Walter Payton-Last Dance reaction, how the 2020 NFL draft will work, and group text rules defined.

actually so I think this is episode thirty four. It's shock, it's not Larry byrd. You know what, that's a good idea. Let's let's label each episode by a famous athlete with that number. Basically, once we get to ninety nine, we're not gonna be able to do it, but we can at least get to ninety nine. I know who's obviously we we can get to Wayne Gretzky. All right, let's let's make it the goal is to get to Wayne Gretzky. Al right, So this is episode on the Tew years

of the show. Who's Your Who's Your Most Famous? Thirty four looking, I'm looking it up shout before right, you're showing not three, right, Yeah, but I think we might have skipped one. Joe might be right. It's not just the audio guy. He can count too. I'm so good accounting. I love the optimistic message behind you, Jail. Better days

are coming. Speaking of better days are coming, let's talk about the current situation, the current environment, Travis updates, cancelations, Hopefully, hopefully pretty soon we'll be talking about and I know we've got a couple of updates, will be talking about when things are going to start up again. That's the goal, all right. So what's happening around the world of sports right now? Yeah? I feel free to jump in here

at any time. UM. The first one we talked about a few weeks ago, the Spelling Bees canceled first time since nineteen UM at the sporting event. And then something that a lot of people watch and disappointing, UM one that was here in l A. I'm just that is it feels very draconian. It's my spelling words. Don't ask Joe or I to spell anything that's obviously could put The Spelling Bees could put World Series of Poker's postponed

um from May July fifteenth. I know Joe is a big online poker player, right, Joe, you played a lot. I guess they couldn't figure out a way to do that online. Obviously people play online poker all the time, but I guess that's not something that they could, you know, reasonably, you know, do It wasn't feasible. I guess another story that caught my Taylor Swift concert at so Far, which is supposed to be the the kickoff event is uh has been canceled. That was set for July. So it's

getting closer to that NFL season that we'll talk about later. Um. A Japanese disease expert was I was talking about the Olympics next summer, saying the very pessimistic that he thinks that would happen. And then I saw another story that people are having a conflict the IOC and and Japan are having a little uh dispute over who's gonna pay for all the postponent They saying it's gonna be like two billions, two to six billions and postponed it for

a year. So yeah, pretty wild stuff going on there. Sad one uh. The baseball back company Louisville Sluggers closing down the factory for loan employees because no baseball. There could be baseball coming up. We're gonna talk about that later. Maybe possible. UM three cities going to be hosting hosting

baseball games. We hope that will happen. And uh, interesting one year with the draft coming up here this week, the w n b A with the most draft, most watch draft in the sixteen years and the second most watch ever on ESPN. Yeah, I mean that makes sense. I mean people are home there their star for sports. Obviously, the w NBA draft, I would imagine that that is

not a ratings bonanza. Nothing against w n b A, It's just not something that right that that people are gonna are gonna watch, um, you know, in large numbers. And and that obviously makes sense. And I was excited by New York Liberty getting the uh, the first pick and getting um, what's her name, Caruscoe or and she she was the first pick. She played at Oregon. She's

his absolute stud. And uh, I feel like the Liberty are gonna, you know, at least one New York basketball team is going to be successful in the near future. Thinking of the New York basketball team. Um, I feel like you didn't want to watched The Last Dance. That was the most viewed doc on the at the N and the history. They're like, I want to talk about that a little bit mean, I want to hear why you don't want to watch it. So obviously, the Last Dance,

this has been hyped, even before coronavirus. This was hyped. This was gonna be, you know, one of the ESPN's bigger productions and an unbelievable and I'm sure it was one of the highest rating things. Like you said, it was the highest rated dot on on ESPN All about right, A ten part series about Michael Jordan and the Bulls during that that run of championships. So here's the thing I have. I have made peace with Michael Jordan's recently.

And then we're I'm talking about years, We're talking about months. Okay, I hated Michael Jordan. There was a time when I hated Michael Jordan more than anyone on the planet or the history of the Earth. He hated him with a passion. This was obviously I was younger, I'm a Nicks and um, the Nicks during that time, you know, late eighties or early nineties, they were They were an up and coming team. They put together a good core. Obviously with Patrick Ewing

draft lottery. Winning that lottery and getting you Ing, that was kind of the kickstart. And they put together a really good team that it felt like every year the Bulls were the ones that were beating them and knocking them out of the playoffs. And and I had such a hatred for Michael Jordan. And let me preface that by saying, he's the greatest basketball player of all time. I don't care who you know, Mr Lakers guy over there. Uh, and we'll talk about the game that was on the

other day. But Kobe, no Lebron, no Wilt, Kareem, Magic, Larry Bird, They're all up there. But Michael Jordan is at the top. He's the greatest player to ever play. So I'll give him that. But I hated him with such a passion. I thought he was a despicable human being. Maybe that was all on my head. I created that because of what he did to the Knicks. And I've recently come to peace with Michael Jordan's and I even got my first pair of Jordan's. Joe helped me purchase those.

That was what Joe a couple of months ago. I never I've refused to give anything to that. That whole industry I hate with a passion. So I am. I'm a much better Kindler Jetler right now, and I'm in a better place, you know, through therapy and and everything else.

