Episode 25-Quirkiest rule in all of sports

you guys put me it's okay, Travis. You can say it's okay. Your wife's not gonna listening. Oh my god, No, I think she feels the same way. We don't want to hope. Basically, Travis, he's ecstatic over the moon that that he has a child, another baby, um, but he's over the sleepless nights. It's it's because for most people are at this point. And then, speaking of sleepless nights, Joe Madrid back from where where in the world is Joe Madrid been? Where I was in Vegas for the

fights this weekend? Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna talk about the fights. How was Vegas like, how I haven't been in in almost a year. How this is awesome? It's very, very very crowded this this weekend. This was a big This is a big fight week huge, so huge weekend. I can't imagine thinking about Vegas, what the most crowded weekends in Vegas have to be when there's a big I still think I think the UFC is probably surpassed

boxing in terms of like more volume. But I still think a big boxing match out does UFC like pound for pound, the big boxing matches still like the go to event, I think, and I think this was like the fight of our generation at this point. Okay, well there hasn't been good. Like what I say, I'm just very it's very disappointing to me for for even that to be a consideration. Well, let's jump right into it. Tyson, Fury,

Deontay Wilder too. To say that because this was my takeaway, to say that this is the fight of our generation is sad, because I honestly I was watching so they honored like past champions at the fight, and holy Field and Tyson obviously. Lennox Lewis Um commented the fight and whether it's Ali Foreman, Fraser holy Field, Larry Holmes. Honestly, in my mind and I want to sound like the krusty old guy, but they would. They would eat either

one of these guys for breakfast for breakfast. Like Deontay Wilder. While he has he has ridiculous knockout power, he's not a great boxer. Like he's not technically. I don't know what was going on with him during the fight, but he was looked something was wrong. He took the big

shot right behind the ear that knocked him down. I think that was at the third round um and he after that he looked it looked like one of those videos when you see the drunk guy that's getting beat up that keeps getting up and like and he but he can't stand straight. And he kept and Fury, who is a pretty good boxer technically and and boxed really well in the first fight, but that was not his approach in this fight. His approach was he put on

massive weight. He went to two seventy three at the way in, and you know he's probably bigger by the time he stepped into the ring and just mauled him. That was the approach. He mauled him it was ugly. It was it was effective, but it was not a pretty,

like aesthetically pleasing fight. Too big and kind of loppy. Yeah, it just did not have when I remember, I mean I remember like like even like holy Field Riddick Bow, like those fights or like the exchanges that were un you know for heavyweight fighters who are typically not like you're gonna get the more technical fighters are going to be at the lower weight classes. But if those guys, man Tyson was such a like technically sound and I just felt like watching and I'm going, this is the

best we've got in the heavyweight division. This is the best we haven't I know. All props to Fury. He did what he did what he said he was gonna do. He mauled him, he went on the attack. He didn't he wasn't fighting defensively and uh and he just took

it to him. I mean, it was just from I think personally, and it's it's it's amazing when you know, I talked to um good friends with Mark Rattner, who was the you know, Mark was the was the Nevada sty that athletic commissioner for a long time and did so many I mean so many big boxing matches in Las Vegas. Now he he works, you know, he's with the UFC in government and affairs and was was key in getting um, you know, the UFC and and m

m A regulated in many states, particularly New York. Uh. And I remember talking to him about just the the inequity UM. I think Kenny bayless Is is one of the better referees, probably the best referee out there right now. And I don't know what he made for the fight, but when you think about the purses of the two fighters and then the third person in the ring, like I guarantee you Kenny Bailies didn't make more than probably

maybe fifty to seventy tho dollars for that fight. And he was working his ass off because he literally had to break them up because Fury was, like I said, mauling um Wilder, and he had to work his ass off to get them. And he actually took a point away um from Fury, not that it mattered, but he took a point away for holding, which I wish, you know, had Kenny bayliss, you know, and he was probably too

young at the time to be the referee. If he had been the referee for haggler Leonard instead of Richard Steele, you know how Leonard holding instead of I'm gonna get worked up because I'm still upset about that decision. Richard Steele warned Leonard for holding like eighties three times in that fight, holding and hitting and never took a point away. And it was the most ridiculous scoring number one eighteen one E leven Joe Joe Garris scored the fight for Leonard,

which is ridiculous. But anyway, I digress Um worked his ass off really Fury just But the thing that I want to talk about is what the the entrances, Like I haven't seen two entrances like that in the same fight, Like, what were the odds that the fight was gonna last? Was gonna be shorter than the two inches? The two ring entrances it was I'm not exaggerate, I'm not exaggerated. It felt like a legit ten to twelve minutes each, like it was insane, like it was in it was forever.

Was like Fury came in on a on a throne? Was that like him? Was that like an Apollo Creed? I don't know what it was. It was weird and the other while they're like, he does the mask thing, and then he had a rapper rap and it was an o to like February Black History Month, and it was an od to to Black history and and great, um, you know people in black history. But it was just so long, like it was, can we get a Travis?

Can you like? How long was the entrances? Let me look, I'm looking at the fury came in on like this throne. Huh yeah nice. It was insane. And then you know what, these entrances made me really miss pride. Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson a sweat, cut off sweater, black shorts, nothing fancy, just came in. It was just like that kind of cut off sweat sure and just came in. He didn't. He was ridiculous, he you know, and he was very

like very low, like you know black. You know, the trunks, nothing with the trunks, black trunks, black shoes, gloves, nothing fancy. Just so you know, I wore a short sleeve hooded sweatshirt to the fight in honor of it was it was it was Hugo Boss, but it was kind of a similar similar yeah you know, of course you boss, similar concept there. And then so the fight ends, and I thought, and it was interesting case Travis, you know, watched the fight. And I love when Travis watches something.

