Ep. 12: A special report

with Bengal Steelers, a lot of passion. Anthony is on some sort of medication after having minor surgery earlier today that could make things a little interesting, little bit, little little little goofball today had a had some little plastic surgery done. I've got a I've got a next scar from a surgery I had over a year ago that I regret having. Uh. They told me it was necessary and uh. And now I had to go to a plastic surgeon and have them take out some scar tissue.

And I turned down the pain meds. I don't like vikad in. I I took a I had to think of Zanex. You gotta lay down on this table. They they put a shot in your neck and then cut away. So if you have a Zanex you can just lay there and like kind of deal with it if you do it without which I did. The first time. It is miserable, but it was. It wasn't fun. Uh And now I've got to deal with this for a for a few weeks. Let it heal. I do not enjoy it. But I I turned down the vicat and I do

not like Vikadin. I would rather be able to use the bathroom. I don't know if you have any know anything about viking in It blocks you up, blocks you up. Okay, I'm not a fan. I'm not a fan. So I'm gonna be clear. You didn't have plastic surgery the first time around? It was a health related is it was a health related and then the scar healed poorly. You're just naturally you know that good looking or whatever? Oh? Yeah, I do not. I don't touch you know, I don't.

I don't get this painting retouched. This is a this is a sixteen chapel situation on my face that I would never have anyone mess with but throat scar. If you saw the special, if you see me on TV, maybe you notice something And I thought, what was that? And someone tried to cut his throat? Yes, but that's not what this is from. Um, So yeah, I'm I hate hate surgeons. Well it's a big day here in Los Angeles. Uh, the Rams are coming to town. That's big news. I met the mayor. He was actually here

on the NFL network Angelis Property. Yeah, he came to do an interview and I happened to walk by him, and he says he said he knew who I was. I don't know. Maybe he was just saying, he said, he said, another guy in his car listens to my other podcast. Actually, do you have another podcast? That's crazy? I didn't know you started one since we started this. Um, I I feel bad for the people of St. Louis. I gotta tell you that. Um, I love St. Louis. They're a great comedy town. Whenever I go there that

they're awesome. And I think that the Rams really threw him under the bus. People in St. Louis are upset today. No one, of course, is taking it harder than Lawrence Phillips. Let's get to what was cut. That was Corny Barnett. Uh, no hip hop today or in the beginning. That was Corney Barnett one of the singles of the year on a lot of lists. I know that song. I I downloaded that months ago when I was going through best of Corney Barnett, an Australian rock singer who is very impressive.

It's a great song. That is a great song, Greg, way to go. I do not regret letting you pick the music this week for once. What was cut last week was pretty clean. We've got a list here which would be hilarious. Just as a sentence, I'm gonna say just the sentence I have written, which is gonna have to be bleeped, and I'll try to describe it. Uh, the sentence Greg sent me what was cut just says comma head Comma slap common, comma singular, comma in quotes.

Uh so again that was the F word, a word Nixon head will say, slap Nixon, Nixon's plural, Nixon singular. And then in uh an F bomb with an I n g um. And then we also cut an entire segment we talked about Ragnar the Vikings mascots released a video talking about how he was switching allegiance now to the to the Packers, which I think really put them over the hump against the Vikings. And uh, and we had an entire thing. I'm not gonna say why it got cut, but it was obvious afterwards that we needed

to cut the entire things. So apologies to Ragnar, apologies to cheeseheads, but we uh we did something that's that crossed the line in the eyes of ar Goodell. That's our as in Roger, let's get the headlines. That was the Walkman. That was a song I recommended to Greg five years ago and he loves me worlds. It was like eleven or twelve years ago. You have such a bad memory. It was its actually the I remember something

for once. It was when we were going to uh Chris Nelson's wedding, which was at least a decade ago. I remember you you played a couple of songs on the way there and just like cranked them up PC eight or something on the way there, and that always stuck with me. That is the greatest, you know, if you're if you're ever like in some you know, it's

a great workout sort of song. But I like, you know, when I'm driving into work on Sundays before a football Sunday, I like to listen to a couple of songs that would just like get you fired up or I don't know, you know, I'm an idiot like that, and that's like the number one song of that of all times. Oh yeah, you really got your finger on the pulse of ten years ago headlines. We got some breaking news. We are here for a special report because Anthony lost his damn

mind last weekend. We need to dive in deep. Two Bengals Steelers. If you know me, you know I'm a giant Steelers fan, so so hard I have to watch the games by myself, and luckily this week I chose out of the blue to watch the game sober. Normally I'm not like I get drunk for the games, but I'll have a couple of beers. I did not. I just drank some water, sat there, relaxed, watch the game, and then lost my damn mind. Where I think I think the Lord for once that I did not drink,

because I would still be drinking. I don't believe in him, but I can still thank him, do you know what I mean? Like, I don't believe in thanking people, but I still do it sometimes just for the pr that I get, you know, I want people to like me. Uh. This was This was a crazy game. It got crazy right away. You knew tensions were high going in the Bengals and the Steelers do not like each other. A

lot of injuries, a lot of back and forth. Before this game, people were pumped, Cincinnati was desperate as a city, and it started to go wrong almost a media almost right away, even before the game, the officials are standing out in middle of the field as if it's like the Bloods and the Crips, trying to keep the two teams apart, like it just like trying to look all mean.

And then they were right because very early in the game, Reggie Nelson, the Bengals safety, got pushed out of bounds on a certain play and he kind of ran into Mike Munchak, the offensive line coach for the Steelers, which happens all the time. Coaches get run into and Mike Munchak, that little or that big, big whatever he is, uh, grabbed Reggie Nelson by the hair and kind of shoved him. It was it was pretty clear what happened, and Mike Munchak really started this whole thing, and he got a

fifteen yard penalty. You know, I'm on team Munchack, team on Chuck for sure on this one. He's trying to protect his player out of bounds, all right. If you watch it. The guys coming towards him again, he pushed him out late. I think it was mad about the stiff arm that he got in the face going out of bounds. He's coming towards the player, Munchak gets in the way, and they flagged him for pulling hair. All right, and in my book, pulling hairs what football is all about.

