Bunkercast XI: Quarantine Pleasures

few weeks back. We are heading to where is it? Palm Beach. Palm Beach would have been nice, would have been fun. We would have had our opportunity to sit down with multiple head coaches and we would have done our fun speed round. There would have been house music involved and would have made certain coaches uncomfortable. And yet it's all wiped away because that's that's what happens now in society. Things that were supposed to happen now no

longer happen. For example, the president of the Baltimore Ravens name. This is a good quiz for you, Greg. I know you're really plugged in on the movers and shakers of the league. The president of the Ravens is named I saw this news item earlier, so it Dick cass right. I don't know if I have gotten it. That mama's son it is, it's the son of Mama cass Is. He expects the coronavirus uh in COVID nineteen to lead to the cancelation of all offseason activities, which makes sense.

It seems like we're heading toward It's been a very different march uh, and it's unlikely to change or things will continue to change, I should say, as the springtime continues, and at least that's where it's heading. Great name Dick cass I guess like great named Dix is just going around right now because Dick Pound, uh, the the famous Olympian was kind of the guy who broke the Olympics are being canceled. One of the great names Dick Pound.

By the way, just the other day on Twitter, Um, Dick Trickle, I believe Greg your son is into racing. A racing man, Dick Trickle. I'm not sure that's was. Was that his birth name that found sounds confounding to me, but he was trending in Los Angeles area. Twitter circles for some reason, I don't know why I didn't investigate further. He was in a book that Walker got out of the library that were was called like Great Racing Crashes And as we're going through the book, like the surprise

ending is like seven people die. So this is a great book for a five year old, good children's book. Chris Wesling. Uh, the stock markets gains for the third consecutive day, So I imagine that that stabilizes your portfolio. What portfolio? I have no portfolio. I cashed in my four oh one K when I moved to Tybee and it has not recovered. Well, I will say, Dan, you and I we were on a text thread with someone

way bless. You don't have a portfolio. Shocking, I know, Dan, We were on a thread last night with some of your longtime friends where we and I actually brought this home to Simone to talk to her about it. Just sort of said, we came up with an investment plan and we can hatch this down. Robe. You don't share great investment strategies. Um, this industry which is about to explode. Uh, we have a beat on this and we you know, if someone really wants to get in hit us up

d M. Maybe maybe they don't know the idea. So you're saying if you want to okay, So if they want to follow us blindly, because if they if we give them the idea, they have to buy in. Well, no, it's I'm talking about people with with trench and you know, capital capital to come. Why do you say it here? If nothing else just to save the last minute of

the podcast. Absolutely not. They only it's it's connected to the industry that is always on the cutting edge and ahead of the curve in finding ways to monetize things. And we said we have a billion dollar idea and we're going to continue that will be a percolation, uh, will continue to develop that during the COVID nineteen outbreak. Yeah, and in a part of humanity, the human experience that is not about to go away UH anytime soon. There's

a lot of hustlers out there right now. I saw a sign up like on a telephone pole nearby that said like I want to work out while social distancing and it was like, you know, call this number and it's like a you know, a personal trainer who's trying to do a FaceTime workouts. So people out there, they're just trying to make some money. I saw one thing

Erica could use. It was the video of a woman and a man um believe they were in a relationship of some sort with a dog and a harness, where they from a second story balcony lowered the dog down to the alleyway behind their apartment, allowed the dog to walk around for five or six minut it's and do what it needs to do, and then lifted it back up and its harness into the apartment and it's I thought, maybe of Thor slashed Toto, that you could do the Thor. You could do this with him or her. It's a

male animal. Do you think the dog enjoys that process getting out of the house? I mean maybe not being the lowering might be all right, but bringing the dog back up might might not be so good for the dog. Well, in a in a body harness, that was my question too. It seemed cruel, but its it did it was it

was wagging its tail sort of. We don't want to spread more false information, so just don't put your dog in a body harness, Like, just don't anything we say here, just do not do Okay, let's get into what's happening in the NFL. It has actually officially started slowing down, and it has slowed down in a big way. The curve has been flattened in the NFL in terms of

stuff to talk about. But there's certain items that we will hit and then, um, one thing I wanted to touch on here is everybody that has reached out to us on Twitter or the subreddit or however marks my Space page and said thank you, thank you, thank you for going five days a week for the past two weeks. Um, well, there's a way you can, um thank us that will be helpful to us. Head on over to iTunes and leave five stars and a review. That would be nice.

That's that's all we need in terms of payment. And to Greg's point, maybe you know, five thousand dollars while you're at it, I mean, just you know, Yeah, there's a lot of worthy things you could be giving to right now. Why not us? So that doesn't seem like it's too much it we'll read it. We'll read a few reviews at the end of the show. But let's uh, let's hit some news. My wife is on a soft reboot.