He is so excited when it's something that you don't think he's gonna watch, but you want him to watch. He's like a little kid that did something like his trying that. Yeah, that's exactly what he was today. Joe. He was like, I watched the fight the first thing. I watched the fight last night, and I was like, and I'm like ignoring him. He's like, so I watched the fight. Come. I was like, do you want to talk about it, Travis? What do you want to talk about?

And but he, you know, even Travis said, did you like the stoppage? And I was like, no, that the referee didn't stop the fight. The corner through in the towel And when you watch it initially like you're kind of confused because he's on the ropes and he's taking shots, but it didn't look like the referee was gonna step

in right at that moment. But obviously he saw he saw wild there's um, you know, corner throw in the towel and that's you know, I give them credit because he was not going to win that fight, and he looked whatever was wrong with him, Um, he was gonna take he was gonna take an additional you know, punishment, and it was would have been just unnecessary. And I just don't think. I don't think the one punch knockout

comeback was was in the cards. And uh, and I gave you know, I gave the corner credit Mark Breeland and and and that group um credit for for throwing in the towel. But then the fight ends, and can you joke? Can you get off your phone? It's very distracting. It's very just texting, like stop are you swiping right? Stop? Get off the phone, Travis focus, let's go all right, I've been very okay. I can't find how long the entrance, but I did find the salary or or what five

thousand dollars. There was a couple of funny moments in there when he was like trying, he was going to break he he is the he's the most important person at times in that in that ring. And twenty five thousand dollars and these guys are making how much? How many millions? I heard that? Um, it's insane. Here he donated his whole purse nine mill to who who homeless. That's pretty impressive. Good for him. I don't know if it's true. I just saw this is a guy that

I mean, Fury is an interesting person. I mean he went you know, he he beat right, he beat Vladimir Klitchko, and then and then he went basically on a hiatus for three years substance abuse. He dealt with depression, and he's been very open about it about some people. He ballooned up. Yeah, it was just bad. And then obviously

came back and uh, and it's a great story. But but then I mean he I I really liked the guy because then he wins and then he has a karaoke session and what was the American Pie by Don McClain, and and he like, I don't know the meaning the reason behind it, like I but but everybody was singing with him, like his fans. But I like when he went into the second verse, I was like, he's gonna sing the whole song, like he is, legit, gonna sing the whole song like this is insane um, But you

know it was I'll give it you this one. It was for for the lack of of how you know, I don't think it was a great fight. It was was it wasn't. It was entertaining, like the entire thing was entertaining from the ring entrances to him. I thought Wilder was very gracious and defeat and uh and so you know, and it's gonna be interesting to see what happens because the there's a rematch clause. The loser thirty

days to enact the rematch clause. And I think, to me, I don't think because I thought Fury won the first fight and and it ended up in the draw. Obviously, the drama of the knockdown in the last round, of Fury getting up. But I think the better fight right now is Joshua. I think that's the better fight to make. But obviously Wilder. If I'm Wilder, I want the rematch. I mean, there's there's money in in the I just

don't think he has a shot. I don't think he's just shot either, because if you think about nineteen rounds, he maybe won four. I mean he made the first fight. In the first fight, a slimmer, slim down Fury outboxed him, and in this fight, the bigger Fury just malled him. I think this is the blueprint. I don't know what, and Deonte came in. I thinks heavier than that. I don't know what. I don't don't know what Wilder. I don't know what Wilder could do differently to make up

that that difference. Like I just think he I don't think he has Yeah, I don't think it's gonna happen. I think obviously, I would imagine he's gonna enact the rematch clause because there's big money to be made. Um, he loses that fight, then hopefully we get Joshua and Fury and then But I still think I'm so upset

with myself for that. I put money on Wilder in Vegas and it wasn't a big favorite, but he was pretty I mean, not not huge, but I watched the whole fight one on the way and I was like, this dude's out classing him and I just got sold by every everybody was on him. Everybody was like, he's gonna knommize. We had that one that that That's the whole thing with Wilder is that you you know, could can you stay with him for twelve rounds and not

get caught with that one shot? But it didn't even look like, I mean, he did he he landed one or two right hands, but he just it just didn't look like he had it last night. I don't know. He's very robotic as a big right left hook, and if you could just dodge those two, yeah, I know, what's kind of thing. You know? He look at he looked at his wreck. I mean even in the fight against Louis ortiz Is last fight, he was losing that

fight and he ended up knocking him out. But um, I just don't you know that's again, I just I just missed the heavyweights I didn't grow up with. Really, I was too young for Ali and Fraser, but I've obviously followed it and watched since then. But I mean Larry Holmes and and Ken Norton and Tyson and holy feel like, did you did you know that Tyson you set hypnotizes before the fights. I got that on Rogan today, like hypnotized by like what was his custom? Yeah, he'd

hypnotize him like from when he was a kid. He'd hypnotized Tyson. Well that was the crazy to Tyson. And I watched the thirty thirty on you know, the forty two one buster doug Us and that was interesting because I mean that really the custom motto dying was the that was the turning point. Well, and that's what Rogan was saying, is that he couldn't hypnotize him anymore. But it's just like that was he was his father figure, he was everything. When he died, it was like Tyson.

