Ep. 2: JPP, Manziel and Jim Harbaugh

us nice things. And everyone was saying, you know, they were worried we wouldn't be back for the second episode. But here we are. Anthony. Yeah, I notice everyone to the Greg is thanking you for subscribing, for giving your feedback and listening. I don't really care, yeah, care so much about about what goes on here. I'm kind of just here to hang up with my friend Greg. I can pretty much tell that by your lack of promotion for the podcast and in general lack of interest, like

will you ever listen to our podcast? I don't listen to things. Um, I did you know, man, I don't have to listen to it. I was here when it happened, and I don't even really I don't really watch things that I do. I don't watch myself on TV. I just do it. And then I collected a check. That's fair to your job. Well, how do you think the first one? You know you were here for the first one. I think I went the same. I mean, I think

that it's gonna get better every single week. You know, I think you were crazy nervous, uh, and like just super unprepared. But you know, I think I all through through over my shoulders and carried you around like a fireman. I've got I've got some sources. And speaking of which, you've got some sources coming up later in the show. We're gonna we're gonna do that. We're gonna go over

some headlines are world famous weekly predictions. Now we're gonna bring that back where we got our listener of the week. We're gonna look at some of the tweets you guys sent us. We have our hot take of the week. Um oh, listen to that Little Wayne. That was little Wayne, little way, Little Wayne? Uh? Is this did I remember this right? Didn't juvenile once knock on our friend Roggin's door in college by mistake like he was looking for

his girlfriend. It was not a mistake. He were corructed by this sophomore year of college at two Lane and week before school started, we're having a party and juvenile just came over. I think it was at his girlfriend's house next door. One of his many girlfriends knocked on the door, and we had no idea who he was, and he kept holding up his chain going he didn't know, he had no idea. That's the part i'd have going cash money, cash money, Like who is this guy? What

does cash money mean? And then someone's like, that's juvenile and we let him use the phone. I see, I would have known because cash money at that point where essentially like we were like living in Liverpool when the Beatles started. In terms of our time in New Orleans, I mean, cash money could not have been more popular. They were so popular. They had knockoff bands that would copy their songs. Shake It Like a Dog was one where they copied back that asked him and the and

the knockoff bands were popular. Yeah, yeah, I remember this. It was amazing. How was the biggest song that ever was created? How it was huge? Back that thing up, I use the edited version. I didn't realize let's go, let's let's let's move on a little bit. We can come back now let's just talk about cash money. We can come back to stories. But I didn't realize after the podcast we got some complaints. People said, you guys

sounded edited. They're not letting ants, Anthony. Here's my philosophy on this is that again, like I'm just here to hang out with my friend Greg behind the shield, behind the shield and all the protection that it entails. But also there are things that come with that, Like I didn't know we're not allowed to swear. I thought usually on podcasts you can can't swear for the Shield everywhere we go. I think of what Roger Goodell says, if you're an NFL employee like me, everywhere you go, you're

representing the Shield. I'm like a walking NFL insignia. I mean I've been representing the Shield my whole life. I feel like you know what I mean, just just in terms of what the league stands for. So, yes, they did have to cut out a lot of the show. People, Uh, we're upset about that. They were saying they want the uncut version. That's never gonna there is no one cut version. Like we knew doing this, they we're gonna have to

cut it up. But my promise to you, I promised to you the listeners, is that I will go back through each episode afterwards and I will explain what got cut out, and then if that gets cut out the next week, I will have to explain that again. It will be very meta and it will just be an interesting take to see kind of what we what we went for, and a lot of it's just things like I said in the moment or Greg said in the moment um. But let me go through last week's episode

and tell you what we cut. We cut like five or six things. First of all, any time I swore we had to cut, which was a shame, um, because I'm good at it. You know, I really hit the I really hit that when I want to do it. It's a it's good for me. Um. We we cut a breast cancer reference talking about Ironhead, Heyward. Um, I kind of made a reference to the fact that, uh, they don't let you talk about you know, your your dad who died from brain cancer, but it was breast cancer.

But they won't even really let you do that edited because it was too funny. Um. Another thing that got cut uh from the show that was not breast cancer related. We had it. We had a question which team do we hate? Which teams we love to see kind of suffer? I had picked the uh, the the Ravens, Suji Pick, I don't even remember. Oh, the Giants, the Giants. Yeah, but it was just boring, Yeah it was. It wasn't interesting. That's what we cut. It wasn't for contents. Uh. Then

we moved on that. We had a question about Big Ben with Big Ben would Greg, would you let Big Ben watch your children? Uh? And actually that was you. You stepped over the line and made a joke about Ben's past. Well, yeah, yeah, you're not allowed to talk about Ben's past if you work for the NFL. He's one of our he's one of our important guys. Yeah, And I mean I think you should have known that. Like, I would never make a joke about Ben's past like that,

unless you're talking about his Super Bowl rings. I would talk about that all day. Um. But but yeah, that got cut because of Greg. And then again this last one here was because of Greg. We talked about Playboy for a little bit and how Playboy, um is uh is not gonna show? I mean I more and you went off on kind of like a rant about pornography that made me uncomfortable, to be quite honest, like I was like, I didn't pick that up. Was that emotion? I was like, cut this, cut this, Like you're a

married man. Maybe maybe we're playing against type here. You're supposed to be the bad boy of comedy and but who's getting cut out more of this show me or you? It's you? Maybe it really shows who's got it. I could be that maybe on the bad boy of NFL podcasters. I think you're like the bad boy of aesthetics to what I mean, Like, that's like why a lot of the stuff gets cut. But again, I'm wearing some pretty sweet purple slacks right now. You are dressed for the office.

