Ep. 8: Getting ready for Star Wars and locker room shenanigans

Vanity project. I'm alright, I'm right. You know, sometimes it's hard to kind of have to wait for you, you know what I mean. I have to test my patients, uh, trying to you know, drag you along. I mean, I got broad shoulders, but it's hard to carry this whole thing. Every week. I was literally dragging you along on Friday night, That's true. We went out. We went out. Greg and

I went out together on Friday night. Asked me if I would want to come to dinner with him, his wife, his lovely wife, Emmica, who I adore, and his mother, his mother, what's her name? She kept telling me to call her by first name. She's Mrs Rosenthal to me, she always will be Debbie. Yes, I always want to say Betsy, but no, it's a lot of dinners. You gotta get that first name nailed down here. Yeah, but I don't. I'm not a big like call parents by the first name guy, you know. But now I'm gonna

have to call her Debbie. Debbie was not well. Defie was was very, very sick, which is the last thing you want to see when you go to dinner with a couple of people. Was one of them, the one you're gonna be seen next to at a Korean barbecue, which is a lot of sharing. Someone just definitely deathly ill. Well, you didn't help it. You kind of like would give her a little hugs and things like that. There's some somebody I didn't want to make it feel bad. I

I made her drink. I made her split a bottle of hot sake with me, which was not probably the best thing for her, but I think it helped in the moment. And then it really brought a crashing down to earth because the hot. I think the hot helped her, but the sake ness of it was was terrible for her. Anthony is definitely that friend who encourages everyone around him to drink as much as possible, no matter what the situation, even if it's your friend's mom who is clearly very sick.

You you wanted her to drink the hot sake that showed you. I believe, no, no, that came with it. I should really know. This was the is like the fake sake made her drink some of that. Yeah it is. It's like a rice. It's not sake, but it's like it's that a fake one. It's more it's more popular in some now if you don't have a liquor license, you can serve beer and soju. That's like, that's like a thing. It's if you see SoJ you want to men, you get the hell out of that restaurant. But we

had a little bit. I like people to drink with me. I'm a famous comedian, so I get down when I go then, right, my favorite drunk is dinner drunk. I'm not like a big sit on my couch. Yeah, but when I go to dinner, we're gonna rock out. And your mom was it was very sick. Um, But we got through dinner and then I said, hey, why don't you guys, drive me home. You had the babysitter to get home to us, and why don't you drive me

home and you can see my apartment. We'll have one more drink there and then you guys can head back and you would take it from here. Yeah, it was like you were seducing us, except it was me, you know, my wife and my mom. But yes, we decided to drive. It was a seduction. It was, hey, this night will be more fun in instead of going back to your babysitter,

you come with me. Yeah, go check out. You just moved into your new apartment as a longtime listeners of the Rosenthal and jessin Nick Vanity Project now our charity, and so we you know, we were on our way. We kind of went over a little curb on the way out, although it didn't we were driving. Wow, it didn't feel like anything, you have to admit that. And the car started going crazy on the way there, and there were lots of different theories about what was happening,

but I just kept driving. Eventually got to your apartment and uh we had a flat tire, flat tire and uh so and and your wife was getting texts from the babysitter saying you should get home right now. Daughter was crying for the first time ever. Our daughter was requesting us and in very upset because she was sick or something. In the babysit it was creaking out. Meanwhile, we're headed in the exact opposite direction to West Hollywood loft over sitting in this city where you're gonna like

try to get us more drunk. Yes, that's right. I had very excellent mind to share with you guys, which no one drank um. But I think I think Ellis, your daughter, was more upset that like she was. Do you guys are spending time with me without her, you know? I think she just wanted to be there. But when we got home and then we had to wait hours for a totruk to come and change your flat, tire, I sent your wife and mom home an uber name

after your mom touched everything in my apartment. I've got a lot of books, and your mom, who was deathly ill, just walked around touching every single book that she could. But you haven't made a joke that you try to touch his momains as you can, so that I get just as sick as Why now you really had a distilled version of uh some of my wife em Beca's frustrations over the next three or four days as my