Then then there was other people around him. He didn't have that direction. And and then that Buster Douglas fight, Like you watched the thirty for thirty, God, I wish

I wish you could have. I would have known what going into the fight, because I would have put all my money on Douglas, like knowing what was happening with Tyson going in and how Douglas was like his mom had just died, how focused he was, and how he was like he was so confident and you know, and Tyson was just like everything with Robin gives and everything just seemed to be crumbling around him. And uh, and it was funny Witless talking. They were talking to the oddsmakers.

They and they started the fight. I think at one they couldn't get anybody to bet on Douglas, and it kept going up to finally at forty two to one, they started getting some some bets on Douglas and uh but it's insane, like it's crazy. You should listen to that Rogan the Fight Companion. Yesterday, Brian Collen was on there talking about watching fights at Slie House, and he was name dropping, I've watched fight, I've watched the fight.

I have watched to fight at slice House, by the way, and I'm not invited to slide because I watched Rocky over the weekend. Oh here's another one. There is another one, the first one, and I definitely hadn't seen it before. Did you cry? I didn't cry, maybe about how bad the acting was, but overall, you're definitely not ever coming. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? I am? I am? I So how Oscar winning movie? You know? I guess I was messing with you. I didn't say

that yesterday when I told you about it. I've never seen him. He's about to come over. No, continue now, I did. I thought it was good but not great. I mean, what am I I know? Not good? Not? It was good? Not great? Yeah, I mean I'm like, I'm I'm not chomping watch the next one? Three and four? And I don't know it's just but if Napoleon comes out, I'm first in line. You beat me? Na oh, do you know what, Travis, don't even don't stop. Don't even watch any more Rockies because I don't want you. I'm

not sure that I will. But I did tell you, like my I liked over the Top. His favorite stone is over the top. Rabbit was cool too, But I'm just not under that violence like that in boxing. It's not I'm just glad it wasn't. I didn't see Cobra. I don't. Yeah, on the top was ridiculous. Lincoln howg the fact that he had the arm work out in his truck that he could just pull down out on, so he was always ready. The guys a truck driver, he was. He was a single father, and but he

made money by like hustling dudes in arm wrestling. Does the ESPN, the OO still do arm wrestling competitions. I'm gonna put one of those. Yeah, there we go. Now we're talking Tesla, alright, right now we're gears. Let's let's switch gears. The other crazy thing that happened. And I really feel like this got overshadowed by the fight, because I think this is the quirkiest rule in all of sports. And you know, I'm a rules guy, but I believe, like there's some crazy rules out there. But this is

the quirkiest rule in all of the sports. The emergency goalie in NHL in the hockey. Joe doesn't even know what it is. He's looking at me like he's crazy. Emergency. Wait, so Joe, here's the rule. Okay, each team, each hockey can carries two goalies. You have a starter and your backup. Right every arena, there's an immerged agency goalie. It's like the automatic quarterback. Okay, the emergency goalie is specific to

that arena. If a team loses both of their goalies, then that emergency goalie goes in for either team, for either team, Yes, for either team. So I could be a king, but I have to go be the goal So this, wait, is what happened. Wait, it happened like it's happened before, but this has been I think this is the most I think this is the most important one for several reasons. Okay, So, so David Airs, he's

the he's the emergency goalie in Toronto. Okay, he's the Zamboni driver and he's like there, he's a practice goalie for the Maple Leafs. He's forty two. At one point he played for the Marli which league, right, yeah, and I so I pulled up his his his career record for I saw wait wait wait for the Marley Okay. So he allowed fifty eight goals. He had a seven seven seven safe percentage, which is not good. And he

had an eight record. Okay, records. So you know, like most most goal is you've you've got to be in like eight or above, Like even eight is not great. So so he the Marys, which is Toronto's h A h L team. So he's the third emergency goalie to play in the modern era. But what what's what's important is that So he goes in the game for the Hurricanes, the other team. Okay, he gives up. He gives up two goals on the first two shots. All right, then wait, so then they go into He comes in in the

second period. He plays twenty eight minutes and forty one seconds, which is by far the longest emergency goalie has ever played, gives up two goals on the first shots, goes into the third period and shuts them out in the third period and they win in the game. They're like both these teams are like fighting for playoffs. And so he's he's basically a Toronto Maple Leafs employee and he's in he's in the Hurricanes locker room getting like crazy cheer.

The it's in Toronto fans forty two years old. It's it's the craziest thing. Like I don't think people really, I'm just it's like, so, so now what I want to do is, let's try to figure out the equivalent in other sports, like in the n a F and the NFL, what would be the equivalent. It's like it's like the it's like, say the kicker, right, like the kicker, the emergency kicker, who is like he's like he's thrown around.

