Reclining seat rules discussion, XFL week 2 recap

And I just want to say, um, Joe, I feel like Travis is really blossoming. We're in the studio for XFL games on weekends now, and Travis is there. Joe is not. I think Travis is really letting loose. You know. You you take up a lot of real estate conversation wise, and um, you know, during the NFL season, a lot of a lot of Dean's words, not mine, Tesla talk and and then us and that and and the birds and the bees and all that. And Travis now it's like he comes in the hats on backwards. He's just

like letting loose. It's you want to you know when you guys, When you guys texted me earlier this week with as that joke like, hey, we found a spot for you, part of me kind of got excited, like all right, part of me is kind like I don't know, I'm kind of enjoying my weekends off. And then I got the silly picture and I realized it was a joke. But I've kind of been missing you guys. But it's glad to see that. Glad to see Travis is stepping

into his own We've missed you, that's for sure. But you know, Dean puts a lot of pressure on me to come in with new topics and things to talk about to keep him clicking. You know, he just gotta keep him always always going, and he's his brain to move at all times, that's right. And so I come in with with different things and I shed a little light on on the the inner Caucasian rattler. He definitely did, so we want to he came up with. He came

up with a hand gesture which is I didn't come up. Well, it's the Tampa Bay Vipers, the XFL Tampa Bay franchise. One of the is like the cornerback, like made a like made a big play and then did the viper hands signal, which is kind of like obviously you can't see, but it's like your your one arm up with the hand down like a like a like a viper ready to strike. And and we both looked at each other

and like that that's the Caucasian rattler right there. This this he's and he's like ready like you just you don't don't poke him, like he's ready to strike. Very docile animal. But if if you get too close, if you get too close, if you mess with this, you know, just don't mess with my ch or I'll strike. Okay, all right, on that note, let's with someone messing with somebody. We had the conversation of the weekend, and this has gone viral. Is the dude on it's I guess. It's

an American Airlines flight in the last row. Just what the ladies apparently, and Travis has done some research on this. We watched the video. We watched the extended version of the video. He's in the last row, she reclines. He I guess, Travis. He he asked her what talked us through? So so apparently the first time it happened. He was eating his dinner or lunch or whatever it was. I don't I don't know what time the flight was, and he asked if she could move up, and she did.

She bliged, she moved up, and he finished his meal and then she just said, I'm going to lean back again, which he finished his meal and that's all he asked for. So she leaned back again, and then he started. And I don't know what came first to the hard strike or if it was like it was tapping, there would know there was a there was an open hand tapping going on, like he was listening to music and he was tapping. Then there was then there was a pretty

good shot, like a one off shot. And then I think the one that everybody was looking at was just the It was like the speedbag, the little little like That's what I used to do, Me and my brother would do, like to annoy each other, like I got less, I got less, I got the one in punch is the one we always did. But this, but this, this created a debate in in the social media world and in the world of to to recline or not to recline, even to where the CEO of Delta, who's like loving this.

He's like, it's not us, he's like loving this, but I'm gonna chime in and he's like, you know, you should you should ask permission or to recline that stuff? There Has anyone ever asked the person behind? I never have either, never even thought of that. I don't. So here's my thing. What I do is I put that lean back song on I've had right before happen, so I I can appreciate. I get it, like because if you're in coach and you're eating and somebody leans back,

that makes it really tough. It makes it like the tray comes into you. So I can appreciate that. Um, I don't personally, I don't recline when I'm in coach, Like, I just don't. Like, I don't like when people reclined to me. I don't recline back when I'm in coach, So I just don't. So what I do though, when

somebody does, like recline, I don't. I'll do the like the accidental you know, I'll make it kind of uncomfortable for them, but accidentally once like once or twice, not like I'll like get up and give it, give it like a little a little bit of a push you to or I'll reach for like something in the in the seat in the pocket and I'll just you know, give it a little shake. Just nothing but not but that's it just just it makes me feel better. But it's not like a thing. But I don't know, like Travis,

where where do you stand on the recline thing? Recline that at will if you if you have a seat that reclines, that's what it's there for. Recline all you want, Like you don't need to ask anyone's permission, Like so there's no You're just You're just a recliner. Not not at the time. It depends, like if it's a morning flight and I'm tired, or a nighttime flight. If I'm gonna red eye, I'm gonna recline, I'm gonna. I'm I'm a taller guy, six one, Dan, you and I are

six one, so we need the extra room. I'm six one also, But I mean, I I recline if if I want to. I mean, I think there's no law. There's no rule of the rule. Is you if if you see recliins, you can recline. I agree. I just feel like there should be some. I don't know, it just doesn't. Sometimes I feel like people there's reckless reclining going on, like I do. But I feel like it's not like you're just you. You're you're not tired, you're working,

you're doing, and you're just reclining. And I don't I don't know. I pretty much full time recline. You're the guy who has to get told wake up, recline your put yourself dude. I hate when they I think that the those rules are just the silliest rules. Is not going to go down a lot of those rules to

