Bunkercast XV: Hot Seat

He was a barefoot kicker and tight end for the Kent Exiles football team. Used to play catch in the storeroom at the NFL Europe office, wearing the head of the Scottish Claymore's mascot while doing it. He didn't try honey for the first time until two thousand and eight. Weirdo. He supports Liverpool and he is the host of the brand spanking new Neil Reynolds podcast Ladies and Gentlemen Neil Reynolds on intro. Welc that's any around the animal body?

Thank you an anthem? Yeah, that will came from That will came from Handsome Hank right, all that information, I don't I don't reveal my sources ever, true journalists. Very good, very good, thanks for having me, guys. I mean, let's start with the honey thing. Come on, yeah, what's up with the honey now? He said, Now, my source said that you are famously have a very bland palette. But even if that's true, honey, two thousand and eight, that's a disgrace. Yeah, I am. I do have a very

very bland palette. And exactly what you do with really really leaning into these cultural stereotypes. And I was at NFL UK and myself and who I'm guessing is your source, Dan Handsome, Hank Henry Hodgson. We were kind of known for making outlandish predictions and guarantees around NFL Europe games, around NFL games. I think I made some stupid guarantee which I failed on. And the forfeit was to do like a bush Tucker trial like you see in the

I'm a Celebrity Show the jungle. I had to eat a bunch of stuff which was supposed to be kind of really out there, but for me, because I was so bland, it was sushi, which was ridiculous, honey. But then I did eat some I think I ate some ants and some crickets, but most of it was just food that everyone really likes, but not for me. But Neil, I've gotta. I've gotta as as the person on this side of the ocean that is charged continuously with not

being adventurous enough with their food choices. Um. For instance, I've never eaten cottage cheese, and I never I would rather be taken out by a female gunman than eat cottage cheese because it's like, why must I swallow what looks like chunky milk? Why must there be a female gunman? Well, because that would be an incredible way to go um. And I've thought about that probably once a day since, like a there's so many layers that I gotta ask, what,

like that's a texture thing. I look at cottage cheese and it's just like, why would a human put that into their system? That's how I feel. But Honey, it feels unoffensive, um visually in any other way, and it's sort of like it goes back to even like biblical diets. Why would you why? What is the issue with with with honey, I'm clack, we're peeling this back. I have no idea, but I don't. I don't stick to just that texture. You know. I don't eat fish. Um, I

don't really like Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I'm just a bit fussy and I don't know what honey. It's just a bit too full of itself, isn't it. I think we could be and I could be quarantine together and we'd be You guys are foodians. I mean, well, it's a it's a worldwide issue, the food Atarians. They should unite and uh push back against all the people that like food. Well we are, by the way, we're

heading into food terian zones. So for those of you, I don't know every thing you need to eat like lamb chops with like eyeball on top of it, that's an option anymore for you. It's a bit of an aggressive tone forming here, so let's just move on. Neil, you are the rich eyes and of course famously of the UK when it comes to UH pro football coverage, NFL coverage, and uh we're so happy to have you on the show because this has been a great bond between our podcast and your your great studio show and

live coverage of the NFL. Sky sports. So I know a lot of listeners have been listening for a long time. UM are aware that you've been on the show before, but you are very much a friend of the show at a high level. So it's great to have you back, especially at this time where you're launching a new podcast. You want to tell us about that. Yeah, I mean, that's why I really appreciate you guys having me on UM. So. Yeah, I'm still hosting the Inside the Huddle podcast with Jeff

Ryan Bold. Rob Bryan's on that with us as well. But I wanted to do something, uh, I think inspired by you guys. You know, you've had so many side projects and so many things off, you know, sid side podcasts, you know, and I do listen to the show a lot, and I thought, well, you know, I should give it a go. And I don't want to do another kind of opinion based thing. You guys cover all of the news and opinion. You do it in a great way. Mike Florio does it, Peter King do it. Why would

people want to hear me do that? You know, I actually we don't. We don't mention those names on this show ever. Sorry, you can you can probably bleep them out afterwards, I would guess. But so I thought, well, what can I do? I have great contacts, I have good access around the league. I've covered this sport for a long time. I do um get very fortunate with the NFL UK lives to spend a lot of time

