, so, Whitworth, to
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: his credit, says, all right, I'm gonna change my day around.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: He had two kids at camp, so he's like solo wall.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: So he's like, I'm gonna go drop by rams camp
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and then I'll come scoop you up afterwards and I'll
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: take you to one of my favorite spots. Like great
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: car pulls up. Andrew Whitworth in the car, opens up
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: the door. He is wearing shorts and a T shirt.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I'm wearing like a nice shirt, like a button down
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: and jeans because I don't know where we're going. And
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: he's like, have you been to the Soho House in Malibu?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I put it into my phone out
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: of curiosity. Hour away. Great, just what I need to
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: know that I'm gonna have to be coming back an
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: hour from somewhere as I have to be up tomorrow
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: at two forty five am. We start driving out there
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: no traffic. He and I are chat and it's great.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I love this guy. We go to the Soho House
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: in Malibu. We meet up with his friend Tony, who
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I've become friendly with over the years through Andrew. And
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Tony knows McVeigh and mcveay his friends with him, and
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Tony was at the McVeigh wedding, so we haven't Aaron.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: This sounds really like social media, like elitists and all
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: this thing. Apparently this Hope, this no Noo Soho House
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Malibu is like the most exclusive club in the world.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: So you heard of the sow Whole House, which is
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: like an exclusive members only club which you have to
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: interview for and you can't even walk foot step foot
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: in unless you're a member. And they have that in
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: cities across the world, and it's like in Barcelona, and
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: it's in Miami, and there's multiple ones in New York,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and it's like it's this private members club, Like what
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: goes on? You have no idea. You're not allowed to
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: have cell phones in there either. Well you can get
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: into that, but that doesn't grant you access to this
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Malible one. This Malibu one is like you have to
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: be a member of the Solo House, but then you
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: need to interview separately to be a part of the
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Malibu One. So I don't know any of this. We
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: show up and I don't think I'm allowed to say
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: the celebrity, but every single table had a famous actor
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: or actress at it. And it just overlooks the Pacific Ocean.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: And to like five hundred yards to your left is
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the Nobu in Malibu, which is apparently like the hottest
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: restaurant in the world. And I was looking my nose,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: like my nose was like looking down on the Nobu
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: because anyone off the street can walk in there, but
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: only we can walk in this thing. I say, all
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: this Whitworth is in there with like a T shirt
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and shorts and is the most comfortable guy in the building.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: He's six foot eighty, walks in. He's the man. He
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: knows everybody, And I'm like, what the hell is going
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: on right here? A minute ago, I was in my shoes,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: asleep on a courtyard Marriott bed, looking at the stars
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: in the ceiling. Not only what time it was. I
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: didn't drink alcohol, just drank iced tea, but like an
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: hour into this amazing meal, I'm fading. So it's one
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: of those aeron where it's like, do you raise your
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: hand and leave or do you wait to see who's next?
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Because Matt Damon or Clooney or Sidney Sweeney is gonna
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: walk into this restaurant next. And though I can't talk
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: to them, take a photo of them, or interact with them,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: or even share that they were there, I'd like to
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: get my eyes on them and at least say I
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: saw them. I did the responsible thing exactly at seven
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: fifty nine pm, which was ten fifty nine pm on
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: the E. I've been up NonStop wire to wire. I
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: just called an uber and I said, if I get
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: an uber, it's gonna show up, and I'm gonna go
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: get the uber. I get in this uber, I say
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: goodbye to like the party of the century at this
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Soho house, which again I don't even know if I'll
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: ever be able to set foot in again, because me
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: to not only know a member, but this member has
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: to also pass the test to be in the Malibu one.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: I get in the uber, Aaron, I'm not kidding. The
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: uber said forty five minutes. I slept for forty four
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: minutes of those just was fast asleep. Get to the hotel,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: go to the room. Alarm starts, boom two forty five
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: up to another show of Good Morning Football. And that's
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: when McVeigh texts me and is like, I see you're
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: in town. Why don't you come to rams practice again?