keep it, Like the phone, the selfs and stuff. They said that people like the amount of cell phone used that would have to take place for it to impact the flight, the actual navigation, whatever of the operation of the plane. Would it would never ever come near it, you know, with with passengers on a flight. But um, I've been on record saying I I never want to get no fight in my life. But if that dude was jabbing my chair, it was just he was acting

like I mean it, obviously he's in the wrong. Now this has gone even now she's she has like Travis was telling me, like she's of character or something. So I when I first saw it, I was like, why is this person taking their their beef to the social media realm? Like why can't you just handle this on your own? Why didn't you do that? And apparently this happened in January. January thirty one was when the flight

took place. It was a short like a two hour flight from like New Orleans to Charlotte or or vice versa. And and she she didn't she didn't release a video right away released last week. And when she first reach out to American Airlines, she just DM them saying, Hey, I've been having these neck problems. I had neck surgery, i had multiple neck or vertebrae fused, and I've been having neck injury or neck pain and headache since then. So they didn't they didn't reply. They just blew her off.

And then she took to social media for her case. And now she's she's suing and she said your people can get ahold of mine. So I heard he was suing. Well, I didn't see that character who but Amaron Allies didn't take the video. Hey I don't know he's on their plane.

You can't sorry, Yeah, he's in the wrong and I want to know what he was watching on his phone to figure out, like, don't you doesn't everyone know you're being recorded at every moment every day much It kind of made me think, though, what are some of the what are some of the air airplane rules that people should abide by? Like to me, one of the things

that drives me crazy is this whole sweet seat switching thing. Okay, now, now if you I get it, like some people for whatever reason, you you book flights and you you know your your husband and your wife you can't sit together, okay to me, short flight, spend some time a part like I'm I'm fine, Like you don't need to sit right like it's not now, I get it. Like kids, honeymoon that's okay, that's fine if your honeymooner is fine, but kids, you need to sit with the kids. I

get it. So I I understand their situations. We have to switch what bothers me? And this has happened to me where the person just takes the liberty of sitting in your seat and then and then and then asking oh would it be okay? I'm like, well, you're already you've already set up camp, like you you you placed the flag down, and you're saying like what I'm I'm so now you're putting it on me to be a complete dick to say, actually, no, no, no, no, So to me, you don't sit in the other person's seat.

You wait for them to come to their aisle and then you ask them there's another way. Can we agree? That very often and I don't understand how that's even possible. You pick your seat. I just booked two flights. You pick your seat. I get it, it happens sometimes people flight late booking plane, air airplane too. No, I I get I get the need to switch at times. But here's the deal. Well, what if it's a middle seat

for there? You go? There? There has seat equality, There has to be Look, you can talk about draft capital. There has seat capital. Now if you you cannot say I'm in I'm in a middle seat and I want to trade you and you can, he can I have that aisle seat, and I'm gonna give you my middle seat. That doesn't work. That that doesn't you gotta then you gotta sweet in the pot. You gotta throw. You gotta

throw in either. You know, I'll give you my aisle seat on my next flight, or you gotta throw in drink, drink a drink. You can't. No way. Now, if I'm going I'll to a middle that should be a no brainer. If I if I'm saying, look, my wife is is on the window, I'm on the aisle. I'd like to switch with you. You're in the middle, like, because you're you're, you're giving up more capital than what than what you're But that that bothers me more into this role. You

guys are obviously tall. The size play a role in you know, middle I don't like I'll never say in the middle seat because I'm too big. I don't like middle seats, the middle seat. And just when I mean like, I just have very broad shoulders. Some girls, yes, you're you're you're a big guy. You know, broad shoulders, shoulders, sways, swimmers shoulder V neck a V shape so water polo no, But if I swim so I'm I think that that

should come into play. And I also think that when you sign up for this this flight and you pick a seat, you should have to list your height and weight so that I know I'm not sitting next to a three pound dude. Oh wow, that'should take it to the level. So when I go on the seat map, yeah, I get like six too, Like no, no, you got a four eleven nineties two. I'm in well that that there's always that, like you're always hoping, like sometimes if if I'm sitting on us, will never happen. I happened

to me. Happened to me coming from Scottsdale. If you check you no, no, I got next to a four. You're waiting, You're seeing people come down, come down the aisle, and you're praying. Sometimes they don't or that. On the Southwest flight south I don't understand Southwest with the with the eye of the numbers, what is Southwest all about? I don't fly Southwest. You get a number, yeah, how early you check in, and if you have like higher status, you get like the better a number, like a lower

eight number, so you get on first. The thing that and the other thing is we need to do a better job of policing the the people that need extra time to board like that. That is and and it's impossible. It's like it's like officials. It's like faking injuries. Players fake injuries. Officials have to honor it. The gate agent that gain agent can't be like you're okay, Like, dude, what's wrong with you? And my question why do they make kids and parents get on first? Like little kids?