He works. Yeah, he's like a concessions guy. But he's the emergency kicker and he's here like he's in l a and he's the emergency kicker for both teams to pay treats. Kicker gets there, all their kickers get injured and he has to kick the game winning field goal against against the Rams and and that's gonna mean the playoff playoffs spot like yeah, like it's so crazy that the NHL doesn't have like a team can carry. The NFL used to have a third quarterback rule, whereas if

two quarterbacks went down, you had a third quarterback. It was an additional roster. It was an additional UM player on the on the um, you know, you have a forty forty player roster that could that were active. This was a forty six player um. But there were rules like if the third quarterback went into the game in the first three quarters, the other two couldn't go back

until the fourth. So it kind of allowed for you know, didn't allow for manipulation, but it but it prevented, you know, a team being screwed having two of their quarterbacks hurt. But each team had one. It wasn't the guy that lived that was in the stadium. That was just efft to that stadium. So I have so the most important question, who drove the Zamboni third quarter, third period? I think I was because he had That's like a dream come true for that didn't imagine like he's in he's in

the locker room and they're like David, where's Dave? Like, well, you know, Dave went in the game, like he's played, but who's gonna dude, wait, get those pads off. We need somebody. Somebody's got to drive and has been drinking. There was the one guy, like the one guy that always dreamt the dream of the Zambonie. This was his moment he like jumped in or is it like a like Layers. There's now the concession guy, the guy that

sells popcorn. I don't know, but that's it's everybody. What's that medium between the two teams, Like, hey, yeah, so we got this guy Dave. You know, he played for the Marley's at one point, like his career got derailed because he had like he didn't yeah, he had a he had a kidney transplant. Like this guy, it's unbelievable. They have to do a documentary something. I hope they miss something because it's in and he'd be the most hated man in Toronto at that point. It's so good,

Like it's so good that this rule exists. It's so good that this happened. That is I just think it's it's awesome, like it's it's just awesome. But anyway, let's let's take a break. We come back, well, let's go back to football. Let's do a little XFL Week three recap and then we'll talk NFL rule C, B A, what's going on in the off season? Next on Good Calls. All right, we're back XFL week three. I've I feel good.

I feel like Week three we've got a pretty good I idea of where everybody is like where from from a team perspective, I thought the games were the games are really good. UM games Saturday, we're we're closer. Um Sunday not as close, but some surprises. I think I think you look at Houston three and now, um, had a had a really a good game with Tampa went down what I think the final was, Um, they kind of went back and forth. Tampa finally scored some points.

They have been moving the ball really well, but hadn't been putting it in the end zone. Um, then you had, Uh the St. Louis looks good. St Louis, Um, you know, I think they they played New York on Sunday. That was If I'm if I'm if I'm putting together a professional sports league. There's a cop pup of markets, a couple of cities that I'm putting teams in, and St. Louis's one. They were star for football. They have been

staring from football. I think they had thirty thousand at the game, um at the Dome, and and what a great environment. Some of the fans there was some pretty cool. Like one of the things I saw. I don't know if these guys made them or what, but they were because they're the battle Hawks. So they had wings and they had like strings and the wings that you pull in the wings flap and they were like like the

battle Hawk. It was really cool. The other thing is I think what there were a lot of fans there that were just like, didn't really pay that much attention to the type of bird that they were being because I think they just went with it's a big It was just so there was eagles, there was other types of cardinals. There's other types of birds, but they weren't all hawks. But it's fine. The first home game. And how about the little girl. She she said she tried

for cookies and so she got a football. So good play. I heard. I heard McMahon went on NPR and they asked him about Kaepernick coming to the league, and he kind of skirted the question, did you hear about that? I didn't see that. Now I just know, well, I

know that. I just know that the contract from what I've heard, and it was the same with the the a F and last year in the spring, that the the contract, what what he's asking for financially is just not something that these leagues are either can or willing to pay. That's what he said. He basically said he can't afford it. And then yeah, NPR guy gave him a little bit of heat about, oh, you can't afford to pay the best players, blah blah blah. Well, it's

just I think there's I think it's different. I think you have you have a scale of of of salaries that you're paying players, and I know, look, hey they're doing you know, when teams win, they get an extra hundred grand to split, um, so that's that they're not skimping. Um. I just think I don't think if I'm Colin Kaepernick, I'm doing the same thing. I'm to ask for an exorbitant amount of money because it doesn't If I it doesn't if I go to the XFL and and and suck,

that's not that's not good. That that's not gonna be Someone has to be something. Yeah, it would have to be something. You know, I'm not gonna do it for for chump change. So but I just think the play

is getting better. On the officiating side, I think the officials are getting more comfortable and uh and I think we're starting to see, like, you know, which teams are really Obviously Houston's undefeated, UM St. Louis looked really good and and you know they're they're two in one, you know, like Dallas is hitting their stratas and Jones played well.

Um l a Is surprised me. We were all talking about d C. They were two and oh they were really impressive in their first two games and l A really just put it on and on Sunday, you know, the first week, Yeah, exactly. And and so the quarterback play can can continue to improve. I think we're gonna see, you know, I think we're gonna see even better football. I like where the officials are. You know, they're just

again just getting you know, cohesiveness as a crew. There's been some really cool you know, you get that look into the replay booth and you can hear and listen what's going on. We had some really good examples of that, especially in that in that uh that l A UM d C games. So you know, I'm excited about you know, where where it is and and and where it can go,

you know, going forward there. Uh. You know, as we talk about the we had our first kickoff return for touchdown and again play it's a great It was like it was like a reverse backward pass and uh. And you know, I think the kick return over XFL kickoffs are getting returned when you compare that to the NFL. UM the NFL last year, the touchback rate is is you know, almost sixties six, you know, you know, probably higher.