mom continued to get my kids sicker and sicker. I like that that you were almost like a pusher though. Like the second we got there, Anthony was very concerned that we all had zinc, we all had vitamin C, that like, we were gonna be healthy, and you're just like shoving vitamins down our throats here. Yeah, I'm on the road a lot, so I take I take my vitamin seeing my thing to to stay healthy. And I am I'm healthy right now. I took a little hit, I think because your mom's disease, but I am, I

am good. So uh so yeah, after a couple of hours you you finally got on my apartments. It was right, well, we all we all had a good time, but it was it was a disaster considering what I what I had in mind, um for the evening, it would have been a lot more fun. Um. Speaking of your mom, I want to I want to give a shout out,

a non shout out father from last week. I talked about getting Penguins jerseys and I bought my dad's Penguins jersey from an ex Penguins player and d E S p R E S and I know how to pronounce. I thought dispressed dispress, and my dad said, oh depui. The last week, I said, I got him a Depuis jersey. And then a listener, one of our one of our listeners on Twitter said, no, you meant dispressed, and I did mean despress. Screw your dad, you embarrassed me. You

embarrassed me, and I won't let it happen again. Despress, enjoy your jersey, dad. No one even knows what you're talking about. Right now? What is I do? And McDonald does and my dad helmet watch out now that was the Beating Nuts. That was It was like as if you picked a random part of one of the best songs from The Beating Nuts. I don't know what you were doing with that is that? Was that the edit

that you meant to put in there. I think the YouTube at it was probably different than the actual song at it, which I gave him. This is what happens when I put you in troge of music again. We only have one more When we have one more hip hop song we get to play. I'm gonna count that one, even though it was not really it was a disaster,

disaster that only Greg could be responsible for. Um, it was like it was like audio on my computer wasn't working today, so I did it off of my phone and I just said, okay, do the first this these seconds, and yeah, it didn't work out. No, it didn't work out. It's as if you tried to drive the beat nuts home in your car. Give me a break, another Jessell Nick trend. You and your dad, you you know you'd speak very definitively when you don't know what you're talking about.

That's not my No, my dad does not do that. My dad did that one time with the jersey. Normally he knows his sports. He knows more than you. Greg, admit it. We're not even friends right now. All right, you're not friends with my dad. Noted. Let's go into what was edited from last week. Um, Brandon, you were not here. Brandon was was knee deep, knee deep in girls volleyball last week, explained, Explain what you're doing again, tell us what you were doing girls volleyball. Huh, you're

you're going from intermural basketball to volleyball. But no, it's broadcasting basketball at cal State Fullerton. That's a lateral move. All right, let's go into what was edited while Brandon was out. Um, and maybe and maybe we'll talk about we we've gotten a little tiff. Brandon. That's not why you were out last week. But no, it made people think that's might have been why I was out and possibly taking off the podcast. No, you were not taking

off the podcast. I mean despite efforts, uh, every effort that I made to have it, to have it be so Um, Anthony likes to draw out his punishment. He's just gonna make your life a living hell for the next two much and blocked him, So that should stocked him. All right, maybe I'll block you. Um. Brandon put up a clip of Greg and I dancing in between two songs, and I was like, I put it up on Twitter and I was like, hey, is this cool? And here's

the Brandon, here's the here's the trick. If you do something and then ask hey, if this is is cool, the answer is always going to be no. But the thing is you're supposed to ask for forgiveness later. No, that's what I do. That's not what you do. I've earned the right to ask for it. I don't even ask for given this. Later I go, that's just what I do. I'm Anthony jessel Nick. You Uh, you don't ask for you just dropped plays and say, hey, ladies, do you guys understand this one? That's what you do.

Let's go into let's get into what was edited from last week. Uh, an explanation of why why episode six was canceled. This is episode ey right, and I was explanation of why last year was canceled. I have been told to not no longer try to even describe it, and I will let that go. Um. Uh discussion of Patterson's celebration. Um. Yeah, do do you remember what what in the description was because the next thing, I don't

remember what we actually said. But then I described special teams players as celebrating everything up to and including, and I got people ask me about this up to when including. There is a former dictator who committed suicide at the very end of World War Two who I like to reference a lot, and for some reason, you're allowed to say his name, which drives me crazy. I'm a history buff. I want to talk about this guy, all right. If you go on the History Channel, they talk about him

