Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, a production of I Heart Radio. Hey you know, Welcome to another episode of Good Balls, joined by producer Travis Hansen. Audio Joe Madrid. We are we are still doing zoom. I imagine until we get to uh in person, we'll be doing zoom. Thanks Joe for coordinating all this and uh and let's let's get right into it. Joe. Um, something happened today that both Travis and I have not had in a while. But what happened to you? To got sick at the gym?
Find the second day back in you threw up after working out? What kind of workouts? Kick lots of kicks today, and kicks just kick your ass, ma'am. You're kicking a lot. It's just exhausting and I'm just not in shape. COVID killed me, which is interesting because I know a lot of people have gone the other way, Like I'm down fourteen pounds nice since since COVID, which is which is I'm actually like at a probably the lowest. I like to stay around one ninety and now I'm like one six.
So are you really that small I was this morning? That's pretty impressive. I think that goes really hand in hand with our personalities though, like you, you really embraced the working out at home and I need the social you know, I need the raw rods in the background. Yeah, I'm I'm thinking about canceling my my gym membership because I've just been working out at home and jump rope and I can do almost everything. I may keep it just in case. But the gym what your gym open, Joe,
which will any what are the protocol so no jiu jitsu? Um, they're My gym is kind of a smaller mom and pop gym, so it doesn't it's not really not huge corporate, so it's pretty much the same. A lot lot less people in the gym, though way less. Like yesterday we did a boxing class and it was like three people.
Usually there's like I think people are going to because my gym, Equinox here in Santa Monica is opening up on Wednesday, and there's just so many Obviously that's a big right, this is a big corporate chain of gyms, and there's so many rules. Now you have to actually make an appointment through the app um. You you have to maintain social distancing guidelines, wear a mask, unless you're, um extracizing vigorously. So I think Joe you would have
fallen into the exercising vigorously because you vomited. Um. So it's gonna be interesting to see what people define as exercising vigorously because for me, like, if I go to the gym, I'm gonna wear the mask unless I'm on the treadmill, unless I'm doing some kind of cardi like, I I don't if I see like to me, that's a rule, Like I think if if that's the rule exercising vigorously, you can't be on like bench pressing and not wear the mask. I don't consider that, Like, yes,
you're exercising yet, but you're not. You're not going to get winded from benching like you know what I mean, Like you're not unless you're just going for reps reps, reps, reps, reps and you're going low weights. Um. I just think it's got to be some form of cardio. Maybe we should create a rule that defines vigorously. That way you could actually throw a flag at somebody in the end. I think it's I think it goes I think your heart rate, right, it's got to go with with your
heart rate has to reach a certain bpm. What is that? You know what is the resting heart rate? For Joe, You're you're clearly you know, a highly too de athlete. You know what is your resting heart rate? Um? And uh and we can go from there. That's a good, that's a really good and see it now. Excuse me, sir, I don't think you're working out vigorously. You need to put that mask on. You need to do that on you.
Let me check, let me check your pulse, is it? No, everybody should have to wear you can't someone that's not social distancing, know what everything. Everyone should have to wear a heart rate monitor with like with an LED display on their chest, Like, oh, that dude's working out, you're gonna get you're gonna get tested, right. I think part of that is the is the temperature check and you know that. That's just part of the deal right now. And I think it's and everybody, look, it's just wear
a mask. It's not that hard ship to wear a mask when you go out. I'm also a member of Bay Club. I just canceled it though, but they're doing the same exact as equals. You have to set an appointment, I'm like too much. So it is a lot, and so I would imagine you're not gonna have as many people. I don't not I don't necessarily like to have to set the appointment, but it is what it is. If I want to stay at the gym, that's what I'm gonna have to do, and I'll deal with it, and
you just that's part of the new norm. So okay, that's what we gotta do. I'd like to completely never say the new norm ever again. Well then what are we gonna call it? This is life, the stupid time, the world's world we live in. That's my favorite phrase. This is the world we live in today. This is what it is. Speaking of the world we live in.
What an unbelievable chain of events. UM with NASCAR over the weekend, and obviously, right NASCAR is one of our um you know, our inventory and Fox Fox Sports and we broadcast the races and things like that, and obviously have Bubba Wallace, who's who's an African American racer and has been very outspoken and has has pushed um in terms of like black lives matter and everything else with with everything that's going on today. And then the race
is a tale Talladego, which is in Alabama. Someone left a noose in his garage. Garage, I guess it was Sunday night before the race, and obviously, um, you know it's is it surprising, No, it's not surprising. Unfortunately, it's
it does it's not shocking. It's not surprising. Um. And what was you know, the kind of the the shining moment that came out of it was all of the racers got behind Bubba and pushed his car to the front before the race and actually even Richard Petty Senior, who's kind of like the godfather of Nascar, UM, was there showing their support for Bubba. And uh, and it was one of those kind of seminal moments. But I think just the act itself, UM, I don't know, like
I I don't think that way. But it doesn't surprise me because and it and it what what kind of what's interesting? Is right? We don't want to you don't want to brush with broad jokes. You don't want to because we I feel like we do throw the word whether it's you know, hillbilly or redneck, we throw those words around and and it's okay, right, it's it's okay to to say those words. You're not going to get um a lot of backlash. And so we're treating a certain group of people that we feel like act a
certain way. And uh, and this to me, it's like you think about someone that would leave a noose in a an African Americans, persons anywhere, and what is that person? What do you picture? Right? Like, what do you picture in your mind? Joe dope one. But but you know what I'm saying, I'm picturing the same and you're and
you're you're. What we're doing what this person is doing is you are you are again, you're perpetuating this idea that right, people from the South or whatever you want to call have this mentality and not all people think that way, right, not all people think that way. But what it's doing is it just continues. It's just it's and the fact that somebody would would would think that, and that would do that, and would god forbid, has children and is teaching their children that And that's the
messaging at home. Um, that's the problem. That's why we're on the cycle. That that's why we're on the cycle that that person whoever did that thinks that way and is exposed to children, family, whatever it is, and those children are brought up with that ideology and then we just continue this over and over and over and nothing changes.
The other thing is sad about it is like it could possibly be one of those guys that was walking out pushing the car, because there's so many limited people that can be at these events right now that it's probably someone that's close to him, who has had conversations with him and and but has access to the garage, right So it's not some it's not some random fan that that snuck in. It's somebody related to NASCAR. It's somebody in the garage, somebody in the in that that organization, family,
whatever you want to call it. And you're right, Travis, like, could that person or somebody that one of those people in that kind of procession, this, this beautiful moment, be the person or know the person that actually did that that kind of heinous act? I don't is heinous? Do I have to say H on heinus? There is an
h that henis? I said it right, right? Yeah, you don't want to say it without the age, and that's sounds something like something else an Yeah, you don't want to say that Travis Henis, We're gonna get censored my version years Okay, So but like the bigger picture, and I don't know, I just okay, I didn't grow up in the South. I don't And but I don't think everybody in the South thinks that way. Um. I just it's I don't know, it's it's kind of mind boggling.