I would prefer getting on last. Well, then you're not sitting there with your with your child, who's you know, forty five minutes later, it's already tired of me and yeah, I kind of I'm I'm with you on that. I just think, to me, I think that we just need to do a better job of of There needs to be some kind of like that dude Glenn we talked about that was not disabled. There needs to be some kind of proof, not a proof, but just a bar, like a standard. If I have a limp, I I

shouldn't get on. I currently have a limp. Yeah. See, so you're gonna you're you need extra time to board? Come in. I'm yeah, I'm flying soon. I would. I'm just I just want to befriend the people, you know, the dude in the wheelchair, and then I'm on. I'm on first. Right, I've got a boot. There you go, just if you can borrow anytime you're like the other thing I was gonna say is talking to the flight attendant before, like if you're if you're with you know

I have a small child. I have two small children. But the first time with my daughter we flew with her, we talked to the flight attendant we got on first and said, hey, if there's any way there's someone in this middle seat, can we move them to another seat? And they were super cool with us and did it twice on both to and from and they were like, because you gave her. The Caucasian rattleson. What's the craziest thing you've ever seen on a flight? I've got one

flight flight to Cabo. Stewardess comes walking through. I'm sorry. Flight attendant comes walking through. Would you like a drink? Sir? This guy goes how many beers you got on the plane? She's like, I don't know, no one they ever asked you that before she goes back, comes backtally have sixty four beers. He goes, I'll take them all. There's three bachelor parties on the plane. So he everybody's like, what do you what do you mean you're taking all the beers?

And he's like, everybody relaxed. He stands up, he pulls a beer bong out of his carry on and he goes. All the beers are free to on this plane if you take it out of this and the whole plane went insane? Is that even like? But I feel like that's against like f a rule du something. It was I experience. It was back there taking beer bongs. They're passing the beer long around two people and from where was The flight was from l A to Cobo, So you didn't have to wait to get to Cobbo to

get a disease. Come on, but you know, if you gotta, you gotta let me the whole You gotta what about you? You you fly the most. That's the craziest thing you've seen, you know, I haven't, Like I was thinking about it. I've never I've seen a ton of arguments. I've seen people argue with flight attendants. I've seen our people argue with each other. I've never seen like a physical altercation. Um, you know, not not a lot I did have. I did. I did fly. I was flying from Denver two, New

York or New York to Denver. And I get on the plane and the pilot is Sully. How do you know if I recognize him? I got on and he's like welcoming people and I'm like and then and so it was the one time I was on a plane where I wanted some ship to go down, Like I was like, this is the one. Like if we're gonna have any kind of we're gonna have issues. We got the guy, like, we got the guy. Let's engine failure. We're good. Like Sully is on the flight. Yeah, I

don't even know what he really looks like. I thought that was Tom Hanks. I'm gonna pull him up now. So he's got like there, he's got a mustache. I'm you know, you probably don'tee anything crazy because you're probably not. You're probably not flying coach these days. You're probably the first. That's the thing with the CEO comments, it's like, oh, when was the last time this guy wrote in coach?

He's driving private first class? This guy is this him? This? Yeah? Okay, now I know if he's ever or did he retire? Got a crazy flight story? I got nothing. I can't remember yesterday, let alone, He's not I didn't say it. He did say it over the weekend. Yeah, all right.

He was talking to Joanna, our makeup or makeup person about like the conversation was just I was like, really, she started in on me, and he's like talking about like breastfeeding, like the difference between breastfeeding and formula, and then they started talking about health insurance. I didn't. I didn't on the game, and this is like what are

we doing here? Like then you know, he said, well, you know the formula, you can you digested or whatever she's telling me, and I'm like, okay, baby up or it was I was just being friendly listening, all right, and well I didn't want any of that. To take a break. We come back. We're gonna do XFL Week to recap or talk a little NBA maybe like baseball those changes. Astro's apology again again x on good calls. All right, we're back. Let's uh, let's go into XFL

Week two. Week one really overwhelming success. I think I think everyone was. I was excited about what they saw. And obviously you know this this is where it gets into Okay, now, now are people gonna come back or can can the XFL sustained this this success? It was an interesting weekend. Um the first games, the two games on Saturday, you know not I mean d C blew out New York, New York. They were they're really good.

New York didn't play well offensively, and I think again, when you talk about a new league like this, offense that's gonna be that's gonna be something that is going to draw fans and gonna keep people watching. So you want that that kind of you know, the offensive team, the offensive wars, back and forth, all of that. So we really didn't see that on Saturday. And then Sunday there were two really good games. UM games went you know,

one score games, the St. Louis Houston game. UM. I think both of those teams were probably those two d C. I think those are probably the teams right now. They are playing the best and uh, and we'll see how it goes. We UM. It was interesting you look at the number of fouls the first week they were they

were down twelve and a half thousand game. There were more fouls in week two, and a lot of these fouls are our line of scrimmage fouls, and I think these are things especially you know, you see this in the NFL first couple of weeks of the season. Fouls are up because in the NFL has preseason games, and but a lot of the starters don't play in the

preseason games. So you will see you know, more mistakes and more of those procedural penalties, formations not getting lined up correctly, false starts early on in the ENDFL season. And I think that's what we saw in Week two of the XFL fall starts were up, delay of games, tune, he met on the field, defense, those types of things.