How is Emily. Emily is going on. She's I would say, no longer in soft reboot out of bed uh, mostly back to herself. So we are humming along once again as a family union unit and not a moment too soon. I should add, that's great good news. Yes, all right, let's get into it. We'll start West. I want to tee you up on this one. Rap Sheet rap Sheet reports of the Cowboys and quarterback Dak Prescott have re

engaged long term talks. Here's more from rap Report. Sources say the two sides are communicating and would like to work out a deal. With a contract this complex, there are so many details it's difficult to gauge where it stands, but they are working and rap rap Report added that there's no rush here, but they looks like if the Cowboys get their way, if Prescott gets his way, he's playing on a long term deal and there's another mega

contract on the books for that office. Yeah. My analysis of this is that I'm happy rap Sheet has a job and that he's good at it. But the football industry should maybe hire the standard for what is news and we're talking about a contract. I don't know if that really fits into NFL networks definition of news or anyone's definition of news. M hmm, well it fit into ours. We just started the show with it. You could have

just shot it down before we started. I will be impressed if you guys have some serious analysis of this, because I have nothing to go on. West. Let's throw it to you this way. I mean you're the one, you're sort of the flag bearer on this. Uh. You know network quirk that if it's the Cowboys, um it leads.

If it bleeds, it leads, if it's the Cowboys, it leads at NFL network, and you know if you if why not My one concern when they talk about no rush, how about rush, because this feels like it could be it's we get one of these every year, if not to the most ponderous um daily updated news to or from now until like two days before week one when they extend Dak Prescott and everyone's running through the city streets with a bunch of banners and flags like tell us,

then I don't need to hear about it till then. It's always the Cowboys too. It feels like there's always some type of contract drama that we need to be um plugged. In on twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. It's gonna get done. Dack's not going anywhere. They'll figure it out. How about this, You want to put a moratorium on Dak talk until the contract's done. I would say it's in general, all contract talk until it's done. Got We've got four months to go here,

we got five months to go. They might push back that deadline for him to sign this thing. We've been talking about this contract for how long, I don't know, eighteen months. I feel like there's a decent chance we'll be having like the Kirk Cousins Dak Prescott conversation in the regular season if there is a regular season hubba uh and other rap sheet reporting during this suddenly quiet time on the calendar. The Cincinnati Bengals are open to

keeping Andy Dalton for the season. Rappaport said all options are still on the table. Um Before free agency started, I wrote a piece on the I think it was like fifteen veteran quarterbacks with some level of intrigue around them or doubt or UH questions around them, and under worst case scenario for Dalton, I wrote that the Bengals do something very bangley, which is just keep Dalton as a quote uncourt mentor and straight up takeaway a year

of his prime. Uh, just because that's what the Bengals do. And now there's a real report that that could happen. Come on, Cincinnati, do what's right. It might be his best chance at making seventeen and a half million dollars, which he's set to make right now. I can't imagine any other team considering paying Andy Dalton that. But maybe and he doesn't play for the money, greg and he plays for the nine and seven. But maybe Mike on is looking at what's happening in the world. He's very

conservative in general. They heck, they started John Kittna over Carson Palmer for sixteen full games when they drafted him number one overall, and in a situation where maybe they're not practicing until August, they actually think just keep them. See what happens. He's probably gonna be the backup, but not bad to have him there. Like if Jacoby Brissett is gonna make sixteen million dollars to be a backup, I guess it's not that crazy for any Dalton to

do it. Yeah, I think the Bengals are the only team that would pay Andy Dalton seventeen million right now. I think that is true. And I think the Bengals may also see uh, their former offensive coordinator Jake Ruden now running the offense down in Jacksonville, and assume that he wants Dalton and there's stances you're gonna have to pay to get him. We're not just gonna let him go to the free agent market. I will say, like, there is this other scenario where it's a bit depressing

if he stays in Cincinnati is a backup. But the first football moment that came to mind, because I think he Andy Dalton deserves like a truly special Bengals moment is let's say Joe Burrow comes in and does sort of the Tom Brady uh, and everyone's comparing him to Tom Brady in all these different ways, and say the Bengals like sneak into the playoffs, win a divisional round game, get to the a f C Championship for some reason

or not. I'm not I know West's laughing at that. Well, I'm just saying there there is a parallel here where Andy Dalton, the sort of disgrace starter um comes in the same way that Drew Bledsoe did when Tom Brady got hurt. Well, I mean he is a bit disgraced. It's not he's not being celebrated. They're trying to trade him off. The roster came in, Drew Bledsoe came in for an injured Tom Brady and won that a f C championship. You go back and look at that game.

At the end of that game, like everyone from like Robert Craft to Bill Belichick to every Patriots teammate were like pumping their fists and so happy for Drew Bledsoe. I would not mind Andy Dalton being on this roster and having one ultra heroic moment before they just give it to Joe Burrow for nineteen more years. M hm. That might be the nicest thing you've ever said about any Dalton. Well, I don't think it's a bad idea.