But it's not surprising. And this is what black people have been saying for a long long time. But this is what we deal with, you know, every day, you know, on some level. And now you're just waking up, um to this reality. And uh and maybe we are, and and we we've got to kind of figure it out because this is you know, I was talking to my son and who's nine, and he was mentioning, um, the riots after after Rodney King and he you know, and
and all of that. And he said, he was like, you know, how does that happen in and we're in and we're still having these issues. And I said, yeah,
nothing has changed, right, nothing, nothing has changed. And and that's you know, it's it's the hope is that what we're seeing is that the youth in this country are stepping up and that's going to be the next generation and uh, and they have to kind of push this and we all do, we all have to do our part, but it's going to be that next generation that that that has to make changes because you know, we don't want to be going through the same thing in um you know. And for me, it's easy for me to
say that, right because I don't. But for black people in this country, UM, they're the ones that are gonna have to go through it. And and we've we've all got to work together to make sure that doesn't that's the truth. Yeah. The Feds have also one gotten involved and they're going to take a look at this as well as they've both been a case on it to find out if it's any kind of federal law that's been broken here by these people. Well, yeah, I don't
know what the law. Could that be considered a hate crime or does a hate crime have to be something? What can be a death threat at a at a federal level like that? So so I think that that's how they're getting involved. Yeah, that's right. Could yeah, it could be a death threat. Although I probably there's some people in my time I'm at the NFL that that we're guilty of death threats towards me on Twitter. Um. But but that's the thing, like it is, it's just
it feel it's it's cowardly. It's like, you know, I'm gonna leave this and then and then this anonymous thing. It's like people online, and there's a lot of people online that just feel like they can say whatever the heck they want, insult people and treat people a certain way. And and and that's not right either. Um and uh, you know, I don't know. That's the world we live in now. The keyboard warriors, that's the world we live in. They call them keyboard warriors. Is that what we call them?
Keyboard warrioring warriors? I haven't heard of that. Yeah, behind your computer screen, you need to put blast out whatever you want. Look, the internet has. Right before the internet, you wouldn't you had to go out and and and if whatever message you wanted to get out, you have to get out in front of people and speak and talk and and you know, congregate. Now with the Internet, you can, I mean the messaging you know, whether it's
good or bad. It's very easy to reach people. And and there's a whole generation of kids that are that. That's how they get there. They get their content, they get their news, they get their their social um interaction. It's it's on the Internet, and it's very easy for someone that has a message of hate to um, you know, to distribute that message online. You know. I was watching
a documentary on Netflix. Um uh call I believe it was the Age of Rage, and it was it was about the ault Right and and then this other guy that was part of Antifa. It's just it's scary and fascinating at the same time as to what, you know, how the internet allows um, you know, a group like you know, and and not not to I'm not an expert on the alt right, but there are there are groups out there that that do push hate and do push a lot of um, you know, ideology that that
you know, I don't agree with. I don't think you guys agree with. And they use the Internet to to recruit people and to get them to buy into this message and they and then they use the Internet to distribute it and uh. And it's scary. It's really scary
what we're what we're dealing with today. The thing I think about what this news is if it's one of these guys that's involved with the NASCAR, which he probably is because the like we talked about before, the access they had, Like the person who did it probably told somebody else. And if if the FEDS are involved in NASCAR has got a heavy investigation and it too, that's gonna come out who did it? And yeah, and then how is there not a camera? There's cameras everywhere everywhere. Yeah,
I bet there is. I have to think there has to be something. Yeah, I would imagine there's cameras everywhere. And I would agree with Travis, like, unless this is one person and they kept a mouth shut, somebody else knows. And it'll be very interesting to see if it does, if they do find out who did it or a group of people whatever it is, what what ultimately what NASCAR does? Um? If it is somebody associated with the
driver or you know, a driver themselves. Um, and then obviously what you know, what law enforcement would would you know what kind of like you said, whether it's a death threat of terroristic whatever, It'll be really interesting. But again, you know, it was good to see because look, the bottom line is NASCAR. People look at NASCAR a certain way, right you look at again, think of in your mind, Joe Travis, what do you what's your average NASCAR fan?
Look like you don't have to describe it, but yeah, right, what we're talking about, and so that is it is a relatively white sport. It is a relatively you know, a white fan base, and it is there is there are there are regions in this country that are that are more you know, inclined to to watching NASCAR. And there's no way you can't kind of beat around the
bush with that thing. And and and it is what we're seeing, right, Why did Nascar, no other sport has to has to ban the Confederate flag or hey, no, no other sport has because they don't fly the Confederate flag at other sporting events like they do at NASCAR.
Because because of where, you know, the people that are grown up in the South and grown up with that history and grown up and and look, I'm not I'm not saying that everybody that flies the Confederate flag is a racist, but it does represent some really bad things that have happened in this country and some really you know, bad things that have happened in the history, especially as you think about African Americans. And it's just you know it. It just shouldn't be a part of what we're trying
to do to day. Ide I'm seeing a NASCAR statement now, oh just right now. Yeah, So so just a little more news coming out and says the FBI has concluded its investigation at Tallie against Superspeedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime. The FBI report concludes, and the photographic evidence evidence confirms that the garage store pole rope fashion like a news has
been positioned there since his early as last fall. This was obviously well before the forty three team's arrival and in garage assignment. We appreciate the f guys quick and thorough investigation and are thankful to learn that this was not an intentional racist act against Bubba. Warm and steadfast in our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all for all who love racing. So, okay, that
is that is news. That's interesting. Um So, what they're saying is that that was just the way the rope was positioned for the garage the pulley, that it looked like a news Yeah. And then like they're previously even before the forty three car was to sign that garage.