all the time. No one ever gets edited, no one gets bleeped. And I said that special teams players celebrate the person's birthday. That's how much they celebrate everything. They love it. That's that's I mean, it's the same. My father was born in the country that this man was running back in the nineteen forties, Germany, where I think we're allowed to say that. It annoys me. We have to talk around it. I mean, your dad's proud to

be from there, Your dad celebrates, your dad's got the mustache. Um. Then we went to the uh second half of the Bill's story about fans on the upper upper deck. Greg got a little blue talking about they were there were um, there were bills fans who were warming each other's hands in each other's pants. Uh. And he used a term for that which which middle schoolers use, but we're not

allowed to use here. I'll just leave it at that. Um. We talked about this Obama story where one of the one of the commentators called him a name that she should not have called him. He got he got banned. But if I know, we couldn't say this word, the word is which has just been believe, if we weren't allowed to say that word. I would never have talked about the stories. We bleeped that several times. Uh. That word um, a word a gynecologist would use as slang.

Everyone's got the word. And then a cat and then we yes. And then there story about a British person, British prison, British prison. We used the word which I'm sure has just been Let me see if I can I can say this cocka doodle do. I think we can get away with that. I think the first one was bleeped, but cocka doodle do is okay. I'm getting a thumbs up. Um. And then something about Fox News. I don't even know what that was, and who cares? Fox News is the worst. Um. Let's go to headlines

for Friend and back Street List. We own a miss indicate right, we'll just into midnight. That was outcast. That was outcast, that was number two of two, and the songs that we are allowed to use from hip hop. The NFL is not letting letting us use our normal front to back, you know, top to bottom hip hop that we like to do. I'm not happy about it, but we're going to see what the NFL has for us. Instead, they said that they said, they're going to fill in the blanks for us and see if we see if

we like it, let's go. Let's start with our first headline rerecord. Yeah, I mean if you are a first time listener. The NFL keeps making up these crazy rules of songs, so you know, we get we get two songs ten seconds max. And now from now on, it's the NFL songs. It's the NFL songs. I don't know, I've we've never heard these before. We're gonna hear them as we go. In house songs, in house songs, which are always in my in my experience, are always pretty lame.

Let's start with the first uh story that happened in the middle of a game that while I was watching it, I knew this has to be on the Rosenthal and jessel Nick Vanity Project rd BB. And that was William Gay, the Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback and a delightful guy. If you've ever heard him speak, He's very funny, charming, nice guy. And he had a pick six of a j mc aaron,

the new Bengals quarterback after Andy Dalton got injured. Brand new, get excited Cincinnati, Yeah, and Alabama quarterback has not won an NFL game and almost thirty years, and you know how many games two lane quarterbacks have won? A lot like thirty, just saying two lane Shaun King, Patrick Ramsey, J P. Lastnan. William Gaye got very excited when he got the pick six, and we just thought it was funny how much he was celebrating. So let's let's take a listen to it. This is amazing. I'm in five

rolls far side, intercepted touchdown Pittsburgh. This is a big play. He's dancing. He's a big plays. He's doing the dance. It's a planned dance. That is William Gaye tims around him. Now we kind of stops dancing return touchdown, and that ties in with Rod Woodson for celebrating given some hot fives teammates. And then what's happening here he's in Cincinnati. Mind, he's doing the he does the whip and then he

gets the flag for the whip hand. Now he goes back to the original dance, which is stunning, a stunning display. He knows. Now the referee is describing to everyone the penalty. Now they cut to William gay on his knees swimming on the sidelines towards Joey Porter, who was a coach, mind you, a coach who was also on his knees swimming towards winning Gay after they've already gotten the penalty.

I swear, Greg, when I saw this. When I saw this, I couldn't believe that no one on the Steelers sideline was bothered at all. I thought I was watching a replay that was overdubbed with the explanation of the penalty. There's no way they would ignore the ref that much and keep on celebrating. But they did. But no, I mean, Joey Porter has got to be one of your all time favorite Steelers. The fact that a coach literally got out his knees and started doing some sort of crab

walk maneuver. I don't know to words William Gay as they're doing the celebration after they announced the penalty is one of the greatest things that's ever happened. It was amazing, and he also he's gonna go back on the field in seconds. I loved it. And of course Joey Porter is definitely in my top ten top ten Steelers of all time. I love him, love him on the sidelines, love that whole play that was that was fantastic and I think it would only be allowed against the team

like Cincinnati. In Cincinnati, that makes it so much more hardcore. I love that Mike Tomlin did not care after the game when he got up, He's just like that, he's celebrating and uh, I don't know. I just love Greg Gumbo's reaction to We were kind of talking talking over and he was just at one point he goes and he continues his ridiculous celebration. Everyone was delighted. It was It's the most delight I've seen since Antonio Brown kicked un her in the face. Let's start party, Let's start party.