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: It's what do they say when you walk in a restaurant,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: you order everything, your stomach is, your eyes are bigger
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: than your Yeah, this is me in La Dude. I'm like, yeah,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: no doubt. When he's like, we don't start till four
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: forty so you have all day, I'm like, yeah, no, great,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: sure enough. Midway through the day, I'm fading. I meet
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: a friend for lunch, okay, and I go to a
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: place called the Strand House in Manhattan Beach, which again
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: sick on the water, insane views great, but I'm fading early.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: I haven't worked out once in these three days. I
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: plan on working out all three days. I haven't slept
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: at all. I planned on staying on these coast hours.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't do that at all. Through that out the
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: window and then I planned. I'm like, if I'm going
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: to eat, I want to eat good. Well. We had
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: pizza and nachos and savice at this thing, and then
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: the night before I had some Maybe it is terrible,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: just just just just just crushing my body, terrible stuff.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: No Podell, I wanted to play Podell. No putdel. We
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: finished lunch. I get back. I'm like fading hard. I
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: go to Starbucks. I get a giant iced coffee, the Trent,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the size. I suck it down. I call an uber
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: and we're off to Loyola Marrymount University, home of Bo
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Kimball and Hank Gathers many years ago. Rams have camp.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I get out the door of the Uber. I have
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: no idea where I'm walking. This guy with a RAMS
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: lanyard is there, and I'm like, dude, you know where
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: to go for practice? And he's like, sregger, good morning football.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, celebrity famous, show me the way and
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, it's over there, So like just you
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: take a right, like whatever you gotta walk about to me,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, no, that's not the guy. Find another guy,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: another guy whose name I'm gonna shout out, Patrick Esposito,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: who works in the marketing group, and he's like, I
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: got you. Patrick takes me on this long walk all
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: the way to the field, get to the field, and
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Aaron I was like a kid in a candy store.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: The coolest day. The Rams treated me amazing. But the
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: fact of the matter is, even if you're a fan
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: going to Rams camp, it's at this like smaller, quainter
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: like setup where you have to like get there. But
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: once you get to Loyola Marymount, they built this field
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: off the soccer field from what the what the soccer
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: teams is. They made a football field out of it,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: and like the fans are right up there, right up
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: on it, and it's like it's not an eighty thousand
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: fan extravaganza. It's like I don't even want to give
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: a number, but I would say it's closer to like
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: five thousand to ten thousand fans there, and it's every
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: seat's a good one. The players are right there. I'm
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: watching Stafford sign of autographs. I'm watching Nakua sign autographs.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: I get there, the first person I see is my guy,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Les Sneid, the GM who we had in the podcast.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: He and I are talking for thirty minutes. We go
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: down the entire roster. We talk about everything we get.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: I get my info from the rams and Less is
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: honest and brutally honest about all of it. I get
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: his thoughts on hard knocks about you know how it
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: went with Joe Shane, what his thoughts are. He didn't
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: watch it, he said, but he's like, if I were
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: to do it, and this is interesting, like I would
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: go all in also, and I think Joe was the
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: same way. Like if we're going to have the camera,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: it's like, I'm not going to hide away and try
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: to not be myself. I'm gonna be my authentic self.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: But this is when it gets cool. McVeigh comes up
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, all right, he's got practice to go.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: They start. Mcvay's talking to me and practice is about
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: to start, and I'm like, no, you go do your job.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: But he's asking me about how how Melon Betty you're doing.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I'm asking him now he's doing he was in the