We continue with this special report because Anthony lost his mind talking about Bengal or Bengals Steelers. The action continued throughout the game. After Munchak clearly started a Hall of Fame player sullying his name. Then later in the its not fair. He did not start it. It It was already going on. He may have exacerbated it a little bit, but that that was kind of the first thing to fall.

And then things really ramped up uh in the second half in the third quarter when Ryan Shazir, an incredible player who had an incredible game, knocked out Giovanni Bernard with a big hit after Bernard had a catch. Shaser was not penalized for the play. Now he was not, and I'm on team Shazir shacker, and you can believe that Giovanni Bernard turned and started to run Okay, he wasn't a helpless receiver. And yes, Shazier could have been penalized for lowering his head and leading with the crown

of the helmet. But what else was he supposed to do? Bernoran has short hair, nothing to pull on. We take you back to this special report where Anthony lost his mind watching the Bengals and Steelers game. I thought the ugly moment of the night was really when Ben Roethlisberger got knocked out of the game. And this comes from after a hit from Vontes Berfect, who will get to later was involved, you know, took down Roethlisberger, maybe maybe

hit him a little extra. Roethlisberger injures his shoulder. Of course, he's writhing on the pain, writhing on the ground in pain, ends up getting carted off the field, and he had a beer thrown on him as he was on his way to at least one at least one beer. Here's here's what I'm saying about this. First of all, I knew this was coming, all right, this is this is the point that I stopped enjoying the game, because when Ben is out, it doesn't matter if we win or not.

We're done. We're done for the season. Landry is not taking us anywhere. That was right before. That was actually right after I texted you, Yeah, exactly Landry. First, let me just say Landry could not take the Steelers to Arby's much less the a f C Championship game. Andry Jones. That is Landry Jones. That's I calm Landry because I was a big a full uh Friday night light. Yes, what's the saying, full hearts, big eyes can't lose? What is it clear eyes, full hearts can't lose. Is that

it clear eyes, full hearts? Yeah, yeah, clear eyes. That was that's why they got canceled. Okay, Greg texted me every time Greg's texting me to say, hey, Steves are looking good. You guys are gonna win, and a blowout, we lose the game and we start losing. As soon as he texted me, I almost texted you back to say like stop this, stop this. And then he got hurt the play. I don't think it was I don't

think the hit was dirty, all right. I think Ben should have gotten rid of that ball before we got hit. But after he gets hit, you see reverse angle of the play. Perfect throws a knee into that shoulder after he gets up. Perfect is as dirty as dirty gets. Perfect is the pig pen from the peanuts of the NFL. Like he's got like a like a cloud of dust around him wherever he goes. That is how dirty he is. And now let me talk about Ben getting a beer

thrown on him. Let me talk about Cincinnati for a second. A place I've performed in, a place I have uh never enjoyed. Cincinnati is Kentucky. Sure they like to think they're high class, elite state like Ohio, but they are Kentucky through and through. Drink your beer, your blue grass mother, don't be throwing it at my boy, your Kentucky. You might not be playing in in Cincinnati. In Cincinnati again, I'm happy not to in that Cincinnati. In Baltimore, I

don't need it. You can drive to Cleveland and watch me. You can take a bus. The Bengals fans, you know, they did not cover themselves in glory by throwing the beer on Ben Roethlisburger. There were other reports during that game of fans peanut on each other, which is a strange thing to have. Guy, Yeah, guy got arrested for peeing on the guy in front of him, and there was a fight waiting to get into the game between

a couple of people. And what I love about this, what makes me, what backs up my Kentucky theory, is that it wasn't Bengal on Steeler fan crime, which I understand. You know, you're there, you're excited, you see another fan you want to get, you get upset. It was bengalong Bengal crime. They're so inbred. Wow that they fight each other. They just don't they don't know the difference. They don't even they can't even recognize each other's jerseys. You can

talk about dancing on another team's grave. These four Bengals fans, they were all riled up. They had been told all week that the Steelers were a dirty team, and they were fired up. But it got so ugly in Cincinnati that the team actually had to make an announcement over the loudspeaker to get their act together, which reminded me of one of the greatest speeches and moments in Cincinnati

Bengals history. Well, the next person that sees anybodies, what do you think on those pretty old warn about get him out of here. You don't let it play they had to be reminded where they were from. That was like an amazing reaction the crowd just his energy. That was like Obama and Grant Park, like the elected. They went absolutely crazy. I love that was Sam White, of course, their former coach, just laying it down. What wasn't exciting?

Time to be alive. It gets worse. Continuing this special report of Anthony losing his mind during the Bengals and Steelers game, Vante is Perfect really put it into another stratosphere of craziness when he knocked out Antonio Brown one of the costliest dumbest penalties in NFL history. The Steelers were very likely going to lose that game with eighteen seconds left and no time out, and it kick started

a couple of penalties that moved the ball forward. Uh. Adam Jones of course, also penalized on that play perfect. You know he it was such a late hit. It was very obviously late hit. You could debate whether he's definitely going for his head. But Adam Jones then loses his mind on Instagram, loses his mind on the field for going after Joey Porter. Let's start. Let's start with perfect, all right, because that hit was pure stupidity. The only thing would have been dumber. Is it perfect to cause

a safety? Remember when he intercepted Landry Jones and then and then ran it back through his own end zone into the tunnel. If that had been a safety. If that had been a safety, it would have been more. It would have been a more intelligent football move than his hit. And Antonio Brown and and to everyone online who made a joke about how perfect rhymes with perfect, that is not a good joke. Now for Adam Jones losing his mind on Instagram, this I actually really I've

got no problem with this. Play played the clip of Adam Jones. He deleted this off Instagram, But play play what he deleted. You got Jerry put something? Everybody then with somebody to say something to him. He don't post me on Phil Now this is great. I've got no problem with this. You know, you lose a game like that. You know it's not just posting the Instagram. Here's what

he's doing. You lose a game, you want to sit in your car by yourself, hold your phone in front of your face and yelled at for a few minutes. Plus he's got that long hair Team pac Man I am afraid no ghosts. Let's play. Was it ten minutes later? Yeah, ten minutes after this happened. By the way, he refused to speak to the media. He immediately got out of the stadium. I've never seen anything like this. Happened so fast.

