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The Season with Peter Schrager: Stavros Halkias · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Scheger is a production of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's Up, everybody, Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the Season with Peter Schreger. I am Peter Schreger. I'm
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  Speaker 1: joined by my dear sad I guess producer Aaron Wangkoff.
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  Speaker 1: Ban I say sad, He's not always sad. He's actually
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  Speaker 1: a light and it's a wonderful joy to work with.
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  Speaker 1: But Aaron, the Bill's season, it was a miracle run.
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  Speaker 1: You're a diehard Bills fan. We haven't chatted directly since
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  Speaker 1: the loss. Your quick takeaways, then I'll take it from here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's sad, as a is a great word for it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's like we need the perfect season and
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  Speaker 2: we always run into this wall. Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid.
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  Speaker 2: It sucks to sit there. And like this whole season,
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City was not great. They seemed like they were
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  Speaker 2: a little weak. It seemed like the magic had finally
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  Speaker 2: run out. The receivers weren't working, Kelsey was slowing down,
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  Speaker 2: and then we just couldn't stop him. You know, Diggs
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  Speaker 2: didn't look like a wide receiver. Won the past six
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  Speaker 2: seven weeks, eight weeks whatever. Bills fans I know are
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  Speaker 2: are excited. There's a silver lining with like loving Shakir,
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  Speaker 2: loving Dalton Kincaid, but yeah, it's tough. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. It seems like a fitting end for the
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  Speaker 2: Bill season, but yeah, it sucks.
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  Speaker 1: It's sad. I feel bad for you. And it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those where it's like if not now when you
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  Speaker 1: had you had the home field. Finally you had this
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  Speaker 1: situation where you're coming into this thing and you're the
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  Speaker 1: hot team. But then I look at it and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: still had your chances. Yeah, yeah, still Josh was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: But I just don't know, Like, here's the untold story
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  Speaker 1: about this, and I think this is not you know,
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  Speaker 1: everyone looks at numbers and stats and salary cap. Players
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  Speaker 1: will play where they are paid most handsomely, and they
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily look at all the factors that go into
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  Speaker 1: living in a place. But if it's apples to apples,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to get free agents to choose to play
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  Speaker 1: in places like Green Bay and Buffalo and Detroit as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to a Jacksonville, a Miami and Atlanta. Players want
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  Speaker 1: to be in warm weather. Players want to be where
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  Speaker 1: they can live year round, so you already have that
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  Speaker 1: uphill battle. I think they went big on von Miller,
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  Speaker 1: which has been the greatest signing. Yeah, he wasn't himself
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  Speaker 1: this year. They're still on the hook for that. Gabe
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  Speaker 1: Davis is a free agent. Aj Epenez is a free agent.
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  Speaker 1: Micah Hide's a free agent. Like every year you're gonna have,
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  Speaker 1: it's not gonna be these same guys coming back. So
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  Speaker 1: I do think you can feel different this offseason as
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  Speaker 1: you did other off seasons with the Bills, because it
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  Speaker 1: does feel like this chapter is behind of closing and
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  Speaker 1: now to get all up again about the Bills this offseason.
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  Speaker 1: And Alan has been number one on the NFL one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: He has had the Madden covers, he has had the
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  Speaker 1: golf experiences with Rogers and Mahomes and Brady, He's been
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  Speaker 1: in that conversation and it's like, all right, well we
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  Speaker 1: lost in a division around again and it's like back
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  Speaker 1: to the drawing board. It's tough. It's tough to at
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  Speaker 1: least now fourty eight hours removed, but I would even
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  Speaker 1: I hate being so this is so down to start
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  Speaker 1: what should be an exciting championship weekend podcast with this
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  Speaker 1: the Bills stuff. Dan Fouts is a Hall of Fame quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: an all time legend, he never made a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Warren Moon is an all time NFL quarterback who had
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  Speaker 1: many playoff appearances, he just never made the playoffs in
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  Speaker 1: every super Bowl. And Philip Rivers, of course, is probably
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  Speaker 1: destined to go to the Hall of Fame and he
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  Speaker 1: never went to the Super Bowl. Sometimes it just doesn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: I know, you know, it takes a long career and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of bucks and bruises before a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these guys do get to hoist at Lombardi. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the case of John Elway, he waited till he
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  Speaker 1: was like thirty eight or thirty nine, but at least
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  Speaker 1: he went to five. You know, I think it's tough.
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  Speaker 2: To with the other three teams that lost this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: the Packers and the Texans, they they're nothing but bright
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  Speaker 2: road ahead of them, like they were working ahead of time.
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  Speaker 2: The Bucks, this was supposed to be kind of a
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  Speaker 2: down year. They're getting their cap in order. We were
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  Speaker 2: the team that we're going into this offseason. Some I
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  Speaker 2: think it's like forty plus million over the cap. We
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  Speaker 2: were losing a bunch of creagents potentially, So it does.
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  Speaker 2: It feels in the context of everyone else that lost
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  Speaker 2: that you could still be really excited for next year
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  Speaker 2: with them, and we'll be excited about the Bills next year.
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  Speaker 1: I yes, I mean once football's back and you're you're
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  Speaker 1: there watching training camp and Josh is smiling, and I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to think so, but gosh, Tampa Bay. So I
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  Speaker 1: want to take some time in the podcast to go
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  Speaker 1: through this. Tampa Bay's down eight points. Baker Mayfield gets
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  Speaker 1: the ball with a little bit more than a minute
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  Speaker 1: left to go through. It's an interception to Derek Barnes
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  Speaker 1: and the Lions have the ball and the Buccaneers have
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  Speaker 1: one time out left. This is a crazy thing that
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  Speaker 1: happened over the weekend that is not getting enough dialogue,
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  Speaker 1: especially on the national shows and on the national scale.
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  Speaker 1: But we're going to tackle it here because if you
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  Speaker 1: listen to this podcast, you live and breathe football, and
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  Speaker 1: game management stuff comes up with every interview with every
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  Speaker 1: coach or every GM or every president that we interview
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  Speaker 1: game manager and it's such a key thing. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: still scratching my head as we record this on Tuesday morning.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a Sunday afternoon at this at the stage,
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  Speaker 1: there's like forty five seconds remaining. The Buccaneers have a timeout.
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  Speaker 1: It's third and twelve for the Lions, and everyone's ready
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  Speaker 1: for them just to bleed the clock and take a
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  Speaker 1: knee for whatever reason. With nineteen seconds on the play clock,
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  Speaker 1: Frank Ragnow and Jared Goff hike the ball and take
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  Speaker 1: a knee. And now there's a time out left. It's
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  Speaker 1: fourth down and twelve, and everyone from the buccaneer's sideline
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  Speaker 1: is flooding the field to shake hands, and Todd Bowles
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  Speaker 1: is already at midfield shaking Dan Campbell's hand. With twenty
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  Speaker 1: five seconds left, twenty four seconds left, twenty three, twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: Todd Bulls is out there shaking hands, and no one's
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  Speaker 1: calling time out, and everyone from the Bucks is shaking
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  Speaker 1: the Lion's hands, and the clock just bleeds to zero.
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  Speaker 1: Now in real time, I'm freaking the hell out on
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  Speaker 1: my couch and I'm screaming called time out, And I
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  Speaker 1: was so confused and beside myself. I just assumed NBC
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  Speaker 1: had an all time production gaff and had that time
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  Speaker 1: out on the screen on accident and made a mistake
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  Speaker 1: because clearly there's no timeouts left. Todd Bowles would never do.
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  Speaker 1: So the game ends, everyone flips over, Okay, time to
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  Speaker 1: watch Chiefs Bills and I'm like, what was that? What
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  Speaker 1: was that? I'm trying to find there's no real information.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody asks Bulls about it. Bulls basically says it was
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  Speaker 1: a it was a foregone conclusion. We were losing that
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  Speaker 1: game and it was over, like we didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: prolong it. I'm like, what, wait, you really had a
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  Speaker 1: time out? Then they have a full night to sleep
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  Speaker 1: on it. Todd Bowles has a media availability on Monday
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  Speaker 1: morning and they asked him, why didn't you use that
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  Speaker 1: final time out? And I can't imagine this is this
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  Speaker 1: is the response that bull said in that he didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to give Well, I just listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a gentleman's agreement. They run field goal range.
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  Speaker 3: We'd have had twelve seconds to calculate it. You after
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  Speaker 3: using that time out to come back from it, then
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  Speaker 3: we would have been down eleven points. It's kind of pointless.
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  Speaker 3: You kind of know when the game was over and
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  Speaker 3: the game was over, who.
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  Speaker 1: Cares if they likely weren't going to win. You try everything.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you do onside kicks. When you're down twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: You do everything you possibly can to give your team
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  Speaker 1: a fighting chance to win, and they opted not to.