with players traveling around the UK. So while start telling their stories, and that's what I did with the first one. I decided I'm going to make a bit of a bit of an effort with the with the first one and try and go out to actually interview whoever the first one is in person. So drop Ryan Fitzpatrick a text and said, can I come and come to you somewhere in Tampa where you live and we'll do we'll do like a thirty minute interview. And he said, no, come and we'll go out fishing and then we'll do

the interview. So we literally, wow, Yeah, we were fishing in the waterway. He's off the off the back of where he lives too. I did, yeah, and I'm not I mean, people can listen to the podcast when it when it drops, we put a lot of the fishing audio in there. I don't like eating fish, but I also don't like handling fish or being around any live fish. So you hear me kind of have a bit of a meltdown because he he literally we started, oh, you're ready for the apocalypse. Now I could tell yeah, I'm

gonna go out there and hunter together. So we literally I threw the I cast it I think is the term cast it off the back of the boat. And then literally within five minutes, I had I had a bite, and then I was absolutely terrified. And then after so I caught that fish, but he had to land it, and then I sound embarrassing. Yeah, it was the whole thing. It was embarrassing. I'll tell you why. It was embarrassing as well, because I felt a little bit I think

he did it on purpose, a little bit emasculated. So I'm in this kayak, but it was like a pedalo. Really, I'm in this pedal boat and fits looks like this some sort of god from an ancient past on a paddle board standing up strong, and I'm kind of flailing around in a pedal boat. Can't land this fish and he had to land it, and then I literally turned into five year old Neil Reynolds. It's a question every five seconds, fits that we're going to put it back.

Is that him making that noise? Is he all right? Do you want me to drop him back in the water? How we hold his breath forall? Are throwing him back? Fits? And he was like, it's fine, he's fine, we're throwing him back. And so yeah, we did. We but we had a great time. And to be able to get that kind of access, that's what I wanted to bring with this podcast, is that that up close access, spending quality time with players. And so we did that on Sunday and then I spent the Monday with Bruce Arians.

So yeah, that'll be episode two coming up in a couple of weeks. Now this is this is Bruce Arians pretime Brady Right, Yeah, Actually I was so yeah. So about about five minutes before I was due to meet with coach, Arians were waiting in his office and then the PR guy for the Bucks said, actually, this way outside in the lobby. You don't want to be just camped up in coaches office. Um, he said, he's running a little bit late. He's just been called into an

emergency meeting with Jason Light, the general manager. And I said, I'd love to be a fly on the wall with that. You know free agencies starting next week. The coach Coach comes in and then the very next day I'm flying home there was a headline saying the Bucks are apparently all in for for Tom Brady. So what were they discussing in that meeting? But he was a good one as well, And I think when you get people. The good thing about this podcast, I think and I hope,

is that I'm not trying to break news. So I said to Coach Areans, I would like thirty minutes of your time, but I'm probably not going to ask you a question about Jameis Winston because it's about your life, it's about your stories. And he was I've interviewed him a couple of times before, but he was as open and as emotional as I've ever seen him. So hopefully that comes across. That's great. So yeah, Neil Reynolds podcast wherever podcasts are found. Is it up yet? Is it

launched yet? What's the what's the date? So it launches tomorrow Thursday, seven am in the UK time, So yes, so by the time you guys like on Thursday it will be it will be up and running, and yeah, hopefully get some good numbers. One quick question if so you and I and it's it is a slight humble brag, but I but you own it because you're a man

who's deep and sources. You're texting back and forth with Ryan Fitzpatrick, So I mean, I just want to know when you when he sends a long, chunky paragraph, uh, you know, capitalization, grammar, punctuation, is it totally what you'd expect from you know, we all know where he went to school. Is it Ivy Lee Livy League level texting or is he a typical athlete bro when it comes to communication. No, he's pretty good with with that. The only thing with and if you know Ryan Fitzpatrick, he's

a bit of a joker. So when I met up with him at the Super Bowl, we we arranged to me through his agent, And when fitz was over in the UK, he made all these pictures of us that were on the stage show together, um, but superimposed our faces on the coyote ugly scene on the Spice Girls. And so he introduced me to He introduced me to his agent by saying, Kneel's the one in the bottom right. And I looked at the picture and it was me as baby Spice with the blonde hair and everything. So yeah,

that humor comes through with him. But no, he's a he's a very intelligent man. He's actually, um the most unspoiled NFL player you could ever wish to meet. I mean, the last thing he said to me was like, you know, come, we'll come back and we'll do this again soon, but don't bring any recording equipment. You know, we'll just take a few beers out. It was, it was, it was a privilege to spend the time with him. It was

a bit like being in that you know. It felt like a couple of characters in that big movie with Tom Hanks, because he sent the he said. We arrived at his house, knocked on the door and he said, oh, we're gonna go about half a mile down the street

to record by the water's edge. And I said, okay, we're all going to jump in one car and he said no, no, that He sent the producer off, he sent the cameraman off, and he went me and you were going to go on these and walked into his garage and the two electric scooters and then he just races off down the road and I had to try and catch him up and that's just how he was. He seems like the guy that's he's figured out life.