I was writing, you know, the post game after this happened, and he that Instagram was up within a half hour of the game being over. He was already in his car, so he posts that that's up for about five or ten minutes. Everyone listens to it. He deletes it, and then he posts this, right, I'm good now. Um, I still believe it should have got a player for talking

to a coach that's on the field. Now what I wondercause you don't really get to see what he was flagged for, but it must have been big, you know. I thought I assumed he like pushed a ref when he was trying to get to pool exactly. That's exactly what. The refs don't want to throw that flag. They've already thrown a flag that's potentially a game winner for the Steelers. I think he would. I think they hit a fifty yard field goal in that situation. But uh, that second

flag it must have been blatant. And I think he Jerry Porter as he called him, or actually Joey Porter made him crazy and he just sort of jumped at him. They were already upset about Joey Porter dating back to the last time they played the Steelers in Cincinnati, and your boy Joey Porter is doing the crab walk all over the field. They're thinking, what this is unprofessional wire coaches out there, and I think what what happened is

exactly what you said. He pushed the official. The official from what I could see, didn't even know who pushed them, and they just like reached for the flag started and then turned around. And it's on Adam Jones because he goes crazy. I just want to know what what sort of substances did he take in the ten minutes between posting that first Like, there's no way he did not smoke between that first instagram and the second one. Well, you know it wasn't you know, it wasn't synthetic marijuana

because he would have been posting that from the hospital. Uh, that's that's a that's something we won't be able to talk about. But if you if you follow your if you follow your news, you know I'm talking about the Patriots. Please, uh, let's keep us going. Adam Jones doubled down on his craziness during the week, saying that Antonio Brown was faking it all along. On the Dan Patrick Show, he says, you can even see it. He was laughing at me and he winked. He said, he winked. That's my favorite.

He said, Brent winked at him on the field while he's being treated for a concussion. That's your evidence. Is Pacman Jones a doctor? Brandon find out for me. I'll wait, is he a doctor? Nope? No? Are you sure? I thought for sure he was a licensed doctor, which Bengals player am I thinking of? Anyway? The rest of my argument is all Pacman Jones is a doctor slash football

player and is therefore non applicable. Next question, nothing is less logical than Pacman Jones is tripled down, which he did on Inside the NFL where he said he's only going to apologize to Antonio Brown if he misses the Steelers game. As if as if him being in the concussion protocol. By the way, he's not practicing this week. He no one's seen him. He obviously had a concussion. His eyes were rolling in the back back. He was down.

He was down and done. And the idea that Brown would appreciate this apology now would be like, oh, yeah, thank you, and now it's we're all good. Skip the game just to get the apology. Now that I missed the game, Uh, let's get another update as I continue to lose my mind. This is while everything down is up, up is down? Brown, Antonio Brown, my favorite player in

the leagu currently responds to this. Now, Greg, what was the response, Well, he decided to put something up on Twitter and Instagram where it's him dressed, uh, looking like Kanye West essentially, but it's Antonio Brown with with a helmet on. Because one of Adam Jones as many illogical things was that Antonio Brown should win a Grammy for his actingserved a Grammy, And yeah, it's it's it's Antonio

Brown's head photoshopped onto Kanye West body. Now, I love Antonio Brown more than my own god children by a mile, But that is not the perfect response. As it's being built. Everyone's an Antonio Brown is the perfect response. It would have been perfect if he has put his head on Taylor Swift's body. I'd like to see that that's hot. I'm just imagining Brown staying up until five am, screwing around with photoshop and cackling to himself. That in itself

means he's failing concussion protocol. Let's go back to Joey Porter with another update. This is like a serial style making the murderer, just breaking down everything that happened as Anthony lost his That's exactly what this is. I don't know why you had to say it, explain it. That's exactly what is going on right now. Our hero, Joey Porter, your favorite coach on the Steelers, maybe other than Mike Tomlin, is facing a possible find who knows, maybe even a suspension.

The NFL is looking into disciplining Joey Porter for his actions going onto the field, which, if you look at Damna Scheck, our boy Dave Damnaschek tweeted this a picture of of the field of play when Joey Porter's and when the flag was thrown. Half of the Bengals coaching staff is also on the field. They're not as close as Joey Porter. They don't have the balls to get that close. But Joey Porter's right there. So many coaches are on the field. That is ridiculous. I say, great,

find him. There is no amount of money that makes it not worth it. The amount does not exist. Whatever the mine tunes out to be, porters should just paid double. Hell, he's still getting paid by the Dolphins. He can afford to run on the field during every playoff game for the rest of his life. Kaddell can decided he's gonna cut off Joey Porter's hands over this, and it would still be worth it. Joey is still laughing right now.