So I think those things will get cleaned up. And uh and again I think what we saw and I think in the two games on Sunday or encouraging um some offensive I think you've got some quarterbacks that are that are I think are pretty pretty good. You know the p J. Walker who plays for the Roughnecks. Um, I mean he's he's legit. I mean he looks like playing. You know, Cardel Jones d C is playing well. Tomu Um on St. Louis is playing well. I mean, so

you've got some quarterbacks. It was it was Landry Jones first game for Dallas. You know he's coming off an injury. He looked a little rusty. Um, but you know, if he gets going. I think New York has to figure out Matt mcgloyd, who was an NFL veteran, really hasn't played well and which that's surprising to me. I thought he would play much. Kevin Gilbride is a good offensive mind. I thought he'd be better and you have. And I thought that. You know, Josh Johnson with l A has

showed some flashes. They played, you know, they played better. Um, you know this week the defense played better. And uh so, I think again, the quarterback play is really going to be a big driver in terms of how successful the league is. One of the things you know, we talked about. Um, you know, Travis is like all in on this idea. Joe,

he he is, he will not shut up about again. Travis. Well, so, I just I wanted to kind of, you know, ruffle some feathers maybe, but just make this thing, make the XFL something where it's it's an opportunity for guys coming out of high school to play football professionally. Like why are they forced to go play in college if they want to go you know professional. We don't, we don't. We don't get upset when guys skip college to start you know, their their start up, their app or whatever.

Like the guys don't need to go to college anymore. It's a different work. They go to the minor leagues. And minor leagues if you want to get paid, Like, here's your way. The XFL can be differentiated to self from the NFL and say let's get let's get these guys straight out of high school. It's if a guy goes to college for one year, says, you know, Trevor Lawrence, like, I want to go play. I want to get paid.

You're gonna play less games in the XFL. Like these these high caliber teams in college football are playing fifteen games if they're going to the National Championship. XFL, you're playing twelve games with a playoff in the in the championship games. So you're playing less games, you're getting good film, you're playing against high level talent, the guys who have all played on NFL rosters. Like, to me, it seems

like a good thing. Like why why can't Vince McMahon say I don't need to do any favors to the n c double A. Let's get these kids. Let's get these kids out here. You know, if only we knew somebody who knew Vince, I could actually bring this up to him. Yeah, when you're talking to him, just let him know who came to you with this idea, my buddy Travis, get him my number. Really interested in us going after some some high end college talent that that is not draft colligeible in the NFL. Why not? It

sounds amazing. I think a couple of the issues. And I know this. I mean I could see the Caucasian rather being a thing in the w W E oh God, can idea too if you talk to imagine that like and he would be all like he would Travis, like rollerblade to the ring and just it would be in his in his Ario speedwagon, like torque shirt and cut off you know, his shorts and stuff. I don't know where he comes up with this stuff. I've never warned any of those things. I don't know. I'm just thinking

of what white guys would wear. But so what do you think of that idea? You don't like it or I don't look, I get it. I think it would make sense for certain I think there is that that you you worry about the you know a you know that's not going to go over well with the n c A and these in the universities. Um so you're you're really the XFL. I don't think would be welcome on those universities in terms of scouting those players and

doing things like that. UM, I think I think it makes sense for some for some players, I think it makes sense. I don't think of Trevor Lawrence. Is I'm just thinking of me. Okay, I'm eighteen, and am I going to give up three years at Clemson in college? I'm I'm getting an education, I'm playing at a high level. I'm getting good coaching. I'm gonna go to the NFL if I don't get hurt, I'm gonna be a top pick. Is it worth like going to the XFL and making what?

I don't know. I don't know what the XFL would pay somebody like that, um, or even if they would want to, and to what to give up that experience? I don't know. I don't know. I love college. I did five years, you know, like I did the Van Van Wilder senior senior or fifth year senior year. So I love. But I mean, if you want to make money, if the XFL is willing to do it, like I think there's a lot of guys who would say I

want to get paid. I don't know. We'll bring up all your high school a high school players out there listening. Travis has got you trying to get you paid. Yeah, I can be your agent. To Travis is that that's his that's gonna be his niche. He's gonna be the player agent for the guys that don't want to do three years out of high school. It's like one guy I mentioned to you, Dean that that could have probably

went high school to the NFL was Adrian Peterson. And did it do any any good to go to Oklahoma? I don't know, just more wear and tear on his on the tires, But I mean the guy is still playing, so yeah, he probably could have went from from high school in the in the NFL. Oh, there's guys that could do it without question. Um. There there's guys I mean that are just they're just growing men coming out

of high school and they can go in. But I also think, and one of the are the arguments against I've just her you know, it's that the guy, that kid coming out of high school, there's one Adrian Peterson is a one off those Your your body is not developed.