And this and I hate hitting on this again. It's like it's not a great year to be a rookie quarterback. Like you're not gonna even be with your teammates until like four hours before Week one. So it's like, is it so bad to keep a trusty veteran around, Like they're gonna have to find some other backup. Who will that be? Dan does not agree. He's he's smirking and like drinking his iced tea. Have fun with you a

little iced too. I have not. I have not bought into the theory yet that no teams are gonna have a chance to compete here because of missed offseason workouts. But not compete, it's just more. Would you acknowledge that it's a more complex situation for a rookie quarterback to come into than other years or is it just business as usual. We'll see you in like August. I think there's something to that. But the last time I heard

this argument, I believe its two thousand and eleven. After the lockout, people said rookies were gonna be behind the eight bow, and then Cam Newton came in, had an awful training camp, and then broke about every rookie passing record in the books. Yeah, well, maybe it goes great, but I mean I don't I'm not sure I trust the Bengals organization to figure that's out the same way.

That's all people forget Drew bled so that through two interceptions in that game, and then went behind Tom Brady's back to try to get his job back for the Super Well he also had he led them to a quick score also when they won the game. So who cares about some of the other business they won? They used to win. Uh. Speaking of the Patriots, Tom Brady, the former Patriots quarterback. Oh hey, Walkers, you can't hear anything. Give him my headphone. That will just encourage him. We got, like,

you know, a little bit to go here to say hello. Okay, Tom Brady, the former Patriots quarterback who was signed with the Buccaneer officially last week. Uh. You may remember a couple of years ago that Brady tried and failed to trademark Tom Terrific. Uh, after angry Tom Seaver fans got fired up. Well, he's back at it again. He is attempting to trademark t B times like multiply signed t B. The day that he signed officially with the Bucks March twentie,

he filed he filed an application for the trademark. I really hope this works out for Tom, because I've never heard anything quite as catchy as TV times. TV sounds like it sounds like you've caught something. Uh to me, it doesn't sound positive. Well, also like and as you know, I'm not. I'm not a quote unquote math guy. But wouldn't it be TV plus TV? Like, why, what's what? What? Why we multiplying? Well, wouldn't it be TV squared? Well,

that wouldn't be multiplying, but it at least would look better. Mark, I agree, TV Squared. At least it feels like it has a you know, a catchy Uh, it looks cooler. TV times TV just does look terrible. But why again, why is it multiplied? Well, your question, it's actually when you apply math to something that's not mathematical. So I don't.

It's it's it's confusing at its core. The first one of these athletes athletics trademark things I but I remember goes back to pat Riley and the three pete and I was I was reading something the other day. Wes Matthews, a backup point guard on that team, actually came up with three pete. Pat Riley cut him after the first

two titles. He went to the c b A. The Lakers did not win their third title, but Wes Matthews won the c BA title and he said, stick it, Riley, I'm the only one who three pet and he stole my trademark. It's pretty good. Um. Anyway, good luck to you Tom on that. By the way, has anyone checked in on Julian Edelman? I texted him because that's more than just like buddies. That was his father figure slash

best friends slash life partner. And now they're separated. And I feel like Julian is a type of dude that might be maybe like a drift to a point that he's inconsolvable. He the Patriots do need some cap rim maybe, uh, maybe swing a trade send Jewels down there. Well, crazier things have happened. Uh. In other quarterback news, the Shaun Watson, this is something to keep an eye on as the

news slows down. We've all been wondering about how Watson feels about Bill O'Brien's decision, uh to send off his all Pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins for fifty cents on the dollar. Uh, he had I believe one. I don't know if he's spoken out, but he's had some tweets. Initially, the tweets were pretty much bland and weren't creating any drama. But lately, you know, they're starting to enter enter that dig zone. Stefan dig zone where it's a little bit

cryptic and you're wondering what's going on. Here's one from March. When was that that yesterday? Don't deal with the lies and the frauds. That's why I don't get involved. What's up part that one? Mark um Well, I feel like, you know, I wish I had a hot take on this. I think he's probably just a tad disgruntled, but it

could have been something to happen to him locally. He feels like someone that I sort of a bro and maybe he got beaten like at a pool halled by some bros, like an underground pool game in this Corona uh world. But that's as deep as I can go. I'm sure someone else has a better explanation of the tweet, which is probably entirely unnecessary. I don't know why he needed to write that. So it's like an underground pool hall that that doesn't fear COVID nineteen and they're just

shooting shooting stick. I would imagine there's a bunch of like sort of and maybe Erica can confirm this, like sort of masshole types that are just like, I'm bigger than this disease. And like I'll continue to like drink like bud Heavies and play pool. You just say that's me. No, I'm saying you can confirm it that's true if it's in like like Dorchester or whatever. If like that's what's the Greg is looking at me like I I don't understand Massachusetts, Greg, So I don't know. I never can