And I was the place. Yeah, I was gonna say, how much have you spent in therapy getting about Michael Jordan's Like can you say any of the self self evaluation, self therapy and just going through it, And I think it may have helped just having a child as son that is interested in plays basketball and wanted to learn

about Michael Jordan in the history. Look, that was that was my time, you know, growing up watching the NBA are in the eighties and the nineties, and that was what I fell in love with the n B A was during that time. And he was obviously, um the greatest player, like I said, but I hated, hated, hated him, and I don't want to go back to a place of hate. I'm all about love and peace and harmony. And if I watched that documentary, I'm gonna become a bitter,

bitter person. I don't want to do it, So that's why I'm not watching. That's fair enough. I watched the first two episodes and I thought they were great. I was a huge Michael Jordan fan as a kid. Um they I think he saved the NBA. Like for me, I did. I stopped watching the NBA after that ninety eight season when Jordan left, I left the NBA too, And and to me, he's definitely the greatest player, and there's no question about it. He changed the game. He made it what the game is today. He made it

so these guys are making these huge guaranteed salons. Let's not get crazy. Let's not get crazy that Michael Jordan made the game what it is today because there was a bunch of guys before Jordan came into the lead. And many people will say that it was magic like that that made the NBA the modern NBA what it is, and those Celtics teams and those Lakers teams while Jordan was still you know, getting cut from his see your brain out the hate. You're bringing out the hate. We

don't have a debate show. I don't want to want to do it. Here. You said you liked it. You started blowing smoke up his ass and now I'm starting to hate again, and this is why I won't watch it. Now I'm now I'm fired up, and I don't want to do that. I like it. I decided, being in a while, this is good. So but the thing about it, though, which I think is good for everyone, is it felt like the last Dance. Um. It was it was like a big sporting event that everybody could watch. Because now

people are watching. Everybody's on Netflix or Hulu or Amazon Prime and they're not watching at the same time and just being on social media, it felt like everybody was watching. It was like like sixteen million people watching. Yeah, and it was like this, you know, it's that common. You know, everybody watches a big playoff game. You know, everybody watches Thursday night football, or everybody watches a bowl game, and everybody can come in and and and exchange on social media.

So from that aspect, I thought it was really cool. Um, but again I don't I don't need to. I don't need to go back to a dark place. It's like it's like if you if you got me, you know, gave me a wife beater and a gold chain and played some freestyle music that would take me back to a dark place of my past and my you know, we can we talk about that more, what happened there, and if you if you did that to me, I

would absolutely fall back into an abyss. And and I don't mean an abyss as like a chasm of despair. It's actually a club in Jersey. It's Guido Club called the Abyss, and they play amazing music and that's where I would go back to. So I don't want to do that. So Guido Michael Jordan's that's the nineties for me, and I don't want to go back there. Can I get on record that we're we are taking a trip to the Jersey Shore when all this is done, Like, I just want to experience it, you know what I'm

going to them? I did, I did agree to that and I will. I will follow through on that. So when this is all over, hopefully we have one weekend in the summer, because the Jersey Shore is a summer thing, and I will take you to Belmart, New Jersey, UM Point Plus in New Jersey. That's those are our hangouts and we we got houses every summer and we'll hit DJ's and we'll go to Jenkinson's on the boardwalk and and there's a whole bunch of places. It is amazing.

It you will, Travis. I would pay a million dollars to watch you in one of these clubs. It is amazing and we're gonna have an amazing time. Single trap probably have been better than married with children. Dad, It's yeah, but still it's a good time. Will come out. It is good. Like, yeah, I don't know if you you know, dropkicking dudes on the boardwalk and flip flops is the

way to go, but you know it. Yeah, Um, I'm so excited that we got I'm just so excited that we have this on record, Like I'm just I'm thrilled. I'm excited. I'm gonna keep it on my phone. Let's go back to so the news broke um this week and the whole thing. Honestly, it just sucks. The XFL stuff stocks it was. It was so much fun to be a part of, and it was really doing well and it was refreshing and it showed that spring football

could work. And obviously everything with Corona and it just Vince McMahon and I get it's a business decision, but then the news dropped at Oliver Luck who was the commissioner of the XFL, is suing Vince McMahon and um, you know, just to see how this is gonna play out. And I didn't realize Oliver had a contract guaranteed for twenty million dollars and that's a big, big number and you know, a huge and the way you know, I

don't know. Look, I don't know all the details. I don't know what happened, but it sounds like, you know, the XFL they let Oliver go the day before, they informed Oliver on a Thursday, and then that Friday morning, they had a conference call with the entire staff and they let them know. So Oliver they actually let go

before that. And so I don't know if they were setting that up to, you know, for some kind of breach of contracts so they wouldn't have to pay it out if he had guaranteed money, and there was some clauses and there. It's gonna be interesting to see how that plays out. But again, it just makes me. It's just so sad. It's so sad that it came to that.

Whereas a little more than a month ago, you know, we were you know, wrapping up the first half of the season and thinking about the second half and thinking about the postseason and the championship game, and everything was great, and in such a short time, it just all it all went down the drain, and it just kind of sucks. Totally different. Pointing um major League Baseball. You mentioned Travis you know, I was reading, and this is an interesting concept.

I think baseball is really and I like, I'm a big fan. I've never met him, but just from watching him publicly and some of the things he said, I like Rob Manfred. He seems like just like kind of like a down to earth regular guy, and he seems to be pretty transparent and open. And at this point he said, look, we don't right now. We have ideas, we don't necessarily necessarily have concrete plans. And I think

that's real. That's you know, because who knows when it's gonna be safe and these restrictions are going to be lifted. But one of the plans or ideas that has now been floated is a three state set up where you divide the league into these three states, the three states being Arizona, Florida, and Texas, and you play in the

stadiums in those states. All of those states have retractable roof stadiums, so you can play you know, weather is not an issue, and you keep the teams you know, in those areas, and then you play the games, you know, a shortened season at this point. And uh, you know,

so that's been floated. And and obviously I've heard you know, players like Mike Trapped play and Kershaw other guys have said, you know, they're not necessarily looking forward to being in essence quarantined or quarantine away from their families and sequestered, you know, in some state, in some location away from there there you know, the spouses and their children and

their loved ones. And I can understand that. But but you know, the economics reality is is that these leagues, baseball, they got to start playing because it is going to be a real hardship on on a lot of people if they're not playing games. And that goes for the other sports too. And again this is this is unlike anything we've ever experienced in our lifetime, and um, it'll be it'll be interesting to see how it all plays out. Hopefully, you know, you just hope for the best, and like