I'm dressed for the comedy club. That was actually not the last thing that was cut you. I want to I want to go a little further into you talking about porn. I just think that it was It wasn't so much like what you said. It was like who you were saying it about, edited for being overly crunk. So that wait, wait, there was one other thing that we cut. Oh yeah, you didn't even remember your your long insane profanity. I used tirade about her Edwards view

on climate change. That was in there. That was little Wayne. Anthony just wants to you to live out his dream to be a radio host. Let's uh, let's go through. Actually, let's talk a little bit about what happened in the last week of our lives and so you know it show is gonna be a little bit about us. We're definitely gonna talk a lot about football. Headlines are coming up next and we got a lot of good ones. But that's a lot of little Wayne, A little heavy

on the little way in there, Brandon. Uh, that was a little Wayne. The I just wanted to catch up quickly with you over what happened with you. I don't get to see you as much as I would like. It's busy during the NFL season year. Of course, the godfather god parents to both my children. Another week where you didn't give him any gifts or see them at all. Uh, what what have you been up to over the last week?

Your specials out on Netflix? You're kind of off the road after a big three or four months on the road to what is happening? Specials on Netflix? Still getting good press. You saw the latest article that was the happiest I've ever been to say. That's right. There was an article with the title, and I'm recalling this from memory. Anthony jessel Nick is the greatest comedian of all time. Anthony Justin is the greatest comic who has ever lived.

That's that's pretty amazing. If you don't believe it, google it, Google it. It's all about how great I am because I make fun of tragedies and most people don't. You're supposed to be a clown in the face of a tragedy. So you were excited. But I mean, I've been hearing this from you for a long time. In fact, in your special you call yourself the greatest comic. I say I'm a comedy god, and that is that is certainly true. I dwarf everyone else. Anyone else who holds a microphone

is an embarrassment to the art form. So did you? Uh? Any shows? I did? I went? I I did Carson Daily at a spotting Carson Daily this week, my fourth time on Carson Daily and my career. Just let you know how well that's going. Uh. So you just like sit and talk to a producer. Carson's not even there. Carson doesn't care that's awkward. It's it's no. It's actually pretty easy because you don't have to worry about you, like I know they're gonna cut this if it's not good.

You just sit there for half an hour and some producer like asked you how great you are? Skipped out on doing Seth Meyers the other week you were still. I had to cancel. I had. I had to cancel Seth Meyers because of travel things, but I would have loved to have been their sets of friend. Yeah, we're he's from Pittsburgh. We talked. We talked Steelers when I was on when I worked in thirty Rock on Follon you opened for everybodyse Garfunkle notes I want my friends.

Garfunkle notes a guitar and ukulele comedy band um that they call themselves musical comedy, as I refer to it as music. Not a big musical comedy fan. But they're dear friends of mine. So I went to Seattle and open for them, and it was funny because it was like all these like young girls like in their audience and they have no idea who I am. So I would I go on stage and be like, what do you talk. I got a thousand times more famous than

Garfunkle Notes, but they didn't care. They were just like, what, who were you? And they didn't even know about that. I was in one episode of Garfunkle Notes where I get up. It's not earlier audience maybe the musical comedy. What is the worst audience that you've ever had in terms of that you were just not the fit for it. I know casinos are a disaster. Sometimes, No casinos aren't bad. I mean not at this point. Now, I'm famous enough that if i'm if I'm the top of the bill,

then you know what you're getting. I've done casinos where it might be a little weird, but people are into it where they get there. Um. The worst thing that I can remember recently last summer, I was in Ireland doing a festival in Dublin and they put me like. I had a couple of shows where I headlined and those were great, but they have one where I opened for this guy and this guy was like, I forget his name. I would compare him to like a Ryan Seacrest type kind of like a like an MTV VJ

sort of thing where like young girls love him. He's like kind of not corny, but like close to corny and just very like friendly comedy. You know. He makes one of Justin Bieber and like breaks down the song baby the opposite of you because young girls hate you. Yes, young girls are not. Even my daughter still won't hug you hugged me. That's a true story. I got a high five every once in a while. Hugs everyone else really gonna now that I thought, it was like, that's

not true. She's not a very she hugs her parents, but she's she's selected with she's going to give her love. I like that because I don't want her to be some kind of hug who's running around throwing hugs out left and right. Like I think when she's at the right age and she can appreciate my comedy and what I've done for her comedically, then she'll start hugging to be twenty years Yeah, but this Joe in Dublin, I walked.