Several Bengals blame Marvin Lewis after the game to our reporter NFL dot Com NFL Media's Michael Silver, who's has great contacts inside that locker room, and some of the players off the record or no off unnamed sources, I should say, but some of the players said Marvin Lewis is basically running the clown college over there, and some of these players like Perfect and Adam Jones really haven't been kept in line throughout the year. You could almost

see this sort of thing coming. Not even a clown college. I would say, it's a clown like remedial school. I mean, they couldn't these these clowns couldn't get into clown college. That's how ridiculous is even Lewis during the during this meltdown at the end, he looked like a guy whose wife had had too much to drink and she's starting a fight with the whole bar. But he's not gonna say anything because he's got to live with her, and he'd rather the entire bar hate his guts then have

to live with an angry wife. It's it's almost commendable. But now let me tell you about the difference between Marvin Lewis and Mike Tomlin. This is a play we have not talked about, which was William Gay getting getting penalized for celebrating a touchdown that did not exist. All right, so he gets totally lost in the shuffle here, but

it's an important piece of athleticism. Pittsburghs William Gay picks up what he thinks is a fumble, scores what he thinks is a touchdown, and does the same dance that he got penalized for the last time they played the Bengals, the exact same dance, knowing what's going to happen, even after they called back the touchdown and it said it didn't count. William Gay has no remorse, no regrets. Now here's the difference, Greg. When Marvin Lewis's players get out

of hand, they start fights. Mike Tomlins players get out of hand. There's too much dancing. Team Tomlin, Team Gay, team footloose. That was Antonio Brown, one of his Grammy winning hits. Yeah, right now we are out of the commercially licensed uh music. We can only play two of those per show if you're new to the show. And now we're into NFL licensed music, and that includes any music played, you know, by players of course like Antonio Brown. Hey,

by the way, Antonio, it's not hip hop. Just if you just say the word hip hop over and over kind of his kind of his UH. I wouldn't say one last thing about the Steelers game. It was, it was. It was unpleasant to watch for a long time. I just wanted it to be over after after Ben got hurt. I didn't even care if the Steelers one. I just needed the Bengals to lose, do you know what I mean.

I just didn't think any satisfaction. I didn't with any satisfaction, like I would have been upset this too as it lost but not to the Bengals. So at the end there it was just it was just like the clouds had opened up and God said, Anthony, you're right, I don't exist, and here's a win. Here's a win for you. I went to go look and find your your text after the game. You're right, you said, uh some swears, and then he said, I didn't even enjoy that. I

didn't enjoy it. That the most Bengals thing ever. It was it was, it was the most Bengals thing ever. It was the most Bengal's way to lose a game. Watching Bengals fans crying was was was very was very pleasant to me. I God, I hate them. I hate them so much. It feels wrong for the you know, Steelers fans who act like they've had, you know, damnaged. I always talks about how how many tough losses the Steelers have it over the years. Try being a Bengals fan.

They haven't won a game in twenty six years. That's in excruciating ways to lose. And some teams with a lot a lot of bad history lost this week. The Minnesota Vikings, of course, who who have made it to the playoffs twenty times since their last Super Bowl. They're like Bengals fans just sad. Give them a little bit of hope. Uh. They of course lost on what is now one of the most famous field goal misses in

NFL history, Clare Walsh from twenty seven yards left. Hash snap, good, spot down, walfsh just kick his up and it is no good. He missed it. Are you kidding me? The season can and like that, he missed it left and the Seattle Seahawks are off to Charlotte. That was so devastating that Richard Sherman looked like he had made it, you know what I mean. Richard Sherman is on the ground like he can't believe it, like like he just lost a child. It was that was that was pretty devastating.

It was tough, but Blair Walsh the kicker, one of the best kickers in the league. That was the shortest kick to ever, the shortest do or die kick to ever lose a playoff game in NFL history. And he did a good job with the media afterwards. He talked and was very professional answered the questions. Put it all on himself. Reports after that though, after he was kind of done with the media and everyone walked away as that he broke down crying in the arms of you know,

his teammates trying to console him. Really like a kicker's nightmare. Kicker's nightmare. But you know what he acted. Walsh acted exactly how kickers should behave. I know, I give a quarterbacks a lot of guff on this sad You're mad at eLife for crying? Yeah, I I got mad when quarterbacks don't act like quarterbacks, when they're not like cocky, you know, when they when they when they say things they shouldn't say. But this is exactly how kickers should behave.

Walt should be in Canton for this, and his bronze bust should be of him crying. I think that would be that would be perfect edited. Because Greg broke down crying, that was me. That was me watching the end of that Bengals game. That was me at the very end. I just you know, I hit record on my cell phone and just I was inspired and I dropped. I dropped a track. Uh What's next? That was aggressively awful,

that music that you created, and Uh. Robert Griffin the third this week did something that was much more passive aggressive his final game in Washington came, you know, with a whimper. He was on the sidelines again, inactive for the Redskins playoff game starting rupt to. He hasn't played all year, right, he hasn't. He hadn't touched the field. He has not played. He was active for one or two games for some reason, but he never played at all.

He's always been the third string quarterback this year. He kept his mouth shut for the most part throughout the year and just kind of went about his business as your boy. Kirk Cousins made himself a lot of money and so r G three. You know, it was like at one point, this is a guy who had books written about him and the people thought was the future of the league in Washington and at all, Uh, just did not work out for him. They kept him on the team for some reason all season long, really for

no purpose. And he left a couple of things in his locker afterwards. You know, people watch he cleaned out his locker, and he left two different messages in his locker. Uh, you know, one kind of this this talk about all the things that he can do, and then and then another one. Really I think it was a message towards the media and and towards everyone in the world. He wanted to send a message. We didn't he have a

He had a Bible verse, Yeah, he had. He had the Bible verse like a man should not lay down with another man. He left that up there, that was in there for sure, and then in the most passive aggressive way he left. He left like I didn't. I actually didn't realize that was a Bible verse. That was shock. You never read the Bible. You're kidding, You're kidding. You know what. You're not gonna believe this? Uh me? Neither me neither. But although I do steal one from every

hotel room, I stand um this note. This is why I talked about quarterback should behave like quarterbacks. This is not the way quarterback should behave. And this is why Robert Griffin the third is the most embarrassing subway spokesperson of all time. Let me read this note, Brandon, give me something. You're sure there's been a lot of subway spokesperson, No, it's it's Strahan was there. Strahan was great. Strayhan was great,

a great spokesperson. R G three is one of the worst, and right Michael Phelps embarrassed himself horribly with that, with that bong incident, and then uh, and then Jared, Jared from Subway, who I still could redeem himself. He's still a young guy. You don't know what's gonna happen when he gets out of prison. Uh. Maybe I'll start eating Subway again. We'll see, We'll see. But let me let me read this note, Brandon, give me some inspirational music.