explain if he lived in Boston. Here's another tweet. I don't know how I'm gonna make it out of here. Clean can't even keep track of who plays for the other team. Iconic Duo's rip and split at the seams Shaun Watson. Yeah, he's saying everybody's going he doesn't even know who's Who's who? I mean, that's that's a Drake lyric, which is a you know, Stefan Digg's type of move to to use the lyric to to express your tweel M. So he's in his feelings like Drake. Here's one more

from yesterday. Never take advice from a person who don't love you. You gotta walk light, gotta stay above water. M feels like a lyric too. Well. I'm not say it doesn't need to be an original composition to to kind of represent his feelings. You know, he might relate to the lyric West break it down. I feel like it's okay to separate love and advice. For instance, you may have a great teacher in your life, some kind of mentor there may not be a love relationship there,

but advice can still work. That tweet makes me think this really isn't about Bill O'Brien necessarily. This feels like a little more personal. They're ripping up the iconic duo. I was that was a little closer to the to the DeAndre Hopkins idea. I think that might actually be a lyric from y F. N. Lucci's He's pretty good. He's doing some good stuff right now. See you've got Google. Huh, we've got actual football news. Uh so there you go.

Deshaun Watson is doing some digsy stuff. What was that West, We've got actual football news. Let's hear it. Rap sheet reporting former Vikings cornerback Xavier Rhods signing a one year deal with the Colts. Okay, so Rhodes has uh really fallen off last year led to his release, uh stand out at one point, now gets a chance to resurrect himself in indeed do we like that signing? Well, not

the way he's played the last couple of years. It's a little bit perplexing that they would release Pierre de Sire, who then the Jets picked up, because the Jets pick up every Colts cornerback release. That's a rule. Now, um that's in their entire Cornerback corps in New York. But um so I'm guessing the cults just wanted size there. Other than that, it's hard to explain. Probably not for much money. We don't have the money details. It's just

like a shot in the dark. But yes, he was, he was playing very I just I noticed something that our producer Um did. It was humorous to me. If you're watching the video version of this, well you do.

I was just making a funny Dorchester move. But yeah, there's a lot of downsides of not being in the same room together when we do the podcast, and one of them is like looking at like the faces of you, like horrified when you make a point that you don't like, or or the people not paying any attention or like all of that. It's just totally, i have to say it, totally glazed over. Prior to hearing the laughter, and then I woke up again around the NFL coming to you

daily during the coronavirus. Hey, Cody Lattimore got a job. The Redskins signed the wide out formally of the Giants. Wow, he's hung around for six years. Uh, and now he gives the Redskins a little bit of depth coming off a career high three hundred receiving yards last season. You might be the second best receiver on that roster. Now hell yeah, who a week that he doesn't want to be there and demand that management trade him like every

other Redskins player. Oh takedown. Speaking of that region, trouble in for the newlyweds, Michael Brocker's and the Baltimore Ravens, the athletics Jeff Zribiak, Oh, speaking in which Wes I did some research, and I believe you're right about the New York Post Media columnist Andrew Marshandy. That's just my you know, as I've stated multiple times before, I was the French club president in high school. When I see I'm Marshaun, you know, it's it's gotta be Oh yeah,

that's you gotta lock it in. The Ravens have not announced that the signing of Michael Brocker's because of his physical red flag here. He signed a three year, thirty million dollar deal last week, but the ankle injury that Brockers suffered last year UM put the Ravens raised the red flag high enough to delay the signing. UM. It should be noted that Zribiac believes the deal will still happen, but it is not done, so that is something to keep in mind. We might see some teams pulling out

a deal. There's another one with the Jaguars. They're no longer doing a deal with Dark Quest in Ourds. Supposedly that's not related to the physical, but this weird situation that they're in. You could imagine just people backing out of contracts now because of the physicals. And I'm surprised there aren't more of these situations to be it's that this is sort of the only health related one that

we've seen in this situation. UM. Back to Deshaun Watson a second, Does anybody else get a feeling that there's at least an outside chance that he he never signs that second contract with the Texans and all this meddling from O'Brien and the fallout of all this creates a toxic situation where Deshaun Watson potentially hit the market via trade or free agency. That would be pretty wild. I see where you're going with that. The franchise tag just makes it so hard for any quarterback to escape. Bill

O'Brien could do anything. At this point. You would think that the ownership would step in and just make a choice Watson over O'Brien at that point. But I am not putting anything past Bill O'Brien um trying to get a massive deal for Deshaun Watson. You wouldn't think would be this offseason. But I mean if Watson ever was available, you know, imagine what you you could get. And you know O'Brien, if nothing else has shown us, he don't care.