It was maybe a thousand people in this is a tent, and I walked four hundred of them, no joke, like there was a smoke machine, walked and they left. They left, They got up and left and drove in the street. There and there was a smoke machine where like just to make it the place look better, I guess, and they start pumping the smoke out so that there were things that I wouldn't be able to see people leaving

if they just had too much smoke. So then I'm like yelling at the smoke machine guy and I'm like, just get me through this. I do half an hour. People were furious, like someone screamed out, you should be ashamed, and I like, I started laughing so hard after one of my jokes. And then this guy comes on who they're all waiting for. But even though they were waiting for him, I had ruined the crowd so hard it was like I had personally slapped them all on the face.

And this poor bastard came out and was just like close to weeping when he took the mic from me, was like, thank you, Anthony, and then just bombed his face off for the next hour. That's great. You must have good about that. I did. I did. I thought it was hilarious. You know what I was thinking to

see what I asked this question. Immediately thought you told me that story about your show at Marshall recently where you decided it would be a good idea to make a Marshall plane crash joke in the middle of your setup at Marshall. Several of them at Marshall. They were not happy. It was one of those jokes where everyone started talking to each other like I was. I was talking to a girl in the front row and uh, and this girl says, um, I'm like, oh, what do you do for a living? So I work here at

the university. I work from Marshall. I'm in the athletic department. And I said, oh, what does that mean? You just make funeral arrangements? And and people just started talking. They were like really upset. And then I got them back and it was fine. And at the end of my seid I do a thing about like why I make fun of tragedies like that, and people kind of plotted after that. But then I had to go into a meet and greet right to meet these people in the audience,

which I never do. I always wanted to, like just get out of them. You don't like meeting people in general, No, not after especially if they performed like leave me alone. Um A kind of sweaty and eyed, like my my head's going to million miles an hour. But I go to meet these people and everyone was like, you shouldn't have made that joke, like that was very funny, thank

you for coming. You shouldn't made that joke. And I was like, well, that's what I do when they go no, no no, no, you shouldn't have made that joke here and I looked at all them, I was like, where the hell else am I gonna make this joke. It's Marshall or nowhere, Like no one else is like, hey, remember that plane crash in the seventies that happened in a different school. Let's talk about that for the that was your chance. You had to grab grab the bass ring.

I remember last last week when I I did really listen to the show, most of it. I um, I stopped at the crunk Crunker, funky Fresh segment. I was just like, I can't, I can't really listen to this. But what one of the notes I sent to myself was get to football a little faster. And here we are, uh And I didn't take my note at all. We need we need some sort of excuse for the this to be on NFL media, So let's do some NFL headlines. Brandon, that was a little Wayne. We had a whole different

headline song too. I was gonna have ready, But now Anthony is totally over ridden the production plan and has insisted we play Little Wayne as much as possible that one clip throughout the show. Maybe we'll change the clip each show. People can send us up and then we won't listen to him because Anthony's just gonna go with Black Rob next week. All right, let's talk uh some football. Jason Pierre Paul that this was a big story, breaking news. I wrote the story, Anthony. I don't know if you

read it. Of course, did you read any Do you ever read anything on NFL dot Com that I read? I support your comedy go you know, watch the special go to you on show sometimes. Yeah, but my stuff is funny on purpose, you know what I mean. Jason Pierre Paul. He of course had the fireworks accident July fourth, one of two NFL players to have a big fireworks acts and the other one on the Buccaneers. His career is over. JPP is so good though he can play

with less fingers. He has resigned with the Giants. He's gonna start practicing and he will be back on the field within a couple of weeks, he could make up to eight point seven million dollars this year. Anthony, you know what I heard. I heard that it wasn't an accident. I tell you that. Yeah, he was like, check this out. Uh did the old magic trick of how many fingers? How many fingers am I blowing up? Um? My? My

thing about Jason Pierre Paul, I love him. I think it's hilarious that he lost a bunch of fingers and then just like the way he acted after that is great. What will be awesome if once he starts playing, every time he gets a sack, they shoot off fireworks. I mean kind of like when they had like them in the Buccaneers school and they have like the Jolly Roger going.

If they just like do like just way too many fireworks every time he gets to say if he if he comes up with some fireworks themes sack celebration where he just exploding afterwards, or he definitely just waves his finger at everyone used to say, uh, yeah, Jess Pierre Paul, how good is that that you can play with three? Would you play? You're good enough to play with less fingers? Yeah,

but only like as a defensive player. You know what I mean, if he was like if he was like, you know, if you played any other position he was a center, he wouldn't be as good. It's true. But if you want to be like, hey, Jason, who's number one, he's the guy, it's not gonna work. He said he was. I know, I was trying to think he was. He said he was feeling after this whole break, you know, the way from football. He's feeling much younger, you know

what I mean, like young, definitely lighter. Um Russell Wilson. This week, moving on to another headline, UH that was in the news, Russell Wilson dressed up as Batman uh for his girlfriend crs birthday, her thirtieth birthday. He was somehow able to organize a birthday in which Serena Williams showed up Beyonce a whole lot of people. She was dressed up as some sort of superhero as well. Your your thoughts on the whole Russell Wilson experience going on here.