I saw this note and I immediately thought, we need a We need a dramatic reading from Anthony Jess Like, let's do it. People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self centered. Forgive them anyway. If you were kind, people may accuse you of selfish arterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you were successful, you will win some unfaith all friends, and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you were honest and sincere,

people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway. What what you spend years creating others could destroy overnight create anyway. The good you do today will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it's between you and God. It was never between you and them. Anyway, this should come with a picture of a cat hanging from a tree by a noose. That

was Antonio Brown, Grammy winner Antonio Brown. I also wanted when I was reading that, I've raised my voice for certain aspects of it. That's because it was in all caps, and I read it the way r G three intended caps the bigger letters. I mean, he really spelled it out for you. Yeah, he was not trying to figure out that noose with a cat thing. Do you don't

get the joke? You know that the post it was like hanging there and it's like an inspirational post was like a cat hanging from a tree by its claws. This is a cat hanging from a tree as if it's been lynched in some way, which is how a lot of cats meat. The Maker nine Lives. I don't think so, And I can prove it really helped up that joke by having you explain it afterwards, I helped you out not the joke joke was solid, Brandon, don't even mess with me today. Don't even mess some me

with that. Speaking of pets, that meant untimely endings. Ah, poor air Bud. What happened the original, Well, the original died. The original died from cancer. But that's not untimely that that was right on time, Bill, this week he lived, but air Bud lived a great let. Air Bud was like the Bowie of dogs, you know what I mean. He die at sixty nine. He Bowie had a great life. Airbud had a great life, just as inspirational each of him, and both really made their mark on the canvas of

of life. Touchdo. Bill Belichick showed up to his press conference on Tuesday with the mysterious black I not a good week really for the Patriots, between the incident you alluded to earlier with Chandler Jones and now, uh strange black eye. He did not explain it. He said, the league does not he joked, the league does not require us to put coaches on their injury report. There's a little bit of that Belichick humor, you know what I'm

talking about. Yeah, he's a hilarious guy. Hilarious. He actually walked through the locker room on Wednesday with boxing gloves on, so I guess that was continuing the joke, or maybe he was trying to make people think that that he got the black eye from training. Maybe he's doing some boxing training. I'm a I'm a believer in Bill Belichick that he would never have anything strange going on in his life that will lead to a black eye. So

I choose to believe he was oxy. I actually know what happened, But the first rule is you don't talk about it, and the second rule, because you don't talk about it, don't Was that a duet? Do we find a third version of how many are there? I think that's it? Unfortunately that might be it. Okay, well, I think now we're gonna inspire people to create their own version. It's gonna be big. It's gonna be big. And if Antonio Brown wants that second Grammy, he knows what train

to jump on. The train that's fifty nine miles away from Jacksonville. Thank you to uh the listeners that sent me some Google maps. What are you thinking them for? That's that's bare minhum. You would say, if you're fifty nine miles from Jacksonville, you would take a picture of the sign. That's something we're not. I would have thanked them. We're not sending them book from my uncle until there we get the actual sign. But it was something with

your uncle better send them something. Though it doesn't have to be that book, but your uncle better get to the better get to the post office, drop some packages. So before Anthony's medication wears off even more, he's clearly happening during this show. We should we should talk about Tom Brady, who revealed this week a few things. He's never drink coffee in his life, which seems bizarre to me, never even tried it once as a kid, as if it's some sort of illicit drug. He's a big guy,

He's a big Coca Coca Coca. And we also learned from some of his teammates and ex teammates about an intense ritual that he goes through with his receivers. He has them prepared in many different ways every possibility, and one of them is to stare directly into the sun during practice so that he can try to catch passes into the sun in case that ever happens in a game,

which is hilarious. It's such an awful thing to do, just to staring to the sun, looking to the sun, and all my receivers look at it, look at that big ball, look at that giant star staring too it and it's not good for you. It's not gonna help you in the game. You're just gonna hurt your eyes

every day. You had such a great Tom Brady Julian Edelman Edelman Julian Julian Edelman said that when he wakes up every morning, Tom Brady is by his bedside, there to throw a handful of sand in his face just in case it happens in the game every single morning. He doesn't even know. He doesn't even know how he got a key Danny a Mendola so that Tom Brady walks around with a mouthful of bleach ready to spit the second and receivers and paying attention to spit it

right into their eyes. That's why Amudola has a glass eye, because he wants to be the best. Is that the Adams Family theme song? Who comes in with a tube? But to start? Nobody what was that? It was Curse of the Mummy? Curse of the Mummy. I was close. I was close to the Adams Family. Thing. Is that a real song? Curse of the Mummy? You get that off a Halloween soundtrack? Is all all the NFL sponsored approved music anthony Because I would won't let us play

the real stuff. I wish it was like a Shazam that you could find out when the NFL used it, Like if you if you shazam that, and it would be like, Oh, they actually used this on Halloween when they were talking about a concussion. I could see one of those NFL films, you know, Halloween follies, some crazy people dressed up in in St. Louis or New Orleans or whatnot. There's no football in St. Louis anymore. Halloween follies.