He's rich, he's a football player, he's the heart. He's got the Harvard Angle, he's got like forty seven kids, he's happily married, he's got scooters going down to the pond to go fishing. It just seems like the guy figured it out. Yep, he's ticked every every box. And yeah, very unspoiled by um. All right, Neil, So that's what we're gonna do. We're happy that you're sitting in on the Wednesday edition of the Around the NFL Bunker Cast.

How many bunker cats drink here, by the way, Oh yeah, well there it is of course people that watch it is. It's wine thirty friendly where Neil is, no matter what the time is. And you'll know that from our Sky Sports appearances over the last couple of seasons that Neil, you know, he luks to get a little bit loose if you catch my drift well on air, off air, any time of day, sun's up, suns down, the winds out, yes or no, come on, we'll do with it, Ricky.

What how many Bunker casts are we up to? Now? I think I know the number. Are we thirteen? She's I don't know. She's having There's two full weeks and a Friday. So now that's alright, Bunker Gust thirteen. We're gonna hit some news. I hope. I hope Eric is okay. We're having some technical difficulties on her end. Um, we'll hit some news and then Neil, um, I hope you're comfortable of this. Usually, like if you're a pro, you clear it with the guests, but we didn't do that.

We're gonna sit you on the hot seat and ask some questions and get some answers your live show. I'm not sure I'm happy about that, so just be just just be ready, not less in interrogation and more. Yeah, payback for you doing the same thing to us last time we were in England. All right, Before we do that, though, let's get to the news. Welcome to the Ryan Fitzpatrick Podcast. I said you help me launch my podcast, The Reynolds Podcast.

Welcome to the Neil Reynolds Podcast. At special guest nonetheless soon all right, let's start with news that became official. We've talked about us on the podcast that it was something that was tied to the new cb A, which has since been ratified, but it will indeed start in the year this season hopefully. UH, the NFL expands the four team team fourteen teams UH in the playoffs, up from twelve. The big fallout from this, obviously it's one

team in each conference added to the mix. Also, UH, there is no longer a number two seed that gets a by, so now you only have one team that gets a by straight into the divisional playoffs. You have an extra team in each division in each conference making the dance. And it happens right now. This season still six team game season, Greg Rosenthal, but the playoff expansion is immediate. Yeah, we we are still waiting to see how this NFL season goes, but I think it's a

fairly safe bet. The NBC and CBS are both gonna be broadcasting extra games. That was what I was because we knew this was happening, but I was interested in how this was all going to play out. And basically NBC is getting a Sunday night game, which will be fun.

I mean, those wild card weekends are gonna be packed days with three games on each day, and then CBS gets an extra game where they also have a simulcast on Nickelodeon, So uh, maybe that's a spot they can throw the old around the NFL podcast guys in Hey, Now, no they're gonna put like blip Be on that show. It would definitely be Uh. It's an interesting thought having a youthful slant to how you call the game, I imagine,

and playing it up that way. Neil. This is bad news for you, of course, because um, it's always difficult Sunday night football with the time changes in the middle of the night over in the UK. Now you've got a playoff game going on at that time, rough, but

I guess the super Bowl is even later. Yeah, I mean the wild card weekend and divisional round of the toughest two weeks on the calendar over here in terms of hosting the shows, because we will come off air around about four thirty, get to a hotel or somewhere for five thirty in the morning. Then we're back in the studio about two thirty ready to go for the you know, the the one pm eastern kickoff time games

for the Sunday. So you do that Saturday Sunday both weekends, and it does It does take a little bit of a toll. But as I often say, we're just sitting there watching TV for a living, So can't complain. Can't complain too hard? Mean I do, I do, but no one's really gonna listen. Yeah, absolutely to you, but no one's gonna listen. Hey, West, do you think that obviously now only one team getting to buy? Is that too much of an advantage for one team to have? That?