I think it's hilarious to me to see Russell Russell Wilson any picture he's with Sierra Sierra cr I don't know, we're showing our age Brandon, like, what is the I don't even know. Does she sing something, Sierra? I've heard both. She in a group where she's she's she really peaked a while ago, Um and I think it's Sia. Yeah, Siara, Okay, I'll say Sierra. I think yeah. If you guys have a problem with it, email greg Um. But yes, Sierra. Whenever he's with her, he just looks like way too pleased,

you know what I mean. He looks like I know he's young, he looks like an old man next to like Anna Nicole Smith, do you know. I mean, he's just got this weird grin. He just can't believe his luck. Just kind of gross. And then you add a full body Batman costume and he is the biggest dork of all time. When you cannot look cool and a full batman costume, that's that's because that's who he is. Sierra getting some good publicity out of this. You know, she

hasn't had I don't think a lot of hits lately. Necessarily. If you read the Russell Wilson feature they did about him in Sports Illustrated, it's him in a bunch of his college bros from Wisconsin who are all part of the Russell Wilson management team. And they even call themselves like his entourage. And one of the guys is like, yeah, I'm the I'm E, you know, I'm the E of the entourage and and he and he has a title too. I forget what it was, but it's some sort of

you know, brand manager of Russell Wilson and Russell. And it couldn't make Russell Wilson seem less cool or less likable that I like that. He needs a whole team to manage to not get laid. Come on, Brandon, I'm pointed at you. Shot when something gets said that I'm gonna have to edit out anyways, that's gonna have to get edited out. We gotta put you by the way, Brandon. We gotta have your laughter on on the track here. That would really help because I see you cracking up there.

That way, people will know how how funny we are, especially me. You know. We also need video because every every time this little Wayne clip comes on, the dancing Anthony's showing is really something special for people to see. The Browns Uh have been in the news quite a bit their quarterback situation. Josh McCown his shoulder is injured, may not be able to start this week. That means they could be forced to go back to Johnny Manziel only a couple of weeks after an incident where he

was pulled over with his girlfriend. You heard about this, and so Johnny Manziel in the news. There was an article in a report from CBS that they don't really love how he's responded necessarily, or they're a little worried about how he's responded to this benching. You know, he lost the starting job when Josh McCown came back. Maybe

hasn't been as hard working and whatnot since then. They also believe after this latest incident, or they believed for a while, that the girlfriend of Johnny manziel um isn't necessarily a positive influence. This is from a national reporter bothered to report this. By the way, UH reported that the Browns have been hoping, you know, Manziel would break up with his girlfriend who's in college and decided to come live with her. How have they not cut this

guy yet? How they not just been like, screwed this, He's gone. If you're trying to get your quarterback to break up with his girlfriend, are you kidding me. He's got he's got three linebackers coming on him, a hunter of miles and now and he's you're worried about him and his girlfriend and cut him. He should do anything else will be playing football. Edited because it was too informative about today's NFL. I actually hate I hate the

fact that that his girlfriend even gets brought into this. Yeah, I'm not trying to sound like a Pollyanna here. Who's who's you know representing the shield or something. But it wasn't the greatest police report. You know, when you read the police report with Johnny Nzel and his girlfriend, my reaction wasn't like Johnny made better get rid of that girl. It's like, this guy's a total this guy's a total creep.

And it's for that's such an NFL team view to be like, well, I gotta get rid of her, she's the problem. Sure, but think about this, how often have you ever heard an NFL team be like you should get rid of that girlfriend and say it publicly. She must suck like she must be she must have like three arms or something, and each one of them is holding a beer for Johnny. Because it's insane for that to be public knowledge. It's insane. Three armed girl, wasn't

that in a total record? That was? That was something different. Um, we have different memories about it. Edited for content again, let's go off sports for a second. That was little Wayne. Donald Trump is a big little Wayne guy. Um loves the Magnolia projects in general. All the cash money missed the cow, all of them. Um. He has been leading

in the polls. We're just gonna go political here. He's been leading the polls throughout shocking, but Ben Carson has surged the head of Donald Trump in four different polls in in Iowa. I saw this pop up and it just got me thinking, Uh, you're associated a little bit with Donald Trump. You helped when one I would say, one of your breakout moments of your career was the Donald Trump roast, and I just thought maybe you would have thoughts, you know, on Trump and what that was. Like.

I think it's I mean, it's pretty insane, like watching the Republicans like in this like lead up so far is so hilarious to me. It's like it's like when a wrestler, like a professional wrestler, faces some jobber in the ring, and the job are like starts to win a little bit and you're like, oh my god, what's happening right now? The Washington General's yeah, exactly, they score a couple puckets. You're wait, are they gonna beat the Globe triters? Like, of course they aren't. These people are

all insane. Um, I thought Trump was has been pretty hilarious. My favorite thing he's done so far is when the thing got leaked that that he started losing the Iowa polls that someone who had controlled his Twitter did you see this? Like called Basically it was like, of course I would think that they're all idiots, and he had to be like, uh, that's like when it was like too far for Trump. But that's so funny, like I'm losing the polls. These morons like they don't get me.