What was that? What did they say, Let's start barking or let's start start the Let's start the party. Got the NFL got their money's worth on that one. That is a that is a bad and this isn't a bit. This is genuine, actual songs in the NFL music library that they said, stop using that cool rap music that you kids listen to and start using some of our music. And it's not a bit. Uh. And you may have noticed we forgot to mention this earlier. We we've had

a theme changed here a compromise for Greg's wife. Some people have been complaining about us screaming screaming initials r j VP anytime someone says the Rosenthal just mc vanity project. So I decided that we're gonna keep on doing. We're gonna whisper it, which is a little creepy, a little aggressive, but I like it. No, no people have complained really other than Emmica, but she hasn't liked it. She also doesn't like I always make her sound like kind of

the bad guy on this show. That's not fair. One of my favorite moments, and we'll get to the next night of news in a second. One of my favorite moments from dinner and then it continued on all week, was that dinner my mom would occasionally just yell out r g v P and then which really which really

delighted me, Um, I think annoyed, have a go. And then the funny thing is we were at dinner two nights later and just occasionally my mom would just as something came up with you or the night the other night when we were at the dinner and and my mom would just go R S v P. Did you just kept going R S v P. It is. I think it's really funny how much how much your mom

and your wife hate each other. You, by the way, you had someone come up to you and say, say our j v P. Right, Oh yeah, when I was at the mom and I was buying Penguins Jersey's I mean that's you know, I get that all the time, but it's you. It's amazing. No, but it's amazing because it's ours, because it's our j v P. You don't get our j VP all the time, do you. You You don't have to say. You don't have to whisper it to Brandon when we say r j you have to say,

do we need to explain the whole rules? Brandon? You've been gone too long, you say, you say, if you say the whole name Rosenthal and justin Nick Vanity Project. Yeah, I don't know how they do it in girls soccer, but here, at here, at r j VP, we have one way to do it. Um up to you with the mall and said, I'm a big fan r g

v P um, but this is my thing. Please uh Khalil Mack his thing this week was getting five sacks crushed it this week killed the Denver Broncos brock Osweiler one of the best defensive performances by a player I've seen in my lifetime. Uh. And then after the game, Derek Carr, their quarterback, was very appreciative of the moment. That is, Car, do not say things like that. This is another chapter, he said on camera, which bothers me. This is another chapter in the Anthony Jesse Nick book

on things quarterbacks should never say. He joins, he joins Andy Dalton, and he joins, all what's his face from the Redskins, Kirk Cousins, Kirk Cousins, I cannot stand these guys, and I love Car. I like Carl say, but I don't cut Car some slack here, because you can tell that he thinks about that draft every single day. The only way he would be like, I see why it took you before me after five sack performance wre they won the biggest game that went all season. It has

to haunt him all the time. He looks haunted. He looks like a gaunt, haunted man, as I'm haunted constantly by the many creatures that I've run over with my car, all them fish that was what this? What what are you doing to us? Right. It only gets better from here, I promise. That's I mean, that sounds like something I would play inside an aquarium. What's our next headline? Greg? Jay Z was randomly there in St. Louis last week at the Edward James Almost Arena. That's that's not really

what it's called. I wish. Um the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis possibly the second to last game ever in St. Louis. The crowd was electric for the Lions Rams game half half full. Rams got their first win in a long time, and a lot of people were thinking, well, I guess I guess it was the presence of jay Z and he was there for his client who he owns Rock Nation, which is the sports agency now and Todd Gurley is a new client of there, so he

was there for him. And then after the game he he actually came in the locker room and we have a little sound of that. This right here, this is the build on. Man, there's some teammates we go and lose. Hey, let's grind this week. Now, come on, let's go home, and you got We're only jay Z can do it quite like that? Um, this is funny to me. If you see the video. I didn't realize when Greg explained why jay Z is there. To me, it seemed like