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  Speaker 1: I like Todd Bowles, this is not a Todd Bowles
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  Speaker 1: specific qualm. There are so many people at fault here. One,
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  Speaker 1: what are Frank Ragnow and Jared Golf doing? Why are
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  Speaker 1: they hiking the ball with nineteen seconds instead of bleeding
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  Speaker 1: that clock all the way. Lastly, there are so many
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  Speaker 1: people in that Tampa organization on the sidelines in the
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  Speaker 1: box who can say to bulls, hey, you got a
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  Speaker 1: time out, you gotta time out.
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  Speaker 4: Use it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my hand up here and say I
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  Speaker 1: never coached. I've never been an offensive lineman who's been
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  Speaker 1: having my knees chopped at fifty nine minutes of a game.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been a defensive lineman who's had to have
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  Speaker 1: the same thing happened to him. Maybe this is something
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  Speaker 1: that's just a unwritten code, but like it's a one
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  Speaker 1: score game, Aaron, I know that that the NFL page
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  Speaker 1: turns that people move on. If I'm a Bucks fan
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  Speaker 1: this morning, it is it is Tuesday morning. I am
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  Speaker 1: still really really disappointed with how that thing ended, and
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  Speaker 1: that my team played their asses off like Baker was awesome,
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  Speaker 1: and those receivers stepped up and Kate Aughten had the
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  Speaker 1: game of his life. And I don't know if they
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  Speaker 1: win that game, I don't know if they tie that game,
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  Speaker 1: it still to get a two pointer. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: the fact that we're shaking hands and conceding the game
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  Speaker 1: at at that time. It really rubs me wrong and
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  Speaker 1: upsets me, and I kind of am left cressfallen just
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  Speaker 1: at that. Everyone in the NFL too, just kind of
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  Speaker 1: being like, yeah, well, that's just what you do.
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't. This isn't Week eighteen, and Tampa's already
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  Speaker 2: out of the playoffs, and it's just like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: let's get our make sure our guys are healthy. They
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  Speaker 2: he could have won and gone to the conference championships.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, even whatever the chance, whatever the percentage chances are, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you on that.
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  Speaker 1: Just I feel for those Tampa fans. Quick things before
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  Speaker 1: we get to our guests. One Marquez Valdez Scantling. This
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  Speaker 1: is a guy I loved when he was in Green Bay.
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  Speaker 1: I loved saying his name He was a guy out
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  Speaker 1: of South Florida who was always the big target threat,
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  Speaker 1: the big play threat for the Green Bay Packers. He
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  Speaker 1: did not have a good regular season this year. Now
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to ring with the Chiefs. Last year great
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  Speaker 1: had a great playoff game for them last year. This year,
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  Speaker 1: did not have a good regular season. Was often the
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  Speaker 1: punchline and the punching bag amongst football fans for the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs wide receivers room. You know, he dropped the pass
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  Speaker 1: against the Eagles, and he had some other bad, egregious
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  Speaker 1: drops this season. In the moment that mattered mvs. Marquez Valdez,
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  Speaker 1: Scantling had two different thirty yard catches in Buffalo and
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  Speaker 1: I could not be happier for that dude and for
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  Speaker 1: that story. I love the redeeming guys. Who you know what,
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  Speaker 1: would you trade a bad regular season for one epic postseason? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you always would. And I love that Andy supported him
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  Speaker 1: and that Patrick went back to him. I use first
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  Speaker 1: name basis on these guys because I feel like I've
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  Speaker 1: been through the wreckage and through this entire season with them,
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  Speaker 1: with all of the wide receiver room issues and how
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  Speaker 1: Rashi Rice the rookie had to step up and be there.
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  Speaker 1: Number One, Mark Quez Valdez scantling when Rice was covered
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  Speaker 1: and Kelsey was covered twice in man to man situations,
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  Speaker 1: got open for big plays against the Bills, huge catches
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  Speaker 1: for him. That's what champions are made of, which leads
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: to my other quote. Rudy tom Janovic used it, and
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  Speaker 1: I love my MBA and Aaron. You know, I would
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  Speaker 1: almost rather host an NBA show sometimes in NFL how
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  Speaker 1: much I'm involved with it. And you know Bill Simmons
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  Speaker 1: and I talked about the Orlando Magic to start off
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  Speaker 1: Friday's podcast I did with him. Rudy tom Janovic won
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  Speaker 1: title with the ninety four Rockets. They struggled out of
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  Speaker 1: the gates in ninety five. They make a trade. They're
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  Speaker 1: bringing Clyde Drexler. They're the sixth seed, they're the sixth
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  Speaker 1: seed in the playoffs. They have to go in win
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  Speaker 1: nine different road games on this playoffs run. They end
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  Speaker 1: up defeating the Orlando Magic in the NBA Finals, and
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  Speaker 1: in his press availability, he would be a lot more
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  Speaker 1: emotional about it. But in the heat of the moment
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  Speaker 1: when they hand them the Larry O'Brian Trophy, Rudy tom
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  Speaker 1: Jonovich lists what his team did six seed, nine road victories,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing, and he says, don't ever, don't ever
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  Speaker 1: underestimate the heart of a champion. That's what these Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City Chiefs are. Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion.
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  Speaker 1: All those guys stepped up. Kelsey was awesome. All the qualms,
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  Speaker 1: all the worries, everything we had about the Chiefs going
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  Speaker 1: into this game. They did their job. And those backups
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  Speaker 1: who had to play and do big things on defense
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  Speaker 1: did those big things on these And now they head
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  Speaker 1: to Baltimore where they're underdogs yet again. And gosh, can
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  Speaker 1: we just set the seat on this Baltimore's atmosphere, So
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  Speaker 1: you've got an awesome home field M and T Bank,
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  Speaker 1: which is hosting its first AFC Championship game ever. This
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  Speaker 1: is the first AFC Championship game being played in the
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  Speaker 1: city of Baltimore since nineteen seventy one. And Aaron, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta call it like a I'm really conflicted here, all right.
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  Speaker 1: My wife, Erica is from Baltimore, and she's not just
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  Speaker 1: one of these, you know. I'm from Baltimore, and that's great.
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  Speaker 1: Her father David, her mother Sarah, or her brother Brian
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  Speaker 1: are die hard Baltimore sports fans. I'm talking season ticket
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  Speaker 1: holders for the Baltimore Orioles, season ticket holders for the
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, and well you I'd say, oh, that's nice,
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  Speaker 1: that's no, these aren't. This isn't because they're ballers or anything.
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  Speaker 1: This is because they put there. They put their funds
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  Speaker 1: to those two teams and to Maryland sports. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: University of Maryland Terrapins too. Like they are hardcore. My
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  Speaker 1: father in law has been to every Baltimore Super Bowl ever,
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  Speaker 1: that includes Superbowl super Bowl three. He went to Colts
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  Speaker 1: versus Jets and was there in person as a kid
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  Speaker 1: watching Joe Namath beat beat Don Shula and the Colts
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  Speaker 1: in that Super Bowl. And of course they've seen the
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  Speaker 1: Ravens now win in two thousand in Tampa over the
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  Speaker 1: Giants and twenty thirteen over the forty nine ers in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans. Of course they're going to be at the
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  Speaker 1: game on Sunday. However, I have a streak going where
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  Speaker 1: I have picked the correct Super Bowl champion the last
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  Speaker 1: several seasons. I have a Super Bowl prediction that we
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  Speaker 1: can timestamp, and you know what, let's play the clip.
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  Speaker 1: Let's give my Super Bowl prediction right here from right
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  Speaker 1: before Week one in September. Who I picked my winners
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  Speaker 1: from the NFC The San Francisco forty nine Ers. I
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  Speaker 1: think they play a punishing brand of football that is
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  Speaker 1: with Nick Bosa or without. I think their defense always
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  Speaker 1: sets the standard. And as much as I love Demko Ryans,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they missed that much of a beat
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  Speaker 1: without him. They keep ongoing. They've got young talent at
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  Speaker 1: every position there and then on offense, Kyle Shanahan is
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  Speaker 1: a mad genius. I think he finally has a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: that can operate his offense that he believes he can
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  Speaker 1: put in trust and really get them over the hump.
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  Speaker 1: He's a former mister Irrelevant and that is okay. I've
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  Speaker 1: got McCaffrey as my MVP. I think Deebo has a
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  Speaker 1: big year. I think Ayuk is a big year. I
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  Speaker 1: think Trent Williams might going out on a swan song
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  Speaker 1: here in his last couple of seasons, but I think
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  Speaker 1: he's still the best tackle in the league. I am
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  Speaker 1: going with the San Francisco forty nine Ers as my
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  Speaker 1: team out of the NFC. As for the AFC really
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  Speaker 1: really struggled with this. Yeah, I can't pick against the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if Chris Jones is I don't care
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  Speaker 1: if Tyreek Hill's not there. I don't care if any
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  Speaker 1: of those guys aren't there. I can't pick against the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: The Chiefs have been the standard and last year was
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  Speaker 1: a great lesson. I stuck with them. I pick them.