So I think, you know, as we talk about the NFL and rules and things like that, they're going into the NFL is going into their rules making UM process. And so what's happening in Indianapolis this week is leading up to the combine. The Competition Committee will meet UM. Their their meeting. They start Sunday, they go through Tuesday or Wednesday, and they're gonna start to talk about potential rules changes. And one of the things you know they'll look at is, you know, the kickoff and do we

need to make any changes to the kickoff. They'll have they'll have their their their health and safety group, their medical staffs come in present the data on injuries and all injuries had neck injuries, concussions, lower lower extremity, everything, and the committee will will go through that look for trends, um things that maybe you know, are we seeing injuries in certain areas where we can we can correct it

with a rule change. And so that's that's taking place over the next couple of days, um and uh, and then that will lead to the league meeting, which takes place and towards the end of March. Um. Really the other thing that's happening is the c b A, and there's been a lot of discussion about the c b A. I think this is a you know, critical um the deal. The deal, it runs through the seasons, so it's it's not necessarily that they have to get a deal done, but I think they want to get a deal done.

And I think from an ownership perspective, the the incentive is get the deal done with the players. And that's and that's Uh, Joe, are you looking it up on your phone so that you can get more information? Course, so I think the incentive, the incentive is really you know, if you have the CBA in place, then you know,

part of that is a seventeen game schedule. UM. Part of that would be another UM postseason games, so adding two teams to the postseason, so you have another wild card game, and that gives the NFL more inventory to go to the networks when they renegotiate these deals. More inventor is gonna mean what more more money? And so I think there there is incentive to get the deal done.

I think the players feel. And it was interesting because the executive so so the union's Executive Council, which is which is made up of eleven members, eleven players, they negotiated with the league, with with the league UM Management Council, they negotiated this deal, this c b A. The the owners came into New York UM last week and they voted to UM ratify this agreement. The Executive Committee for the players Union then voted six five not to recommend it.

So they negotiated it and then voted six five not to recommend it. So when they went to the players reps, the players reps were like confused because like, wait a minute, you negotiated it. Now you're voting six five y right, And so every team has a players rap. Thirty two teams started two players reps and they're saying why. So the meeting was about, you know, why are they what are they against? Why are they? You know? And and it basically comes down to this seventeen game season, and

that's extra wear and tear on the players. And they want you know, they want more. UM, they want more coming back from that from the owners in order to do that. So what happens now, UM, they can still even without a recommendation from the Executive Council or from the players reps, they can vote and and if they get if if they get a fifty plus one saying

we're gonna ratify it, then it's it's ratified. And and it's not just if there's if there's two thousand and a hundred players, not all two thousand a hundred half to vote. So if they get votes, then two one have to vote in US. So it'll be interesting to see how it plays out. They're gonna meet in Indianapolis, UM, the players union and and the management Council for the league and UH, and we'll see, we'll see what happens.

I know it was not a a unanimous vote by the owners, so they don't, you know, they they don't necessarily there's some owners they don't feel like it's a deal that they would want to go for. But again that could be just posturing as well, because if it's unanimous, then that's a message to the players to say, oh wait, wait a minute, they're unanimous, what they think that they're getting a great deal, Maybe we need to take a step back. So we'll see, we'll see how it all goes.

But the combine in India is interesting because there's a lot of stuff going on. Obviously, you have the players coming in, You're gonna have all the workouts, you have all these meetings, um, you have n c A meetings.

It's it's just an interesting time and uh and so we'll see, we're we're gonna learn a lot about you know, rules change his potential um both n c A and NFL and uh and we'll see what happens with the C B A. But I think it it I think it's important for everyone involved that if they can get this deal done, then unique agotiate that you you're you're, you have a stronger position to negotiate with the networks.

And everybody's gonna benefit from that, right because if the if the players are going to get you know of the revenue, and that's gonna go up to right that percentage of a bigger number is obviously going to benefit them. I will I will say I will say this that the league's the league year starts March eighteen, so the owners they want to get this done, you know, before then, because then they can say, Okay, we will operate under

the new collective bargaining agreement starting March eighteenth. That would not include a seventeen game season. So even if they get the deal done, we won't see a seventeen game season until the earliest one. But they would add the extra playoff game in each conference. So um, it's interesting

to see how that how that all plays out. Now as a fan, as you're you're thinking about this, do you ever, like, at what point, you know, because we did have a lockout back in two thousand eleven, Yet at what point is a fan do you like start to worry about that? Like are you worry about that? Is that even a thought right now? Like we we

may not have football at something. I think this discussion is like the first time I've actually thought about it, like thinking at any point it could happen, like it hasn't even crossed my mind. But now thinking about it's like, there's no way, like there's there's no way they're gonna do a lot a lockout or or work stoppage. I can't can't imagine that would happen. But what do I know?

I agree? I think that as a fan, you just kind of followed general media, and as it becomes more prevalent in Sports Center and no Fox or wherever, then then you start to worry about it. But now I haven't even heard of anything about it yet. Yea, if there if any way they waited through this season without getting a deal in place, then that's when you started. What I did here is that to us said he wants to be a cowboy? Yeah, I mean it was just do you think that that changes like any anything

in the draft perception? No, absolutely not. I think just the context that that's just clickbait too. They say like he if I'm look, if I'm a how nineteen year old kid? And they say, well, well, you know who would you love to play for? And I would say, oh, I grew up a Giants fan. How cool would that be to play obviously, but I'm gonna go to any team that drive him and I'm gonna you know, obviously he's it's you know, it would be great to sit behind dec and and uh, you know, blah blah blah.