Basically they Yeah, there's a thin line between what Donald Trump is as a presidential candidate and what you would be like as a presidential candidate. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty close. It's pretty close. Hair similar, My hair is awesome. Is so good looking for a mirror. That's the problem with this podcast. This is not you don't get to see my hair. What what was your experience like the old Donald Trump but it wasn't that the one I went to uh and Don Marshall our friend and I'm Marshall

drunk way too me. It was a great night. There was a lot of fun. What was what was your personal experience with with Trump that night? He was all right, he was he seemed like not the worst guy. He shook my hand. I hear doesn't shake hands. He's like one of these people, doesn't like that, doesn't like the germs. But he shook my hand. I was like, oh, maybe he's cool, Like he actually earned my respect that night. And then like the next day he was like, where's

Obama's birth certificate? And I was like, oh, man, you're crazy. Edited because we bawled too hard. That's a true story, and yet you still make that joke in front of me. Yeah, well, you're the least Jewish person I've ever met in my entire life. Edited because I damn feel like it. I'm saying the NFL, he would have been a great coach, would have made a great coach. That's so I'm saying, would have been. It would have been a terrific GM. Ryan Mallett. At last, we cracked ourselves up. None of

that We're leaving as much as possible. Ryan Mallett has been released this week by the Houston Texans after missing a team flight on Saturday last week. Let me let me, let me continue. He said he was stuck in traffic, and so that was the second time he's been late to something and they were just sick of sick of Ryan Mallet. He's no longer on the Texans. I know. See. I think I love that they wanted to cut him before the game, but they couldn't didn't have another backup.

I thought that was funny. I like I like billow Brian for his kind of the Shenanigans. I loved that the first time he was Lady said he just slept in. Ryan Mountain was like listen, I alarm clock didn't go off, which I think is like, look, how dedicated is he can't even sleep? He's thinking about football so much, you know what I mean? That's that's like, that's the kind of guy you want as your quarterback. But he can sleep. He slept in What does that mean? But he goes

to sleep late because just thinking about the game. Maybe he goes to sleep late because he had um, well, I don't even want to go there. But there was some talk about what what dropped Ryan Mallett in the in the draft. I don't think it's a huge secret um. I don't think it was so much a substance that's puts you to sleep as much as keeps you awake late at night. Oh really that that might be well. He went to Arkansas something on something in the water. He was on are you gonna was it? I'm just

letting the listener put it the coffee. He likes coffee, likes coffee. He liked coffee. I think I think if if you, if you want to wake up, I think all football players and this is like an idea that I want to try to get sponsored. Is if you if you're having trouble waking up in the morning, you've got to get edited. For little Wayne. I mean, nothing wakes you up quicker. If you need to take a quick little power not before the game, you're not gonna

You're gonna get the sleep. But not like the r EM sleep that really kind of like takes over right and you're not gonna have a deep sleep. You're gonna be ready to wake up at any time. Wake up. Guns blazes, what's the dumbest excuse you've ever used, UM to skip work. My favorite thing about at this was that the Houston Chronicle when they reported this story, they said that Ryan Mallett said that he was late because of nonexistent traffic. That they were just that they didn't

even felt like they needed sources for that. They were just like, yes, Saturday morning going to the stadium, There's no way he was second in traffic. Um. I once I had an excuse. It was so bad that halfway through a bail that was just like I quit, Like I re remember I worked at Borders Books. Like, first of all, I've been fired from every job I've ever had, and a lot of those jobs I lived with Greg.

For this episode, I think could be Oh, I forget sure getting fired from this um more just like it'll get canceled altogether. Like without me, there was no podcast. Without me, there was no nfl UM. But I was, I was late. I was. I had this job at Borders Books at my first job in l and I was so bored doing this job. And in the mornings it was the most boring thing ever, like three hours I had nothing to do, and so I came in like two hours late, and they were like what, like

what what? How dare you? Like? Why you didn't call us? Why? Why are you two? I was late and I was I'd clearly just woken up, and I was like, I was like, the gas light on my car. I had to go pick up a friend his car broke down, and the gas laid on my car isn't working, so

I didn't not I was running out of gas. And then I ran out of gas and I had to go and walk and they're just looking at me like nodding their heads like we don't And I was like, I don't know why I'm lying to you guys, like I just I hate this job on board of it. They're like, okay on the spot, but I would have

been fired either way, edited because Greg outshined me. Do you know why we went there was because we were twenty years old and it was the only place on the island that would serve us exactly, So we went into the underage drink as opposed to doing our job. The other last ide of him news for the day, It's gonna be Jim Harbaugh and uh, just a little SoundBite from his press conference last week. Jim Harba now

of course coaching Michigan. Just trying to explain. You know, someone asked him a hypothetical and his answer was, I'm not into the if this, if that type of scenarios. If worms had machine guns, then birds wouldn't be scared of them. That's that was what Jim Harbaugh said to explain, not answering hypotheticals. I love I love this quote. I love it's a great quote. Jim Harbaugh such a poet. I just like the idea of Harbaugh, like standing in a field where it's like recently reigned and just like

trying to get worms to use these machine guns. He's got his, He's got his. Uh what does he wear? He wears like a pullover tucked into the khakis at all times. Reddist knows in the game. If you've been watching, if you've been following Michigan football. She doesn't make any sense.