He's gonna do whatever you like if you get on his wrong side and he has a chance to well, I mean, what kind of trade market and obviously getting ahead of myself now, but what kind of trade market would Deshaun Watson have? Uh? Three first round picks? I mean we're talking about a franchise level star quarterback and is not even in his mid twenties. I could see

Bill Obion going crazy. He is like that old Bill Simmons is um, uh the Tyson zone where anything you see in the news on Mike Tyson this was years ago, Um, you would believe it. With Bill O'Brien, it's kind of the O'Brien zone now where anything you somebody could say something about Bill O'Brien's personnel maneuvers and you just kind of believe it. On phase value. Yeah, at the rate they're going down there, he could be half owner of

the team in a couple of years. I mean with with Ryan Mallett is a starting quarterback on a second you know, on a career comeback journey. And finally in the news, good news, Sean Payton has recovered from the coronavirus and he urges people to quote be smart. New Orleans, Greg, you're your land during college is really getting hit hard right now Louisiana. The numbers are doubling and tripling, and uh, Peyton is an example of how anybody can get this.

There's a multimillionaire living behind castle walls and a moat and he got the coronavirus, so a little he's back to normally, he's he's back to himself. But he is the first NFL figure to be connected to the coronavirus, and I can guarant damn to you he won't be the last. Yeah, it's sad. New Orleans like has a lot of issues that would make them susceptible. Marti grad just happened. It's like the most it's such a condensed city. Um, it's such a get tourism, so people are just coming

in and out all the time. And when it also makes me worry about, you know, the future of New Orleans because they're gonna get hit, uh, particularly particularly art. But hey, like, if there's a government, um that I

trust to really hook it up, it's Louisiana. There was a video I saw yesterday of Bourbon Street, which, like so many major city streets throughout the country are you know, it's deserted and the rats and the mice have taken back over and they're just openly running around in the streets. They're kind of like what it's like when you have kids in your house. The kids have taken over and

they're having the time of their lives. Well, rats, you've you've rats appropriate at such a voluminous level that throughout history humans have tried to eradicate them and it's not until the last few years that this company, these two female scientists in Arizona, came up with a drug that you can give to rats and stop the pro creation. So we might finally win the war on rats if this drug becomes affordable. Wow, way to go, female scientists. Do we want to get rid of the rats? I

guess so? Yeah? These Yeah, this war has been going on for thousands of years. I mean, why do you think cats were domesticated? They always beat they always beat humanity before COVID nineteen came has taken their big swing. Uh. There was of course the famous uh plague, the bubonic plague, that was all about the rats, right, that was like the mcale um clotheslines Kurt Rambis of the humans versus rat They're a fierce rival. Absolutely absolutely any other rat

takes from anyone. I don't I don't know why you mentioned cats. Why cats exist. I'm not quite certain why we need them, but I'd extend that to rats, to go the rats. But then, but so remove rats and remove cats, and we've we this this cycle that is needless, is uh not part of our experience anymore? Vermin will fill the vacuum. I don't. I don't like I don't

love cats. I'm allergic to them. But I know say cat people out there, they love the felines, So I don't see any reason why they should be wiped off the face of the earth Mark. Let me ask you this quit. Out of ten cat people that you could pick at random, how many of them would you trust? Day? Wow, I we had cat Colleen and Gonzo are cat people? Well, they're the one out of ten that I believe. They essentially run a zoo over there at this point, John, Colleen,

they're like the tiger king Queen um all right? Check out by the way, John Gonzalez wrote a banger on the Ringer about Once upon a Time in Hollywood. Rick Dalton, the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio, all the movies and TV shows that he is. Power is flickering in my garages could be the end. What happens if we if power goes away? What happens if the grid shuts down? Well, then the riots start. There's been no yeah, there's been

no indication of that. We've got some good internet lately, some good uh some good power With dis Gonzo article which was anyway, he wrote, Yes, he wrote about it. I think he It was essentially a countdown of the best Dalton projects that get referenced in the film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and John, as we learned the last time we ever had a social gathering in our lives maybe ever, when we hung out with John

and Colleen and Lakisha Um right before things went crazy. Uh. He had revealed that, or Colleen had revealed that John had watched Once upon a Time in Hollywood multiple times I'm talking a half dozen, maybe closer to a ten times and was just buying it over and over again on the cable box rental platform. Renting kept to the point Colleen's like John, I mean, you're killing me over here.