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: French riviera for ten days. He's telling me about that.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: But Sean, I got it. I gotta tell you, Like,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I think people are gonna like this sounds. So he's jacked,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: like he spent the off season just like getting any
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: ridiculous shape and not losing weight. I'm talking putting on
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: muscle where he's absolutely like he looks like he's Dan
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Campbell now, like he's completely jacked. So I think that's
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: gonna be something. Jimmy Garoppolo's on the team. I forgot that.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo comes running over, talk to him. Cooper Cup
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: is like the man. He comes over and talks to me.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Nakua and I speak. I spoke to Jared Verst, a
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: rookie who I'm really excited about. But then after practice,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: after they had a really good practice, Stafford comes over
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and like Stafford had time for me, Like I'm not
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: with a camera, I'm not with a recording device, like
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: he could have been like, oh what's up, dude.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: We talked for like fifteen minutes and he looks like
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: he's in really good shape. But here's the thing. He
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: looks like slim and trim and like mobile. I'm excited
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: for Stafford because what they did this offseason the Rams,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: and this was by design. They signed Jonah Jackson, who's
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: gonna be out for a little bit. They signed Dots
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: in the Big Boy, and then they also drafted guys
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: on the offensive line, so like they're really big upfront
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: to protect Matthew Stafford, and I think they're really excited
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: about the run game. And now you get a healthy
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, a healthy Houka Nakua, and then like that
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: third wide receiver spot could be anyone from to two
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: at well to DeMarcus Robinson to this rookie Jordan Whittington,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: who they're super excited about. Like this sounds me being hyperbolic,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: and it's one of those where like you go to
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: one camp, you come out and you have a million takes,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: like and I'll the Rams offense it's gonna be awesome
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: this year. Can the defense stop anym That's going to
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: be the key. But like my early pick for a
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: team that might score the most points in the league,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: like mcvay's got to dialed in Stafford and Nicola really clicked.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Cup is healthy. They've got the run game. I love this,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: kyn Williams, like, I think the Rams might have the
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: number one offense in the entire league this year. And
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: it's not just because I was a participant at practice
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: and got to meet the guys and talk to the coach.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: I watched it. It's humming and it's August first, so
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: I'm super excited about the Rams. We went back to
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: the hotel afterwards. I had like I think, I got like,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: you know, what's the right there. There's a little I
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: wish I knew the fast food place. I got like
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: fast food. I got like a grilled chicken sandwich. It
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: was delicious. I went to bed, woke up the next day,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: and that brings us to here where I did the
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: show at two forty five am, wake up, took a flight,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: came back, did the show this morning, and then we're
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: here Thursday, and I just was rambling on for forty
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: five minutes. But like those are like the whereabouts of
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Peter Schreger. Why this podcast is what it is and
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: it's the season with Peter Schregar. But my Rams takeaways,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Nakula Cup healthy, Stafford looking in great shape. The offense
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: is going to be fire this year. If the defense
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: can stop anyone, they're going to be fine. And like
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: no one's talking about the Rams. Was about the Niners
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: and the Lions. But like the Rams, I don't know.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: They were a surprise team last year. They bring everybody
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: basically back except for Aaron Donald, and I think the
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: offense is going to be haunted. I had a couple
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: other thoughts if I can give them, just to wrap
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: up the podcast. If you want three rapid fire thoughts,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: you want to hear them.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Boom, let's go.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: First off, Giants Hard Knocks. I did the podcast with them,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: with those guys the NFL asked if I wanted to
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: do a podcast just like recap, like I thought it
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: was awesome. Did you watch the Giants five episodes of
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Giants Hard Knocks off season? Yeah?