How does this? I mean, does this make sense? It doesn't make any sense at all, because if first of all, birds are not scared of worms at all, and then he's he's giving the worms machine guns and saying that birds wouldn't be scared of them, like they're already not scared. Do you think a machine guns is gonna add extra no fear, I don't think so. We're wes with machine guns. Actually sounds like a great movie, don't you think? Like

a great sort of like low fi horror movie. That is the type of movie you'd try to convince me to go to. If like if like the Bird, if they did a sequel to Hitchcock's The Birds, and that was how it ended, Wasn't the worms got machine guns? Can you imagine if someone just left a machine gun on the ground? Word when worms learned how to use like technology. We've been cutting this little than half for forever, and now they're gonna get their revenge. Be absolutely frightened.

What do you think so far? I think this is better worse than last week's That was a little way by the way, get a bed to it. Every time. I think it's better, um, and last week's is great. I mean I got a lot of feedback. My mom um told me she listened to it this morning. Actually she just found out about it because I didn't want

to tell her. Yeah, um, real quick, of course. Uh, she just found out about it, and she was smiles ear to ear great stories, she said, And my dad as they always listened to your stuff and they're just like, what a funny, great guy. And I'm like, wow, okay, that's what you think. That's interesting. She only found out because my uncle Dave Dr. David Milner Um tweeted at me. I didn't even know he had a Twitter account and said that that we have international listeners because he was

listening from Cambodia. He really liked the show. Wow, why do you gotta do that? Uncle Dave? Such a nice guy our listen. Uncle Dave's great, but he's not our listener of the week. Every week we're gonna pick a listener of the week. I was blown away from the response that we got on Twitter and on iTunes. A lot of you left reviews, a lot of you gave us five stars, which really helps. It puts us up

on the comment. I know Anthony doesn't care about this, but do it and to you know, tell your friends subscribe because it helps and it will help keep this show going. Otherwise I think it'll just it'll just get canceled. This is the only promotion we're getting. But but the real listener of the week that that stood out, I don't know what his name is. But his handle is

great Hojita, which is a good handle. And he tweeted at us that he got into a major car accident listening to your podcast with Anthony jessel Nick, and he said, I'm okay. I finished the episode later. That's dedication. I love I love the Caitlyn General listens to our podcast. I think it's great. I think it's cool that that she has the great uh djeta as a as a thing.

Listen if you if you're in your car right now listening to this, going to the other land, So what happens, you know what I mean, just kind of let it drift and uh. And if when you run into someone whoever survives, tell him about this podcast. Well that's the thing is if this became our thing, getting into accidents while you listen to our podcast, that would be amazing publicity. There's no there's no other way we're going to really

get this thing going. But people would write some articles about the podcast that keeps causing accidents, all publicities, good publicity, and and it would just get out there. It would be an an epidemic. I even I even sent you know, I was really impressed with Great Hohita. You know, I sent it back. I said, I hope it was worth it. I hope it was worth the accident, and he says it was. It happened on the ten, uh, the Interstate ten, just past the Arizona border, So that was pretty crunk.

Like that is I like he's using the lingo. That's nice. Um. I just like, you know, if you listen to it right now, close your eyes, take your hands off the wheel, and just see what happens. Were able to tweets Greg letter, We'll talk to you the next week. Don't do that. We're not We're not responsible for any of that. What are some other what are some other reactions? Greg? Go through your favorites. All right, let's go through a few. By the way, we used to drive on the ten

past the Arizona border, back and forth New Orleans. Yeah, we saw the thing once. You made me go to see the thing when we were driving back to New Orleans because we were so bored. It was pretty scary. Some favorite reactions. A lot of them were just you know, really telling us, you know, please don't let the NFL cancel us. You know, they hope they keeps going, which was very nice. Edited because I talked about Greg Hardy way too much. All right? Now the final one, Uh,

this one's from Nate Muzzy. I like this one saying shot it's called Shadowy League clowns. Anthony and Greg are awesome, but whatever empty suit didn't laugh needs to go on a Caribbean vacation to get his or horror groove back because clearly the stress has destroyed their personality. Wow. I like how still I kind of groove back reference. That's not something you see a lot like. I just like the Shadowy leak out. So keep keep um sending comments to us or sending tweets. We love it, and we'll

we'll mention a few each week. And you know, we should have our own Twitter hand. We should have our own We can do that. It sounds like a lot of work. I don't know. You'll run that, right, Anthony, yea, yeah, I love. They would not let me anywhere near it. All right, let's uh, let's go to that way. That was Little Wayne, Little Wayne. Initially that that's the Fireman off of really his probably his worst LP, but good song,

decent song, big fan a Little Wayne. I I set that one up because I wanted him to introduce our hottest hot take of the week, and I just thought we would find one hot take this week, um, each week if if we can find one that that make a lot of sense. First, yeah, just to give you an idea of kind of the hot takes that that we're thinking of. Trent It really I was thinking of one from early last season that that stuck out to me. This is Trent Dilford when you're in Patriots, let's face

if they're not good anymore. I love that one that was after a week Week four. I'm just the Patriots homer. I mean saying that when everyone was saying that that wasn't just I wasn't saying that that's insane. There were two and two. Um this week I had to go to the Greg Hardy situation. A lot of dumb hot takes on this. Stephen A. Smith said, I completely uh. This was one tweet from Steven A. Smith. I completely support Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys having Hardy on

the team. What side are you on? It's so it's hilarious to me how people want to go out and like defend this. Scott. You have to do is say nothing. I have to be Stephen Smith could have been like, you know what, I don't know. I don't know what they're doing over there, And that would have been fine to be like I support Like why do you support it? Why would you ever support? Uh? Either one of those people,