When you talk about going in like the NBA is one thing, but when you start talking about playing in the NFL and the physicality and all of that when you're talking about grown ass men that are and the seventeen eighteen year old kid is not developed to where they need to be. UM, and so you do worry about just the you know, the injury factor and things like that. So UM, it's an interesting, interesting debate. UM. The other thing we saw from the XFL, which Travis

loved was the bud Light Seltzer. Sponsor is the postgame interviews and they have a bud Light Seltzer on the on the podium on the on the day is we are watching the press conference and Nelson Spruce after the l A game and dudes drinking one and has another in front. So so the sponsorships always being shown, but he's sitting there having a having a ice cold Seltzer, much like we are right now. Yes, this has become a tradition for the show. Here we come over and

crack a white natural lights. But today I decided to and now this thing is giving me ahead. It's terrible. It's really this one doesn't taste good. This is the natural light we need to try. I've tried it. They're for free and they were they were good. Those bud Light selzers aren't bad and free is always a good number. Alright, so XFL we'll see what happens. Week three, the Dunk Contest NBA had everybody talking Aaron Gordon, people saying he

got robbed. I'm I'm like, honestly, I haven't watched the full dunk contest, and I don't know how many years I think the dunk contest. I'm old school. I remember when Jordan's and Domino Web and these guys were done, name from the Knicks, you know, like Kenny remembers Dr j as well too. I mean I remember Dr j So, I remember Dr Jeff um So. I mean I remember those dunk contests, and look and the the athleticism that these guys are are are are exhibiting is unbelievable. But

it's just not the same. It's not. And then you know, the like the controversy now was basically Derek Jones wins the dunk Contest. Aaron Gordon's last dunk he jumped over Taco Fall. Now, I think Taco Fall. Even if he leaves the NBA, he should just be at the Dunk Contest every every year as a potential prop But he Aaron Gordon uses taco fall to jump over it was it's a ridiculous dunk, but it's not. He didn't jump. I'm sorry he didn't jump over him. He grabbed the ball,

pushed off, and then dunk. Still ridiculous. I thought that that's probably the one dunk I did see and he did not. He it's not like he grabbed the ball in clear taco fall. But look, I couldn't do that in my wildest dreams. But it's not a fifty. Like like people that the fifties are thrown out way too easily. Why is every dunk of fifty? Every dunk is a fifty? Now it's not. And every dunk we talked about this before. Every day over everybody goes crazy about Like at the

comedy shows, everyone last everyone, everyone goes crazy everyone. Every dunk is not a fifty. But I love how Now. The conspiracy theory is that Dwayne that the the the judges had predetermined that they were going to score it the same and go into a dunk off, and Dwyane Wade was like, screw that and and went rogue. But how do you go rogue on a on a fixed like you're fixing the contest. Like what the story I read was that he was just wanted his former teammate

to win. I just think, to me, the dunk contest, like it's dumb. I'm not used to be but that, but back in our day, but I did, and now Travis, I feel like it's somewhat obsessed. I I I let Travis in on this kid that I saw. I saw a video. If you haven't seen this video, it's funny. Go just just google YouTube. Gary Payton white kid dunk

and it's great. And so Gary, I don't know if it was like a basketball camp and Gary Payton, former NBA player Glenn Robinson is there and they pull this kid out of the crowd and there's kind of a joke on Gary, kind of a joke on Gary Payton that he this kid comes out of the crowd and he's gonna dunk. And he's like just normal looking white kid. He's about six one and he starts doing the most ridiculous dunks you've ever seen in Gary Payton's face is amazing,

like amazing easy. So this kid's name is like Jordan Kilgore. He's from Canada and he's like a professional dunker, that's what his wikipedias professional professional dunker. Now this if this kid that would be I would watch that. If he were in the NBA Dunk Contest with the NBA players, I would watch it and he I think I think he could win. He's six one and the guy can fly, like the same same size as you guy, Yeah, same

size as His dunks are a lot like ours. I keep reading everybody wanting Lebron to to come do the dunk contest, like that's a big thing. Lebron need to come to the dunk contest. I didn't think he was that great. It would it would be That's just like the Jordan's Dominique dr J. The best players doing it I think would make it more exciting. I still think like Aaron Gordon, Aaron Gordon and these guys, they're better dunkers, like more, they're more amazing dunkers than Lebron. But people

would watch Lebron. You know what, I'd like to imform a rule you have to be an all star to join the dunk contest. Boom. I think they all star you know what. I think that's a great rule. I think it's a good rule. I think you do the everybody Star Weekend, and so all of the skills competitions are based on you were an All Star, nobody else. Everybody else has to go in the stands. You shouldn't even be allowed to come. I think you didn't make it.