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Loved it, loved it. Probably my favorite off season content
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: maybe ever, Like.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I do my favorite Hard Knocks season. Yes, hunperbolic
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: because NFL Films takes such pride, and HUA takes such
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: pride and then we're like going in. I thought for
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: sure this was gonna be just roses and rainbows and
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: there'll be no conflict and we're not gonna learn anything.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: It's just gonna be Look how great the Giants are,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: and look how smart this draft pick was right out
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: of the gates. We have contentious stuff with Sakuan, which
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: I loved, and I think that's gonna be film that
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: we go back on for the entire season if he
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: blows up and is awesome. In Philly, they go through
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: their free agent process and it's like Robert Hunt is
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: one of our top free agents, and like we're really
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: targeting Robert Hunt and Christian Wilkins is one of our
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: top free agents, and like they didn't get those guys.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: They went for him and did not get them. I
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: love that they actually showed it. And then they had
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: the three wide receivers in at the same time, and
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: it's like, we're gonna say on camera that like might
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: grow them wide receivers carded like Neighbors above Harrison, which
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know anybody else who had that, and then
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: you know, Shannon Dable pretty much back them up like
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Neighbors before Harrison. That didn't end up being a Neighbor's
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: pick over Harrison. But if Harrison was still on the
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: board and Neighbors still the board, it looks like they
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: still were taking Neighbors. And the last part about it,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: for all the talk we had of JJ mccarr going
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: to the Giants, and I had them there going in
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: my mock draft, the first mock draft I had changed
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: and I had mended in relative for all that talk,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: he was never really a part of the equation. It
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: was they would trade up for Jaden Daniels, they would
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: trade up for Drake May. No one wanted to trade down,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: or they would take Neighbors or Harrison and or brock Bowers,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: which seemed to be a possibility if it came that way,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: or a doone's day.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: So but that was close. That was my favorite part
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: where they were like, if one, two three goes this day,
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: we will go these choices, and if Neighbors is gone,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: we will consider trading down to take Rome or Bowers.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: But like I loved hearing them break down those first
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: ten picks because we all in the audience and the
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: media had gone through that ourselves of what's going to
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: happen one through ten, nobody goes and so it was
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: so enlightening to watch that. That was one of my
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: one of the highlights of the show for sure.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: And Aaron, what was cruel about it is we know
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: the result, Like we know they end up with neighbors,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: but I would think going in like I don't really
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: care that much about like you know how they got there,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Yes they were, but along the way, you're like still
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: in your head, like whoo they might trade up for
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Drake May Like you still are like in your head
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: like this might happen. So I thought it was great.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: And they're going flipping the script and they're going right
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: to the Bears. And from what I'm told, there's someone
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: with Jonathan Owens right now as he's watching someone Biles
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: in Paris, and we've got the Hall of Fame game
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: and we got Caleb like I'm excited for hard knocks.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: All right, move that to the side. That's one thing.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Second thing, all right, the second part of it. In
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: New York Giants are obviously a topic Jets, Jets Mania, Jets.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: I will be at Jets camp on Monday, and I
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: will be at Giants camp on Tuesday, So we'll record
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: a pod maybe Wednesday or Tuesday afternoon, and I think
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: we'll recap my two days with those guys. My last
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: thing that I wanted to bring up, my last point
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: before we wrap for this week as we can all
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: of my personal travels out of the way. Is this
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: ongoing thing about the Cowboys and their fans not showing
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: up to ox nerd California. Now this is a small
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: sports media thing, but I saw McAfee talking about it
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: with Lombardi, I saw Jane Slater way and so the
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Cowboys have always practiced out in Oxnard, California for training camp,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: and this year attendance numbers have been sparse, and a
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: lot of the initial reaction is that it's, you know,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: people are over the Cowboys. They lost to Green Bay.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: They don't have Dak resign, they don't have CD Lamb resigned,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: they don't have Micah Parsons resign, and like people are
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: over it, and Cowboys fans are like, unless you sign
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: those guys, We're not going to go and spend all
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: this money to go travel out to training camp. That's
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: been the media take, and I respect it, and a
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: lot of that might be true. I'm just gonna give
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: you an alternative take on this, and it might be
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: a little bit more Pro League or pro you know
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: the other teams, and maybe I'm just drinking that California
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: swee sweet California water. The Rams had a really, really
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: good season last year. They have a really good team.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: They have gone to the playoffs in five the last
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: six years. Their fan experience at training camp was freaking
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: awesome when I went, and it's in Manhattan Beach, not Oxnard.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: If you're in Los Angeles and you need a football
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: fix and you're not one of these Cowboys crazies, like
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: I think you might want to just support the home team,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: like yes back in the day, going to Oxtar to