Jerry Jones or or Greg Hardy. Well, not only did they say they support it, and they tried to explain it away like, oh, yeah, well, he's just being a leader. That's the type of passion that we want. Uh, you know, that's that's what we're looking for. And I've heard other people go, well, that's football, you know, you gotta let football. If other players did that, it would be fine. Really, if other players slapped the playbook out of the coach and the coach shoved him on the field, when does

that ever happen? If Aaron Rodgers did that, they would be like Aaron Rodgers lost his mind? Like what was he thinking? What was going on? It's crazy that you would defend this. Your your prior record has to matter. Greg Hardy seems crazy, But it almost feels like like Stephen A. Smith when he sends that out. It's just trolling. I mean, I guess that's obvious, but he's just trying to annoy everyone as much as gregor you know, Greg Hardy seems to annoy everyone, which that's I guess part

of his stick. But it feels like the Cowboys are doing that. They literally said, I don't know if you know this in response to this that they want to sign them to a long term contract. The Cowboys, like if they lose in like an entertaining way, like if they lose in something crazy way you talked about them all week, they're like just as happy as if they win, Like they really are entertainment more than like a real

actual sports team. To me, it's crazy to say to support this guy as hard as they have been, Like what would if if they wanted to sign him to a long term contract after doing that, Like, what what would he have to do to be put into the ring of honor? Yeah, we would he have to like block their like where they're linning up for field goal and he runs on the field and blocks it, And they'd be like, well, you know what, he's just fired

up out there. If we're not allowed to do that, Greg, and he cost us three points, Like he's a leader, just like you know, light the team's airplane on fire before they before they leave town like this guy's great put him in, putting him in the Ring of Honor. Well, I think what would the what's obvious here is that Stephen A. Smith is a heavy investor in Greg Hardy's. But was that again his cereal or something? No, it's

it's a bet. It's a little little that it's like it's kind of like serta, only it's just full of um. That way you don't sleep too deep. We're gonna have to get some other little segment intros. But this segment it's called ask Anthony, Greg pick a few of these what story? Uh this is from Jordan's White What story does Greg remember but not Anthony? Hashtag r j VP. I like the the hashtag r j VP kind of reminds me of like Alien versus Predator. There's very few

things I would remember that Anthony doesn't. Although I have a terrible memory, your memory is just nine. I have no memory. In theory. There was a lot of blackout moments that you had, uh ten years ago, but I

don't really remember them either. Um. One side of things, they do remember one day junior year where I heard the phone ringing at five or six in the morning, and you couldn't remember this because you were not in the room and the phone just kept ringing at six in the morning, and I was like, why is the phone, you know, ringing like it was a really late night, crazy things, and I just refused to pick it up. So there's no way you could remember that. Okay, I'll

say this. I remember that I was in jail and I was I was calling, trying to get you answer the phone. I only in college. I only knew a few phone numbers, yours was one of them, and I knew you had your own line, so that I knew the phone was right next to your bed, and that you were in bed and you were purposely not answering it, and that you knew you knew the only reason someone would call you over and over again that early in the morning, as if they were in jail. I didn't

know that. I did not know you knew what you just did not want to have to wake up and go bail me out because I had been arrested two weeks earlier. I was, well, that's true, I was smart enough to not call you when I was there. I think I think I called someone more responsible. Wasn't my jail the same time as you jail once together there was we went to I went to jail twice in two weeks. The first time I could put this on with my my boss is listening to the first time

I got it was very hard, Moorlands strung tank. I ran into like five of my friends, which was hilarious. And now we didn't go together. We didn't go together. What did you go for? I think I called Jamie osher or rogging because they had cars and they were actually was Connor. I remember Connor would call yeah, because what would you What did you go to jail for? Uh? It was disturbing the peace after yes, the fight, I had nothing that that'll be another podcast. We are going

way way too long, um edited to keep your interest. Yeah, I think you wouldn't. You would have more fun, but you would be You would as soon as you came back in your own body, you would be like, oh my god, this is my life. Is not horrible like I would. I could ruin your life in twenty four hours. No, I couldn't really do that much damage to mind. Now, I would have a blast, and I would do it for a month or whatever a year. If I knew I could go back. Maybe not a year, that's it's

very too long. Um. I would. I would do it because you know, you don't have anything to do right now, you're working on your show. Um, but it would just be nice to kind of, you know, be out in your Hollywood apartment and hanging out, going out at night like that. Just it almost sounds like vacation. Here's what I would guarantee if I if it was on the table right now, we could switch places forever. You would do it in a heartbeat. I would. You would, absolutely everyone,

anyone that's that true. They the emptiness when I had to you know, the the emptiness with which would come over be after a little while when I was in your body would would be a problematic. You know what I mean. I have two children and we joke about it a lot, but it's like the they're the best two things that ever happened to me at that like they knowing having known that sort of happiness, and then um, being thrust into your sort of shallow happiness. It would

be it would be really tough to deal with. I would leave visit your kids. Okay, now it's time for predictions. Last week we did uh We did a special game called Crunk or Funky Funky Fresh where I went through different matchups and then really predict it would win. I just predicted whether the matchup would be crunk or funky funky Fresh or somewhere in between. People really responded to that.