You didn't make it, you'd go to Florida this right, Well, it's like I said, I think they gotta do something. Now what they did do I liked what they did with the All Star Game. Did you watch the fourth quarter the All Star Game? Yeah? Well one fifty seven was was the number, and it was it was actually exciting. They had the officiating there was like there was a big time charge call right Hardened. Hardened hits the game winning three and they called him for an offensive foul

and it was a good call. They had a review on a on a on a nice block on on Lebron. They scored at a goaltend. They scored it a basket and it was unbelievably close. It was one of the closest players I've seen where it was almost like the ball hit the backboard and Janice hit it at the same time. Then they had, uh, they challenged the game winning Anthony Davis. They're they're up there, they're one away

from winning. Um. I think it was Kyle Lowry. Lowry fouls Anthony Davis on an inbounds pass um down onto the basket. They challenged that challenge up hell. The Anthony

Davis shits wanted to they win the game. But it was like it was pretty exciting, like it was, And but what was giving me hives was watching Spike Lee on the court, like going crazy in a game that people actually cared about, because all it did was bring me back to Spike Lee against the Pacers at Mats Square Garden when Reggie Miller, when when I'm sitting there going if this mother doesn't sit the down, I him going to if he does, he not realize what he's doing.

He's Reggie Mills points in the fourth quarter and egging him off, like what are you doing? Like, what are you doing? He should make a movie about that. That. Well, they did a thirty thirty Reggie against the next We scored nine points in the in the last like whatever, and he fouled Greg Anthony. He should have never happened. And then Charles Charles Smith got fouled against the Bulls, and God, I can't deal with your memory so bad, because then then they should have beat the Bulls when

they and they had they had the best team. It was nine three, they went up to nothing against the Bulls. John starts, loses his mind. He head tries to head Bud Jordan's and they lose four straight. That team should have beat the Bulls. That team should be the balls. That team was, and those teams were not as talented Patrick Ewing didn't have Patrick. It was Ewing. Oh Lookalley Mason.

That that team at Doc Rivers Starks, Greg Anthony, I mean, but what they didn't have Michael Michael Jordan's Scottie Pippen. I've I've finally build card right, he made everybody better. I get I get it, but still it just still pains me to think about it. Um, let's uh, let's take a break, we come back, let stock baseball rules changes and uh, and then we're gonna get into a little bit of we're gonna break down the Rocky movie tournament.

Brackett next on Good Calls. All right, we're back Good Calls. Last segment. We're gonna bring it this segment. I don't care if Joe says he's tired. Travis he's got a new baby. We're bringing it. Baseball rules changes. What do you like? What don't you like? I like this rule? So you you now have to face three batters a minimum and with with the incoming pictures. Um, when you when you bring a reliever, they have to face three guys either finished the halfenning or you have to face

a minimum three batters. I love it. I think it's great because what happens, especially in the postseason. Oh my god, it's like lefty bringing the lefty. Now we got a righty bringing the righty, lefty bring the lefty. Like you see three four batters in a row. And these guys, these relief pictures, they're pitching there like two guys a week, and and they're they're specialists. Although you know Dave Roberts doesn't do that against the Nationals when he could have

left cars against Soto. But anyway, love that, love that rules change. Um, you know, I think baseball has bigger problems though. When you talk about the Astros and their apology, Uh,

a lot of people are fired up, fired up. I saw something on Instagram today about the number of hit hit batsman for the Astros and a half or something well, Dusty Baker, I mean, the Astro's new manager, Dusty Baker is like trying to you know, preemptively, you know, combat that saying I hope Baseball, you know, takes a look at this and doesn't, but you could guarantee. I mean, this is gonna be all year on the road. It's

gonna be it's gonna be tough. I think said Breman is gonna get hit over and over and over because there's something about that guy. You just want to punch him in the face right now. That wasn't me. I don't I hate base Travis is just fired up about it. Somebody else I was talking to. I'm not a big baseball fan, but you know, I just don't think they they cheated and they really haven't. The apology was not I think it fell short and even the commissioner, Rob

Manford said that it was not successful. The apology um and I think like Antonio Brown's Antonio Brown. Did you see Antonio Brown's comments Joe about the XFL. Somebody needs to Antonio Brown needs to stop talking like if he really wants it's serious, does not have friends. They need to like keep him away from he. I don't know, he's probably hilarious, Like if you've were friends with him, you'd probably laugh your ass off constantly. But he said he doesn't. He doesn't want to mess with the XFL

because it's not it's not the top. Okay, yeah, it's not the NFL. We get it. And he's like, he doesn't want to hang out with sixty dudes that are gonna be jealous of a B getting all the touchdowns and getting all the girls that they be wanted. Quote that's the quote. Like the guys are in the locker room going, man, I don't I know, this is my last chance and I really got to focus and get back to the I want to get back to the NFL. It's my lifelong dream of playing football for a career.