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  Speaker 1: The wins Super Bowl despite losing Tyreek Hill. I think
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  Speaker 1: I might have been in an island on that and
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  Speaker 1: that sounds wild considering how much success they have. I
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  Speaker 1: will not pick against Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey until
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  Speaker 1: I am forced to. And I am not forced to
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  Speaker 1: pick against them. They are still at the peak of
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  Speaker 1: their game. I had a chance to spend time with
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  Speaker 1: them this offseason at that big Slick Charity Classic, and
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  Speaker 1: I was hanging with them, and I swear to god,
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  Speaker 1: I left that thing being like, those guys are great.
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  Speaker 1: And then I talked to us some people around the league,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't know. They seem like to
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  Speaker 1: be having a little too good of a time this
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  Speaker 1: offseason with the golf and this, and they are concerts
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  Speaker 1: and it's like Mahomes and Kelsey are everywhere in the
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  Speaker 1: podcast and you want to start turning away and then
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  Speaker 1: you're like, holy crap, they're just so good. I am
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  Speaker 1: going with the Chiefs. I don't know how they get there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's through a one seed and
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  Speaker 1: they they host all these games at Arrowhead. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if they've got to go on the road. But
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  Speaker 1: like I said, if it's one of those deals, eyes
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  Speaker 1: will not deceive me. And if there's a fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes needs to get it done in a
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  Speaker 1: big spot, he has gotten it done every single time,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going with Kansas City. Now, this was a Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl a few years back in Miami. We go from
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  Speaker 1: one party city to the next. We go to Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers versus Chiefs, the Super Bowl champions for
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in Las Vegas on CBS. Drum roll,
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  Speaker 1: please aeron. The Kansas City Chiefs will be your first
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  Speaker 1: back to back Super Bowl champion winners since the New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots did it in two thousand and three and
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and four. I am going with the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: I love what they are all about. I love that
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: people are doubting them, and I love the fact that
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Mahomes and Kelsey are ready to go. And so then
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: last week I go on Bill Simmons' podcast and I'm
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: coming in there full of gust, though, and that thing
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: is a monster. It's got millions of listeners in them.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Bill's are underdogs, and I say, pick the Chiefs out right, Bill,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs out Right. And then I go on Good
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Morning Football on Friday and I give this amazing the
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: emotional soliloquy slash monologue about how the city of Kansas
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: City has adopted me in so many ways and has
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: brought me in and has made me feel like one
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: of them. And I do the charity event big Slick
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: with them, and gosh, I'm not from Kansas City, but
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: this Chief's ride has been incredible. And I'm gonna dance
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: with the guys who took me to the dance, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ride with the Chiefs all the way through
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: and through, no matter who the opponent is. And they
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: win and I get no personal joy out of that.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I think it's cool when I pixe right, but I
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: really believe it. I really believe that they are still champions.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: And until you beat the champion. I can't pick against
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the champion, So now it comes to a head Chiefs personally,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I have a lot of a lot of ties to
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: that team. Right now, my chips are on the table.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I have put my name on it. I believe that
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: they are gonna be the Super Bowl champions this year.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I still believe in them. My Homes has been great
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: for my career because I was early and on him
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: and he's been super nice to me. And long before
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Kelsey was with Taylor Swift or long before Kelsey was
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: this international superstar, Kelsey was a guy that I would
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: talk too often. And I really like what Kelsey's up to,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and of course Andy Reid is so special. I believe
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs will win on Sunday. However, I'm going to
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: this game as a fan. NFL Network's not sending me,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Fox isn't sending me. I am going with my wife
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: and my son, and we are going to sit with
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: my father in law, my mother in law, and my
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: brother in law, who are probably gonna be wearing Jonathan
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Ogden jerseys and Chris McCallister jerseys. And you name it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: The hideous old Ravens logo with that gross yellow like
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: they still rock that stuff. They rock the Camo pants,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. And I've got to make a pick
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: on Good Morning Football, like publicly, and then I've got
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: to walk into that building as like a trader of
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: some sort and sit amongst the fans. So I am
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: telling you right now, Aaron, I feel really torn personally,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: but also like I got to live with that. Hey
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: if the Chiefs win, like the looking at an empty
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: stadium and my son crying tears because he's a Ravens fan,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: just like his mom and just like his grandfather, and
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: then b if the Ravens win, like I might get
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: thrown at me there because they look at me as
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: like some sort of Chiefs fan because I'm on television
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: talking about the Chiefs how they're gonna beat the Ravens.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Your thoughts, well, I love whenever I look into the
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: stands and I see groups of people there together and
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: they're in mixed jersey. So someone is there rooting for
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the Chiefs and someone's there rooting for the Ravens, and
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: they're next to each other, they're talking to like throughout
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: the game.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I love, like you know, I hate whenever it's some
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: story about like fans got into a fight, we're throwing
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: drinks at each other. But if they're like you know,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: they're as friends and family, that's great. I think you'll
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: have a little bit of buffer because you'll be around
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: a lot of Ravens. God, man, I don't know. I mean,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: this is the first time they're going to the conference championship.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: That's not going to be in Kansas City.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not wearing I'm not gonna wear yeah, oh Chief stuff. No,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't wear Chief stuff ayway, but I'm not gonna
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: wear any NFL I think stuff. I'll see if I
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: could just blend in.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Just getting Oriels jersey and wearing.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Win, I'll be elated, Like my family's gonna be excited.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Lamar is an amazing story. This is very very specific
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: to me when you've got family that loves the Ravens.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: But I've kind of put my eggs in the Chiefs basket.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Who do I think will truly win? I honestly think
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs win like twenty three twenty and it's one
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: of these awesome games and I cannot wait. I'll be
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: there taking the train down Sunday morning, and of course
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I will be on Good Morning Football Monday morning, so
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I'll take the train back late Sunday night. Here's here's
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: a quick battery before we get into our guests of
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: what I think. I think we're gonna get Taylor Swift right,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: So I'm writing Taylor Swift's name down. I would imagine
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I haven't spoken to him. I would imagine our podcast
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: buddy Paul Rudd is in the house because that's a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: train rider, a drive away. I think you're gonna get
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Jason Kelcey with Taylor Swift writing that down. I think
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Josh Charles. You know Josh Charles's work, great actor, but
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: he diehard Ravens fan. You know him from the Good
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Wife and from Dead Poet Society. He is the most
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: hardcore Ravens fan that I know up here in New York.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: He'll he'll be in the house. I wonder if Stone Street, Wriggle, Oh,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Heidi Gardner stay Night Live, diehard Chiefs fan. They have
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: SNL on Saturday night. I believe I'm sure she can
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: make it down Sunday. So I think you're gonna get
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a really cool scene. And then, of course the images
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: of those Ravens fans by the way, I've been to
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: a million Ravens games. Why are they all dressed in costume?