Are you all? I know where as a group we're kind of a little on the fence or against the idea of letting in these mediocre teams into the playoffs, But what about at the top of this with only one team getting to buy? What's your thoughts on that. I'm trying to keep an open mind, and I think we'll have answers afterwards. But I don't think there's any need to think the sky is falling on on the

level of competition in week sixteen or seventeen. Yet, I'd like to see a fairly big sample size before we draw any major conclusions about the competitiveness um and how much of an advantage that is. I think it's interesting because change is interesting. I don't know a couple of teams picked off in recent years and I, you know, I think it's interesting to add the seventh team where people are assuming that it's going to be some sort

of seven and nine operation. And you know, if you go back to two thousand, none of these seven seeds that would have made the playoffs in a four teen team format would have had a losing record. So that for me, that kind of quells some of the fears. And I read an interesting um article on Cleveland dot com. It said, in quotes, the expanded playoff format increases Browns chances of making playoffs. Now that to me is cutting edge journalism. You have the analysis there is from the

far reaches of space. I did see some advanced metrics kind of saying that the one seeds chances of going any further aren't any higher, which which kind of makes sense because they're in the same spot. It basically is just banging the two seed and like their chances of

making the super Bowl now go down. Um a significant amountain that like you know, spreads out to the three, four or five six, But the way they did it, basically, I don't know if the one seeds getting an edge as much as just that two seed is now getting banged in comparison and to the crowd that says, why is that? Why is this happening? First of all, there's always been a shift going on. It's been a twelve

team play field since nineteen ninety. It's been thirty years, obviously, but it was a ten team field from seventy eight to eighty nine. It was an eight team field from seventy to seventy seven. So the game is evolved over time in terms of how they handled the playoff structure just hadn't happened in a long time. Now, is it because you kind of we hit on the perfect structure? I kind of think yes. But then I had a teacher in um Junior High, Mrs Miller, her name was.

She was our social studies teacher, and she she would teach us about what was going on, and she always pointed to one undefeated truth of the world. Money makes the world go around. And uh. The during the negotiations for the c B A UH, they projected this. The players Union in the NFL projected a hundred and fifty million and new annual revenues from broadcast rights and stadium revenue connected to adding these teams and just beefing it up. A little bit and that. I mean, this is a

business and they're looking to make money. And as long as they don't destroy the prod duct, which I don't think they will, I'm kind of into it and going and circling back. Mark, if you're a fan of an eternally mediocre team, you know what I really miss and Mark, you miss it more than me because it's been longer. There's nothing more exciting than waking up on a Saturday or Sunday in January when your team's playing a playoff game. Uh, And how exciting that is. I don't care what their

record was or how they got there. To give more fans that opportunity. I think that's a good thing too. Yeah. I mean the last time I had that feeling was New Year's Day. So I was excited for a lot of other reasons. The future was bright. Um, I was young, vivacious, uh, physically fit, looking better than now. So I mean you're excited about the Empire records release. That was a that was a huge momentum all right. In other league news,

the NFL UH and their executives. They're planning for the season to start on time with the fans in the stands. That is the hope here. With the of course the COVID nineteen pandemic make in the coronavirus. UH, there's really no way to know how this is all going to

play out. We all know that, But the NFL is going forward, you know, the way the schedule works greg For the NFL, they're different than all these other major sports in the US where they're having this opportunity to say to themselves, we have a window here where, since we don't have actual on field action, we could maybe, if everything works out, click into a situation where nothing

is affected. And that's just what this is about. So they're planning for a reality, the best case reality where they're essentially unaffected other than you know, changes like they're not being a physical draft O T A S. Things like that could be out the window. But the actual season to come, I think they're holding out hope they can rock on here. I think the keyword there was hope, And I think they're going to move forward with planning for this season because why wouldn't you who knows what's

happening behind closed doors In terms of contingencies. The biggest headline for me wasn't that they're saying publicly they're planning for the season. What else are you gonna do right now? It's the fact that they are putting a over under on the schedule release at May nine, which is it is an interesting um flag to kind of plant in the ground. Now. May nine is so far away that maybe they're thinking they'll have a better feel. Um. Yeah, it seems like everything is fluid right now in the world,

including uh, the NFL. Let's move on and talk a little player action UM or player news, I should say, NFL Networks. Mike Gara follow our Boy reported that quote. Multiple teams have expressed interest in acquiring the franchise, tagged Janik and Gockway, the young star defensive end of the Jaguars. We don't have any um known teams who have reached out, but the Eagles, Seahawks, Packers, and Jets all teams that