Joe says, better days are coming. Speaking of baseball, though, I would like to introduce a new segment. I don't know if you guys remember back in the day, it was This Weekend Baseball. You remember This Weekend Baseball, the show on Saturdays, the voice Bob Yucker. Yeah, there was Joe Garrazola, there was others, but it used to be This Weekend Baseball and they would do like around the league. And I used to live for that, you know, as

a little kid. And uh, and so what I want to do is, since they're playing, and we talked about them last week, and there's something newsworthy this week, it's this week entire Neese Baseball. So that's gonna be the new sentiment. So last week we talked about they were gonna play with cardboard cutouts. This week they had a bench clearing brawl. And did you watch the video of the brawl? Oh my god, we could spend a whole

episode talking about that ten minutes or whatever. It was. Yes, it was as far as baseball brawls go, it was bad. It was not a good brawl, but we are starved for something. It was the most exciting thing I've ever seen. And even the announcers were like this is exciting, they were saying. And what was fascinating is that? So it was it was It revolved around they had a protest about a back. The one team protested the other team

was using an illegal back. I don't know what the rule is, but obviously it probably has to do with you remember the famous George Brett pine right. So the bat didn't have pinet are on it, so I would imagine it's something to do with the diameter or the type of wood. I don't know, but they they protested this bat. The umpires looked at it. They were communicating with someone outside of the umpiring group, and they determined that the bat was legal. So I guess the guy

that was protesting the bat. The next time he gets up the picture, just threw four straight balls, and like each one got increasingly and it was like, Okay, this one's inside, this one's more inside, this one's more inside than the catcher and the bench. The dugout and the batter started getting into it. And then the last one he just hit him perfectly right in the pocket, like right in the right in the mind, right in the pocket. And then it wasn't that you should hit a guy

if you're a guy. It's if you hit him, you hit him below the neck. You don't go anywhere near the head, and you aim for the middle of the body, you know, And and that's what you do. Even it's tough. You don't want to hit somebody in the ribs. You can break a rip knock somebody out, But if you're gonna hit somebody the good meaty part of the thigh or the butt, that's gonna be the best best way to do it. So it was a perfect bean ball. And then it kind of it wasn't It wasn't like

to throw your helmet charge him. Yeah, there was no charge, and they just kind of got together. But it was very like it was very like sophisticated and and civilized, and there wasn't There was one push the picture pushed the one guy, but that was it. And what was fascinating the announcers are like, this doesn't happen in Taiwanese baseball. They don't, he said, they don't argue with the umpires. He said, they don't. They don't. They have bench clearing stuff.

And what was so funny is that that's happening. And then you're watching the cardboard cutouts in the stands and you're just seeing the people. And they didn't even they didn't even put like there was literally, from what I saw, like maybe eight cardboard cutouts in the entire stadium. Right, they showed the whole white shot the stadium EMPY, so it just looks crazy and weird. And they put our three behind the backstop and there's just these three random

people cardboard cutouts. So that's what's happening this week, and Time with These Baseball will be back next week, Travis, and we're gonna go through the teams. We're gonna do a whole one on one the teams. One of the teams was the Monkeys, right, the Monkeys, I don't know what the other team was, but we're gonna do The mascots were going, we're doing it. They had a guy like zip lining. So next week we're gonna do a full rundown and for all the listeners, you're gonna you're

gonna get into Time with These Baseball. And then lastly, positive, positive, positive, um the PGA Tour is going to start in June, and and so you know, I looked at the schedule and it's gonna be obviously a condensed schedule. I don't think that the majors. It looks like the p G A Championship is the only major on the schedule. And I don't know if they're if they're using other tournaments

for majors, but um, look it makes sense. I know, you know, I was talking to Mike Prayer the other day and the golf course Mike is a big golfer, and the golf course at the club that he goes to in Sacramento, it's open. And he says, you know, the club shop the club, the club isn't open. The shop isn't open. Um, you have to you know, you have to be six ft away from from the nearest person. But you can go out and play, and it makes sense.

The golf is, you know, you're not in large groups, you don't you know, there's obviously gonna gonna be no spectators. And I really I've never been to a professional golf mean, you know, Joe, you you went to UH Waste Management in January. I always felt like golf was more of a TV sport anyway. But you know, you guys might disagree, but I think it'll be it'll be good to have something back Joe, you raped about Wate many but you said it a lot of fun. I've never gone to

golf live barely. It wasn't really actual golf tournament. It was just but waste. That's the one in Phoenix that's super Bowl weekend. It's not about the golf necessarily. People get dressed up. There's what is it the sixteen Green or whatever it is, like everybody there's a grand stand. Um,

it's a big party. And I've never been to that event, but I've been to the Super Bowl in Phoenix, and so I've been to after parties where people from the from the golf tournament were there, and obviously people for the super Bowl were there. And you see these people in these colorful outfits. And I know that you know, Joe was raving. Um, the sites are very there's there's quite a lot of good sites, if you know what I mean. At the point, there's a lot of stuff

to look at. There's a lot of attractive people at the at the golf course. Is why they ask you what else you got? What else we got? I'm gonna take a break. What do you what do you guys? Well, I just wanted to talk more about Jordan's how he's gonna donate all the pro seeds that he makes from from the dock. Now, you know what's interesting about million? You know what's interesting about Michael Jordan during his playing career. He didn't give a ship about charity. He didn't be

about anybody else but winning. Okay, all right? Never stand up like lebron of ahamadad Ali for social injustice? Did he ever? No? Thanks for bringing back. Let's go to break. I'll handle this one up. After we'll be talking about Jed social distancing tips and Travis's next edition next on Good Calls. All right, we're back on Good Calls Dean Blandino and Joe because I was on a ramp, Joe took us to break, and I gotta say that is the first and last time he will ever take something

because it was awful. You didn't even you didn't even plug the right segment, so you know you said, actually segment three is what you said was coming up, and that's obviously not the case. Well, the good thing about being the audio guys, I could switch those around. So it's fine now that you're ruining it for you, So listen,