But that's not you know what I'd say that Lady Surfer Ski Jerry McGuire. So, but yeah, they screwed Jerry McGuire over big cush his dad. His dad was like a strong ash he said, and that was I've actually that made me. That made me so upset. That scene when he first of all, they Jerry McGuire has that moment he writes the mission statement. Have you seen Jerry McGuire looking at he's not saying anything because he has Okay, and you're in the field at some level. I don't

watch fake stuff. Man, It's not fake. It's real. It's a movie. It's fake. It's based on anyway. Okay, So I haven't seen j Jerry McGuire works for this big agency and he has this moment where he learned like his one of his his one of his clients is a hockey player. Right. He gets he gets concussed. He's in the hospital and Jerry McGuire is like, you know, talking to him, and he talks to the kid and it's like his eighth concussion, and Jerry McGuire is like,

your dad's a tank. He can't you know, He's gonna be fine, and the kids like, you know, basically like screw you. You know, this is my family. And he has this moment like, oh my god, what have I been? I've been a part of this, And so he writes this mission statement and they basically fire him. Um Jay Moore, who was his like protege like fires him. And he's a real dick in the movie. And he loses all his clients except for one, who's Cuba Gooding, who plays

what's his name in the movie. He's a receiver for the Partners. This his last good movie he was in. Yeah, well he won the Academy Award. Ray was it Ray? It's not Ray? What the hell? What was his name? You guys keep thinking about? So he played Remember, yeah, the Quanta is what he wanted. But what was his name? His name was Ray? It was not The brother's name was Ray? It was not Ray. I guarantee you Cuba Gooding's name was not Ray in that movie. I'll bet

you whatever you want. What was his name? We're getting there? Oh my are you? How old are you? Can you not find something on the internet. So so it's that's the only client he keeps. And Rod Tidwell is not like a superstar, but he's like, who would be the NFL Rod Tidwell. He's like, he's like the guy that he gets like he gets like a thousand yards and gets yeah, he gets like a thousand yards every year.

He gets like, you know, eight touchdowns every year. But he's never you never, you never hear about him like as like a top fantasy pick. He's just like solid. But when you look at his statue, you go, oh, man, Rod ted wells four years in a row of a thousand yards and you're like who And then you write, You're like Rod did Well for next year's fantasy. Don't tell anybody. And and so he keeps Rod ti Well.

But his his his major prospect is the number one draft pick quarterback and his name Cush Cushman, and he he's got cush. He goes to New York and Cush his dad screws him over and signs with the more the asshole j Moore because they Jay Moore tells him that that Jerry McGuire lost his mind and flipped out and seen the part are you getting there My words

is strong as oak part. Well, Jerry calls the hotel room and no, no, Jerry's in the hotel room and the phone rings and it's Jay Moore and Jerry picks up the Tom Cruise picks up the phone and pretends he's Kush and he's and he's like he's like this cudh and j Moore is like, hey, is McGuire there, just sniff if he's there, and he's like, he's like, all right, you're with the big boys now. And he's basically telling them that, you know, telling Jerry McGuire that

you're getting screwed. And Jerry hangs up the phone and like knows that. He takes a pad and he goes up to Cushies dad. He's like, you know what, let's let's just put something in writing that that you're with Jerry McGuire and he's like the guy that the Dad's like no, and and he's like basically, Joe, you gotta help me here. He says white being I'm texting anyway. You are not stop for our listeners, Joe is. He's just saying that so that he can go. He's a

good dad. Um. All right, So anyway, jeremymcguireh gets screwed over. Cush goes with Jay Moore, and Jerry McGuire stays with Rod Tidwell. Rod Tidwell has this amazing game on Monday Night Football against the Cowboys, and he signs a big contract and then everybody wants to go to Jem McGuire. He marries Rene's l Warger and Renez l zel Worker's kid is cute and has he's like now he's jacked, like if he's like there was the pictures of him older and that's the whole movie and now you don't

have to watch it. That's Jerry McGuire. Alright. On that note, let's take a break. When we come back, we're gonna talk in the cube. We're gonna talk to the difference between the waka and the waka. Next on good Calls. Alright, we're back on good Calls now that we got Jerry McGuire straight. Joe's phones put away, Joe's phones put away.

Travis is is shoutout boxing because he watched Rocky and he so he loves the movie so much so in the queue, this weekend, we're we're there for XFL Week three and we're watching the Houston game and Houston's quarterback is is so far is the early favorite for um M v P. You know he played, he was with the Colts um for a little bit and he's playing. Unbelievable. If this guy was three inches taller, he'd be in it, as Joe would be an NFL tight end? Thank you? So?

How short is he? Hopefully gets eleven? But he's he was on the screen, okay, in his last name is w A l k e R p J w A l k e R. And he is on the screen. How do you pronounce that? Joe? Okay? He is on the screen, and and Travis is sitting there and he's going, oh waka, he's he goes, oh waka. He's he played at Wyoming and his brother pitched for the Cardinals. And I go and I go, what are you talking about? Have you've been paying attention like you been watching the

last three week? PJ. Walker is not like he's he's not his brother doesn't play for the Cardinals. Like he was almost as mad as when I said I was acting, I was like, I was like walka does not, like, what are you talking about? And he's like, no, I'm not talking about Walker, I'm talking about Waka. The he said w A c h A and so my long Island accent, I'm like, Waka is the quarterback PJ. So we were like, literally like we were speaking two different languages.