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: the thing because there wasn't football in LA, and there
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: wasn't a good team in LA, and it was like,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: here's our one glimpse of NFL football. It's the Cowboys
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: out in Oxnar, which has been an hour away from LA,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: and it's like, I'm gonna go and sit in one
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: hundred degree heat because I want to see Terrell Owens
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: or I want to see Tony Romo and it's like
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: my one opportunity to see football this year. Not only
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: are the Rams a relevant team, You've got Harbaugh and
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: the Chargers now who are having practices right there in
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: like Manhattan Beach at the Bolt, which their new facility,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: which is supposed to be insane. My colleige Kyle Brandt went.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: And then the Saints are also in La there at
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: you see Irvine, I believe, and they're practicing at where
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: the Rams used to do their training camp. So you
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: have three other options than the Cowboys. And yeah, maybe
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: the lusters off the Cowboys a little bit, but they're
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: still going to be a favorite in the NFC East.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: They're still gonna be a Super Bowl pick for a
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: lot of teams, a lot of people in the media.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: But like it used to be the only show in
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: town out in LA. My argument is that maybe the
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: numbers are down because A it's not as convenient as
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: these other places. B. The Rams and Chargers are like
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: really relevant teams. And see the Saints are there too,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: so I can't get as worked up about the Cowboys
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: not having the attendance numbers they used to. Is the
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: luster off the Star, I don't know. We'll see in
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: the regular season. I'm pretty sure they're gonna be the
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: hottest team and the team that we're talking about the most.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: All right, So later the season, We're gonna do an
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: episode live from Soho House mal with Cooper Manning and uh,
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: we'll debate whether or not cowboys are are still in
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: it or not.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Quick note, as I'm at that Soho House Malibu, which
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know geography of LA. It's far from everything,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: but it's up the Pacific Coast Highway also known as
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: the p H. There was a giant cowboys bus parked
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: in front of Nobu in Malibu, and that's where Stephen
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: and Jerry Jones are having dinner. And that's where the
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: cowboys brass. That's how they travel. They drive in a
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: huge bus and they just parked it in front of Nobu,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: which is like the hottest restaurant. So the cowboys were there.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Don't worry.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: How did you get in? So as long as someone you're.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: With is.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we we just got to get you a membership
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: and then I can come in with you. That's absolutely
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: That's something LA like. I'm going to be there a lot.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: Do I go for it all? Do I try to
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: be a member of a golf club? Do I try
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: to be a member of Soho House?
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: I start hanging around at all these fancy restaurants, So
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: I have to have lunch. Do you want to do
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: lunch at the Ivy? Do I say, that's still the place,
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: the Ivy, that was the place forever. But like I
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: don't know, do I go all in and lean in
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: on the la or do I roll with like you know,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: the collect the marryout points and be smart and be
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: frugal and just get in and get out. What would
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: you say? What's more entertaining for the podcast?
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: Does Soho House have a padel court?
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: No, but they should, Like the lack of padel in
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: La is actually criminal. There's one in Silver Lake, which
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: is probably where you would live because it's the hipster
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: part of of California and it's more like Mark Marin Roles,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: But there's no padel in like La Proper, which is
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: like just ridiculous. One atrocity.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: Maybe you get in like you're the business partner to
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: start padel at Soho House. You start bringing it up there.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: I know places in San Diego, like I said with
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: my friend Chris, but yeah, I haven't played it in
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: La at all. You might be this might be the
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: side gig. You know, you have plenty of time for us.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: We're gonna play in Brooklyn. I wonder if we can
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: do pod from Padel House in Brooklyn. We bring the
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: equipment and just have like the snacking of the ball
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: against the wall in the background, and I was.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: Just like, I played tennis with my mom this morning.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: How do you do that?
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: I got my ass kicks?
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Is good? So good?
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: When you say you're your ass kick, we're talking like
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: six two, six to one. Like what are we talking?
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: She just ram me all over the court.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: She was like yeah. She's like, uh, you got to
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: be a little more consistent and you'll get better.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: And I was like, thank thanks for the tip. I
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: don't get to play every day at work. All right,
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: that's the pod tonight. There's gonna be a Hall of
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Fame game. You're going to react. I think there's football
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: over the weekend. There might not be. There's practices for sure,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: and then next week we'll have recaps from Jets and Giants.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: If you're not in New York, you could just skip
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: that podcast. That's probably what the topic is going to
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: be for Aaron wand Kaufman, for all the folks in LA,
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: for all the folks in New York, for the ioheart team,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: for for everybody involved. Thank you for listening, and I'll
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: have more fun, fabulous stories from my travels and the
• 54:05
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