have been LinkedIn Gockway. Um West as this guy, um that type of player that that a team that doesn't get him is gonna be kicking themselves for having that opportunity, uh and not taking advantage of it. At this time, I think the two the two strengths of his his game. What he's bringing the free agency. That that are most attractive are his age. I don't think he's even twenty five years old yet, and the fact that he comes off the edge and creates turnovers. The quarterback often doesn't

see him coming. It leads to a lot of strip sacks, and I think those kinds of pass rushers are worth more. That's why he's getting a lot of love from from interested teams. And finally, in the news, here's something we had been tracking. Uh, Tom Brady, he's number twelve. He always has been number twelve. Signs with the Bucks, who just so happened to have a young star wide receiver

named Chris Godwin who also wears number twelve. Perfect setup for Godwin, who has Brady over a barrel obviously, uh financially however, wanted to make this thing work, well, guess what. Godwin instead decided that he just gave the number away to Tom terrific quote unquote, Um Godwin, it will now be number fourteen moving forward, Brady twelve, No transaction, no compensation,

just Godwin being a good guy. I guess so that you know that that that closes out that storyline, Neil, I feel like when you have leverage over us for certain things. You would not be as kind as Chris Godwin was. No, I feel like that's an opportunity missed, not even not even give me. I feel like there's a million dollars at least, and not even to a charity, like give it to me in my pocket. I mean, Chris Godwin had an opportunity that's never coming again. It's

TB twelve, it's Tom Brady. Um. Yeah, I feel I'm disappointed. It's gonna get Brady is going to give him something in the end when they meet up, he'll be He'll get something. That's the that's kind of guy that Tom Brady is. Yeah. Dan mentioned ler a pickup truck. Yeah. Dan mentioned that Brady was not folded over a barrel. I would definitely fold Tom Brady over a barrel and

get as much as you can. Um you've got you know, Chris Godwin, how how long will the career girl on get some of this um TV twelve quarterback money and ensure that your children and nephews and nieces and other offspring that we don't know about don't work ever again. And I'll just add that I'm very happy that Brady is still number twelve. Hate it when iconic players changed their number. I mean, what what was worse than Michael

Jordan's coming back to the NBA. And I know there were a circumstances involved with his father, and but when he was number forty five instead of the iconic twenty three. Uh, that's the reason an NBA team from Orlando knocked him out of the playoffs that year. And you can't convince me otherwise, Kobe, Kobe, that number was retired. He had to officially petition the NBA to get twenty three back again after Nick Aaron Anderson embarrassed him. Oh boy, can

we cut through the red tape? Though? It's Michael Jordan getting his own number back? And uh, you know Kobe Bryant got arrest his soul Uh going from eight to twenty four? Or is it eight? I can't remember. Uh. Let's let's calm down with all this stuff. Stick with the number that you became famous with. We all like it that that way. Come on now, end of rant. I mean that is that's gonna it's not gonna be a popular take out there. UM. I hope you're ready

to deal with the backlash. It's gonna be some serious fallout. That's what's happening in the news. Neil. You know, I know you want to hang up right now, and you could because you have an easy out here where this is Transatlantic, there's the world is on fire. And if you were to magically disconnect right now, uh and say that technical difficulties brought up premature and to your appearance on today's episode, you know we would have to take you at your word. So this is your chance to

get out now if you'd like to. I feel like that's some kind of challenge. I'm gonna stick around. All right. Well, then why don't we put the great Neil Reynolds on the hot seat. And before we do, Mark, can you remind uh listeners or teach listeners about what Neil has done to us when we've been on his show in the past. Yeah, I mean not only just on you know, one show, but in multiple platforms, be it in recorded fashion or in one occurrence in front of a live audience.

I am not sure more than a certain percentage knew who we were, and uh Neil was just frying us with um some on point questions about not only our professional opinions, but our personal lives, and so it would be wrong of us not to go down both roads and multiple other roads with Neil and make him feel the heat. I know that his face is warming up with that glass of rose. You know he's feeling good.

But we can change the vibe if we need to. Yeah, And I also remember Mark at the Super Bowl when you and I did a segment on Sky Sports from Radio Row. I remember him peppering you pretty hard with some Brown's bits where he was just taking trying to take the brown bits on sky Sports. Well, there was that down I actually I've completely missed the handoff here.