People really on board. Uh. We talked about like this week, should we do that again with these matchups we mix it up. My vote was to just do it again, a double down and just go. But then I looked at the matchups. You know what, they aren't really either one. They haven't really fall into the category of funky Funky Fresh or crunk. And I I went through with a fine tooth comb and a magnifying glass and I couldn't really find it. So why don't you just Greg, just

give me, give me some different storylines. We either some matchups or give me some stories from this coming week. And like your memory of I feel like the memory of the reaction to the Crunk or Funky Funky Fresh segment feels a little skewed. How do you think? I mean? I got a tweet that said, uh, you can cut out the last been to the podcast. Other than that, it was pretty good that guy's not a fan. That

guy doesn't know what's up. There was a lot of a lot of that, like great podcast until the Funky Funky refreshtion. A lot of people really liked it. People said that it's kind of similar to a lot of a lot of things, but you like the I want people to love me and hate me. If everyone just kind of likes you, like I'm sure your podcast with your with the kids that you do. I bet that's uh. I've been people like it. I bet no one loves it or hates it. People love it. People love it.

We just had a meet up in London and people showed up to that international All right, let's I totally ruined your set up for this segment. Um, you can really touch me that you have some sources, right, yeah, I've got sources all over the league. I mean now that I'm behind the shield, now that exists behind the shield, then I kind of the world opens up to you in a different way. So we thought we would we

would take advantage of those sources. Go through each game, and you will tell tell us what your sources are are telling us. All right, let's start with what I think is the best game of the season so far, Broncos Packers. Um, what are your sources telling you about Peyton Manning's future up in the air right now? With his early struggles, you know, I think it's gonna be Peyton Manning's last year. I can't see him coming back for another one. My sources tell me that he's kind

of getting his money together. He's gonna invest. He's gonna invest with Tom Brady's body guru, that guy who is up to nothing but good and good things. That two of them are going to invest heavily into Greg Hardy's I think people are gonna be like, in a couple of years, gonna be like, did you know that? Uh? Do you know Greg Hardy's You know he used to play football. That's how people will know Peyton Manning. You know, the greatest regular season quarterback ever. You know, his brother

won two Super Bowls. Let's talk Bengals Steelers. Big game in the a f C North year. Steelers gotta be a little nervous. Ben Roethlisberger likely to return for this game. They have to win or the a f C North is over. They'd be four games back. They there's no way they're gonna win the division. This is a game they have to get. What are your sources telling you about this game? And my sources tell me that the students are kind of overmatched. You know, the Bengals are

planned on all cylinders. They're really doing well. Dalton's having a great, great season so far. But because this game is going to have a playoff atmosphere, the Banks are gonna lose by thirty five points and Dalton will have a hundred interceptions. That's what sources a hundred. How would your sources be so involved that they actually know what's gonna go and gonna happen in the game. I'm not

gonna reveal my sources. I just wanted to dance a little bit Seahawks and Cowboys, getting everyone thinking about that playoff game from almost a decade ago where Tony Romo Bob Bold the snap. Tony Romo will not play in this game, but Dez Bryant might. His status up in the air this week. What do your sources tell you about desert status? Does Brian status my sources went on his Facebook page? Does Briant is single? Terri's the coroner? That was a little way. What do I why do

my other notes. Listening to the podcast was like col Anthony when his jokes are terrible column, it was a great that made me laugh so hard. Finally, um, I'm really excited about this game. The Carolina Panthers and the Indianapolis Colts. What a matchup. I mean, the Indianapolis Colts are struggling. One of the most surprising stories of the year. So many people expected Andrew Luck to be an m VP candidate this year. Instead, he hasn't been a top

twenty quarterback. I mean, he is hurting them right now. And to me, this is a game that's fascinating because he's facing what I think is really the other best quarterback under thirty years old, Cam Newton. So it's kind of the two young guns for the first time. They're facing off. Chuck Pogano is on the hot seat. The Carolina Panthers are undefeated, They're the team that could be going to the super Bowl. There's a it's a huge build up to this game, Anthony, What are your sources

telling you about Panthers Colts? Greg They tell me it's gonna be crunk. I can't believe their second episode this is it feels it feels like an anniversary. It feels special this Uh, it's way too much like your your old boss, Jimmy Fallon just sitting there cracking up at its own jokes. The Little Time. Yep, it's very much like that, but mine jokes are great, and I have a podcast Fallon. Uh and that was Anthony's sources, that was little Wayne. Alright, Greg, let's wrap this puppy up.

Let's get on a positive note. How we haven't talked about them yet? How are my god children? How are Ellis and Walker? That's right? Um? No, I know, like last week, you know it was. It was cool, unbelievable