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: All those Ravens fans they dressed and like robes and
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: they wear like browns and they're like dressed is like birds.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I love Ravens fans and that makes a great segue
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to our guests today. I'm not sure how this is
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: gonna go. Our guests is one of the funniest people alive.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: He is a sensation on YouTube, on TikTok, on Instagram,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and also on Netflix. His comedy specialists called the Fat Rascal.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: He is a Baltimore native, and his character Ronnie has
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: taken over Baltimore social media pages and has even been
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: a guest of the Ravens because of just how damn
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: funny he is. I have no idea where this goes.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: It could go off the rails. He is a hilarious comedian.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I love his podcast with no further further ado, Our
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Guests after the break is stavros Halkis, all right, I'm
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: so excited for our guests today. They're fans that like
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: are celebrity fans, and they wear a hat and they
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: go to a game and it's like, yeah, no, I
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: definitely love the team. I definitely I love the team. Yeah, no, totally.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I could talk your team. And then you ask him
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: a little bit about the team and you realize quickly
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: that said fan is not really a fany just from
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: that area. Then there are guys like Staby Baby. This
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: is a halk Is he is on the podcast, and
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: before I even get into it, I have to tell
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the listeners here who listened to this? And usually I've
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: got an NFL coach or an NFL general manager, like, right,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: this is this is like a like one of my
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: dream guests because I listened to you. I go back
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: to your previous podcast, which you won't name the name
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Should be, but even like Pandemic Sponsors, But even.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Pandemic, you and Sam Morrill had the basketball podcast, and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I would listen to that podcast. But now Staby Baby
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: is one of the most popular podcasts in the land.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Stavros Halkias is a Baltimore native through and through a
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Greek American first generation save.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: That's right, I'm the first one of my family born here.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so Greek American who has the pulse of
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the Ravens fan base and has now found a whole
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: new thing, like whole new market and whole new fan
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: base with a character he does at the games known
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: as Ronnie Stavi. Where do you want to start? This
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: is an incredible run that the Ravens are on, and
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: you are part and sold this thing. From the fan perspective,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: it's crazy, dude.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me on. By the way, I'm
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: a fan as well. I love your stuff and it's
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: crazy to be on an actual like the Ravens. Should
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: I start doing a character? I grew up in Baltimore.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: I remember when we got the team. I remember, you know,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: I was a football fan before the Ravens existed, Like
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: I remember, you know, rooting.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: For uh, just watching the play.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: I was really a Viking fan because okay, Randy Moss
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: was so good when I was I was, like, you know,
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: like I was young, I was like eight or I
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: don't exactly remember what it was, and he was so good.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: So I made that the purple transition came real nice.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: I remember, like I remember, like like that, I go
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: back to before the team existed. I go back to
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: being mad watching football and Thanksgiving at our family friend's
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: house because I come from a very Greek family. Where
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: my parents do not understand football. It's all about soccer.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: We played soccer, well, I played high school football, and
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: my mom would come to my games and she would
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: like hear at all the wrong times, you know, like
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: I was in nose tackle. But I also kicked off
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: because I played soccer, and so she would just cheer
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: at the kickoffs, thinking I scored.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: A goal, you know what I mean, Like that's what
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: she understood.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: So there was no football happening in my immediate family,
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: but we had family friends we'd go to on Thanksgiving
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: and that was my like introduction those Thanksgiving games, and
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: I remember being mad. I was like, well, why don't
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: we have a team, And it was like pretty quickly
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: after that, I was you know, I was there. I
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: remember you go into a pun pass and kick contest.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: We had Testaverdi out there, We had Stover out there.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: I like I I have been a fan of Ravens
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: since it has come to Baltimore, and so I just
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: started messing around one day where I was just like
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: we've had and Lamar got me back in right like
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: I was kinda I love the flat goron obviously that
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: was the best.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: But it was like we had a weird little lull there,
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: And it was like and I was also starting to
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: actually be an adult with responsibilities.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: You couldn't yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: I could just get you know, with my friends and
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: just watch games and just gamble, you know, with a bookie,
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: and just that was my whole life. I was like, oh,
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: I should I started to travel for stand up and weirdly,
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Sundays are travel days, you know. And I was like
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: and also, you know, uh, just I was just kind
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: of losing my you know, I was just kind of lose.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: I was like, that was cool.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: I was a die hard as a fan as a kid,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: and the teams were great.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: I enjoyed some great stuff.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: But I was like, maybe it's time for me to
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: kind of like become a much more casual fan.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: And I remember Draft day Lamar.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: I was like, wait, this guy's not gonna fall There's
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: no way we're getting I.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Was literally headed on in the background as I'm.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Just you know, doing chores or something, and he keeps falling,
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh great. I remember being like, great,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: the Patriots are gonna ever this guy and and and
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: they're gonna you know, they're gonna go right from Brady
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: the like I always thought, I never bought into, you know,
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: the whole the he's not gonna be good. I thought
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: the guy was awesome. And when we drafted Lamar, I
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: was like, I'm this is fifteen years I'm in, Like,
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: it's not the moment I knew. Yeah, I was like, so,
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: so I just re became a Diard fan and I
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: just started doing these dumb videos when we had a couple,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: you know, a couple because starting from that the MVP run,
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: it was such a magical year, like watching Lamar really
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: become as himself that first time and then losing to
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: the Titans was so brutal that, you know, that first
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: playoff run that they had, and so that it kind
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: of but from then until now, we've had a lot
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: of these weird seasons that you can tell there's talent
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: on the team, and we had the whole contract dispute,
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: we had the whole everything, and so it was like
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: I was doing a lot of just I was frustrated
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: as a fan, and so I just channeled all that
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: into like a Baltimore Towney character named Ronnie from you know,
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: I don't want to get into too much specifics of
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: the OFT's.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Let's paint, let's paint where Ronnie's from and what Ronnie's
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: life is, because I think it is fair. Yes, so
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: you could say there are different types of Ravens fans
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: and they come from all wars of life and all
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: different Yes, yes, that's all different cultural backgrounds. But Ronnie's
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: a very Ronnie's a very specific one that I have
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: met and we get tweets from and they have their
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: thoughts on whether it's Jimmy seafood or their place that's
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: in their suburb, like it got.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Crab cakes.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, No, Ronnie is like I grew up in Greektown,
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: which is southeast Baltimore, and it kind of borders. There's
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: like a suburb technically a suburb that is worse somehow
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: than Baltimore City. Like it's like people, it's like it's
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: like just become it was I say, I say in
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: my act, it's like it was like white flight happened
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: and they instead of it's like people that were like, oh,
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: we have to get away from these urban centers, too
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: many black people moving in and then they just pick
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: made a city than the city they fled. And that's
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: and Ronnie is descended from that where it's like just
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: these kind of like dumb ass It's just like a
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: dumb ass that had you know, that just lived his
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: family left Baltimore a couple generations ago. They live in
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: a trash suburb. They're just like, you know, uh, like.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: Small time criminals. You know, my weed deal.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: The guy I bought weed from was like, you know
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: growing up, was a Ronnie style guy.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: They're just like, you know, just white, just a nice
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: are nice type of white trash that everybody has their
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: own special kind of towny and we have like vintage
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: and it is like what's nice about it? It's a
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: cousin of the minute. All the mid Atlantic trash is
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: kind of connected.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: So it's like Pittsburgh.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Even the Pittsburgh kind of yinser accent is sort of
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: that's an offshoot Philly definitely has. That's definitely Philly is
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: probably the closest Delco.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the Delco that the very hard Oh's. You know.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: I do a bit about it on my first YouTube
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: special on my first special on YouTube, where I just
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: kind of like, you know, they're just guys that have
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: way too much confidence for no reason. Have never achieved
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: anything in life. Uh don't, don't realize they're being racist,
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: but like, you know, like that, the character was always
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: the Ronnie loves and listen, I love Joe Flacco, but
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Ronnie like loves Joe Flacco in a way that's like
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: he thinks modern. He thinks the Ravens last season when
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Lamar was injured should have offered uh, you know, the
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: I believe he was on the Jets. He should have
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: offered the Jets Lamar in two first for flats for
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: the current day Flaco.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: And it works so perfect because the last name, it's
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: just it's perfect for the aga.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Oh it's beautiful. I mean that was meant to be.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: And shout out to Joe. He is that run. I mean,
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: I love you know, when we drafted Joe, I remember
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: that too, because you know, Baltimore was a quarterback wilderness.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: I mean we went from like we we went with Dilpher,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: we had Tony Banks, we went we you know, we
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: went with Dilfer and then I remember everyone saying like
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Burdback's gonna be the savior, you know, like I remember
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: that that was our big free agents splash. He sucked
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: as soon as we got him. He completely went in
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: the tank. And then and then there's Bowler where we're like, oh,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: this guy. And it was always like this thing of
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: you know, Brian Billick was because again offensive genius, and
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: it's like, okay, he had a defensive team. Now he
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: drafts his guy, he's gonna put his system in. And
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: it was Kyle Bowler, which no, you know, Kyle Boler
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: got a second contract somehow, salute to him. He figured
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: it out. He was dogs, you know, he was not good.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: We had Chris Redman as a starting quarterback. Like it
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: was like we just went through it. And then when
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Joe gets drafted, it's like, all right, this guy looks good.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: And it's like but he he's from Delaware. It's like
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: we got to get It's like it's like it's like
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: he's just that's where we go to the bea. He's
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: like he's he went to Rahobi's Beach University.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: What is this? And then and then you.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: See that secret yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, University
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: of Secrets. But then I saw I saw one of
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: those beautiful spirals, and I was like, I'm all in.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: He was perfect.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: We were so good for so long with him and
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: and I love I definitely, I definitely know that I
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: just want to be on the record.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: No disrespected Joe, one of my favorite players.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: But those guys really, you know, they latch onto him
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Ron these favorite players are all you know, Todd Heap,
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: Tony Sarrah Goosa. There's a pattern. There's a pattern, you know.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: But I saw I'm doing these dumb videos when just
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: to like just to get some steam out, just to like,
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: you know, make fun of these guys, but also there
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: it's a it's a safe space for me to get
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: all my dumbest fan takes out, you know what I mean,
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Like there's a part of me that you know, just
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: believes all a little bit of it, and.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: They just kind of kept I was just doing them
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: for fun.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: And you know, it's not like my audience, my stand
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: up audience is like a big sports not a big