So okay, so you know, there's gonna be a lot of people that think that that, you know, that are cynical like me, that are gonna not necessarily not I'm not saying I don't believe that, okay, if that's what they came up with, but they're gonna all be a lot of people that that don't believe that that's the case for sure. And that's interesting. I mean, we got we go through this whole thing, this whole conversation, and now that's what they figured out that it was not
a news at all. That's it's gonna be interesting people's reactions. Um, did they state this is not a news or is it saying it's been there forever? It sounds like from what Travis read, right, Travis, you're you're looking at it, that this was the rope was there that at least since last fall. So my question is are they saying it's not a news or this rope has been there since last fall? It's well, I mean it says fashions
like a news, so so it's a pole rope. So maybe it was fashion like news to say you could grab it because you're gonna be pull it. I haven't seen any photos of it. It's just wow. I mean, it's very there's there's a lot of coincidence there to say that that was that it looked like a news and it was there since last fall. And Bubba, while I think is the only African American driver at that race, you know that his his garage. I don't know. And
that's what if. That's what they say, that's what they say. It's just it's gonna be interesting to see how people react to that. Every person that's ever taken a picture of that garage is going to be going through their phone looking for it in the background. So it'll come out that's interesting. All right, Well there you go, um another layer to the story. Wow. So we'll kind of well, we'll kind of see, we'll see where it goes from there. Interesting,
you know what I'm I don't know. This reminds me about the time that that dude put the canoeis in your dressing room, my fox, Oh my god. That See, it always comes back to the Italian American discriminate by no means, By no means. Are we saying that someone putting a cannoli in my dressing room is the same. Speaking of cannoli, I have in my freezer right now Ben and Jerry's Cannoli ice cream, which I will be
trying tonight. You got a live tweet about that. Yeah. Again, when I found with these Ben and Jerry's is doing these um limited flavors, these new flavors, and what I found it's much ado about nothing. It's a lot of hype, not a lot of substance. And I always go back to I always go back to the King, the top of the heat, the chairman of the board. F Baked okay, but there have been some that have been like, okay, not bad for for a pint, you know, a one off?
What's that Netflix and chilled isn't bad? Yeah, but like you said, it isn't bad. Half baked is life changing, and um peanut butter half baked is pretty solid too. I feel like it's no matter what comes out, it's kind of like your first love that's always gonna be top of the food chain for you. It is, it is. What was? Okay, let's Travis, what was your first love? Doesn't have to be a person? What was the first
thing you remember loving? Probably baseball to be honest with you, Like I was just a kid who just I looked up to my older brother who started playing baseball before me, and I just wanted to pick up a bat and the ball and start playing. Um. I remember as a kid going to like my dad's softball games, and it's just it's just like such great memories of running around in a park and and just kind of having freedom as a kid running around and seeing the game, of
being around the game. Joe still looking, still looking so waiting for the way in my py Uh. Mine's probably baseball too, but I can't stand baseball anymore. So it's kind of weird. Doesn't really want to know. Said I'm gonna I'm gonna complete the Holy Trinity. For me, it was baseball to um all the signs of change. It's yeah, I mean we my dad loved baseball. He got us
into baseball. That's why I'm a Dodger fan growing up in New York, because he grew up in Brooklyn and stated Dodger fan when they moved to l a UM and that's what I remember. I remember, you know, being young and and watching Dodging games and um going out in the yard and playing baseball. It was definitely my first love question. Yeah, we talked about you know, we talked about the tape all this weekend. We had a
whole tapeball discussion. Oh yeah, how we and all the different games, right, all the different What's great about what what's great about baseball is that you can as a kid, you can play different variations of the same game. Right, you can play stickball, you can play whiffleball, you can play tape ball, because all these different It's a bat in a ball, right, somebody throwing it, and you can do And we used to have we used to play
running bases. You're play running basis? No, what's that? So it was almost like so you'd have you have two you'd have two bases at either end, and two people with gloves like and everybody else would get in the middle, and you throw the ball back and forth and you have to run back and forth to the basis and you could like slide in and have a play at one base and then if you you know, if you got caught, then you were one of the people with
the glove. And so we used to play that for hours. Um, you know, we play stoop ball where you throw the ball off the stoop and try to hit it into the street for home run. There's so many variations of baseball. You guys ever played cup ball? This is when we always played. You'd be at the ballpark and maybe your game got done in your brother was playing, or another family member someone was playing. You'd waught up a plastic cup or a paper cup, and then you just use
your hand as the bat. That's no, that's that's that's really that, Travis. I don't yeah, I mean that feel actually feel better for you now. Actually. In recent news, Dean Blandino donates one thousand whiffleballs and baseball bets to the city of Casper, Wyoming. I'm gonna stand for those poor children that grew up like Travis hitting Dixie cups around the baseball with their hands. You make, you make do what you have you do. And on that note, let's take a break. We co come back. We'll get
an update. Where are we with the four major sports as we prepare for a return next on good Calls? All right, we're back on good call. Let's uh, let's get an update. Let's talk a little bit about the latest and strong the NFL um obviously look, we're getting more cases of COVID, more testing. As these players, uh start to get tested more and more, we're getting you know, more positive results. And that's that's the reality that's going
to happen. Um. I think you know, everybody's experiencing that. We're experiencing spikes in certain states where people have have gotten you know, opened up and and you know, reading that Florida and UM, I think the concern always has been, you know, not just the cases, but you know, the hospital and overloading the hospitals and then what you know, how serious are these cases? Are these people are symptomatic? What you know? What what what is going to result
from this? So it's all still I mean, it feels like right, everybody wants to get back to normal. And I think with all of the George Floyd, everybody I think focused on that, you know properly, but but COVID didn't go away, and and and I think we're back to um everybody kind of realizing that, hey, this is this is still a thing, and uh and we have to we have to figure this out. So I know, the nfl UM nfl p A medical director Tom Mayor UM released a statement saying that that players shouldn't be
practicing together, but of course who was practicing? Travis? What what are we calling him? He's the habitual line stepper is what I called him earlier today. Um, just Tom Brady, He's he and at least a dozen teammates were out working out together, so he's speaking of speaking. He put the heat, put the photos out with it with no excuses.
I saw the one, and I like Tom and and and I think, you know, I just we just need to be smart about this because and I think, look, they could be working out and and practicing social distancing, right. They don't have to be you know, you're throwing a football, you're running round, you don't have to be on top of each other. You could be six ft apart and talk and understand what they're trying to accomplish. So I think they can be smart about it. So so I
wouldn't jump jump to any conclusions. What I will do is I sent you guys a video and I'd like for you to watch it now. Um. This was a video of Novak Djokovic, who who um put this tennis tournament together with no social distancing guidelines, and it was just reported that he tested positive for COVID and watch the video. This is the after party, So pull that up, Travis, you're listening, just google YouTube Novak Djokovic party. Wow, Well he tested positive. He did he? Which one is he?