Is the look he gave me. He was so mad, He's like, what are you even talking about? I'm like, no, I'm talking about then. But then then he comes out with this thing like I don't even know. I still don't know what you were talking about, so I need you to explain it to me. He starts talking about some ship that they used to do in Wyoming where they were spinning nickels up at McDonald's. It's it's stupid

adolescent stuff. So we were talking about mcmillions, like Bondo and and Scott, we're talking about mcmillions and how to so everyone's back but yeah, exactly, yeah everyone but you, sorry, Bud. But anyway, so we're talking about McDonald's and how we walked to the local McDonald's when we were in junior high and whatever, and I was like, yeah, we used to do all kinds of stupid stuff when when we were kids and and I was like, yeah, did you guys ever do the nickel trick with the plastics salt

and pepper shakers? And they're like what. I'm like, Yeah, you spin a nickel on the table and you slam the salt shaker on top of it, and then you slide it to the middle of the table and then there's no as to do, no no salt there. But the next person who picks it up, all the salt falls out the bottom. Yeah, like that it break, it breaks the bottom. Yeah, it breaks the bottom. We used to do the same thing, but with um the parmesan and pepper you know the standard parm and pepper shakers

at pizza partoms. So if you unscrew them, put a napkin on the top, flip it over, slide the napkin out, and then you take the top and just set it on top. It looks identical to if it was. So we used go to Chunky Cheese and do them all and every time so we go pick up the pepper apartment follower over the place. But that's more like I get that one. But the slamming the nickel on the salt in McDonald's like because it breaks the bottom, break the bottom, so then yeah, when you lift it up,

all the salt just falls out the button. It costs you a nickel to see. We got to do it for free? Can you do it? I don't, Yeah, I still don't. All right, we're gonna let's don't do those. They don't do those plastic salt and pepper shakers anymore. So plastic yeahah, like I don't think that's like you're talking about, like the gray and black ones. I'll get one of those smart and final. Yeah, the cube. If you guys ever invite me over, well, they don't. Yeah,

they don't do it. They don't use those plastic ones. No, it was the ones that was at the table. They don't have those things at the table anymore because back in the day, you know, people were trusted. Now people just steal. They would just steal it. They would just steal that. Um okay, all right, that makes more sense now. I thank you for you put it. When you you put it in language that I understand what the next

person you said, parmesan and and pizza. That was now I was like, oh, half Italian, we're still you know, we're still Next time Travis just put it in some context, like if it if it involves something in chicken parm or something along those lines. One of my favorite lines from Rocky was, yeah, if he's not a good fighter, you know he's a good cook, the Italian stallion, because all Italians cook, Right, that's your best line. I mean, yeah, he's so when you are really you're showing us who

you are. So I was in Bristol Farms, um, I was telling Travis. I was in Bristol Farms during the weekend. It's a great store. But no, it's just it's just I like walking around. I just shop at Arms. I

go to Vons too. And so I was walking to Bristol Farms and I was this very attractive woman was coming down the aisle and I was going the opposite way, and we were passing each other and she just said she just said hi, and and I was so taken it back she said hi and I and I said good and I kept going and I'm like walking away, like what the I was like, that's still got it. I was like, what, Like so now like normally you'd you'd want to run back into it, right, Well, no,

Now I'm like trying to like avoid pay. That's the guy. Oh he's special. That's the guy that said because I like, you ever get on an elevator and somebody like says hi to you and you're not expecting it, and you you get stuck between how you want? Like who, like you don't know what? That every show opened for me? Yeah, like yeah, Joe Travis. It was just like I didn't know, Like it didn't even have to be an attractive person.

It could have been anybody just said hi to me, and I just I just zoned in, like I was zoomed in and I was like, Okay, we're gonna go. We're in the cheese aisle and then we're gonna go and I and I just was like I was anticipating how are you, I guess, and I was answering how are you? And it was just a you know, high wait. So attractive women just say open you up all the time.

They just say words. My whole point was that doesn't happen like people A people don't just say hello to me, And not that I want them to say hello to me. Growing up in New York, it's like you're weird, did you say? But it just was I was just taken aback and I said, good to all the time, go to Wyoming, especially in elevators. Favorite, No, My favorite was was when I was last year. I was in the UM National Championship Alabama Clemson, and I was in the hotel that was up in San Francisco and I was

in the hotel. There's a bunch of Alabama people at the hotel and I got in the elevator. The guy just looks at me. It goes roll time and that was it? Like perfect, he said, And I was like, what you know? So it's yeah, not that doesn't happen to me every day. But um, the other thing that you missed was Scott. So Scott works with us in the and I and I want to bring him on the podcast. I think I want to. I want to do a guest appearance by Scott. We were. I asked

him a question because I honestly don't know. I don't follow politics. I don't not that look. I've I've vote, but I'm not like big into politics. Obviously the election coming up, there's been a lot of political stuff coming up and issues. But I asked Scott, I said, is it do you have to as part of a political ad, do you have to say, Like there was a Bloomberg add and said I'm Mike Bloomberg and I approve of this of this message. And I was like, do you have to do that? Like? Is that a law? Is

that a rule? And Scott explained that what why why they do that is because there's these what do they call superpacks that that like so supporters. So if I support Bloomberg, I can run an AD for Mike Bloomberg without his permission, and I can say whatever the hell I want. And so by saying I'm Mike Bloomberg and I support this ad, I only those ads are attributed to me and everybody else I can just say, hey, that's not me. Those are supporters, but I don't really

agree with what they're saying. And Scott was on a role. So he starts talking about and he's starts doing ads as if I was running for for office, and he's like, he Dean Blandino wants to bring you gotta you can't. In the middle of it was so he's like, He's like, Dean Blandino wants to bring criminals into your neighborhood. And then and then he's like, but actually what you did was you you started a program rehabilitating people coming out of jail to start them learning about trades and giving

them jobs in your neighborhood. But the ad is Dean Blandino wants criminals to live in your neighborhood. And I was like, oh, that makes sense because the other guys could now, yeah, average you approved, I approve of this message, and and so he was just like then he just started doing like a whole bunch of them, and we probably can't say, no, we can't, but it was it was hilarious, and like, so gonna have We're gonna have him come on and talk about politics, um, the right,

the other thing I want. So my my four year old Cal he's turning five and two weeks he me and him were hanging out, um during the week, and he just goes, He's like, she's on, so I don't want her to say it. But he's like, you know, Alexa, and and he's like he's talking to Alexa. See she's listening. You know, now I gotta cut that. I don't have to cut that. It's just her talking. We're not playing anything coming Alexa. Stop. So okay, let's let's call it Amanda.