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: sports fan. But you know, like I did the bat
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: if anything. If I had any fans, it was like
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: basketball fans. Because I used to work for MSG, me
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: and my Sam Moreau, we did a we did a
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: show for the MSG network.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: I was a writer for it.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: Then me and Sam did our own basketball podcast for
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: years and I was just a really big hoops junkie.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: But these videos were really just for me. It's not
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: even like my fan base like them. Some people were
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: mad that I was doing.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Your podcast is all life advice stuff and like yeah great,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: and then you have this whole other character, Ronnie, that
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I think is like as a whole of their life
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: with a whole other different fan base, and.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: It was really just for me. Like that's the thing.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: It's like there was no strategy of like like in hindsight,
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: it was if you're going to be cynical, you're like, well,
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: football is the most the most popular sport, you need
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: to It's like it's almost like somebody in a boardroom
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: was like, hey, you really got to hit this quadrant,
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. But that was that was
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: not it at all. I just I just loved I
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: was doing it really for me in a way where
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: it's like I could have even not posted these videos
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: and just done it as Catharsis.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: And then I started.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: Putting them out and uh, you know, they were doing
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: pretty well. And I think when I was promoting my special,
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: I went on every platform possible my first special, and
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: so part of that was the you know, the Barstool Guys,
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: The Cat and uh pft, I went on one on
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: their show. But I love that show, and I think
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: that was kind of I did the character there because it's.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: Like you got to do it, you know, that's just
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: fun to do. They get it. And I think that's
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: when it kind of picked up a little bit.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: And then it just coincided with this magical Raging season
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: where it was like, you know, it's been a it's
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: been a crazy lucky year for me, and I think
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: it all kind of like, and I don't want to
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: nobody clip this if it goes bad, but my my
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: thirty fifth birthday is February eleventh.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying. I'm just saying it feels.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: You know, it's starting to sitting, just starting to swirl,
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: starting to feel really good.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: And look, Lamar's I'm sorry, I'm hopped up. I just
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: woke up. I'm pumped to just be talking Ravens when
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: we're so good in.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Late January talking Ravens late January.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: We're Lamar and Lamar approved every every hating pieces wrong
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: that I mean that second half. Me and my brother,
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: I take my I take my brother Nick to these games.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: Trainer he's a trainer.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think he wants that
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: publicized right now. I think he wants to maybe to
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: get me in the gym a couple of months before
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: he starts taking ownership of it. But yeah, we did
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: a training series and I've only gotten fatter since then.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: I don't know how it's helping.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: His business, but I'm there with my brother, and that
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: first half was It's an amazing experience. You know, the
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Ravens let me somehow these dumb videos. The Ravens were like, yeah,
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: come do I couldn't curse on the official ones, but
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: it's like they still let me do.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: I still, you know, I get to write these things.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: I get to still be a criminal that the Ravens
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: led into their thing, and so they gave us great seats.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: We're sitting there watching the whole game, and that first
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: half was like that kickback was like, damn, this.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: Is how a worst team beats a good team.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: They hanged around and it was every and at first
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: I felt a little bit about what everybody was criticizing
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: Lamar for where it was like this season, I think
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: what really separated him was he just proved the thing
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: I think everybody who believed in him thought, which is like, no,
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: this that he can pass as well as he can run.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: That's what makes him super elite. And I think in
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: the first half maybe you could argue he went a
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: little too like, you know, abandoned his reads and just
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: ran whenever, whenever things were getting a little dicey. And
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: then that second and I'm sitting there with my brother
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, dude, the vibes are a little right now.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: That's where I said going to the second half, but
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: I didn't. I was like, we're not panicking yet. Here's
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: what needs happened. He's got to come out, we get
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: the ball, step on their throats, prove who he is.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: And you say, like your best case scenario, you say
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: it out loud, and you think it's not gonna go
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: that good.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: But at least it went even better.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: Now, it went even better than I possibly could have expected.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: And I was like, that's it, that's the guy. It
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: all snacked into focus. And I think that first half
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: was good because I also think it's kind of us
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: exercising a little bit of our total. You know, we
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: had a couple of weird We had a couple of
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: weird losses too. I mean, this team could have had
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: like one.
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: Loss if you really Steelers. This Brown's game was weird.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: This the first Steelers, like, you know whatever, the last
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: Seelers game we don't have anything to play for, it
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: was raining, who gives it? But that first Steelers game
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: we should have won for sure, And so it just
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: felt good. It felt like we're really it's good to
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: muck up a little bit. Sometimes coming out of the
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: by it could be weird. Teams can feel flat, and
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: it really felt like we did that. And I am
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: pummed to be playing the Chiefs. I'm pumped to like
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: to get Lamar, Like Lamar Vus Mahomes is what you want.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: You want him to go out there and prove it
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: because I've you know, I've always thought he's just good.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: I really truly believe that. I mean, Mahomes is the man,
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: of course, and he's he's got the Super Bowls. But
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: when Lamar puts it together, and let's not forget this
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: is you know, Lamar was kind of thrust into a
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: weird situation, whereas like Mahomes got to kind of slowly
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: come along, had a better had better weapons right away.
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean. I mean Lamar, who was
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: Lamar throwing to until this year?
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: You're crazy? It is different.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's like so it's I feel like Lamar
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: is finally at a plaace.
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: Where he has the team that matches his talent, and
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: I'm happy. And it's almost like, you know, the cowards
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: way is not having to face you know, the guy
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: who's his generations, you know, top.
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: But I don't want the cowards away. Let's go earn it.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: Let's let's go beat these mothers and then go to
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: the super Bowl and you know, whoever, whether it's I
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: think both those teams hopefully, like you know, I'm not
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: even in if it's not us, it's someone else category
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: because I can't even think that way.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: But like, good for the lines if they're there, the Niners.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: You know, those are both good teams that are are
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: very worthy super Bowl opponents.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: So you guys, you guys bet both of them.
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, both those teams up, which you know that's a
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: good sign.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: It's not it's not the you know, you never, especially
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: a guy like Shanahan, you never want to like it's
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: almost like exactly give them too week and you know
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: he finally won his first game trailing in the fourth quarter.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: So you know, you don't want you don't want to
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: get him hot.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: But I listened to to you talk football. It's like,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: you know you're I listened to Dan soder talk about
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: either his boy McDaniel with the Dolphins or his Niners,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: and it's like, you guys, know know your stuff. Who
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: are the comedians? And I know your crew is like
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: normand and Soda and Joe listeners. Who are the ones
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: who are like football fans, not just oh there's a
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: football game on all hang with the boys?
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Liszt definitely listens Patriots.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Who is he?
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: Who's he Patriots? Of course? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: he knows.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a he likes like he'll just go
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: to a college He'll be on off and he'll go
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: to like a college basketball game of two unranked teams.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: He just loves the like he loves sports is like
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: a traditional American way, like in the he loves it
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: as part of the culture. And obviously he's been very
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: lucky to have the Patriots be so good for so long.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: You know, so you said it's Soda, He's literally boys
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: with McDaniels, like, but he's been a he's been a
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: football fan of his whole life. It's super important to him.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: Dam is definitely more of a you know, Sam is
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: definitely more of a hoops guy.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: But hoops he knows everything about.
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: And then you know, Bill Burr is kind of like
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: the I don't know Burr personally, we've barely met, but
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: it's like he's kind of like the super fan. I
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: mean that mother loves sports so much, and so it's
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: like guys that run with him all. You know, Paul
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: Verzu I'm gonna have on my podcast soon. But he's
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: a big sports guy.
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: I mean, you have.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: That's what's interesting is like a lot of a lot
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: of comics and obviously Shane Gillis, I mean, Jane is
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: a huge play Shane.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Shane was talking to it. He was he was being
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: interviewed by like I think the ovonn last week and
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: he's talking about how Gabe Davis of the Bills one
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: of his best friends. I'm like, what is this crossover?
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: I love yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, No, they're Gabe Davis does like does touchdown
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: celebrations of like fat little Brazilians that like Shane, his
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: little videos Shane has seen like he does, Shane's chordatorographed
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: touchdown celebrate. I'm trying to get to that. I'm trying
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: to get to that level of touchdown celebrations. But you know,
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: but yeah, Shane is a huge football fan for sure.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: But yeah, man, I mean there's a lot of you know,
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: a lot of these guys, A lot of people love it.
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: You know, it matters a lot to people.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: And then you know a lot of sports, a lot
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: of comics or fans of other sports too. Basketball fighting
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: is huge obviously. But yeah, those are I mean, those
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: are especially my circle. Those are the guys Soda for sure,
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: Soda and Shane, I would say, for sure.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: When you really blew up from my eyes from like
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: a national standpoint or got more mainstream was when you
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: had the YouTube special. I think it was post pandemic,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: and it was like when that hits and all of
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: a sudden you're looking at it and there's twenty million
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: views on YouTube, like your life changes overnight.
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, it was really weird because you think, you think,
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: like you start doing comedy and you're like, I'll get
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: on HBO or I'll get on Comedy Central. Or I'll
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: get on TV and that's when people will know who
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: you know, that's when like, that's where I'll get a
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: little notoriety and maybe people know who I am. And
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: really what happened to me was just posting on the
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: internet what like it was like. And to be honest
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: with you, it was like it was like before the special.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: It was my weird little strategy to post crowd work
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: clips that I never thought would be the successful.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Crowd which is.
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: Of course, sorry.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Controversial right now with a lot of these comedians who
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: strictly do crowd.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: Work, right, and I get that too.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, so basically, crowd work is, you know, there's
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: stand up comedy and crowd work is like any moment
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: that's kind of off the cuff, you're talking.
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: To the crowd.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: Traditionally, it's like you know your acts, the jokes you
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: write there prepared and there's a little bit of there's
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: a little bit of you know, improvisation or if something
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: happens in the room, you address it and I think
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: for the moment.
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: And there were.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: Always some comics who their thing was all crowd work,
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: all talking to the crowd, all improvising, and they were
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: really good at it, and they kind of like really
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: worked on it as as skill, and I think for
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: most of us, you would do a little of it.