There's a dozen shirtless dudes. He doesn't. He has a shirt line. So now, oh my gosh, it's like the Worm. Who is that? I don't think. I don't think Novac does the Worm. But there's one point. No, he's wearing his shirt and he's and he has he's on stage and he has like I don't know if they're glow sticks, but there's some kind of glow apparatus. Oh yeah, what are those? Those are? They look like glow torches? Almost, Yeah,
he has some kind of glow. Again, being a former WIDO, I know all about the glow sticks and I definitely want whatever he has. But but so, needless to say, he's tested positive. And his wife, who has also at this event, and his wife, they're they're clearly not not practicing social distance in this video. And this is the difference between this is there's there's you can be responsible
and you can be irresponsible. This is irresponsibility at its finest here and we're not out of this yet, and if we want sports to return, we have to do the right thing. And we can't have because what's gonna happen is if we're not practicing social distancing guidelines, then we're gonna have a spike in cases and and we're not gonna have the sports return, and we're gonna be stuck back like we were, you know, in April, um in May, and it's gonna suck. So well, I'm just
gonna say it. I really wish I was at that party. I want to. I want to look in a different world if we didn't live in the world we live in today. I want to party with Novak Djokovic, like like, no, no ads of bus about it, like I want in. I just want to. I just don't want a party like that in the middle of a pandemic. That's all we can. We take that move, hopefully get everybody vaccinated and and I'm in. I'm in for the tournament. I'll buy a ticket. I want to go to the after party.
I'm in because it looks like a good time. But yeah, not the right time to be doing it, for sure, just not the right time. Um So back in the NFL, NFL and the NFL p A will have a call on Wednesday, uh and UH, and that's to go over the guidelines. I think some of the clubs are still concerned about UM. The NFL put out guidelines in terms of personnel and their access in the facility two players UM.
They put them into tiers Tier one, Tier two three, Tier three, Tier one, like coaches and UM strength and conditioning coaches, people that that have hands on with the players there in tier one, Tier two UM, or even people as important as a GM, a team president who will will not have as much access on a daily basis, you know, close proximity with players there in tier two UM and then tier three or or everybody else UM.
I think some of the clubs are just concerned with the numbers because you know, just talking to a couple of clubs, there are clubs that have their facility and their stadium right in the same you know, compound, and
they're gonna split. They're gonna split. They're gonna have part of their team in the stadium and part of their team in the facility, so they can practice social distancing because there's lockers, right there's lockers in the stadium, there's lockers in the facility, and if you're gonna be six ft apart, most of these, whether it's a stadium or the facility on its own, doesn't have the space to
handle that. So they're gonna be split. You're gonna have to You're gonna have to basically have have maintenance personnel that's gonna have to clean and disinfect, um and do all of that. And I think some clubs are concerned about, Okay, if I have a max of let's say eight people in Tier one, are my cleaning people? A part of that is that going to count? Whereas you know, I also have people that are on the medical side that need access to the players when they're recovering from you know,
from injuries. Whether it's a chiropractor, whether it's a mussus, whether it's the athletic trainer. Um can they can they be flexible with those numbers. So I think that's something that we'll see UM coming out of this call, and the league is going to have to clearly define you know, who has access to players UM and UH and what you know, what they can do because because again think about it, there's still there's still they're waiting for training
camp start dates. They're waiting for the protocols there, um, travel protocols, media put protocols, um who you know who can be a practice? Are there going to be practices where the media can come like in in a normal world. All of these things have to be figured out. And then obviously the testing, what happens when somebody tests positive, Um, it's a lot, it's a lot. And and and I think everybody's optimistic that the NFL will play, and I
and I'm optimistic. I do feel like the NFL has a greater chance than college football, just because college football there's so many layers we've already seen. I think one college was about a Bowden. Bowden College has already canceled fall athletics. It's a small Division three college. Obviously that's not how state. But it is a possibility that other colleges could allow suit if they're not going to have students on campus, if they're concerned about about the social
distancing and everything else. So it's it's gonna be interesting to see how that how that plays out. Hopefully we'll have more information, but again, in all of this, it couldn't have happened at a better time for the NFL, right just the end of their season. They have all off season to work through this, where the other sports obviously have been impacted greater um and jumping to the other sports. MLB a lot of news, a lot of news on MLB. So the owners, the owners did put
forth a schedule, sixty game schedule. That's what they're gonna play. And look what this means is unless the players strike, which would be completely just insane, we're gonna have a baseball season. Right unless the players strike, or obviously something happens with COVID where it just makes it it's just unsafe. But if if that doesn't happen to COVID aside, then
then we're gonna have a baseball season sixty games. Um. What's interesting is that, right that the owners we're proposing all these different deals and and basically what it came down to was the players are gonna get thirty seven
percent of their out of their salary. And when you think about thirty seven, thirty seven percent of their salary, Mike Trout, who's the highest paid player in baseball for what, what do you think Mike Trout is gonna make thirty seven percent of his annual salary seven million, how much Travis and I don't remember what his number is. Fourteen, he'll make fourteen out of its thirty seven roughly thirty
seven and a half million dollar annual salary. He'll get fourteen million the major league minimum at thirty seven percent, will will still be two eight thousand dollars. So so again, that's that's a that's still a good salary for most people. Um, but you think about major league baseball players making two hundred thousand dollars a year that you know into twenty twenty, that seems unheard of. How is he supposed to live
off of that kind of money? Dean, what do they expect two hundred If you can't live off two hundred thousand dollars a year. Trout, he doesn't. Trout doesn't strike me as the guy that's living the extravagant lifestyle. He just doesn't. He see, he's from Philly, blue collar. Just doesn't doesn't strike me as somebody that's driving around and like you forget it, like it even for me, Like I grew up very blue collar. But if I was making thirty seven million dollars a year in the High life.
Let me do you I wouldn't. I wouldn't be driving. I wouldn't be driving a Tesla Ji. I wouldn't. I wouldn't be driving. Uh. You know, I wouldn't be living in, uh, you know, a two bedroom condo. I'd be in a being a much too much nicer spot. But anyway, so that's the deal with salary. But what's interesting about sixty games schedule? UM playoffs will still be ten teams, So you're still gonna have your You're still gonna have your
ten teams UM in in the playoffs. But some of these rules that that I've read that are going to be implemented for UM, it looks like the universal d H. So the N I will have a DH for only, which I hope and pray that that's it, because I hate the d H and I want the d H to never be in the NL. Well, originally they wanted it for this season, and one season they players said no way, thank you players for that, Thank you M
L P p A. So it will be for this season. UM. First health and safety, right and uh and then UM. But the one that's really interesting that that I'm not sure if a lot of people know this is for the regular season. They're going to use the minor league extra innings rule, and so after the ninth inning, if the score is tied, each half inning will start with a runner on second base. So that's gonna be in
the major leagues this year. In the regular season, it'll be it'll be the guy that made out the last inning, he will be the runner. He'll start on second base, so it's nobody out man on second and if that runs, if that run scores, it's an unearned run. It's like he got on. So just just imagine every half inning will start with a two base error, like a guy getting and and that's gonna be. So they don't want, right, they don't want the players, they don't want fifteen sixteen,
seventeen in the games. Um. So from that perspective it
makes sense. But it's so gimmicky, like it's just like I don't want to watch I don't want to watch a guys start on second base and then we're gonna get into which I like small ball, but we're gonna now we're gonna bump them over to third and then and then sat or the run and then the next next team is gonna do that, and we're gonna go We're gonna go to another at stranding and then it's just so it definitely doesn't cut down the probability of
the game ending sooner or quicker. That's the idea though, I know, but but but the scenario you just played out like that is what teams do. Like if you get a guy in second, you almost think like we're going to score, Like you think we're going to score on a a second nobody out. I don't know what the percentages are, but I would imagine it's a pretty good
percentage of score. Right, you still gotta right, you gotta get him to third and then right man out third, one out, you right, if you if you're playing baseball the way it's supposed to be played, you hit the ball on the right side or you get you know, you get it in the air to the outfield and you not comment and you get you get the RB.