That's that's one of my favorite NFL network shows. But this is one of your favorite parts of This is My, This is my This is the reason I do the podcast. It's time for a segment we do every single week. Everybody. It's time for who's had sex? Oh? Yeah. According to US Weekly, despite undergoing a asectomy, New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromarty is expecting twins this summer with wife Terka Cremarti. De find odds that suggests the male sterilization procedure has

roughly and effectiveness rate. And you know what that means? They had sex. Ah. That gets me in the studio every single week. I love it. Now, let's take it the recommendation station, I've been very naughty. That of course was Tarka Cramarti, Antonio Crimarti's wife. I can't believe that's part of the NFL broadcasting. Whatever they spent for that was worth it, it was, it was well worth it. That money they're getting from this new l A l A team is is going straight into more songs like

that recommendation station. Greg, you kind of redeemed yourself last week after the humiliation of two weeks ago. What are you talking about when you recommended um, the Diary of Anne Frank. If one extra person listen read that book because of me, I'll like it's worth it. Maybe if they're if they're in the third grade, they will. You may as well have recommended My Side of the Mountain.

You may as well have recommended A Hardy Boy's Case Files Anthony to our listeners, what what what do you got? Let me let you recommend Romeo and Juliet this week. I'm gonna go. You know, I think we should go back to books, because you know, I'm a big reader. Not enough people seem like they're really talking. They're getting into books these days. So you can get movie recommendations anywhere, I'm gonna go with one. I recommend to people that I feel like it's a safe one in terms of

being a crowd pleaser. Donna Tart The Secret History. If you know Donna Tart, you know Goldfinch was a big book a couple of years ago, but even better her first book, The Secret History. You know, if you don't like that book, I don't think you like reading what I'm saying. That's a that's a great. Secret History is a great book. I don't think it's as good as as The Goldfinch. The Goldfinch is amazing. I just I love them ball They're They're both amazing. It's it's it's

tough to compare the two college roommates with your boy. Yes, you went to school with Brett Easton Ellis when I was in When I took a creative writing class from our boy, Professor Cooley, we both took a creative writing class, not together at two Lane, but separately. I was I was clearly a Brett east and Ellis disciple, and everything I wrote was just like a Brett Easton Ellis knock off, and everybody hated it. But you shouldn't Cutter. Write like

this guy. If you want to write, read The Secret History. Read Donna Tart. She's similar to Ellis, but I think not. I wouldn't say a better writer, but a more descriptive, less of a minimalist than Ellis' is writer. I mean, ready, I like not as much as I do, but they were. I mean, you've you've gotten to live out a dream here. You've you've met Brett Easton Ellis. Now you've been on his podcast. Met him a couple of times in this podcast.

I met him once and it was cool, and then I met him a second time on his podcast, which is great because that time he had to be nice to me. My recommendation, I'll recommend a book. This is a great book that I recommend a lot to people. You know, in the way that someone once told you. I think that the book Moneyball was the best book about sports and business there's ever been written. It's a

great book. You're reading Moneyball, my recommendation, is one of the best books about business in hip hop I've ever read. It's called The Big Payback, The History of the Business of Hip Hop by Dan Sharkis. It's a It starts almost like when hip hop started and and these hip hop became big because people started to make money off

of it. No one believed in hip hop. I thought it was a fad, and then people started to invest in it and invest their time and their money, and it kind of went from from just people DJing at parties all the way to these these moguls today, Like you've got guys like fifty cent who make more more of their money on vitamin water than they do on actual music. Uh. They talk about how Sprite was actually

a huge thing for commercializing hip hop. Remember those old Sprite commercials now where they would use old kind of hip hop guys they would bring in. They got very hip I think de las Sold did one of them, but they they got a lot of DJs in there. The big Payback, The History of the Business of hip Hop a great read. You'll fly through it and it's very informative and and really makes you respect how far hip hop is come and what they had to do

to get there. So that was Recommendation Station. When I saw you was like my dreams here contrue so good I found you. You make me? That was Roger Goodell. That was that was that was That was the one time he used auto tune. He remember he used auto tune. He said, Anthony, what do you think of this? Said Roger, you don't need it. You don't need the auto tune. Let the other people have that. Your voice sounds good,

just as is Greg. That reminds me of something. If I can bring this up, I want to go back. So I want to go back to uh that song I'm talked about smiling. And I actually got an email from Hind's Word last week. Yes, I got an email saying, you know we talked earlier. If you listen to the podcast, it was the first episode. We might have talked about Hind's Word first or second. First or second. Once we started doing the podcast, people from the NFL started reaching

out to me to do certain things. And I've always said no. I say, of course, I would never do that. But Hines Woord reached out saying he's to start a podcast. I want you to be a part of it. And I said absolutely, He's my favorite player, uh non active that I that that. I absolutely loved him. And so on Friday, on Thursday, I get an email saying, okay, Uh, they had asked me to do the podcast instead of course he's my favorite player. And then I never heard anything.

On Thursday, get email saying okay, can you do it tomorrow at nine am or Monday at ten am. I'm like, this is insane. That's way too early from me. Where do I have to go? Where am I going to do this? They say no, it's in New York, so you're just you're calling in And I say, okay, Well, this is weird because if I'm doing it on Friday, it's a much different podcast than Monday. Friday is we're talking about the game. Monday is what if we lose the game? It's gonna be a depressing thing. And when

does this air? I don't want to do one Friday and then have it come out the next week. And people are like why, Like why is he talking about the game as if it hasn't already happened. So but I just want to know. I want to be informed before I make a decision. They get back to me and they say, it's not a current event podcast and we don't talk about football. Do you know what Hines Word Hines Words podcast is called. It hasn't premiered yet.