So Colleen finally just gets him the Blu Ray. And so if you're looking for if you love that movie, uh, the way I know Mark loved it the way I loved it. Read that piece did a great job with it. He was the right person to write that, um Blue rays popping off. Bro it is it's got well, it's got still got the special features going for it, the commentary tracks and a movie like Once upon a Time. I think they have extended see I don't know who cares Sean Payton is okay? Good? Anything else in the

news that I'm missing here? I think we confered everything. Did I get that? I get the Cody let Tody Lattimore got Cody got Do you guys know that Cody Lattimore at three D yards last year? Um? All right, let me read a couple of iTunes reviews again. It's all we ask for. If you're happy that we've been coming to you every day during this calamity, Uh, then uh, just pay us back by leaving us five star review

and a review any review you like. Do you guys want to hear a favorable one or critical one from the audience? One of each? Yeah, a little both. Let's start with critical, group of humble, start with critical. Okay, yeah,

let's get it over with. Okay, here we go, Losers one star by Nude Nude Dude and nude is spelled an O O D dude d O O D. First time I listened to this podcast, these dudes start talking about how no one recognizes them out in public, but when they do, they don't want anyone to say anything to them. Then they start going on about the coronavirus. So maybe there's good episodes, but the first couple of minutes of listening to this group of individuals, they were annoying.

Get over yourselves, talk about football, not your sad life. Not a long not a long time listener. I'm gathering not very far off either. The first five minutes are just like a like kind of a challenge. You know, some some novels put in a really difficult first chapter, just like if you can get over that hump, you'll enjoy the rest exactly. All right, here we go now favorable one six stars from heck yeah, Thank you so much for five shows a week. Very entertaining and excellent analysis.

Thank you so much for five shows a week. Five stars for saving my sanity. I sincerely appreciate all your hard work, and I hope you are all safe during the crisis. Thank you so much for five stars a week. Well, that's very nice. I'm happy to see that our sad, pathetic lives could entertain someone. Alright, the bad ones are funnier, So I'm gonna read another one of those. Yeah, I like the I like the negative ones. Uh too much?

Off topic? One star, Tony d. These guys joke around, go go please, How about revive your television career while you're at it. Tony Danze has had a tremendous career. I'm just saying that what's he doing right now? He's he's probably in hiding, trying not to get the coronavirus. The best mark. It's funny because I'm trying to read this review and it's playing right into one of his criticisms. These guys joke around and make fun of people, which

is not funny. They typically they typically cut each other off and impossible to follow as they jump all over the place. Maybe you'll like it. I didn't. I have not found any fault with any of these reviews so far. Uh here's another one. Not bad? Is the title one star? Well, listen, you idiot, dark dude. If it's not bad, give us two or three stars out of five full decent podcast. The more I listened, sadly, the more I dislike each person on on their mark, with a K being the

most tolerable. Seems like most of the quote analysis closed quote these guys do isn't watching or studying NFL. I'd like better if didn't have favorite teams. You all aren't funny, your jokes are terrible, most overrated podcast. I've ever listened to straight garbage with three slammers, and yet the title of the post is not bad. It's headline writing there. Uh that was ugh. Um alright, so there's a lot of positive ones, there's some negative ones. We have four thousand,

seven six ratings right now. Let's try to get to five thousands audience, five thousand ratings on iTunes by this time next week. There's the challenge out to please help us out because it does make a difference in um, certain metrics and how they judge how a podcast is doing, and um, you know, I might keep us employed. Let's be honest, everything everything's up in the air right now.

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you know, battening down the hatchets as it were. What are some pleasures of life that you've uncovered since life has changed? Ricky Hollywood, I like you to get us going on this. Yeah. So I think a couple of things that have been really getting me through is obviously Netflix, like just TV in general. I've been watching Love Island, which is a sort of reality spinoff of of multiple people being dropped into a house to separate and find love.

But there's like challenge, it's crazy, it's wild. Um so stuff like that. I really love Tiger King. I've been reading a little bit, and I think it's really important to find time for yourself. You know, that's not just sitting around waiting all day like sort of I put aside a little bit of time for me. I like

that and like that. Yes, Tiger King West, I know you're watching it too, And no spoilers because I just finished episode three Emily and I. It is bonkers and riveting and I'm always surprised when certain stories I completely missed that don't f with Cats Netflix series, same thing. I totally missed that when it was in the news cycle, and this one I was totally plugged on. So it's kind of like see of your pants on a roller

coaster with these insane people. Yeah, kish and I just finished it last Night right about the point where you are after like three episodes. I compared it to competing cat cults. It was like Manson Families, but instead of LSD and Belladonna, it was just brainwashed people messing with

exotic wildcats. And it gets worse. It gets the show gets better, but the things that the people do on the show get worse and more imaginative and creative, and it just goes in a thousand different Every time a weirder person comes on the screen, another weirder person trumps that person in the next saying it's just it's mind blowing. Just to be clear, my anti cat commentary from before, UH does not put me into one. I do not desire or approve of these cults with whatever they're doing

to cat bodies. They're making a TV series based off the characters, and Kate McKinnon is going to play the crazy cat Lady. It's not for her to get out of SNL. Yeah, she's next step um West. Since UH, you were talking about the Tiger King, what about what about you pleasures? Pleasures? I've been right reading a ton um at one point a lot of Muhammad Ali, who