I right, So, but it's it is, it's just it's just crazy to think baseball is always like they've had rules, right, you have rules like the the All Star Game decided the World Series, which I would have thought, which I thought was so crazy. Thank thankfully they got rid of that, but they're not. They're not scared to kind to go outside the box and try different things. So, um, kudos to them. It was our first love, right, all three
of us. So I like this rule, but not in a shortened season where every single game is gonna mean so much like maybe it's gonna count, right, every every one of those sixty games is gonna be huge, as they like to say huge, and and it's gonna be interesting. And then we talked about teams, right that are the does does a sixty game season? Which teams doesn't help,
which teams doesn't hurt? And to me, you know, you always look at the best teams, right, the best teams over a hundred and sixty two games season will will play out, right, the cream will rise to the top. Right, so you have your you know, who are the favorites going into even before this, right, not because I'm a fan, but the Dodgers had to be one of the favorites too, right,
the you know, the Astros. I'll hate to say, um, but you have you have certain teams that that are you know, favored to be um, you know at the end of the season, And I think it hurt those teams in a sixty games sprint if you think about, right, you get an injury, you get a bad right, you just you know, the team goes cold, you get a bad start. If the team, if the team goes you know,
like a team starts out. You know, five and five and twenty, right, hundred sixty two games season, you can you can about five in a sixty game season, you've already played over a third of the games. You gotta go on some kind of tear. So it is going to I think the start is gonna be key. And if any one of those favorites stumble out of the gate, it could mean that we're you know that we're looking at um, we're looking at some teams that maybe people
didn't think about. And it always happens, right, you look at in a it's like a short series in postseason, right, the five team series. The better teams sometimes you get a hot picture, you get a team that's hitting the ball really well. Those those teams that aren't as good on paper can win those five games series. Where you think a seven game series usually the best team is going to play out and with But so it'll be
interesting to see how that all plays out. Yeah, you've got to think it favors the teams that have like veteran pitching staff. Who you know, these guys who have gotten a little extra time to recover the during the during the COVID, like they'll be able to, you know, like a natural national team. Like their chances repeating are probably a little bit better now when you have a Strasburg and and uh what kind of thing of his
name here? S Yeah, you have those two guys, like those two veteran pitchers who have had a lot of time to rest now and if they come out just pitching lights out, like, well, I'm gonna win every every couple of games. Think about your pitching staff, right, you don't you don't have to save people's arms, right, sixty games there's no innings counts. Right, you don't have to. You don't have to give guys extra rest. You can start, you can start on your normal five days rest, um,
and pitch. You don't have to worry about in a sixty games season. Um, some of these veteran pictures, like you said, they can they don't have to. They don't have to save themselves in the postseason because they were in the stretch run like you're already because you think about if we're playing a sixty game season, a hundred two games in, you know, where are we We're like in August, right, you know, we're we're already, you know, nearing towards the end of you know, the latter part
of the season. And uh, it's gonna be interesting, uh to see how it all plays out. I just hope, pope, hope that we do get a season. Um, well, the players have agreed to we it's more breaking news during the show. This is maybe our new favorite time to record, it said, the mL B p A has agreed to report to camp on July one to play the sixty game season. Yeah, I mean that was that. I don't
think that's a surprise. Like I said, they would have had the strike and that would have been completely disastrous, catastrophics. Let's go, they're gonna report the camp and it looks like you know, and that's the thing, if they if they had, if they had gotten the labor stuff out of the way, we might we might have been steeing real games on July four instead of you know, the end of July August, Like we are gonna now contest is still going on though, So we're good with that.
No fans though, No fans of the hot dog eating contest. No fans. Oh, the hot dog eating contest is still going on. Yeah, it's six ft apart. They're gonna be six ft apart. It is gonna be. It's interesting cause I'm not traveling every year. I usually going back to New York on July fourth last couple of years, and this will be my first four in California for a little bit. Um, so that'll be case somebody's interested. That's my Travis MLB okay uh NHL. Not a ton they are.
I'm reading that they're narrowing down the two hub cities. Um. It sounds like to me, if I had to, if I had to put money on it, I like Vegas and I like to ront them as my two Toronto in the east Vegas in the west. Um, but it sounds like there's still there's still a lot to be decided there. They're supposed to announce the two hub cities
in a week or so. Canada does present some issues, Um, Canada has you know, they have restricted travel over the border in and out of Canada until I believe July's nineteen twentie somewhere and there, So that obviously will be something to keep an eye on. And uh, you know players testing positive. Austin Matthews, Um, who you know? Superstar Toronto maple leafs um is uh was tested positive. So again you're just gonna have to keep monitoring this and
we're gonna hear about these tests. Um. That's the other thing. Um, are you guys okay you're okay with me saying huge? Are you okay that the Toronto maple leafs floral are not the leaves? Are you cool with that? I've never even thought about that. That's it's not quite right, is it. I'm not okay with that? You're not you'd rather than be the maple leaves. Well, it's dramatically correct. I think we have to stick to that, right, I think. But
they've always been the maple leaves. You never realized. Honestly, I've never even thought about that. And then this is the first time. Yeah, they're the maple leaves. Well, I know their name, but I never thought about Yeah, I know, I had never thought about that until this week. There's a lot of breaking news in this show. July one is the is the day the restriction is lifted between so they might not affect them unless they extend it. I've got a question for you, Dean, since we talked
a little about the hot dog eating contest? What do you think the over under is on the winner? Sixty travel? I was gonna say sixty five? Seventy one and a half? Good god? How many did he eat last time? Well? Not, well, now you're you're asking me questions. I'm not any four. Well, Joey chest Out has won the last However many What did he eat last year? Let's see hot dog eating record four? No, but he didn't eat seventy four last year? Yeah, contest hot dogs in ten minutes nineteen? Who won the
hot dog eating contest twenty nine? Well, I know he won it. I'm looking for seventy one. Speaking of thrown up after workout, you consider this a workout? And do you throw up after this? Who could have to throw up? I'd love to see. I want to see if you could eat seventy one hot dogs in twenty four hours. I couldn't. Couldn't four years. I don't think I could. I did. The way they do it, and that the competitive eating is fascinating because it's a it's a whole,
it's a whole like thing. It's a movement. And they go and there's all these records like you could if you if you look, you could google you know most most um hard boiled eggs in in ten minutes, most you know, chili peppers, and it's insane. They do they set these records and they actually work out, they expand their stomach. There's a there's a science to this because the the the human stomach is not designed and neither is the human stomach. Oh, stomach has a silent age.