And that that guy is taking girls like that guy is taking Why is a B here he's taking all our girls like that? Like really, not only is he scoring all the touches, scoring all the touchdowns, and he's taking all the girls, Like is that really? Is that what they're gonna be thinking? Is that what they're gonna be thinking. I think the guy's got a point. It made me think, what are the rules of the locker room, Dean. I mean, don't steal all the girls. Don't steal all

the girls? Like what but don't? It's just like really maybe, like really like if I want to be friends with him, because I'm gonna be like, I'm gonna call like every time, like dude. He's like what, Like dude, what? What? Like? Who'd you talk to today? No one? Who'd you talk to today? You talk to somebody from the athletic No? No, she told me she's talking to you now. Who? Oh god, Abe, where did you? Where did you? Show's upset because here

they're in our past. In our past. He feels like there was maybe once or twice where he was interested in in someone and that they ended up not this is not true. They ended up complete. I'm cutting all this. I have the power of this. All right, that's fine, that's fine. Um okay, I saw something on social media and I want to do it with you guys. Um the Rocky Movie bracket and this so basically, they took all the Rocky movies and they had an n c A tournament bracket style and uh, and came up with

a winner. So what what give me the final? We're not gonna do the whole thing, but give me the final matchup and the winner one verses four, one verses four. Now now, Travis, Travis, what is your final Travis? I think I only saw a part of Rocky one. He only saw I gotta I gotta do this one. I gotta do it. He only with honestly, what is wrong with you? You don't know what is wrong with you? Do not like America? Do you not like Italians? Yeah?

Which one is it? What's maybe a little column A, a little column B. You're part of the rampant discrimination against Italian Americans. No, I just I don't know. I was. I just have to remember I was pretty young when that came out, and then I could put on I guarantee you I can put on cable right now and and on one of my five channels, one of the Rocky movies will be on. And it doesn't like that that argument. I hate when people say that, like, oh that was you know, I was pretty young when that

came out. Because it's stopped, it never never plays anymore. Every time. If if I turn on the TV and I see it, it's going on, it's going on. That's fine. You guys can sit here and brave me about this. But it's uh, I just haven't watched it, and maybe it's good getting an invite to Slice house. You never I know, So if you know there's gonna be a slide party, then we're gonna get invited. And you're not watched the movie. I'll watch the movie if I IF I if I get to invite to slides again, and

then I can bring some friends. We're not in the list, and I'm I'll be like sly if what if my friend has never seen any of the Rocky movies? Good? Why? Why are you kidding me? You know what you did? What are you doing? I'm watching Rocky at home. Yeah right, I'll be right there. I'll pause it, but you know the recorder so I can watch it later. Why are you like he just made fun of American eyes. You don't see us making fun of Napoleon Dynamite. Yeah exactly.

I have a poster of him on my wall. So okay, so you're Rocky and who's winning? Four? I love four? Dude. Like when I go up to the snow, I just grab a log and start running up. We had Scott kind of threw me for a loop. Scott that works in the studio with us, because Scott had Rocky one and Creed, and he had Creed winning. No, he had Creed winning. I liked Creed, but it's not in my it's not making them. It's not making the championship game. Creed don't make the Final four, but it's not making

the championship game. I'm I'm one. I knew you're gonna I knew you were gonna go. I'm a one. Three, I just three has a lot of elment. How many are there? Let's just start there. So there's there's there's one through five, then there's Rocky Balboa, then there's Creed and then Creed too, So forget about five five was not great, and then and then you know Rocky Bubba, okay, five one with Tommy Tommy Morrison. Five five is a

is a street fight. The final fight is a street There's yeah, so he kind of went a little bit. But I still I think people don't I like Rocky two. I mean I don't think you know, a lot of people don't think it's obviously as good as Rocky one. But one in three and I think one wins. But like in overtime, how do you not like four is so good? There's it's right. It's like country versus country. It's four great. And he and he, you know, he he basically gets the Soviet Union to like us like he,

you know, with his grit and his and his determination. Um, but I I think one in three, I mean, Mr T. I think should have been up for some not Oscar nomination, like Oscar consideration. And in Rocky three, I'm not. I'm not. That's not an exaggeration. He was. He was legit in that movie. He played that role to a t. I'm gonna do my best to find Rocky and watch it one of these nights when my son's up in the

middle of the night. Speaking of acting. Just before before we wrap this up, I just want you to know if you ever die in a boxing match, I'm gonna avenge your death team. I will go. I will go to Russia and run up on Christmas and while my robot at home was watching your children. So if I die in a in a in a exhibition match that was not supposed to be that serious, but you, but you actually you're the reason I die because you didn't throw in the towel. Well you told me not to.