You know our initial um, we were thrown by Neil and some other people onto a very ultra serious Sky news hit where um, and this was not sports, but it was like news professionals quizzin us about Colin Kaepernick's entanglement with society, and we did not fare well. Yeah, it's revenge, It's revenge time. Let's Mark. I don't think I was even in the building when you were doing something. It's undecided to blame at this point. You accountability, Neil accountability. Um,

all right, let's do it. And and Mark, I'll I know you have a couple as well. Let's cueue it up, Ricky. Let let us put Neil get his butt a little hot, right now, Let's roll question number one. And not all these gonna be killers, Neil. Some are just questions, and I want your honest, uh take on it. Number one, would you give up your right pinky toe for an NFL team in London? Yes? Well, hang on, hang on? What I fall over? Is that the one that gives

you balance? All right? Well, all right, you asked too many questions, so I'm upgrading it to the big toe. I'm still gonna do it. Yes, wow, very good. Number two of all the x NFL players Sky Sports has paid as analysts, who is the one individual that made you think to yourself? Wow? So we're basically paying this guy to go on holiday in Europe? Johnny Mitchell? Who

he gave you an answer? And actually the pre thing that when I met Johnny Mitchell to talk about coming on Sky he beat into his burger and spilled barbecue sau sold down himself and time. Neil, I'm I'm involved with the new Neil Reynolds podcast and you and you just skewer Johnny Mitchell in a conversation we had, so there's a little tease for for my appearance on the Neil Reynolds podcast. Mark hit him with a question, Well,

let me ask you this. You know, I think we're in a period where it's already starting to get buzzy that, um, you know, celebrities not doing well, they're attempting to, you know, make us feel good from their remote kingdoms and palaces and like eighteen sing kitchens celebrities. At some point we will be eating celebrities. That this goes on and on. What celebrity would you choose to if you had to eat the body of a celebrity, Give me a name, male or female or child? M Can I go abrote

Brian celebrity? I don't know if he would be considered a ultra celebrity. I'm talking like you could just with a spoon and knife carve up and eat. Um. That's a tough one. That is a tough one. Um, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. Donald Trump cooked big answer, big answer. During your during your bachelor days in London, did you ever hit the town with Henry Hodgson Ak A handsome Hank AK, vice President of International NFL media as your wingman Hank of course, one of the great

swordsmen in the history of your homeland. No, because you when you're when you're well. I was happily married by them when I met him. But also, you don't go out with somebody who's better looking than you, who looks like they've been chiseled out of rock, who got shoulders about eight foot wide. So no, I gave him. I gave him a wide berth. We didn't see that, so we did. During NFL Europe training camps, we would spend

our nights. Everyone would go out on the town and me and Hen we would sit in our office and play Madden against each other online coaching mode. How sad? Is that? Very very sad? Actually, Mark hit him up with another one. All right, scale up. We know we have a we have a large UK audience and European audience, and you're someone they know and they trust your opinion.

On a scale of wonder one hundred, how much do you trust Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth Part two, two point question, I'm gonna give a solid sort of eighty three. I mean, he's not aware of the political climate, so I'm assuming that's not surprising. That's how most feel. I think that's a good thing. That's a good great right Desert Island for six weeks. Who do you choose as a companion your wonderful wife Julie or your boyhood hero Dan Marino. Ah, now, my wife Julie is that? Does

Dan Marino listen to the podcast? I don't think Dan Marino listens to the NFL podcast. Now, Okay, what I'm gonna say is they say you should never meet your heroes, and it's true. Oh interesting, I would love more if you have it. Actually, I grew up hating Joe Montana and idolizing Dan Marino because Montana be Marino. In Super Bowl nineteen, I worked with both of them on stage at the fan rallies in Trofaugar Square. We did big sit down interviews for like thirty minutes with each of them.

Give me Montana every day of the week. Montana was like, you can ask me whatever you like. Dan Marino backstage, Well, you're gonna ask me. You're not gonna make me look stupid. And Dan just chill out. I'm here for you. I'm going to make you look good. We're gonna ask you the questions to give you the answers. He couldn't have been more nervous about going on stage, or not nervous, more untrusting. Um, So yeah, that yeah, I was destroyed.