It's called Smiling through Adversity and he'll ask him about the time that I faced adversity in my life and how I got through it. And I was like, oh my god, only for Hines would Willy not why not delete this email and never talk to anyone again? Said, I will do this. I can talk about how I got into stand up and the adversity you face it, of course only because of Hines Ward. But I said, okay, you know, I'll do it Friday morning. I'll talk about

stand up. I made some notes about like things that I learned kind of getting kicked in the teeth early on the first couple of years of being a stand up comedian, which is very difficult. Uh, the things that I've overcome, Uh, it's amazing my life. But but then they then they rescheduled. They said, uh, we're gonna do it some other time, so we'll see if he listens to this, which I assume he does. And smiled less through adversity than you. No, I've gritted teeth, gritted teeth

through adversity, but I'm smiling now. Yeah, when you're successful, then you're smiling to let everyone know. Yeah, everyone know you doubted me. I'll kill you behind's words. Smiled a lot, But smiling through adversity is like the last thing I would ever I would ever name that is you would really they only do that for for a sports legend, and not only any sports lesson. Just just as Sky

ask Anthony. This week we got two different Twitter questions that one of them was to me and one of them was to you, And yet they were the exact same question and they were phrased the same way, which was strange. And they said, serious question, what is the

best way to approach Anthony Jessel Nick? And then the other one was a serious question, what's the best way to approach Greg Rosenthal, which seems like a strange question, like approach like approaches in public you see one of us out with And this was from Michael Hendel and Nick Heaton were the two guys that sent these two separate tweets. Okay, so one guy was asking me like a legit question. One guy was like being polite to you.

Have you've been recognized, haven't you? Very rarely? And network which the fewer I mean, it's it's like you said, you saw me when you were working out in the gym the other day. Yeah, I did. I watched the network it's NFL Network. It's huge ratings. It's like the last season Friends. Every day every episode, did you get you get it a lot? I don't get it ever almost. But it's happened a couple of times in Los Angeles, including when we were at the movies last weekend. Someone

someone recognized me. I don't care how you come up to me, just that's a stupid question to ask me. Anything is great. I'm great. I'm happy they talk about football. Hey, yo, you know they talk about the podcast. Asked me some football questions. Used to happen a little more in New York. I used to have a fantasy web show that people

seem to like. The recognize me from that, so they walk up and say, hey, you're Greg ros Hey, you're Greg ros I love I watched I love watching that show with DoD They ask who you are you Greg Rosenhal. It's like, you're Greg Rosenthal. What do you think about the games this week? Yeah? They they're like, hey, you're Greg Rosenthal, your Gret gros Though. Wow, it's great. I was. I was. I'm excited because Emmica is usually with me and uh and I'm just like, see see what I

do I matter, maybe treat me with some respect. Did she believe you? She's roll her eyes. Yeah, no, she's not too impressed. Um, I get people people recognize me sometimes, and there there's a good way and a bad way to do it. Yeah. I don't really know. I'm saying this has happened on less than ten times in my life. Sometimes people walk up and they're just like, hey, you're awesome, love your comedy. Keep moving. That's always great. That's always appreciated. Like,

don't bother me and kind of have it together. Like if you come up and you're like, hey, Anthony, I do a podcast, and I would love like leave me alone. Okay, there there are channels you go through. I pay people to get in between me and things like that. There's like you don't just come up to me and asking me to do your show or do your podcast. You you call my my manager and my publicist and do those things. I don't want anything to do with it,

So that I don't like. I also don't like if someone comes up and they just start thinking of things in the moment, you know, like I'm a big fan. Uh kind of a picture, Um, what about can you would you record a message on my phone. None of that. If you want a picture, I have your phone ready, have someone ready to take it, or just take a quick selfie and go. Don't double check to make sure the selfie is good. I don't care if my eyes are closed. I'm never going to see this. It doesn't

matter to me. But the people who just walk up and like, Anthony, love your comedy, You're great, move on, those are my favor show your appreciation and just keep going. You're cool, I'm cool. That's it took a while for Brandon to learn this approach with Yeah, Brandon still isn't sure.

Brands like, oh, he's talking about me. Granted, what do you do when like, after you've after you're done coaching, uh coaching the Lake Valley Lake Valley Wounds volleyball team, and people are like, oh, hey, that was a great job telling them to set spike bump? Uh? Can I can I get a picture? What do you How do you handle it? Yeah? I do it because I'm a nice person to the fans. Wow, that's an indirect shout at you. Your son autographs on it. It just it

gets boring from me. I appreciate my fans and if you If you're like Anthony m comedy fan, I'll do whatever you want. I like your comedy. My favorite joke is this. I loved your last Special Thoughts and Prayers on Netflix right now. But if you're like, hey, I recognize that guy? Who are you? When people come up and say who are who are you? I just walk away because then I'm not gonna help you. I'm not gonna sit here and like run through the things you

may have seen me on their countless. My accomplishments are legion. By the way, we're talking about your announcing of Mountain Valley basketball. Don't you know you don't need to tweet out all the updates from Mountain Valley literally with two minutes left in the Steelers Bengals game, Brandon, I'm not paying attention to how much time I'm gone. People are not waiting to find out that Mountain Valley lost by seventeen. People are waiting to see what the final score is.

And why are you even tweeting while you're announcing? Shouldn't you be announcing? People rely on your brand, People rely on you. I know they rely on Our Listener of the Week on iTunes this week is flip Fan I really enjoyed this one. The title of it is sit back and enjoy the ride, and the comment here is sit back and enjoy the ride. Sit back and enjoy the ride. Sit back and enjoy the ride. Sit back, ha, sit back and enjoy the ride. Five out of five stars.

Thank you, flip fan. I don't get the reference. What's up from sit back? I was Roger goodell, Um, you know I'll amend my answer. If you come up to me and play that song, I'll go home with you. I'll do whatever you want. I'll go home. I'll paint your house. You play that song from me. What's our hot take of the week? Greg got one take of the week. It's from Mike Dicka this week and it comes from a good article on dead Spin, who I think has noticed a lot of the Adrian Peterson redemption campaign.