just fascinating beautiful man. Um. Lately, a lot of Lakers and Celtics rivalry UM been going down the wormhole of like um, demagogues, gurus, brainwashing uh, megal megal maniacs um that worm mole uh. And then when the Tiger King is right there, it fits right in with all that. I'm not gonna say that was the inspiration. The inspiration may may have come at the highest levels of our government, but um. Also on a on a better note, are

neighbors next door. Good old Lynette and Rick have been throwing like happy hours every day at five o'clock when the sun's out, so the neighbors will come and bring a lawn chair and sit like eight feet apart, have some drinks and just chat for an hour or two. Oh, that's nice. That's a good job by us. And it doesn't surprise me that you would find a community element in times like these. Yeah, it's I blame myself for not getting to know the neighbors better before we were

shut in. M You know, your your neighbors is better than anyone I know even before this shutting, just for my limited uh interactions with you and them, you man of the people. Now we extend it to the whole neighborhood instead of just the people next door. West is a bit. He's big on the more the merrier and if there's a social gathering, he doesn't really care who comes over. Just come on over. There's a difference between

me and him. But I kind of I'm I'm jealous that you have that ability to not care who's around because for me, for instance, I only feel like I could be myself around people that I know, but you are not that. And Um, I think it's a positive trait that you have. Thank you. Sometimes I I wonder if I should be more like you. So that's good to hear. Some somewhere out there there's someone with the middle bowl of porridge that is just perfect social person.

What about you, greg Um? I've been reading a decent amount. I love this book Leaving the Attacho Station from by Ben Lerner's probably like the best book, funniest book I've read in six or seven months. I like the David Chang Show on Netflix. He has such an interesting mine for how he thinks about food. They get into some like crazy big topics, but if you love food and like man, they spent a lot of money on that show, like He'll go to India for like five minutes of

the show. I'm like, like, what is the budget on this show? You are on seven continents for one fifty minute episode. But it's really good. I uh also shout out to just like walking around your neighborhood. You know, I think it's an underrated uh activity all year round, and now I see the people are the people are getting into it now because you have no other choice with the kids, just just walking. Walking is good. It's

been keeping humanity going for hundreds of years. David is doing a good job attempting to fill that void left by Anthony Bourdain's death. Like a guy that's well traveled and loves to taste different food and meet different people.

That's like a that's a good lane to be and I feel like and yet totally his own personality, Like I love like I that show and I and you know, I wouldn't eat what they're cooking, but I I love the adventure and the conversation and some of the weirder elements that pop up in the in what they discussed. I think of you a lot, Mark whenever they're just like cranking out some like intense like it's all the you always make a joke it's like, oh, what did you just have like a bull's head or like a

lamb's testicle, But they really are eating that on that show. Yeah, I always thought Bourdain had the coolest job in the world. That was the one I was most jealous of. You get to meet so many fascinating people, you get to see so many cultures, eat the food. Just so many memorable nights that I got to have where they're pure moments for sure. Um, I am revisiting some things that I loved that I, you know, otherwise didn't think I

had time to revisit. So I'm rewatching thirty Rock right now, which is, to me one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, and in fact, I think it's in the conversation for best sitcom of the two thousand's, And um, it's also very interesting as a rewatch because, um, I don't think a lot of things would fly that they joke about the type of humor that's used in a show that came out in two thousand six and ran

to like two thousand twelve. It's things have changed about what's acceptable is in terms of humor, and this was on a broadcast network. Uh. So it's a little bit of a reminder of how the world is always changing. But that's it's excellent. I so I wanted to across my mind again. It's been sitting on my bookshelf for many years. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallas. I'm just not ready for it. I was thinking about reading it. Instead. I'm gonna read a book that I just had delivered. Uh.

Speaking of greatest sitcoms of the two thousand's The Office. Um, it's a whole retrospective of the series, uh, The American Office. I'm I'm reading that. And last night I found myself with a couple of hours to kill before bed and my wife had gone to sleep. Ready, this is a good time just to bingeh on stuff that you have you loved, like I said, and has disappeared from your mind, and now all of a sudden phil that you got time to fill. So I rewatched Jerry McGuire for the

first time last night in about fifteen years. What a perfect movie. Oh my god. And Cameron Crow, Uh that guy. Things went sideways in the last ten years or so, but Cameron Crow's run, Um that he went on from about eighty nine too, from a anything and then to almost Famous in two thousand, Um incredible, And I thought Jerry McGuire was his best movie. Let's not forget Fast

Times at Richmond High. Last time's yep, um back in I guess eighty three or so, so he I mean, I think he kind of gets slept on because his last few movies have been terrible. But Jerry McGuire is awesome.