You look me in the I and said, don't you dare throw that? You better not throw in the towel, and I'd be like, give me the keys of the range first. That's the other conversation. Okay, So if if you're what what are what are the car brands that when you just say the name, somebody says, oh, what kind of car do you drive? And you say this, it has that kind of like whoa like where do where does it? Like? Like okay, Ferrari, Yeah, we get it. Lamborghini. Yes,

if it's a Lamborghini SUV, go kill yourself. But so Antonio Ferrari, Lamborghini, Like where what are the ones that like? Poor me? Porsche Porsches up there? I should love Maserati until they came out with downplayed their brand. I think it does too. I think it does too. Asad Martin, Yes, there's one starts with a T. No, everybody's like too, that guy is a badass and he's saving the world.

At the same time, the Tesla is not. Tesla was an eighties band and by the and by the way, if you would have invested in their stock, you would have done very well. I missed out on that. We all missed out on that. But I still think though that that all I want is Ellen to make that freaking underground rail system or whatever he's got working, so we can well tess Tesla's going at first. So get off, get out of the way because they're st on the road. You're Santa fe is not gonna make it. I don't

care where they are, Just get him off the road. Like, Tesla is the most common car you see, it is by far the most common cars. Like it's like there's another test. There's a has bypassed the priests. You won't see one. It has pass bypassed the prius. The Tesla's But speaking of acting, Bernon Davis has got some jobs. H did you see the video? You haven't seen the video? Jo Burn Davis? Is he still? Is he still? He just retired. He retired in the Fox piece in the

pregame show, he just retired. He has his own production company and he's they just completed a movie that he's in and they asked him there in the interview to give them a little preview of his acting, and he did. And now it's a meme. What is that you're watching? TMZ forget it anyway, he starts crying on or something like trying to cry on que and it was like

it was somewhere between. It was somewhere between, like it was a really upset emotional orgasm, like it was just like, well, the the what was its sports centers, like, hey, can you you just give us a line from the movie, and he just starts crying, like fake crying things like and and the whole time you're waiting for him to deliver the line and he never delivers the line. It's so bizarre. It was bizarre. But now it's now it's

a mere here. I got it for you here. Oh it's unavailable, all right, so but anyway, check it out before we go. I would like Travis did UM song lyrics a couple of good and there was a song that I was listening to, and I want Travis to read the lyrics to this song because this is I was thinking, it's like top five creepiest songs of all time. So I want you to just google song lyrics for UM Bruce Springsteen I'm on Fire, and I want you

to read. I wanted to read the lyrics too, because I was listening to the song and I and yeah, you can't see. I'm not allowed. They're gonna have to cut that right there is right here, right, they don't have to do all right? Hey, little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go away and leave you all alone? I got a bad desire? Oh oh, I'm on fire? What is like? I was? I've always liked that song, and then I'm listening to the lyrics and I'm going,

this is not no, this is awful. This is like the worst, like this is your you keeping this guy away from your kids, keeping this guy away from your daughters. Unbelievable. Tell me now, baby? Is he good to you? And any do to you? The things that I can do? Oh no, I can take you higher what they Oh? I wish I'm on fire? Which people could see? Travis? The visual is actually better than the audio. I don't know. All right? On that note, you know what, do you

want to hit a brand of Lindido? Oh? Yeah, you should? We should? Should? I keep reading this? It is making me very uncomfortable. I have a daughter. I'm looking deeply into your eyes. Everybody uncomfortable? Right, all right, let's go brand of Bandido? Oh my god, Travis friend always calls for something, but does a good job of small talk before asking almost too good. Oh okay, so yes, Wow,

you just perked up. So I have So I have this friend that you know, like you call somebody you called myody, and you want to ask for something, but you don't want to call. It's not like you're not like like a best friend. You're just like, dude, hey, whatever, I need this, I need that. It's like a it's not a best friend, but it's like a friend. But you you you need to ask for something, but you want to make small talk and then slip it into

the conversation. So he every time he calls me, he he talks about the small talk like he does, and he does such a good job that like it's so caught up in it. Like he was like he knows exactly, like what the great topic is and what I'm gonna be interested in, and we like for twenty minutes I'm on the phone and I'm like this is amazing conversation. And then and then he's like, oh, and you know I need ten grands. I'm like, yeah, dude, right to check.

Like he's unbelievable at it, like unbelievable like the like could small talk anybody into anything? I gotta meet this guy. Yeah, I gotta tip you gotta you need some tips. Absolutely, you only sue tickets. Yeah, I'm again with the SUPERO. He's like he asked, like all the really like knows what you're into, Like what's going on? Like he'd be like, oh, dude, I just watch Rocky did My Mother scene. And then

I'm like, yeah, it's the best movie. I'm earned. You're getting higher and higher and then he and he's like, oh, I need those. Can you take my dry cleaning to the family. Oh dude, I had the best one earlier this week. One of my friends text me and he's like, hey, dude, hit up Blandino. See if you get us some XFL tickets. I go, brother, twenty dollars. I'm not, it's very affordable. I'm not. That's not the favor I'm looking to get x I was very affordable hundred dollars for a family four.

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