Nobody makes it makes a deal about that. But the it's not it wasn't made to take in seventy hot dogs and buns in what is it, twelve minutes, ten minutes, ten minutes. That's seven hot dogs in a minute. And think about think about the advances in hot dog eating when it when I think it was Koba Yashi who started the technique of wetting the buns to allow for easier you know, intake Like it's not you know, maybe that's what we should do for the fourth of July.
Me you know, I'm not going to be a hot dogs and just see if you could do seventy in a day, I'm the three of us. I don't think could do seventies. Three dude, we could definitely do hot dogs if I if I go to barbecue and I have two hot dogs with bonds and then I'm full, like, I'm like good, Like did you say Mayo? What did you say? Mayo? No mustard? Okay, I thought you said Mayo. I was gonna We're gonna go down on the path anything Mayo should be like band, there's nothing good, there's
no redeeming quad. Another interesting fact about the hot dogging. He's a minus eleven hundred favorite. That's a huge favorite. He's there's nobody that touches him. Now, it's not even it's not a it's a question of whether he can break his own record. That's it. I might get into this, but still minus eleven hundred is that that's still not the biggest underdog in history, the biggest faith one Tyson. Right, Yeah, well it started there. I think it went off of
whatt I landed at thirty six. I'll look it up. But we talked about it before. Okay, Um, all right, well, who let's let's next week. Let's lay some. Let's Joe put some that's out for us on the hot dog eating contest, and next week we'll make some predictions. All right, let's go to break. When we come back, I don't know, we'll talk about stuff. I don't know what we're gonna talk about. We're gonna talk about this stuff. Show forty two next on Good Calls. All right, we're back on
Good Calls. And in honor of our forty second show, we want to discuss who was the greatest player to wear a number forty two? UM, so many great players. But I think, and I'll be sleep as we think about what's happening in the country today. It certainly is appropriate. But to me with forty two, it starts and ends
with Jackie Robinson. I mean, if you think about how many, how many players, UM have a day in their sport where everybody wears their number right on Jackie Robinson Day, when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in in Major League Baseball, UM, everybody wears forty two. I believe now
that the number is retired across the sports. Correct And uh, And you know so for me, I think we take Jackie Robinson out of it and and and he kind of at the he's at the top, and then we kind of say, okay, who who is the next best to wear forty two? And there there were some legit forty two's and just to name a few, Ronnie Lott, Mariano Rivera, Sid Luckman, James Worthy, Paul wall of Field, Bruce Sutter, mo Van Pat Tillman. I mean, out of that group you're talking about, I mean, that's the cream
of the crop right there. Um. You know, I think, staying with baseball, you probably for me, of that list, it's tough, but I think it's for me, it's between Lot and Marianna. Yeah, I think those are the two. Yeah,
those are the two favorites for me as well. I think you look at obviously James Worthy was an unbelievable players, Sid Luckman, Um, Paul Warfield, Bruce Suitter, who was who was you know, really you think about the age of the closer, and Bruce Suitter was one of the first great closers, um along you know during that you know exactly, Um, you know, ma Vaughn great player. I don't think more Vaughan is in the category, um of some of these other guys and certainly Pat Tilman. I think Pat Tilman
as a symbol what what heat repres zended. I think that's um. You know, certainly a great player played at Arizona State, played for the Cardinals. But I think what he represented somebody in the prime of their career going off to to serve his country and ultimately paying the greatest sacrifice. UM is certainly the symbol. UM is amazing
in the person that he was. But if we're talking about on the field performance, it's Rivera and Ronnie Lot right, and these are two, um, two guys that that are in the are I don't think it's a debate with Rivera, UM, and it's probably a maybe there's a debate, but I still think he's number one at their position, right, Maria Mariano Rivera, As much as it pains me to say, because I hate the Yankees, is the greatest closer revolves, without a doubt unanimous Hall of Fame, the only player
that's gone into the Hall of Fame unanimously, Which is crazy that there's only been one, right, Like that's crazy, Like baseball writers, get your shipped together. Stop being an asshole, seriously, because because if if if guys like William Mays and Sandy Kolfax and and and Ted Williams and and you know, Hank Aaron aren't getting in unanimously. But what what are we doing? Like? What is that about? So but Marion ribera Yes, um, greatest closed of all the time, Ronnie Lot,
you know who who? Who else would you put in the same category from a safety perspective? You know better than Ronny Lot, you know, just trying to think of you know, Paula Mallo, I think Ed Reid, You've got you know, I'm trying to think of of of players from from that era seventies and eighties, UM into the into the nineties. UM, you know probably you know, I think those are those are so guys, those are some of the guys. I just want to let me see how Google Night Trying Lane was he had was he
he was a quarter back? He was Sean Taylor was a corner to Was he a safety? Sean Taylor was It was a safety. And I don't know if Sean Taylor played enough. I'll tell you what you know. Finn Jim Finn, who was on the show. He's a friend of mine. And when I asked him, who was the nastiest duty's ever faced. He said, without a doubt, Sean Taylor. J. Taylor was monster doud. I mean Sean Taylor was on was on those those Miami you know hurricane teams. UM.
Some of the guys listed here. You know you've got Jack Tatum Um probably more remembered for the Daryl Stingley hit. Brian Dawkins played, UM played more recently. Doron Cherry was a great player with the Chiefs. UM, Willie Wood Um old man Willie Um. You've got some Ed Reid. We mentioned Steve Attwater, great player. Remember they hit on on Christian McCoy U. Joe mentioned Troy Palamalo, Larry Wilson played with the Cardinals Hall of Famer. UH, Paul Krausse played.