I'm trying to save my friend. I don't want Michael Jordan's hearing this and coming, you know, getting upset with you, because I'm sure Michael Jordan cares what I think about him. I'm sure he's a listener. I'm sure that's an issue. So let's let's go. NFL Draft. Obviously, the draft is this week, and this is this is a big deal. The draft is always it's probably it's the biggest event

in the NFL offseason. It's I would imagine, you know, I haven't checked the ratings, but the NFL Draft, at least the first round usually outrgs UM other live sports and you know, other than maybe NBA Finals and things like that, but it's definitely one of the higher watch So I would imagine this draft is going to be it is probably gonna break records because of everything that that we've been dealing with and no live sports and things like that. That being said, you know, how is

it gonna work? And what's interesting is they had a mock draft and it was reported that there were you know, several gms complained and there were glitches and look, it wasn't perfect, but for what they're trying to do, the people that I talked to said if it worked pretty well, and there were certainly worth some issues to work through. And what they did is they had a mock draft and they try to test you know, trades and things

like that. And the one thing that came out was that there was an issue with the trade Dallas was and they they scripted it so Dallas was supposed to trade with Cincinnati and and there was some mix up with the trade and and that didn't go through. So that created some issues. But here's the deal. Here's here's

how it's gonna work. So there there's gonna be a there's gonna be a WebEx that is going to be set up and all thirty two teams are going to log into that web x and the three representatives from each team on that WebEx and that will stay open throughout the entire draft, and that is for the league to communicate with all thirty two clubs and that will be information like, okay, with the second pick in the NFL Draft, the Washington Redskins take Chase Young, defensive ent o.

How State Detroit is now on the clock, so that anytime the league wants to communicate things to the entire thirty two they'll do it via that web x. Okay, So one of the issues with the mock draft if you've ever experienced a conference call or a zoom meeting like we've been doing the last couple of weeks, is people couldn't figure out how to mute their microphones, so they were kicking up background noise. So that was the

first issue. The second issue was they were doing kind of a roll call and they were having a hard time communicating who was on the call because people either weren't listening, they couldn't access their mike, those types of things. So there was just some some growing pains there. And

believe me, I deal with this. I have conference calls with replay officials during the season, I'm doing zoom meetings, and I have to remind them every time too mute their microphones because the amount of times I've heard somebody's wife talking about things I don't want to hear about, or the guys on the golf course and he's not supposed to be or whatever it is, and they're not

meeting their microphones. So that's the first part. So you have that part, and then there's then there's Microsoft Teams, which is which is a service that Microsoft provides where you can kind of like Zoom where you can communicate. So Microsoft see Teams. There will be a secure log in for each team. So you logging into Microsoft Teams and you get a code. You have to enter in

that code when you're gonna make your pick. So you enter, you log in and you enter, then you get a code you get You enter the code, and then you make your pick. Okay, every time your pick is up, your next pick, you get a new code, so you don't have to log in again, but you get a code every time. So it's so it's secure. You can't just if somebody logs in and somebody hacks into that that system, they would have to get that code to actually send it a pick. So so that's that's the

pick line. Okay. Then there's a trade line, so there's a dedicated line where the two teams can communicate. However they communicate. They can communicate like normal, they can communicate the text, phone, call, email, however they communicate. So if the lions and the packers not the lines of packers probably wouldn't make a trade they're in the same division. But let's say the lines in the chiefs want to make a trade, they communicate the trade, they agree upon

it with each other. Then they go to this secure line and they talked to the league. Together two communicate the details of the trade, and then the League will look at it, make sure it makes sense, it complies to all the rules, and then the league then can make the announcement to all thirty two via that WebEx and say, you know, with the eighteen pick the Chiefs has traded um with, you know, with the Detroit Lions or whatever. So so that's how it's all gonna work.

And there is a very last backup is cell phone and land lines to the League office. So there's designated people at the League office that if for whatever reason, your connection you know, falters, whatever it may be, you can there's a landline and cell phones that you can communicate directly to the League office. So so that's how it's all gonna work. This is a big undertaking and the I T guys, you see people at the NFL.

I've been working on this um for for a long time and it's a lot of work and it's gonna be hopefully everything goes well and there's no glitches. But you know, we saw some stories I send you guys, the story teams are not going to take any chances. The Lions have their are gonna have their I T guy, you know, win a bagel outside g M. Bob Quinn's house. So that imagine that guy's like on a steak out and he's just waiting for Bob to like notify him that,

you know, the router needs to be like this. I saw that and I was like, this is really smart. All the teams need to do that. Well, no question, I would think that the the I T support. I mean you probably have. I mean they rely on their I T people and their video people um to begin with. But this is this is taken it to the next level. And I think again a lot of moving parts. This is unprecedented. But remember you know the draft years and years ago. It wasn't it was a phone call. It wasn't.

It wasn't all all of the bells and whistles that we see today. You know, if I if I'm like Anonymous or you know, Kevin Mitnick, one of these famous hackers, like this is just a fastball down the middle, and I'm just people, look, I remember, okay, so I remember being on a Competition Committee call. UM. This is probably

two thousand and fifteen. So we have our Competition Committee meetings at UM before the lead meeting, and we'd meet for a couple of days and we go through everything and then Rich McKay who's the chairman of the Competition Committee, myself, UM, we would call the Commissioner and go through the rules changes with him. So we would do that, and then we would have a conference call with the media where they could ask questions. And it was kind of like

a group conference call the media. You would call into a number and then you could ask a question. You could you could press a button that you want to ask a question. So we're doing this and we're getting questions from you know, Kevin Sefort and ESPN about a particular rule change, or you know this this reporter, you know, Mike Flouria, whoever it may be, And all of a sudden, this person gets on the line and they start asking

a serious question. They don't identify themselves, and they started asking a serious question about the the extra point and whatever year it was, we were moving the extra point to the fifteen And he said, well, have you ever thought of a better alternative for the extra point where a half naked grease up Andy Reid slide down the

goal post. Right. So I'm sitting there and I'm going, what the who the heck is this and end up being somebody from barstool that that hacked into the line, that got on the line, got the number and asked this ridiculous question. And so the Mike Signoro, who's in the PR department at the NFL is one of the best people in the world. He's running the call and Mike is like frantic and he's like trying to like get that that line disconnected, and he's like, Okay, well