So so he says, Amanda play Rock sand and I'm like, oh, Roxandon Police, it's the new one. And I'm like, wait, wait, so Travis, you're gonna read the lyrics. So a good song. Yeah, So I go has listening to the lyrics. I'm listening to how do you know this song? He's like, I know this song. He's four and he's singing this song. So Travis, pull up Alexai. It's by uh um, what's the guy's name? Yeah, so I thought it was I

thought it was the Police version of Roxanne. But no, it's that I didn't another yet another under a rock. Of course you didn't read the lyrics. All for the Graham. Bitches love the Graham. Oh wait shit bourber berber a skirt skirt Roxanne, Roxanne. All she want to do is party all night. Goddamn Roxanne. Never gonna love me. But it's all right good. She think I'm an asshole, she think I'm a player. She keep running back, though, only because I pay up. Roxanne, Roxanne, all she want to

do is party all night. Here you're four singing this dude. This is the This is the influence of the nine year old and the nine year old and his friends. Then they listened to that and now the four year old, and I'm a bad dad because basically now he listens to that music and he's playing the rock sand song and and we're yeah, I'm gonna have to listen to this on the right home. Yeah, definitely listen to good can you? Can you finish it though, because I'd like to.

You're doing great? She from Malibu Malibu spending. No, I skipped that part. I was just going to the part that Travis doesn't want to read. Certain No. I mean I already I already swore several times for you guys. Here. I already sore. I used to swear word you guys, Travis, Can you please not swear anymore. It's just it's my virgin ears. It's not it's not good. Let's uh, let's go. Brain of Blandino, all right, I got the drum roll whenever go. If your car stalls at a railroad track,

maybe you were meant to die. Do we do this one already? Yeah? We did that one. Another one. My two year old. Picture the biggest asshole you know now, Picture him obnoxiously drunk, it's probably he's four now, Yeah, that's yeah, that's that's old. I mean that's just kids. Like kids, Like, just imagine a two like, like, do you just imagine Joe obnoxiously drunk all the time. Well, that's what we've talked about in the queue before too.

It's like, all, just imagine any behavior of a two year old as an adult and like going into a restaurant, like yelling and throwing stuff on the ground. I just think it would be cool if adults ran indoors as much as like kids do, like like me too, like like legit run like full on sprinting, Like if we sprinted as much in houses as they do, would be sterile, Like, dude, where are you going so fast? Get to my bedroom getting great stuff? Dan, I'm just like, yeah, look, hey,

look I'm the flash. Look at the past. I can go. Travis, you are very fast. You were very fast. Wait do you guys didn't even comment on my race last week in the desert. I wasn't sure what was going on. What was happening there? You were sending us videos of you running around in the sand with a bunch of kids. Yeah, there was these two high school kids that want to challenge me to a race. Well, first, one of them said it was really dark. I really couldn't even see.

One of them said, I want to guard you. You gotta turn the brightness up on your phone. Travis, He's like, I'll try to guard you. So one guy, get off your phone. Dean, you just sent me a message. I didn't. Yeah, you updated something, said Joe Madrid. That's why I looked in the notes. So this kid says, I played high school football. Let me try to guard you. He said, okay, let's go smoke the kid. I said, you guys a video.

He literally fell down. It was it would be like an Instagram hit if I put it out there, because why don't you put it out there? I don't don't do that, And then too, why don't you post post Instagram? Other guys your age are going into NHL games and playing goalie and like shutting out, shutting out the maple Leaves. In the third period of forty two, all right, Raymondez is coaching championship football teams. There's a kid out there with one leg that's high jumping. If you haven't seen

that video, check that video. High jumping, like ridiculous it looked like he was going over like at least six years and you're running around with high school kids, you know, running passing routes. Good, We'll give me one more, alright, one more love When a drunk Shazam works out, Oh, I do this all the time. So I am like, I'm like a pretty I'm like a very good Major League Baseball hitter with Shazam drunk, and it's that's not a great percentage, like pretty much maybe three and a

half out of every ten drunk Shazam's. I like the song in the morning because when you're drinking and you're out and you get and you hear the song and you're like, oh, this is awesome what song is? And you lam it and then you listen to it in the morning, you're like, it's not it's not nearly as good, but when it works out, it's awesome. How do you do you recheck your sasam? Because I always screenshot it because I always check my pictures the morning after I'm drinking.

Just yeah, because just because and then we've that issue. But a couple of situations with um no, I just because when I something it don't matter to my library. Oh you got it like that auto by auto by the mess round when I was a why don't mess around? That's ladies and gentlemen. That's what you want to aspire to be. When you get on TV. You just hear a song and you auto buy it. I don't do that, I'll spend I don't, I don't get oh by that

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