I have a question for going through my list, it's maybe three or four guys. Here's my question, and since you have some inside NFL information, was the cutting of the fingers off thing? Is that a true story? Is that a math? It's a true story. And I'll tell you running a lot of story. Here's here's my Ronnie lot So. Yes, it's a true story. UM. One of the greatest stories it was. You know that he was either you know, he wasn't gonna be able to play.
And then they said, okay, just and it's not his whole pinky, it's it's you ever me running a lot. It's it's part of the pinky. It's like the top half. So he has like a nub um and yes, like you know, just get rid of it and and and he can play. Here's my my running a lot story.
Ronnie lot Um was on. There was a there's a group called the Player Safety Advisory Panel UM, which is a group of former players, coaches, um, medical people that John Madden shares with the NFL and they they advised the commissioner and the Competition Committee on issues related to obviously players safety. Righty Lott was on this was on
this panel. And uh and so you know I used to be on conference calls with them and worked with coach Matten on it and meetings and and I remember it was two thousand ten, two thousand eleven, and then this was when the league really started to look at
hits on defenseless players, especially hits on receivers. And if you remember the Steelers at that time, you know, we're coming off the Super Bowl championship, they had, you know, James Harrison and some of these guys in the secondary, Ryan Clark and some of these Troy Palamalo, big big hitters, and and there was just some high profile hits that were illegal in the league really started to crack down
on those hits. And it was a big, big bone of contention with the players, especially the defensive backs and the safeties. Um saying that, how how do you expect me to make that play? When the receiver right, the receiver jumps to catch a pass, my aiming point is in the chest, and then the receiver comes down to the ground and I end up getting him in the head. How am I supposed to adjust at full speed? And and it was interesting now here. I am like, right,
I'm in officiating. I can't tell Troy Palamalo or Ryan Clark or Brian Dawkins. I can't tell them what they can and can't do, right. I can only tell them what the rule is and what you have to avoid. So hearing from me was only gonna go so far. But Ronnie Lot Ronnie Lock got up and said, listen, he said, early in my career and this is running. Lock played right in the in the eighties and nineties. This was we're talking about two thousand and ten and beyond.
He said, early on in my career, I realized that I had to change the way I played or else I wasn't gonna play in the National Football League very well. I was. I was going to injure myself and I wasn't gonna play. So that carried so much weight when somebody like Ronnie lots Is, Hey, I changed the way I played. I was able to do it. You can too, and and and it was just like, okay, like, you know,
screw that Blandino guy, Ronnie a lot. You know, this is a guy that is, you know, consider the greatest safety of all time, considered one of the toughest, biggest hitters of all time. And he said, look, you can't adjust, and you have to adjust or you're not gonna stay in this league very long. And that really hit home.
And I remember him telling me, Ronnie telling me that, telling it to the players, and uh, and it was really important to to to hear that, because again, those players safety rules are there to not just protect the player getting it, but there to protect the player who's who gets who delivers the hit, And uh, and so that was you know, I thought Ronnie Lott stepped up and uh and really made an impact there. So that's
a that's a great story. Like we didn't know going into this show when I was putting the rundown together, like that was gonna come out of it. Like the
stories that you have are just it's amazing. And one thing I take away from that Ronnie lot stories, it just shows you the great player just make adjustments and and these guys who always make make excuses about stuff like yeah, they just they just they go away and they were And then Mike Tomlin made another comment in a meeting where you know, this is a guy that you know, was coaching a team that was you know,
that was winning. Um because of how physical they played and because of the you know a lot of you know a lot of what they were doing on the defensive side of all. They had good offense as well, um with Roethlisberger and and and and and some of the guys on the offensive side, but defense was what was doing it. And that's always been the Steelers kind of calling card um. And we kept hearing over and over, how am I, how am I supposed to make that play?
If I if I if I can't hit that guy in the head because of where my body is positioned, I can't. I can't not hit him in the head. How am I supposed to make that play? And Mike Tomlin stood up, and this is a guy who has a lot riding on on these games, and he said, you know what, sometimes you just can't make that play. You know, you just can't make playing that That's that's
the reality of it. If you if you've got to hit him in the head, you can't make that play that way because you're gonna hurt yourself, you're gonna hurt the player, you're gonna hurt the team. And we've got to figure out another way to do it. And and
that's the the amazing part about what NFL athletes. And I'm sure it's for other sports, but my experiences with NFL players, they adjust whatever rule change you throw at them, they adjust, and the fouls may you may get an uptick initially, but they tend to level off because players adjust, coaches adjust, and they know what they're doing. They know what techniques to teach, they know how to coach bad
technique out of the game. And you still see fifteen and sixteen fouls a game historically, even with all the players safety rules that have been added over the last however many years. And that's that's because the players and coaches know what they're doing and they know how to adjust and uh and and that's you know, that's what it is. But um so, if we're gonna say Mary Anno versus Ronnie Lott, who's the greatest forty two outside of Jackie Robinson, I'm voting for a lot. Dude cut
his finger off, can't lose. You can't see Mariana River being cut off my finger. Let me go pitch. Nor is his left hand? Maybe listen? And he pitched one inning a game. I'm sorry. He was great at what he did. But you pitched one in a game. Bro, this guy's out there, did you just wrote? Marianna River wrote, so toughness factor record the day, toughness Factor. And you pitched one inning. Bro, Let's put it on a shirt, Bro,
you pitch one in in Bro. If I was negotiating his contract and his agent came, was like, we want bro, you pitch one inning. Let's extract it like that. Of course, the whole scene, I think Stein Burner said that to them one time, to his agents, like, Bro, he pitches me and Steinbrenner got a lot in coming, Travis, Um, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with Ronny a lot because when you think of big hits, and if you pull up the tape on that guy, the hits are incredible,
Like he just hits people. They go down and he kind of just doesn't look like he's even phased. We had him recently on one of the FS one shows in the in the highlights that were playing when he was talking, the guy just leveled people and it just never seemed to face and he cut his finger off. And you know you pitched, Bro, you pitched one inning. I think I don't. And look I am I am as I am as anti Yankee fan as you will ever find um. And I always I do recognize the
greatness of Marianna Rivera, and he does. He did only pitch one inning, Bro, but it was the most important inning. And if we if anything, if anything, if anything history has taught us about baseball is the hardest three outs are the last three ounds. And those Yankee teams didn't have to worry about then ninth inning especially in the postseason. He was to worry about the last three outs I've watched, I've watched. I'm a Dodger fan, whatever team it is,
you don't it was over, like it was over. The closest that I experienced that from my team was when Eric Ganyer, and we know that that he wasn't doing it, you know, cleanly. But when Eric Ganyer, you know, saved whatever the record was, saves in a row like it was the lights out. He came in and the game was over. And that's what rap Rivera was throughout his career, especially in the postseason. All that said, screw the Yankees running. Yeah,
my cat, the Yankees is there to revent. Mariano Rivera closed that way to when he gains against my Twins of days. Twins crushed me every because I want the Yankees to lose. It's like, oh, the play Twins, playing the Twins, and it's like it's not even like a series. Now have won a game in New York in thirty years, right, it's, oh, my god, like it. And they've had good teams all right. The other here's one that I wanted to throw at you. I was thinking about this the other day. Um the
timing right. We have an hour, and I broke up the hour into four fifteen minutes segments, which fifteen minute minutes segment in the hour goes longest, feels the longest,
and which feels the shortest the longest in our strongest. No, in life, when you when you're sitting there and you have an hour, right, it's coming to say, it's coming up on four o'clock is four to four fifteen, four fifteen, four thirty, four thirty to four forty five or four forty five to five o'clock, which feels like the last one, the last one feel the longest, Yeah, because you start to get that anticipation like I'm almost getting ready to leave. Yeah,
I wanted to go down with something fun. Well, you have to you have to tell us that I'm thinking of ji. I just think on it on on. In general, for me, the one that feels the longest, I don't know why is thirty. I don't know why, Like, what is going on in your head? Do you actually think about these things? Quarrantine dude? So here's the other thing for me, how do you picture how do you picture time in your mind? I don't or or or dates. How do you picture that? Or days of the week?