we got So I was this close, this close. I didn't do it, but I was this close to When the next question was asked, I was like, I want to go back to that previous because I have some questions of my own. So that's that I agree. There are going to be people out there that are gonna try to that are going to try to get into this, and um, but it is you know, from what I've been told and the people I know that worked on it,

it's very secure. Uh. It's not as simple as just you know, breaking into uh you know, a chat room or you know, an online video conference and there are layers and there is security, but again, that doesn't it's not the first time somebody's you know, broken in and uh, give me, give me a conference call number. I won't tell anybody you want the conference call number. I don't have the conference called number. So I'm not I'm I'm obviously not drafting UM, but other NFL news breaking. And

let me say this. I want to take an opportunity to say this that our colleague and one of my good friends, Jay Glazer Um last week took a lot of ship because I don't know if you were following it, but Jay was you know, made a comment that he was gonna break some news and it kind of blew up. It wasn't and the way Ja communicated it was different

than how was presented. And it was presented as Jay Glazer has this national breaking scoop and he's gonna break it on Fox is doing Fox Football Now and they're doing you know, they're doing online stuff and it was gonna break during Jay's segment, and everybody was up in arms because Jay's track record is usually when Jay says he's gonna he has a big scoop it's bit and it ended up being that the and his name escapes me, but Brian, he's he's the center for the RAMS tested

positive for coronavirus and that that was Brian Anderson, I think his names. So that was the news and people were obviously like let down that this was your national breaking news and this is what we get. And he got a lot of like nasty messages Twitter, you know how Twitter can be, and just a lot of hate for really not a good reason. So what I've is this week is there is a pretty big not that the coronavirus and someone testing positive for in the NFL

isn't big news. I think what people were expecting was something transactional, right, something's related to the draft. So what drops this week? And who who drops it? Our friend Ja Glazer Gronk, he's gonna play and he's getting traded from the Paths to the box and he's gonna rejoin with Tom and he's gonna play for be A and Tampa is going to Super Bowl. You know what this says to me, Tom Brady think doesn't think he can do it on his own? Well, you know it will

hot take. Well, Tom, I mean he's got better weapons in Tampa than he had in New England. Um and so, but obviously, and it's interesting they're give they've given up o J. Howard. I know he hasn't he hasn't really put up the numbers that they expected, but he still would. He just finished his second year and he was the first round pick out of Alabama and they've kind of given up on him, and you know, taking a chance. Look, Gronk is one of the greatest tite Ends to ever played.

But the old Bill hasn't played in in what two years. He was banged up, He's had a history of injury. This is not a gimme by any stretch of the imagination. M but it is. Look, it's fun. It's exciting to think of Brady and Gronk back together in Tampa, and uh, you know, it'll be it'll be fun. And I think Gronk so an opportunity to uh, you know, maybe get out of under the shadow of of Bill Belichick and maybe you know, because look, both great coaches, but very

different approaches. And gron is gonna have you know, I think he's gonna have more fun with Bruce Harrians than he did with Bill Belichick. But a ton of respect from Bill Belichick because Gronk, you know, Grount really could have he could have unretired and been hit the Patriots cap and forced them to cut him. And instead, he you know, communicated, said he was thinking about coming back, wanted to go to Tampa, and they were able to

work out a deal, so he passed the physical. I think that, you know, I don't know if it's finalized yet as we're recording, but it's definitely close and I know he passed the physical, and I think it's a Gronk and a seventh round pick for a fourth round of fourth rounder from Tampa. So you know, I'm so I love Gronk. I'm so excited for this. Well Joe and Gronk party. You know, Joe Joe parties with Gronk after Super Bowl victories. He does shot with the dances,

he does all that stuff. Gron came into the news room once when I was booking guests of the NFL Network and he was playing catch with with us in the news room and I said, hey, watch out, you don't want to hit that sprinkle in the ceiling, and he just like looked like this dumbfound and looked up at the ceilings like they're sprinklers in the ceiling, and it was just like just so confused by it. It was amazing. He's, uh, you know, he's pretty much he

well he sees what you get. Like. He's down to earth, good guy, loves football, loves to have fun. Um, bigg at hand I've ever seen big like when when when he was on the set and you'd see him standing next to and they're big guys, like straight hand how he Um, even Bradshaw you know, is a big guy. Tony Gonzalez, Gronk dwarf them you know, big remember you laying that that day and dud Yeah, and just a good dude. Um. You know, all my interactions with him

have been positive. I haven't partied with him like Joe, but you know, might have been more professional settings and talking about rules and and he was always you know, offensive beast and parents nice to talk to him. Um the tight ends coach at the time when I was at the league office, and how he could avoid offensive best and parents calls and things like that. So good for gron I'm ext to see what that's gonna look

look like. I have to think glades are probably had that last week, but it just wasn't quite ready, so he just had to go with something else. And in the Brian Allen and Brian Allen's name was the story like I'll just go I'll just go with this story because they only had the biggest story. He only has

the biggest stories. He's not And that's where I think the way it was presented was that Jay Glazer is gonna break this big story and everybody expects big stories, and and that's and like I said, obviously coronavirus is a big story, and Brian Allen having it is a big story, but people people aren't thinking like that. They're thinking some scoop about the draft or some scoop draft.