Sorry piotherapy, Mark, Do you have any others? One last one? I like to ask our guests. You know, you've you've You've done a lot of work with the group. You know, all of us individually and in a in a collective sense, which one, and I want an honest answer, do you respect the most? Um? I think it's I think market it's going to be you because of the way you handled this whole coronavirus thing, you know, getting getting yourself some separate digs. I've actually bought the house next door

and I've evicted the lady next door. She's living on the street. And it's all inspired by you, Mark, because I just gave yourself that space. And I was like, that's a man who takes no prisoners. He's just gonna You've got the kids at Hope. Now I'm going I'm gonna be over there then, And so that's sorry. It's it's you, Mark, And I think it should be you because I know I listened to the pod so many other people that come on this podcast, you know they

don't respect you. Let's be honest, right, that feels entirely genuine to thank you. You've flattened the curve a little bit on that front. And uh, you know, I give you props for what I what I assumed to be a very honest answer right there. And and by the way, why that's all Stregor had to say. Way a bet with Marks Banana Crusade to find someone to respect him for a year now. Whoever asked the question who do you respect the most? Just say that, guys, you can

get out of the question. Well, been Twitter messaging me as well while we while we're on there, we are so know who Neo respects the least. Um. But that that's related to the last time someone called in to this podcast from London and that was someone was me And finally last question that was a little loaded as well, that was some some hot but we said it was

a hot seat. Greg. I'm actually worried. Let me just say I'm worried about you, Greg, because this situation with coronavirus is getting worse by the day and soon you're only gonna be able to go to the beach twice a day, and finally, Niel's got singers on the hot seat. Finally. Some listeners may be surprised to learn the national sport of England is not soccer but cricket. In thirty seconds or less, please explain the rules of that deeply esoteric game.

So you someone takes a big run up, they walk fifty paces back, they run up, they throw the ball, you kind of bat it in front of you, and then they pick up and they run back and they do the same for five days and then most of the time it ends in a time. Wow. I'm not like Henry Holston. I'm not big on cricket into it. He supports Liverpool ladies and gentlemen. You're off, You're off the hot seat. But it's intact. Are we still friend?

I mean you you've been waiting for a title for Liverpool for thirty years and then the season ends right right as you're about to win it. Thanks. Greg's pretty rough. That's a pretty that's a pretty rough, like cursed sports story. I mean, I know there's more important things in the world, but there I don't know if there's anything quite like that that you're two games away from winning your first

title in thirty years and then the seasons over. What about Greg with the sneaky flex there that I'm plugged in on the Premier League? What's going on in the standings. It's it's not a FlexE about the most that's a nice time about you, Greggy. It was a flex and a little twist of the knife that Liverpool gonna get

robbed at the title when the twenty five points clear. It. I had three Vodkas last night and stumbled across on YouTube the nineteen eighties six St. Louis Open, uh p b A the Pro Bowlers Association, what a what a showdown? And a young twenty three year old Pete Webber, uh he he just he dominated and uh really enjoyed it. That's where we're at in society. Neil. You've said it all. You said it all, you did it, and I'll tell you what that British sensibility. I want to tell you something.

I didn't really know any Brits personally until I met your good friend and former colleague Hank. The thing about you guys, you people, is that you're very it's unvarnished your takes. You're not afraid to rub rub people the wrong way, to ruffle some feathers. And that's why you're an ideal guy for the hot seat. Just now. You just you just call like it is and you're not afraid what it what it does in the carnate you

leave in the wake. I'm college. I appreciate that, and I think you guys must have some of that deep in your owns as well, because I know how popular you you guys have to come over here and um, I think you're you're the tone you strike on on your pod, um it appeals to the British fans. That's why we wanted to get you on sky Sports. And you're talking to me specifically right now. Just your cameras the one that I'm seeing, so I'm logging done. Um again.

We are part of the sky Sports NFL team every year and hopefully that will continue depending on how contract talks go with Neil and his people. Also, Neil of course has the Neil Reynolds podcast launching tomorrow, So if you're a fan of our show, uh, and I know we have a lot of UK listeners, check it out.

If you're on this side of the pond, check it out because Neil obviously has put a lot of effort into it, and he's a grinder and he's very talented, and we're happy to have this relationship with you, Neil. So now get back to your wine, get back to Julie and UH and good luck getting through this absurd situation we all find ourselves in right now. Thank you, guys,

thanks for having me. All rights signing off for the Quiet Storm, the mail Man, the Old Boss Ricky Hollywood, and the great Neil Reynolds who loves Honey Until Thursday,