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: Like the way I approached it was.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: Like I didn't want people to think I was a
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: kind of robot. Then I was just going to get
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: out there and do my jokes. I always saw crowd
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: work as a way to engage the crowd a little bit,
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: talk to them for the first five minutes or so,
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: maybe make some jokes, really form some because that's what's
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: special about stand up is every show is its own thing.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: Every show is different and every audience. I mean, you'll
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: never even if you do the same exact jokes, you'll
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: never have that group of people in the same room
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: under the same conditions ever again. And I really enjoy
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: that because every show is a little different, the energy
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: is a little different, and so I always wanted to
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: kind of ingratiate myself by not just going right into
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: my material but kind of talking to people. But that
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: was always, you know, I would do it for five
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: minutes out of an hour, and when I was and
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: I had to self producer special because nobody was interested
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: in my hour.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Did you try shopping it like you were on the
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: four for years. I mean, know, you opened for Robert
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Kelly for years, and like you go and you have
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: these meetings with like Comedy Central and HBO and Netflix
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: and TB and whatever else, and they're just like, no,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: we're not interesting.
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: I mean I think a lot of that was the pandemic.
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: I think, you know, some of these places were kind
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: of rethinking their strategies. A lot of them were kind
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: of cash strap, and I think I just didn't have enough.
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: People didn't know me as a stand.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: Up comic thing give me as a podcaster, and I
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: don't think I had enough clout to really make it happen.
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: So I tried a couple of places were sort of interested,
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: but I didn't want to wait around, and I just
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: decided I'm gonna shoot it myself.
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna put you know, a bunch of money into it.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: But I had no I had a small YouTube following,
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: but I didn't have a big one. So I figured
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: I'll post old jokes and get people to like because
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: people had been, you know, on TikTok, people had been
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: engaging with comedy that way. This is like twenty twenty one,
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: I think, when so I had seen it, and Sam,
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: like my buddy Sam, had been doing really well other comics,
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: Mark Norman had been doing really well doing short form stuff.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: And I remember thinking like, ah, that's dumb, that's a
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: waste of time. I was, and these guys are in
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: theaters off the strength of that, and so I'm like,
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: all right, Well, I got to figure something out.
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: And so I posted.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: Old jokes because I was also a purist, right, I
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: was like, crowd works, bullsh it's it's all about the jokes.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: And then I posted all the old jokes. I didn't
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: want to do it anymore, and that they were gone
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: in like six days. And then I was like, all right,
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: I guess let's see. And I had been preparing. I'd
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: been trying to get a crowd work. I'd been trying
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: to get a comedy ES Central half hour for about
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: a year, and I think maybe that would have happened
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: if the pandemic didn't happen. So I had recorded every
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: set I did for a for a year. I was
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: on my I was on my ed red you know,
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: play what you know, watching the game tape back.
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this joke.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: We got to get it down in two minutes. It's
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: running long, you know, And so I would I was
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: a nerd, and then I would watch a lot of
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: my old film, a lot of my old shows to
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: kind of squeak jokes. And so I just cut up
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: all those random moments of crowd work that I told
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: you before I never thought would amount anything. I was
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: just doing to ingratiate myself to the crowd. And I
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: was like, we'll see if anything happens here, and just
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: they started doing so well.
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: I was shocked.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: And I had about a year's worth of those clips
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: and I just posted them to try and get people
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: to follow me on YouTube, and it really worked. And yeah, dude,
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: from that moment on, it was like it was like
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: there was no big moment. There was no big like
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: my life has changed moment. There was like one day
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: it was actually in Vegas. I was shooting a short
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: film and a bunch of you know, Vega is such
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: a populated area walking down walking back to Fremont Street. Yeah,
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: and I was getting that and I was like, what
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: the hell is going And it was like people that
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: you know, it was like older couples, it was like night,
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: younger women. It was just like not you know my
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: my podcast which we cannot legally can't say the name
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: of because it has has a bodily fluid in the
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: title of it. It was pretty successful and it helped
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: me like get my start and start touring. But it
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: was it was like very online, very niche, and so
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: I'm not just out in Vegas and it's just like
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: all age groups, all different types of people, and it
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: was like, I was like, what the hell is going
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: on here? What happened? And it was justgy people watch YouTube.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: It turns out who knows and who knew? And it
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: really completely changed my career and I'm so thankful for it.
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: And you know, a year later, got a Netflix special
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: and hopefully hopefully knock on wood, my favorite team's going
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: to the going to the super Bowl to.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Turn it up the right way. Yeah, The Fat Rascal
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: is the Netflix special, which I loved and I texted you,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: I'm like, it's tremendous. It's great.
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: Appreciate that.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Ravens putting their social media team and letting
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: you kind of do your thing. I'm amazed by it.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Like to be validated that way where your stuff is
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: so blue usually and so and you're so smart that's
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: the thing. I listened to your podcast and like it's you,
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: and it's it's your producer and you guys have on
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: a guest every week and then you take calls from listeners.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: But like, you're really smart, you're well read, and like
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: I could tell that this this, this is fun, but
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: you also could probably do anything you wanted. Then you
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: choose to do this comedy route and then to have
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: the Ravens.
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: I don't know about that. I appreciate it, but I
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: think this is have these skills. These are the skills.
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: If this goes away, I'm I'll tell you that much enough.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: You're thirty five. You're doing all right. And I love
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: that you're in a story of queens. That's where you live.
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: Anywhere.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: I love that you're You didn't do the Austin, Texas thing.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: You didn't follow everyone.
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it. Austin's cool. It's a
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: nice place to visit. You know. I liked it. They
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: have a scene there.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: But ultimately, and I thought it, to be honest, I
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: thought about it. Yeah, a lot of you know, a
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: lot of my friends live down there. But I just
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: do love New York. I love the East cost I mean,
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: I'm an East Coast guy. Really, That's what it comes
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: down to. I love Baltimore. I I have a place
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: there still, and I'm trying to spend a little more
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: time there. You know. My family's all over there still,
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: and so I like being on the East Coast. I
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: just like New York is the best city. It's that's
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: the best city.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: The same thing. You know, my co host and you probably.
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: Should be living in l A.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it should be there every weekend for Fox, but
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: like here in New York.
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: You know my co hosts nothing against them, they got families,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: they love it. They're in the burbs there in Jersey there,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I live in Brooklyn. I love it here.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: I just I get feed off the energy, and I think,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: you know, there's also the sense of pride that like, yeah,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: we stuck around like we're here, We're no, it's justick.
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: And then it really when people talk about New York,
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: it really sounds like someone making an abusive relationship at work,
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: Where it's like, yeah, no it is.
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: It's expensive and you know, I don't have an extra
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: room and the get my guest room.
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: You cannot stay with.
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: Me sorry hotel uh and yeah my heat hasn't worked
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: for two months. But hey, greatest city in the world, baby,
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: But I I feel that bride where it's like, yeah,
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: it takes a lot to make it work here, and
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: I'm very I am happy to be able to kind of.
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: Found my niche.
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: And you know, because it first couple of years I
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: was here, man, I was like so depressed. I'm living
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: in a three bedroom with and it was like it
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: was brutal.
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: But we did it.
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: We're in Queens, were doing well. We got we got
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: a podcast studio, my spare bedroom. I'm living.
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: I'm living the dream.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: So the Ravens, they they're like, we're gonna bring you
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: in officially as like at Ravens, and you're gonna like
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: represent us. Of course, there's rules and grounds and rules
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: of what you can say, what you can't say and
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: all this stuff, but like, how surreal you're wearing. I
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: think it was an Ogden jersey. You're you're there on
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: the field, and I'm like, my wife is from my
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: wife's from my wife from Baltimore. She's diehard Ravens. Her
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: family's on it. She's like she's like your your comedian
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: friend is doing stuff with the Ravens social media. I'm like,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: he's what.
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: I know it is really funny to get the because
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: the Ravens are so cool and because like they let
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: me do you know, I do some on their channel
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: and obviously I have to I can't be it because
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: the character is ignorant, uh, sexually explicit race tolerance, you know,
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: you know it's like and so obviously I can't do
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: that stuff. But there is a there is still a
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: like a humor to them where it's like, yeah, you
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: can do a joke, you can do a version of
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: this that doesn't have to be dirty. But to their credit,
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: they're not the stuff. I still do the character on
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: my own and you could, you know, you could work
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: with a with a brand or like an organization. It's like, hey,
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: while you're doing this stuff for us, can you on
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: your own stuff? Can you like not be is dirty?
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: And to their credit there let me do whatever I will.
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: They're like, hey, do whatever you want, like that's your thing.
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: I just can't do it from like like that. The
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: only the only thing they ever asked are like, hey,
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: don't do it when we give you field access, because
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: then it looks like we're basically signing all do this.