That they say that a lot of interviewers are really skirting past what happened with Adrian Peterson beating his child last year, which kept him away from the game, and really kind of making him out to be I don't know about a hero, but that he's been redeemed and that he's learned his lesson and part of this is usually to minimize what Adrian Peterson didn't, even though, even even though the Adrian Peterson has never admitted to doing

anything wrong, he thinks what he did was fine. He thinks he's pretty much he's like, I'm sorry people got upset, but he's not. He does not seem like he's uh, like he's too remorseful. Right. He He did admit to police though, that he damaged his child scrowed him for instance. Uh, and his child's feared being punched in the face. We're a couple of things. But Mike Dicka openly endorsed endorsed child abuse and said he never had a problem with Peterson beating his kids. Uh. And then he said I

don't have a problem with Adrian Peterson. And he also explained his own father subjected him to abuse. That's Mike Dicka's father, and the former Bears coach thanks God every day that he did. That is a hot tack. That is a hot take that Didko would admit that he thanks God every day that his dad beat him. And I'm not religious, as I have stated many many times on this program and to my own father, I'm not religious, but I also thank God every day that Mike Dick's

dad beat him. That was David Bowie. People wonder why do you why do people love David Bowie so much? It's that song right there. That was a that was a great one from the Thin White Duke. It's time for predictions. It's time for predictions. I have not repeated a segment yet on predictions. Proudly eventtioned that every week exactly. I mean, they're all pretty much exactly the same, but I've never repeated what I couched the men. And this

one is called it's the playoffs where everything changes. You know. It's a completely different game, almost different rules, different everything, different ball, different helmets, different teams, everything is. Everything is amped up on twenty degrees celsius. So, Greg, why don't you give me a prediction and then I'll tell you why you're wrong, Because it's the playoffs. It is the playoffs, and I'm going to predict that the New England Patriots.

Let's just go in chronological order. How these divisional round games line up? Best weekend of the year. If you're a football fan, I think eight great teams, just wall to wall football. Patriots gonna take care of business against the Kansas City Chiefs. Very good defense in Kansas City. Have a lot of respect for them. But it's the best Patriots defense in over a decade. I think it's gonna be a low scoring game. Tom Brady gets hit a lot. New England wins. Oh you gave me the score.

A lot of people are picking the Paths over the Chiefs. But if Germany can make Mind comp by Adolf Hitler and national bestseller in two thousand sixteen, then dreams can come true. See Casey wins and a squeaker Kansas City wins. It's awful, it's true. Do you did you know that Mine comp came back and it's a sold out immediately best seller in Germany, which is no no reason to be concerned. But it's a best seller in Germany. In two thousand and sixteen, the Arizona Cardinals and the Green

Bay Packers play on Saturday Night. You would like to see a good game in primes. I don't think there's gonna be one. I've been telling you, I've been telling all the Rosenthal and Jescen Nick Vanity Project listeners are that the Cardinals are gonna win the Super Bowl this year, and they're gonna start it with a beat down of green Bay. Another one they just did it, take them out thirty five to ten. Given scores this week, Arizona has home field advantage and they're gonna need it to

keep this game close. If I had my way, Muslims wouldn't be allowed to leave America. We need them green Bay in the upset of the Year bold bold prediction, uh Seattle and Carolina Game of the Weekend, Game of the season. As far as I'm concerned, I think these are two of the three best teams in the entire league and they're stuck facing off in the divisional round.

Maybe this is the Manning Brady of the next generation Russell Wilson cam there's a hot take six or fifth or sixth time they've played already in their young career, and I think that Seattle is gonna take it. I just think the way the defense is playing right now. You're handling the podcast, but you're all hyped Seattle. I hate to do it because I love the Panthers. I'd love to see them in the Super Bowl. I'm sick

of the Seahawks. But I just think the way the Seawks are playing on offense right now, they're gonna win. Do you have a score high scoring game? Thirty gonna surprise a lot of people. You clearly just made that up on the top of your head. But that's why you work here. Seattle has been to the super Bowl the last two years. But this is the playoffs edited for We can be heroes just for one day. Well you don't you disagree? Carolina wents big at home. Steelers

and Broncos wrap up the weekend. That means your Steelers will be one of the final five teams alive. If you wanted to really look at it positive Yeah, that's how I look at things. It's positively and like an idiot, Ben Roethlisberger and Antonio Brown not certain they're going to play this game, that they're not really the Steelers without them, and so I'm gonna take the Broncos in a close game six Pittsburgh's look, Pittsburgh does look like the be

without their three best players. On offense, we forget about we forget about our running back, our boy D'Angelo and Denver is playing like they have something to prove. But if women can run for president, then equal pay seems like overkilled to me. Pittsburgh wins in a blowout. That was Goodell. That was Roger Goodell, just kind of just screwing around in the booth a little bit. He's he's a heavy metal guy. He plays a little everything, but

he's metal through and through, Metal through and through. Who's Who's the ESPN analyst who has the rat tail? John Clayton, John Clayton, He's like Roger Goodell's also has a rat tail, but he kind of it's a clip on. It's a clip on anywhere. It's just when he's not, when he's not, when he's not in the owner's box. That explains his relationship with Clayton. Edited because Josel mc lost his damn mind.

So now, Gregore, wait in the show boys. We're not over yet, Brandon, don't don't put that nail in the coffin. I'm gonna do it, uh Greg. Before we go, I want to ask about my god kids, uh Ellis and Walker. It was Walker's first birthday yesterday, birthday number one. Um. You had told me earlier that you thought his birthday was either on January eleventh or January and it was January twelve. I texted you on his birthday got him a I got him a bulldozer, a little bulldozer boy,

which he really enjoys. Tell me, tell me what that birthday party was like, Yeah, you weren't there, so you wouldn't know. You know, we asked Godfather to come on over. I was I was prepping for surgery. But tell me, tell me, tell me a little bit, Just tell me about what's going on with our lives. Well, it was cool and EMMCA made a cake and when we were walking over with the cake, m what's up, everybody? DJ Bucky here with Move the Sticks, Bucky, tell everybody what's

on today's show. We can talk about the top prospects from their college football playoff National Championship game. Also, we're gonna preview the divisional round and you can check that out on NFL dot com, slash podcast, iTunes, or on the NFL channel on YouTube. Yeah