See I picture it. I pictured day days of the week. There's boxes and it goes from right to left and Monday is the Sunday is the first box, and then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and it gets progressively the shading changes as you go through the week. Wow, you draw? Can you put this together? And I want an need to see this? What are you like, rain man? Now? What's going on? That's what I picture in my mind. The same thing for the
calendar in the month. It starts at one and it goes right to left and it works its way up and each It's like a calendar, but it's not like what you would normally picture a calendar. It's one line that goes across. Okay, it's a timeline. Yeah, it's just a timeline. You know how I picture of a calendar. Just open up your iPhone. It looks exactly like that goes the longest. For me, I've never once even considered thinking about that. Yeah, I have to. I have to
go with Joe on that. Like the only thing I would instantly think of. I wouldn't think of the fun things I'm doing. It's like you're not watching the clock. When you're doing that. It's like when you're thinking about getting out of work and you're like, Okay, can I duck out of here a little early? All right? So you're you're thinking about getting out of work. You have an hour left, you have an hour left in your day, and you know you can leave at five o'clock. It's
now four o'clock. Which one of those fifteen minutes segments is going to go the quickest? And which one? And you're doing the same thing, whatever your job is, you're doing the same thing. Which one is going to feel the quickest and which one is gonna feel the longest. I have to think the longest is just the last fifteen minutes. See, I don't think that way because at that you're already at the end. I kiss. Yeah, you see,
you're on the downslope of it. Maybe that four four thirty you're like, oh man, that's like, I just get the four thirty. I'll be, I'll be. I'm in the clear. I'm on the slope. But I want to get to four five because now i'll start packing up. You convinced me, so now I'm packing. So four thirty to four five is the biggest hump. See which set of your intensive exercise or whatever it was, is the hardest. It's always
the last. No, it's not. It's not the last because you're you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. That's this might be a poll. We should put this out because I think it's the end. I agree because when I'm doing these workout classes with my wife, I didn't want to talk about it earlier. I do these thirty minute workout classes my wife now in the garage. I don't throw up after him. But I tell you what when that when that instructor on YouTube tells me
ten seconds left, I'm like, gripping hard. I'm going, I'm going, and I'm down ten pounds two Dean. Nice workouts with your wife. Huh yeah, all right, that's cool. We're going to motivate her and she motivates me. Where are the eight kids when you guys are working out the two kids? This is the one time in the day when their naps will line up and we're able to get outside for a half hour. All right, cool? All right, well, let's you got a bonus. Let's go. Let's do bringing
Blendino people that smoke indoors? Okay, people who smokes indoors anymore? My aunt, my aunt does who smokes anymore? Period? Who smoked? No, there's people still smoke, but who people that smoke indoor is our next level? Like that's next level if you like, there's something. I'm not a smoker, and kids, remember don't smoke, okay, right, but there's some there's kind of like a badass tery element to somebody that just lights just in in your living room like a guest and just lights one up.
There's just like like that's that's giving absolutely no And and that was the norm for how long. Like we could smoke on airplanes back in the day. On airplanes, you could smoke in an office. You could smoke. Like there wasn't a boardroom in America where people weren't just right smoking eaters Like you're pretty you're pretty old, Dean was did you ever? Were you ever on a plane when people were smoking? No? God, how horrible that would be. I mean, I remember I remember bars. I remember bars,
and I remember smoking section in restaurants. Restaurants, Remember the way in the non smoking section was too long. I'd be like, all right, I'll go sit in the smoking section and then I'd get a pack of Marlboros from the from the cigarettes machine. Horrible. I don't even like doing Vegas casinos anymore because just a hard to breathe. Well, remember what your clothes smelled like after night out at
the bars and get smoking bars clowes smell like an amstrap. Well, that's what I always just always thought of, like asking people like how long is it until Vegas has smokeless casinos? Like will that happen? Like I don't know, because then because they would that would that would eliminate a big,
big portion of their of their customs. Yeah, there's one at every table, and and there's like just people that sit at the slots with their bucket and there and there, you know, the parliaments and they just go at it like pulling that we pulling that lever and smoking cigarettes. Um. But I do think that anybody that smokes indoors is is next level, Like without question, where did you even
come up with this? Like who's doing that? You've seen this recently at my aunt nuts my even my brother doesn't smoke inside that He'll go outside of the house and he doesn't give a half about a Yeah, my brother would even go outside. Now he's actually moved to the vaping. And then then then that's a whole new thing. It's like, well it doesn't smell, is it okay? If I do it inside? Now just go outside, dude. They want to do it that, they want to do it
in the tesla. Come on, bro, now they're coming no way right, No, the Tesla. Tesla, I think, doesn't tesla have an automatic ejection seat if it smells, No, but it doesn't know. But it does have a clean air filter filtration. It definitely does. Elon Musk is putting something and like you you if you smoke in a Tesla, they zap your life force and you live on top of the smoking. You live like an additional five years. I'm glad we talked about the testa because I was
gonna bring it up earlier. When you're talking about the cameras, because the I mean, the Tesla's got cameras all over them. They're constantly recording. If you scratch my car, I'll know what it was. You see now, although you're although you can't, you can't charge you Tesla at the Fox Lot for all the for all the great the great technology it has. You can best prank you've ever played. I don't know if it was a prank. I don't know, that might
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