You think it's transaction for sure. UM. And then lastly, in terms of just switching gears to college college football, the Playing Rule UM Oversight panel met yesterday and that's the last stage of their rules change process and they approved all of the rules change proposals. So we've been through so no surprises. They're so going into the season. You know, the big ones work. A player that gets called photogeting doesn't have to leave the field. They can

stay on the bench. Here it's stay in the bench area, and uh, you know some other things. Officials. Jurisdiction starts ninety minutes prior instant replay two minute time time limit, not a not a hard time limit, but the recommendation is two minutes. And so we're working with I've been having weekly zoom calls, um every week. I'm doing I think eleven eleven Division one conferences. Uh, there is an

FCS group that has replay. So we're doing our long calls with each group and we're talking about these rules changes and process and what's reviewable. And I think I'm gonna invite you guys. I want you guys to be on these calls too, so you can learn and study out. Because I see two future replay officials in my midst right now. Yeah, take the confidence. Where do you want to work? Avis, big Sky? Right here? I want to stay. I know they're Mountain West, but I want to stay. Yeah,

I want to stay in California. Get back twelve, Yeah, back twelve. I'll take the Wyoming mission Mountain West. You know, good looking will be out there. Oh wow, Joe's saying that people in Wyoming are not that good looking. I want to know I'm when this all is all over, We're going two very different places. We're going Jersey Shore and then we're going to Jackson Hall. Did I'll take my bow or do some hunting. I'm game officiate a game on Saturday. I'm come down. I'm in for that.

I'm in for that. I'd rather just do some fishing, get on a boat, get some beers or some trules like like Joe likes, and we can we can all go out fishing. I'm in for that. Let's do it, all right. We got a couple of trips planned that note, Let's go to Travis. Travis, you take us to break. Let's see how you do. Alright, let's go to break. Now, coming up after the break, we're gonna hear about Joe's social distancing tip. We're gonna hear the brain of Landino.

Now I'm gonna Dickens yet again for another role. I don't know how I keep getting anything, but you got a great agent. That's not good. That all right, we're back on good calls, and I can honestly say that Travis crushed going to break. He had a new voice. It was amazing. He got all the information in whereas Joe bumped and ensemble. Joe. Actually, Joe actually sounded like Travis during those auditions, and Travis sounded amazing, So I

don't know what did they get to auditions? But speaking of auditions, you mentioned that going to break, we're not gonna do an audition this week, but I come up, came up with a new thing. So Travis, what we're gonna do and we'll start next week. Since we have video afability, I'm gonna pick a famous moment in sports history and you're gonna do the play by play, So you're gonna you're gonna have the call. So let did

I let the fans in on my radio voice on this? Yeah, let's hear alright, good calls that the led Zeno and Joe talking about social distancing m C the DJ at a strip club or is that radio next on the main State? In a man and gonna be exactly, don't forget to tip your waitresses? Exactly. Wow, he just gets better and better. Man, let's get back he does, we'll bring him out of his show. Let's get back to you.

This is this, This is a podcast about rules, and I've got some I've got some rules discussions for us. First rule proposal, I'm disappointed in you guys that we have a group text. We have a couple of group text but the main one is the three of us and our friends Scott, and I feel like I want to I want to propose a new rule in the group text that when someone sends something, we have to acknowledge it and respond to it before we can send

something else. Okay, because I've been sending too many funny things and you guys are just sending stuff right over the top and not responding to my thing. Every Scott does it, Joe does it. So Joe, you're actually the best at responding, but you're still not. So. The new rule proposal is, anytime somebody sends something, uh it might you know whatever it is, a tweet, a video, that at least one of us has to acknowledge it and

respond before you can just send something else. Does a ha ha count just one of the little like you know you just click acknowledge what I am saying? Okay, ha ha is fine. A reaction is fine, But you can't just if I send a funny video, you can't just send another one unless and here's an exception. The rulebook has exceptions unless your text is related to mine somehow. Okay, that's a good rule. It's a good rule. So that's

the one exception. I think you should tweet that out and or we'll do with this video and see what the public says. Okay, because everybody's doing this, everyone's so we need a two thirds vote to pass that rule. So all in favor would raise your hand. I mean, I love that because you send something out and you you're like, you're sharing it with your friends and you want to hear what they have to say about it. So I'm with that. By the way, thanks for saying

I'm the best. Um, I'm gonna go ahead and counter and say you're the worst. So I'm right up there. I'm really bad too. I'm always too busy with my eight kids and now I'm working from home again and doing live programming, and you know, see, here's an example. So here's good, a good one. I sent my favorite, my favorite Corona related video of the week. I sent it to you guys, and Scott replied, that's good, thank you. That's all I need. That's all I need. But then

I sent last night, and you know you did. But last night I sent the Vin Diesel video and no one responded, and then Travis just text another video about us weightlifting working out from home. No one responded to my my Vin Diesel comment. He needs I'm awful, So the Vin Diesel Have you seen that video? No, that was the whole point. See if you can't. If you don't respond to me, you're not watching them. We can't

discuss it on the podcast. But apparently this is years old and Vin Diesel basically did like uh an online video of him to a Beyonce song. I guess the song is drunk at Home or that's maybe what it was. The video was titled, and it's him singing to a Beyonce song in a very provocative way. And my beef with you guys is how how is this the first time I'm seeing this? Especially Scott is not here to

defend himself. But that's the type of ship that Scott should know about and should share in our twenty six hours together over the weekend during football season, when we're together for right usually has the total nuggets. So the other rule, when there is something viral like that, okay, we share it and we make sure that we share it with me that's that's the rule, so that I'm aware, okay, okay,

so that's the second rule. Maybe we should rate it instead of just commenting, we should say, hey, that's a seven. I'm with that for the rating system. Yeah, I mean one through ten seems pretty standard, just your standard one through ten rating system. Okay, Well, you guys need to watch the vin Diesel video. Um, I'm playing it right now as we're talking about this, like, I don't have the audio up, but you need you need the audio, but just let it down. Not the time now, it's

not last rule. Last rule. Um vocabulary and words. So I'm of an age and I feel like like, and I think I don't know how it all works, but I think we're all in the same generation or or Travis, are you a millennial? Uh? Yeah? According to ye, it's like night. So I fall into that. Okay, And so when and I'm right, I'm before eight and millennial And

what's that Generation X? Yeah, that's yeah. So Joe and I are Generation X, and I felt Generation X is the best generation because we we in millennials older millennials, but we know both worlds. We know growing up without the Internet and without cell phones, and we remember rotary phones, and we remember pay phones, and we remember we remember no, you know, the video game that was the handheld video game with the dots, the lights and things like that.