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: Do this from a public place where it was clear
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: you're doing it of your own volition. We're not gonna
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: step on your freedom of speech. But you know, so
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: they're they're the coolest people in the world to work
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: were within. Truly, I'm shocked and I feel so lucky
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: to be able to do this. I mean, it is
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: a dream come true where it's and it's like, you know,
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: I've had a good year, things have been great, and
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: I've done some cool stuff, but from it it just like,
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: you know, I literally was a little, a fat, little
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: sixth grader going into going into school the next day
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: on with a huge Papa John's hangover, just like celebrating
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: that win.
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: I remember that.
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: I still remember the day I'm in my med I'm
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: in you know, I sent my immigrant mother to buy
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: me a jersey, completely misunderstood, got me a weird mesh
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: practice jersey. You know all the you know, I had
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: no I wanted to. I wanted to Sarah Gusa, you know,
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: I wanted to. I want I wanted she comes with
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: the just the weird, wrong thing. But I'm in that
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: little weird mess Jersey day after, Like, I remember this,
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: this team has meant so much to me, and so
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: for all the like cool, you know, getting a SPECIALS grade,
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: getting to like do some acting stuff is cool. I
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: got to work with great really people I admire so much.
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: But from just like a human being, like your inner
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: child thing.
• 55:14
  Speaker 5: It's like I'm on the field.
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: I know Ravens like I you know, I'm wapping up
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: Gino Stone. My boy had seven interceptions. As you know,
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: he almost led the league. Uh he got robbed by
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: the way from the Pro Bowl. That's fucking bullshit.
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: Who got it?
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: The Steeler safety? Yeah, get that Monca Minca, Minca, the
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: Steelers Mica. Gino Stone should have been in the in
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: the Pro Bowl. You can bleep it out, but I
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: want that in there, donating.
• 55:46
  Speaker 5: The rest of the show.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: You get in there. That's my oneder Man Green Eminem.
• 55:50
  Speaker 5: That's it's surreal, dude. Yeah.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: Two things before before we wrap. Uh, you had me
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: this week when you mentioned the term Pulaski Highway. You
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: said that, and I'm like.
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: That is so.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Would you mind doing a sanitized version of Ronnie maybe
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: sixty seconds just to give the listeners as we've been
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: building it up just a feel for sure? Sure sure,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: uh stoppy baby taking?
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, here we go, Okay, here we go.
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: Ravers are going to the super Bowl. Bring on the Chiefs.
• 56:22
  Speaker 5: Mahomes ot over rated.
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: We're gonna tell him you, we're gonna he won't be
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: able to walk after this game. Kelsey, he's a podcast
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: to you. That guy ain't a tight end.
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: No more. Hayes don't work.
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: Overrated, Pat don't know where he is? Is that Andy
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: Readers at Wolf for Brimley on the sidelines. I don't
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: know we're winning the super Bowl? Baby, I put it.
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: I just opened up a credit card on my son's name.
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: I bet fifty thousand dollars on the Ravens winning.
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: Let's do this. Let's go Ravens.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Perfect. It's perfect.
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: It's perfect. Did you don't even say the words Jacoba
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: Jones or Joe Flatch.
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: Keb Yeah, I did. I mention Kobe Doo. That's another
• 57:01
  Speaker 5: surreal thing. He was just at the thing. It's dude crazy.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Uh will you be there this weekend?
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: So I have a I have shows in Dallas. It's Saturday.
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: I get my last show Saturday at midnight. I am
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: taking here's how much I love the Ravens. I'm taking
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: a five thirty am flight to get there. It's the
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: only direct I could find.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: What is this Dallas to Baltimore now.
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: West bro That's how much I love the organization. I'm waking,
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: I'm sleeping for one hour.
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna be hopped up, but I can't. I couldn't
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: miss it.
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: I could like if the Ravens is right year, the
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: AFS Championship the only the first time we've hosted. We've
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: always gone through, you know, we've never been renumber one seed.
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: When we got to the super Bowl, Uh, it's special.
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: And that being there last week was so special. I'd
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: gone to regular season games, but man, I mean you
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: saw it in the how many how many false starts?
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: And I've seen Patrick Mahomes talking about how he has
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: to use a silent account. It's one of the few
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: places we're not going to make it easy on them.
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: I want to be a part of that. I you know,
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: they gave the opportunity, they invited.
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: Me, So what am I gonna say no to that?
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: I'll make it.
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: I mean to be honest with you, I was real
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: close from cancering those Dallas shows. I canceled on them
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: last time, so this is the makeup and and to
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: be clear, I canceled last time because I didn't I
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: shot my special the night before and I was like,
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: I want to go to Dallas and do I want
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: to have a barbecue and take the next day. So
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: I cancel on them to just get up with my friends.
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: So I can't really again, I'm canceling for a football game.
• 58:35
  Speaker 5: This time is like real disrespect.
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: And Dallas has been throwing enough and they will continue
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: to be to be going through enough.
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: They still got McCarthy over there there.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: They'll figure it out.
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: They're not they're not winning, so they you know, they
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: at least need a uh couple pick me up that way.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: The other thing is this Chiefs team comes with a
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: certain celebrity factor to them, with Taylor and Jason Kelsey
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: and the whole thing. Well received in Baltimore, taunted. How
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: does that go?
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's interesting. I don't think they will be
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: well received. I mean, they are so famous where it's like,
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: you know, and you don't want to be. It's the
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: other thing, it's like, ultimately it's still like it's Taylor's rip.
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: She's a you know, superstar, you know, billionaire pop star.
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: But ultimately it's like it's a player's girlfriend and it's
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: kind of a move to be loved ones, you know
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: what I mean, you don't want to like like you know,
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: and even the fact that she you know, it is cool.
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: But at the same time, it's like, uh, you know,
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: I don't know that everybody will be as enlightened as
• 59:40
  Speaker 5: I am.
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: Peter, I've gotta be honest with you, buddy, I don't
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: know that everybody will feel that way. Like Jay and
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: I love them. I do, unfortunately love the Kelsey. I
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: like what they're doing, so it does. And Jason, so
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: like that's like Jason if Travis Travis, you know, pretty
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: boy tight end. Travis is in the stands and his
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: brother's on the field. But you have the cool salt
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: of the earth dad, you know what, Like he's he's
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: he looked cool in Buffalo. At the same time, it's like,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: at the same time, if he's coming out in those stands,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: I don't think it'll be as friendly.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: As it was in Buffalo. You know.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: It's like because you think the thing you understand with
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: with guys like Baltimore Natives, they think they can fight
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: Jason Kelsey. They're wrong, they're obviously gon'll get their split,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: but they think they can take him. There's a guy
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: who like got kicked off his high school football team
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: for stealing catalytic converters in the parking lot, who thinks
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: he would have gone all pro.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 5: If it wasn't for that.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: And he he has gout, he hasn't lifted a weight
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: in ten years, and in his mind, he would fold
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: Jason kelcey up. So that's the thing to be worried about.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: Is like the unearned Baltimore confidence, you know, when you
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: have somebody showing you up like that. But it sucks
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: to you know, I don't like being I don't like
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: having to be aimed against.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 5: I don't like that being.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: My fan enemy is Jason Kelsey because he's got he's
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: that's a.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 5: Powerful brother, you older brother energy.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: You know, he's away he's also look, let's be honest,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: he's away from the kids.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 5: He's away from Yeah, he's not that team that fell apart,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 5: team that fell apart.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: Towards the end, he's probably just getting fucked up enjoying
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: seeing his brother, Like you understand, and who knows what
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: what celebrities will be in that box. They had a
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 4: they had a hilarious lineup last time. But I don't
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: know everybody's making the trip. I mean, they man the
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: trip to Buffalo.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know. If I make the trip to Baltimore,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 5: that'll be interesting.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: I'll be there also. I'm gonna look for your pre
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: game hopefully i'll come. Dude, what's the jersey? Are you
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: going with Ogden again? Or have you had any luck
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: finding any any other? I mean, Michael McCreary would be
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: pretty bad.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: As I thought. McCreary. I love McCrary. I am.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: I am literally in communication with Tony Sarah Goose's children
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: to try and get Sarah Goo.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: Yet they're harder.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: They're harder to find than you think. What Tony nine
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: ninety eight, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: I So if it's a it's I've been kind of
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: going with the old school, like I did and read
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: the last time. If it's not, If it's not Goose,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: I might go ed reads my favorite raven of all time.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: But also also karmically, maybe it's time to get to
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: Lamar Jersey. Agot support my guy as he's this is
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: a big one for him. I mean this is yeah,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: let's let's take let's take my homes down. So I
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: have a lot of I have a lot of I
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: might save for this, you know, I don't want to
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: get ahead of myself. If, if, if, and when, I
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: might keep the powder dry because Goose, you know, it
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: would be a great tribute, great raven, one of my
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: favorite obviously when you're when you're a chubby little Greek
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: guy and you see a chubby Italian.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: That's just and I played I ended up playing nose
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 5: tackles do when I played school. So I love I
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: love Goose. So you know, either way, though, we've got
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 5: I've got a lot of decisions to make to I
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: got a lot of decisions to make.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: You my last one for you, and then we're gonna
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: let you go because you've give it us way too much.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: So appreciate it. You know, it's Vegas, it's it's glit's
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: it's glamour, it's a whole thing. There's a legit chance
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: that it's the cities of Baltimore and Detroit in the
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: first Las Vegas Super Bowl. How amazing? How good is that.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: A lot of a lot of Grandma's Social Security checks
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: are going to be put on the roulette wheel that weekend.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you that much.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: There's gonna be a lot, a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 4: of money that cannot be afforded to be gambled.