And if you're like a sports fan, I remember seeing that movie in the theater when it came out in nine and thinking briefly that I wanted to be a sports agent because it just seemed like the coolest and then um watching it again because there's so much like quote unquote inside baseball stuff, it is kind of cool that that's kind of we work in that sphere, that

behind the scenes sports sphere. My sixteen year old self would be very excited to know that I ended up working for a job where I worked behind the scenes and I'm at league events and I'm in that mix just like Jerry was, even if he was an agent. And I am not putting out a show that got one star from nude dude. I mean, it's it's everything you could have imagine. And finally, Mark, what are you doing, uh for your pleasure center? I kind of look like

one thing. I I love to same with you guys, like watch shows and read and all this stuff, but I'm not great at it when unless I'm kind of alone. And I I went into this very concerned about frankly or like the the overall upkeep of our home and family during this And I don't mean from a coronavirus, but more from a how is anyone not going to come out of this without basically nuclear bombing one another? And it's to my pleasure, it's been the opposite. Um,

it took a couple of days. But this whole homeschooling thing, I mean, our kids have a lot of they're at the age where they're getting like three or four hours of homework a day, and I thought that was just

going to drive me crazy. And what I learned and I'm not trying to be um like syrupy about it at all, but it's like I I kind of like my kids have been going through these grades and you'll find it out with your own when they get up into second, third, fourth grade that like you just see them at the beginning of the day and the end and you don't really know what they're up to for

the most part. But like going through with Coulton specifically each day his work and learning about how he learns and what he's um, what he's into and what makes him excited and how good he's doing at certain subjects. Like I kind of think this was something that is a dad that I needed. Now I'll leave it there

at that because it's been like much better than I think. Um, something that I really have enjoyed is uh, which is a little eerie, but driving around l a with like you might look stare down Supulvata Boulevard and there's like one car and it's like I'll drive on the left side for five minutes because also again there's no cops anywhere, and it's like weaving and doing what I want to

do and kind of drive like in a totally formless matter. Um, I there's a jungle gym in our yard that no one's climbed on because they're too big now, And I just climbed up to the top of that and like fell asleep for fifteen minutes and got like a semi sun tan it's like I don't really need to be anywhere. I kind of him warming up to this whole thing. I've talked to my parents every day, which I hadn't

done that for years and years. It's like there is this like I'm on all these text threads with friends and reconnection and I'm kind of over the busy schedule that we had before and the concept of having no idea what is uh coming up next was scaring me a little bit before. Now I'm kind of like, I don't love it, but it's like, all right, maybe this

is some of this is a little bit better. And also the New Pope on HBO, I think is the follow up to The Young Pope is an incredible show and it's not for everyone, but I absolutely love it.

Do you have it on good already that there are no police officers out when you're doing all the insane, especially in our part of town where you cut through like Venice, Washington, Spulvida and you're in like hot spots, like I just see cops everywhere, And I was kind of trained to just stay in your lane literally on a road. Now I'm like, I don't do well, I know, but it's like there's no car around me. It's like I can well, it's perfect for me. It's perfect for me.

But it's like I just it's like I just feel that we it's if it could turn lawless, but I don't see any policeman I in anything that I'm up to, and I enjoy that and I'm just taking advantage of that human freedom. It's like you live in the middle of a field in another country. It's nice. Well, I was super on board with all this stuff about your kids. Not so much about the driving thing, um, but spot on about spending all this extra time with our kids, which one day we're going to um, not be able

to spend any time with them. So the fact that out of nowhere, the fates have intervened and we get to spend all day with them every day. It's a little bit annoying, um when you kinda are in it. But at the end of the night, Emily and I have had talks about that that it's pretty cool also to be able to spend all this time with them, especially when they're this young. Yep, because they won't be

young forever. I'm trying to wrap up Emily for number three, but she doesn't want it, So you need a COVID baby. I think that's probably gonna be a big thing. There'll be a whole generation of like c nineteen babies. I always tell Hank, I always tell a handsome Hank that you know having he has three healthy, wonderful children, But it should have never went with three because his life

is constantly underwater at home. Um, because it's just so much damn children running around, so many damn children running around. But then once his second kid, your second kid starts to get a little older, I'm getting that, you know that kick like I want another baby around. But the wife has a pretty big saying that. Unfortunately, Handsome Hank is making his rounds in the neighborhood. We've got like three or four drop by in the past week or two.

He brought his new puppy over. Mm. Yeah, because he needs You're supposed to not be hanging out with anyone west. He knocks on the door. He knocks on the door. Then he goes back down to the driveway and stands out there about ten feet away and waits, waits for me to come out. Beautiful. He's brought a specific British strain of c. Nineteen over who introduced you to so alright, people calling it see nineteen Now, Well, I mean, if I'm gonna have to say the word forty times a day,

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