We remember that. But we're also you know, we're also versed in today's culture and the internet and social media and everything else. So I feel like and I'm a good illustration of the best of the best. Right, So that's that's that. Thanks. So, but at what point can we, like somebody like, let's take the word dope for example, can I reasonably use the word dope anymore? And I think I can, Yeah, because it was in your vocabulary when you were young, and what you can't say, you

cannot say it, though, I like where you're going with this. Yeah, okay, So so to me, dope has been around many years. We were saying dope back in the eighties. It's made, it's it's it's kind of hung around and it's made to come back. So now it's like kids are saying dope, right, So I can still say dope. I agree, I can't say lit. I don't feel comfortable saying it. I would never want to say that. I would much want to see you say that No, I don't say I don't

say lit, I don't say fire. What are? What are? So let's come up with words that we can't that us the lower the older end of generation of millennials and generation next words. We cannot use one KK on your texts. You can't do it doesn't make any sense to me. And so there's a lot of in in texting. There's a lot of like shortened stuff too, like like are right now? Are? I think you could do RN tonight? I don't know what RN is right now? Like each HPU?

How about you? You know those type of things? And why isn't h au? How about you? Why are? If we're abbreviating, can't we at least use proper grammar? M? I don't know, but but so lit, fire, KK? Is there anything else that jumps out? I'm not I'm not cool enough for in touch with anything. Millennials. I mean, I've got a nine year old what Joey's what eight? Eight? So so they're getting into those ages, they're starting to say these words. Um, I'm just I'm just googling words

kids used today. I have a friend who's twenty three, and it's like speaking a different language. So how about shade and shade on someone? Yeah, I think we're past that fire. Definitely one FAM now a lot of people. Using family a person's group of friends, but can also sometimes be used to reference just one member of the tight inner circle. What's up? Fam? If I ever say that, shoot me between the eyes? Um, definitely cannot say no excessive state of excitement hype now, but you can't say crunk.

I think around has been around. Um, you're gonna look like a fool. But you can say crunk. Wait a minute, I haven't heard this one. Goals. This one is actually super easy. It literally means the same as goals normally would something to strive for, but it's used as an adjective rather than a Now you can think of it as meaning the same as desirable in most cases, like

hashtag goals. People say that all the time, Like that we shouldn't say ashtag no, like like you know, Dean's got a sweet range rover goals like I want to get a sweet range over two, I think is the one. That's how you would say Okay, um a F I don't I don't feel comfortable using a F. But but as F as f U c K has been around forever, okay, and we've been using that forever. But I will never I don't type a F, but I will say the words out loud because that's been around. Um, clap back.

Never heard of a snappy comeback? God, there's more. I know there's more. He kept teasing me, but he wasn't expecting me to clap back, not not alloud. Thirsty. Definitely can't say thirsty. I can't say thirsty. Savage, this this one, this one's been around, that's been around. I used that long before any of the way they're using in wrap songs. Savage, woke? What about woke? Woke? Yeah, I definitely can't say woke. I'm not saying woke. Old guys talking about words they

can't use that. The kids use salt, they have salty around for Are you on best life? Are you on best life? Is that? I think we're on the same one. Um, basic, there's one we absolutely cannot say. Bay. You cannot say bab bay. Do you know that's an acronym? Yes? But what about boo? I Booe's been around for a long time, But I will not say boo. You know, you know, I know I'm actually, Joe, I'm actually getting I am

getting tired of social distancing. I am nice. You know how I know that because I called my Alexa babe. I literally said thanks, babe, and it just rolled off my tongue. And I'm definitely, I definitely gotta get out. I'm definitely gotta get out. All right, good rules discussion. Um Tiger King, new episode, you guys see it. I'm done with Tiger King. Okay, I watched it and it's basically, um, Joel McHale, who I like, Joel mccal uh interviewing certain

people from Tiger King. And now I've done it. I've watched it all and I will not. I don't want to talk about Tiger King unless it's we're talking about Joe's tattoo or Carole Baskan admits to killing her husband. That's it. So those are the only two times I'll talk about Tiger King, going what about it? Joe is not to get out of jail. I guess trying to have to. It's gonna be newsworthy if he gets out of jail. But um, the more and more it sounds like it doesn't sound like he's gonna be getting out

of jail anytime soon. Um, but King, I've got one more, and we should have. I don't know if this is a rule, but let's pick a a jersey, a famous athlete for our thirty four episode. Now there's a lot of pressure to that. This is thirty four, by the way, Okay, list list I've got so I think the famous thirty four. I think it comes down to two, but I'm gonna throw out some big ones. Franco Harris, Earl Campbell, Thurman, Thomas, Paul Pierce, a chimalized one. O Harris was thirty four.

I thought Frank Harris was thirty two. Was thirty two? I thought he was thirty four. I thought thirty two as well. I think what about Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley was my next one. But I think the two big ones are Walter, Walter Payton, and Shock. Yeah, you know what, I Walter, I'm going Walter, me too. You're right. Franco Harris was two. M I got, I go Shock. So I think we need to Travis two out of three. I go Walter, I go Walter as well. Walter then Charles. Yeah,

so this episode is the Walter Payton episode. If it is, so we'll start thinking about everybody. Come up with your thirty fives next week and we'll and we'll and we'll name it best COVID nineteen Internet content. The most recent thing you've seen go, it's not recent, but the one that I love the most is when the guy goes, you're in quarantine. You could either a stay inside home with your wife for the next six weeks or bake.

Yeah good, that's probably my favorite. I saw one that's just kind of I saw one that was just kind of living with some girls in Italy playing tennis across the roofs of are like apartments or whatever. Did you guys see that one volley and the ball back and forth over their rooftop? That's pretty cool. I also thought one that was funny with uh with a grocery store

manager in Australia. Did you hear about this one? A guy came back to try to return like rolls, the toilet paper and forty gallons of pants and and the guy just gave him the finger and told him to leave. Well, that's the people that are hoarding that stuff. Shame on you, because that's that's how we end up with this artificial demand and you know, take what you need and and then we won't have these issues. So you know, everybody

gets into that mentality. The one for me I sent it to you guys is the guy playing Billy Billy Jean by Michael Jackson, and it's you know, it's the beginning where Michael Jackson making all those noise and he's and he's drinking hot coffee and every time he touches the cup, he's like hey, and he puts it and it's perfect to the music. So you gotta watch it. Just check out the gun back to that one. Good google uh coffee. Um, So She'sam is working hard again.