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  Speaker 5: We'll be gambled that weekend. I'll tell you that much.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Stoppy Baby, your podcast is called Stoppy's world
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  Speaker 1: S t A A.
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  Speaker 5: V y vy vvy.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, you've played the Beacon Theater, You've played a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of big places. Where where can we see you the
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  Speaker 1: next few weeks? If we want to see your stand.
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  Speaker 4: Up next few weeks, I'm ending the two of these
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  Speaker 4: of them make up dates. Uh so I have Dallas
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  Speaker 4: with the Majestic Theater. If you want to see me
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  Speaker 4: the night before I fly back to Baltimore to see
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  Speaker 4: thee to watch the AFC Championship game. I'm there that Saturday,
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  Speaker 4: and then the next weekend I'm making up actually.
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  Speaker 5: Detroit, So hopefully Detroit.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully you're in the Super Bowl and you're celebrating, but
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  Speaker 4: come and celebrate by coming to see me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm in Detroit. I'm in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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  Speaker 4: I had to make up those dates too, and then
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  Speaker 4: we're done for a little while just watch.
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  Speaker 5: I have two specials out there. YouTube specials out there
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  Speaker 5: for free.
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  Speaker 4: You can get that right now called Live at the
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  Speaker 4: Lodge Room and then if you have Netflix, the special
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  Speaker 4: I just put out a couple months or last month,
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  Speaker 4: I guess was Fat Rascal. So you can watch me
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  Speaker 4: on the internet if I'm not coming to your town
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  Speaker 4: anytime soon.
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  Speaker 5: And I put out a bunch of stuff online.
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  Speaker 1: Too, just amazing online. Good luck this weekend, dude, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for joining.
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  Speaker 5: Us, Thank you brother, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron stop vi baby, the Pride of Baltimore. What'd you
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  Speaker 1: think you know?
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking about like Baltimore and Lamar having to be
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  Speaker 2: on top of his game and like see pressure and
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  Speaker 2: scramble if the pressure's coming in. That was me keeping
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  Speaker 2: track of every single time he cursed on air that
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  Speaker 2: I need to make sure we bleep out.
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  Speaker 1: That was He was great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's I've seen his videos from when he
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  Speaker 2: would record him in his car doing raven stuff like
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: it's so great. I love him, and I also didn't
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: know I've I needed the like celeb fan fight between
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: Jason Kelsey and Stave and that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I bet you Kelsey knows who stab is. He's that
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  Speaker 1: popular online, Like I bet you, like it's not the
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  Speaker 1: first time he's seen him and if he especially lives online,
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  Speaker 1: which I think the Kelsey's do with their podcasts and
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  Speaker 1: with their YouTube content, like I feel like they've probably
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  Speaker 1: seen some of his work. But I actually, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I hit it a little bit. Like I listened to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these comedy podcasts and he's one of
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  Speaker 1: them because when I'm not doing football, just like the
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  Speaker 1: zone out and laugh and like I think he's really funny,
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  Speaker 1: and I meant it when I'm saying how smart he is.
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  Speaker 1: They talk ball, and like I want to be like
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  Speaker 1: a guest on their pod sometimes like it's there's it's
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  Speaker 1: they follow the game and it's him and it's Dan
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  Speaker 1: Soder and Sam Maurile and like I appreciate that. And
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  Speaker 1: as much as the Taylor Swift stuff has brought in
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  Speaker 1: an audience for the NFL, Like there's also this comedy
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  Speaker 1: world where I mentioned it, Shane Gillis is best friends
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  Speaker 1: with Dave Davis, and I saw Cole Beasley was on
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: THEO Vaughn's podcast. Like the comedy world in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: has always had a connection and we'll see it in
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  Speaker 1: NFL Honors with Keith and Michael Key and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But like there's also like this podcasting world where those
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  Speaker 1: guys love ball too, and I just think it's great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I always love obviously when there's someone
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  Speaker 2: like you who knows football and has connections to the
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  Speaker 2: inside and like can can speak to football in a
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  Speaker 2: way that I am on a unable to, Like you
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  Speaker 2: have like this historical knowledge and these connections, and that's
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  Speaker 2: so important and a valuable listen. And then there's this
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: totally other way of listening to football where it's like,
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  Speaker 2: here are two guys who are just like joking around
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  Speaker 2: and maybe like they watched the game together like with
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  Speaker 2: a couple, and they were you know, like they had
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  Speaker 2: been riding dirt bikes earlier in the day or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: like a totally different view of the game than what
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: you've got, which is an amazing thing to have both
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: of those sides.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. The Ronnie character, he nailed it, who
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  Speaker 1: who he died? Like, I don't have a face for
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: that character. Don't like you, you don't need to know
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: what that means, just like you watch it. The accent
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  Speaker 1: is so funny and the way Stobby looks it works
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  Speaker 1: so perfect. So I'm happy for his success. I mean
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: he's being humbled. This guy's a megastar. And you might
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: be like, well, I don't really know his name. I'm
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: not familiar. Is that is? That is he as big
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  Speaker 1: as Dave Chappelle or Joe Coy or Chris Rock In
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  Speaker 1: today's comedy world, podcasting is where money's made, Touring is
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  Speaker 1: where money is made, and YouTube is where money is made.
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  Speaker 1: And I assure you, like he's not stressing that he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a Comedy Central half hour or that he's
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  Speaker 1: on Jimmy Fallon One Night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and like he said, his newest special Thatt Raskell
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  Speaker 2: on Netflix. Now everyone's Netflix homepage is different, but it's
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  Speaker 2: like right there on my owning splash.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, check out check out live from the whatever
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  Speaker 1: it was called Live. How many you I want to
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  Speaker 1: know how many? I said twenty million. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's far off.
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  Speaker 2: What's it got Live at the Lodge Room has six
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  Speaker 2: point three million?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was a little generous. Still, six point
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  Speaker 1: three million people have clicked and watched a full hour
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  Speaker 1: of comedy that's pretty good. Quick notes before we wrap
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  Speaker 1: this thing. I got the note last night from a
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  Speaker 1: source and it's just getting public now. Fifty million Americans
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  Speaker 1: was the average number of that Bills versus Chiefs game.
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  Speaker 1: Eyeballs wise, in a world where word cutting has hilled,
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  Speaker 1: you know, television in a lot of ways, fifty million
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  Speaker 1: people and at one point in between nine to fifteen
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  Speaker 1: and nine thirty, fifty five million people were watching as
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  Speaker 1: a collective whole. The NFL's king. The NFL is king,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll have two great games this weekend. I don't
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: know if it'll hit Bill's Chiefs, but Lions Niners sure
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  Speaker 1: brings a big audience to Fox. That game kicks off
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  Speaker 1: at six thirty, and of course the early game, which
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: I will be at, Chiefs versus Ravens. Aaron awesome, Pod
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: loved it. We didn't even hit any of the coaching
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  Speaker 1: stuff that's going on right now. I have tons of
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  Speaker 1: insight on that. I guess we'll wait till next week
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  Speaker 1: to hit it. I do want to do the season
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: with Peter Schragger delivering results presented by Uber Eats. It's
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: time for delivering results presented by Uber Eats. I'm gonna
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: give love to Dre Greenlaw, the linebacker for the San
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine Ers, who in the biggest game had
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: eight tackles and two huge interceptions. Now Greg Olsen and
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: Kevin Burkhart were screaming their heads off to get down,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: to get down, to get down. Well, he thought he
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: was going to run that one back at the end.
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  Speaker 1: I so appreciate guys who stepped up in the biggest
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: moments and in that game for the forty nine Ers,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: their two best players might have arguably been Juwan Jenning
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: and Drake Greenlaw, who do not get much love, but
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: have been there all season long for them. Dre Greenlaw,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: of course a long time member of that team, and
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: he saved his best for last, which I so appreciate.
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  Speaker 1: So as we say that, I say this, it was
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL. Order. Now, guys who are on a
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: hot streak here, I'm picking every game right. My picks,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: as I've already said, are going to be forty nine
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  Speaker 1: Ers and the Chiefs. That's who I think is going
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: to the Super Bolt. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I'm
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: not too proud to come on the next day and
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: say I had it wrong. The truth of the matter
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: is I predicted it in September and I'm going with
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: it now. Niners versus Chiefs. That's how it's laid out
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  Speaker 1: in my head. We'll see how it goes. For Aaron
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: Wan Kauffman, Jason English. For all the folks on the
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: West Coast, this was the Season with Peter Scheger. A
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: nice little small podcast that does a really good number,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: and we appreciate doing it, hopefully appreciate listening. We'll do
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: another one next week. All right, guys, enjoy Championship Weekend.
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