Another I sent you guys the screenshot. I'm not bullshitting it. She's Am sent me another notification and I'll pull it up because I screenshot of it. We found it. We didn't find your She's Am on the twenties second of March, so we tried again. I got that on Sunday, April nine. Okay, they have been looking the Shazam elves have been looking for that song for three weeks, almost a month, and

they finally found it. Well, thank you. I had that minding when he when he sent that and She's am the song that was on the last Dance episode that I was watching, and it didn't pop up. It didn't pop I'm not I'm not trying to bring it up. But the song it was like, you know, like the nineties, like early nineties raft song, and I wanted to know what it was and it didn't come up from wouldn't be waiting hear till they get back. Actually, you know what's gonna happen is I'm gonna get I'm gonna gonna

get it. We couldn't find Travis, Travis Shazam, but we finally found it. Dean. I'll tell you why you didn't get it, why you're not gonna get it. I'll tell you why you're not gonna get it. Travis. You don't pay like Dean does. When when Shazam finds a song, it auto buys it, so they get paid twenty cents every time. So they're they're on the hunt, like we gotta find these for Dean. You're you just probably use the free version. That's right, right, You're absolutely right. I do.

I do. They're not going to get back to me, so don't don't try to. I I believe that Shazam has elves and they're working for me. That's it. That's right. Leave it alone. Um, let's do, uh Joe. Any social distancing tips from the guy that I've got. I've got three tips for uh parents and three tips for nonparents. I'm gonna make it quick because we're running the one time here. Parents. Lists they're huge when you're at home

trying to teach your kids things. Make list. I don't know what it is about kids, they love a list. It all gets done. Number two, Keep the kids in a routine, keep them up every day, keep doing homework at the same times. This is gonna be a kind of serious you know how serious m about being a parent and um checking on your kids emotional health, ask them how they're feeling about this and and all that stuff. So that's the serious stuff. The fun the fun stuff.

If you're single, get an exercise bike. You have time all the time that we say, oh I should do this. I should learn to play the guitar, I should learn Now is your time. Get the weights, get the peloton, get the fight. Can't learn how to throw a punch, Get on Grace University and learn jiu jitsu, whatever it is. Do it. Now is your time. We probably will never get this opportunity for the rest of our lives. Buy a boat. Buy a boat. You can you can float

down a river. You will be social distancing, practical advice from You can get a boat for two grounds. You can get a boats and you're just now you're floating down a lake or a river, and you're you're you're away from other people, my son, and it's beautiful. Get yourself a boat or a jet ski. Follow me. I'll follow that with this. Get a motorcycle. You could just ride around town. You're away from people. Learn how to ride that motorcycle. You've been talking about it all these years.

Just do it, man, it's great, the winds blowing in your face. Get yourself a motorcycle. Don't put anyone on the back. I agree that if if, if everyone look, I get it. Not talking about essential workers and people that are out keeping the world running so that we can all sit at home, but for the people that's sitting at home. If you don't come out of this with some new you know, some new whatever interest, some new skill, something um, then shame on you. And we're

all trying to do that now. I you know, I've got I'm doing more cooking. I'm gonna do a cooking videos. Uh. You know, I got a jump rope. I'm jump roping. I got resistance bands. I'm doing all these different things. And we're never gonna have this time again, hopefully, and so use it, use it. Use I've been playing guitar more and I tuned up the old Beach Cruiser and got it out on the road and again. So uh, and I started working out a little bit more. So

good guys, I wouldn't. I haven't been doing anything, but I do. Have you mentioned the parenting stuff. It's like I told my wife. I told my wife about like we don't want my daughter watching the iPad, but I'm like, she watches us on our computers all day while we're working. I'm like, of course she wants to sit on the

iPad and take it's so hard it really is. Um all right, the brain of Bland, you know, before we get into new Brain of you know, last week we talked about do cop cars have childlocks or are they great structured that way to where they're just they don't open. There's no option. And I got a d M from a listener who's also a police officer, and he confirmed at least in his in his experience, that they are childlocks.

And he even said that one time he forgot to put the childlocks on and the guy in the back seat just got out on his own. He's and he said he wasn't trying to escape, he was just surprised that it opened. And and so police cars are just your standard childlocks, so they have to remember to keep

the childlocks on. And he also said that the back seats, especially when there's a you know, a cage, um a divider, they're so cramped that you wouldn't want like normal you wouldn't drive around normal people um in the back seat. So but there you got the question was answered, Joe. So let's go new new brain of blending determined guy walking whatever ship he is going to do is gonna

get done. Have you ever seen somebody walking down the street like I saw I started a couple of times where the guy was walking down the street with such a purpose. Like normally, when if you just go out for a walk, you just kind of like just regular. But every once in a while you'll see somebody that is walking and whatever they're walking to do that ship is gonna get done. Like there's a there's a walk like it's a it's a pace, it's an arm swing.

It's like you know what I'm talking about, Like that person is going to do something and they're gonna get whatever it is, They're gonna get it. There's a difference between that and just going for a walk. If you have you seen that, there's there's the guy I worked with that and that's how he walks every time, and he is always getting stuff done like and he he could did and it's walk. There was a guy I was that way. There was a guy I worked with

at the NFL. Every time you saw him coming towards you, whatever his issue was was the most important issue in the world. And it was like, oh here here comes Mitch, here he comes. Let's see what what the super Bowl is is? You know the stadium is on fire, you know something, it's whatever it was, it was the most important thing at that time. It's always walking, walking with purpose, with purpose everything we do all right, where we got jokes that in This has been good calls with Dean Glandino.

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