the RAMS summoned jay Z like the candy Man. Like when a group of grown men like I'll put their hands together and say the magic words like, uh, let's get it done, Let's get it done. They pause and they say, come on, jay Z, and then jay Z will appear and join your circle. And just notice that the end of the video cuts off. Suddenly. You gotta assume jay Z called killed the whole team. You gotta assume he killed the whole team. That's the price you pay for summoning the candy Man. I just it seems

so random to be like, of all places. But first of all, he was not interested in leading their breakdown. I mean, it was a little hard to understand. Maybe just listening to the audio. Basically was some of the RAMS players were saying, come on, jay Z, like you

break it down. Maybe give us a little a little rap, a little rhyme or something, and then you know, break it down one, two, three, And he was just kind of like in the back like no, I'm I'm jay Z. It's like, never we asked Anthony to do anything a little you know, out of the ordinary, for the for the Vanity Project. It would be like if you had me over to dinner and said, Anthony, why don't you say Grace? It would be about as awkward as asking jay Z to wrap wrap into a into your victory

circle at the end. It seems like a bad move for jay Z though, to be in the rams, Like it's bad for You're always worried about, you know, the Anthony jess Like brand. You've got all sorts of rules about how that happened, uh, And like why would you want to be seen with like one of the most boring losing franchises right now in sports. I'm not speaking out of school. They haven't had a winning record in

a in a long long time. It would be like it would be like Obama, you know, like addressing like the Jaguars special teams before the game, giving them a big pipe like this should be beneath jay Z. Well, if you didn't want to do something embarrassing, then you never should have gone to St. Louis in the first place. I'm town lady seemed to do. I think I'm down long. The NFL paid for that. The NFL paid someone to

do that. Who is that? I don't know if they got people at the studio and how to recording such. They probably bought the music music. I picture. I picture Goodell wearing headphones outside the booth, nodding his head while they break this down. It's been like, all right, guys, that was good. That was it. That was fire. I picture Goodell like the like the guy in the Empire, like like sitting outside the like that's that's fire. It's not there yet. You need passion, You need passion. That

was this is This is only gonna get worse. You know what? Um, what's the next totally inappropriate video you should tape and then post on the internet without telling Anthony? Would should be his reactions while these songs are playing, because they're great, there's a genuine level of antipathy, very angry. I just think about the whole time I listen to the songs, I just think about how long it took me to drive here. The Los Angeles School District l

a unified school district. H. I don't know if you've heard this story, Anthony. This week they had to close down all their schools on Tuesday, UH due to a credible terrorism threat or terror threat. And I heard this news right away. Ellis is not old enough. My daughter name is Elis uh your god daughter, of course, talk about her later in the show. She's not old enough to go to school yet. And she she's going to preschool, so it didn't it didn't affect her, but it was

a it was a big story. Anyone here at work that had kids, you know, had to change their plans, you know, or stay home for the day. Uh. And you know, one of the things that really stuck out to me when I was reading about it, uh, was this passage in the Associated Press story which reads the email threat, which authorities said was quote routed through Germany but likely originated locally, was made nearly two weeks after a married couple in fired by Islamic state killed fourteen.

Wait wait, wait, back up, repeat that last part. This is the part that bothers me about about these people. It was routed quote routed through Germany but likely originated locally. Was made nearly two weeks after a married couple inspired by Islamic states. See that's it, that's Greg. That's a Greg married couple. We need to get these freaks out of our country. Let's try along the Planets. Finally a good one. Yeah, I got to say that. That's pretty great.

I can throw all my old awquacy ds and just play that. That was a couple of good ones. I promise, all right. I mean maybe Goodell, maybe Goodell knew what he was talking, what he was doing. I mean, people grow as a producer. I didn't think of the Beatles

that evolution like throughout the years. Maybe Goodell behind the That's my thing that impressed me as much about Goodell's you know, during the day he's got football stuff to deal with, and then at night he gets in the studio when he grinds, he grinds it out because I mean, you know, all night long, all night long in the studio. I'm just waiting for you to say something that needs to be edited, but I think you avoided it. Let's

talk about what happened in Carolina last week. I'm not talking about the thirty eight to nothing whitewash of the Falcons that the Panthers put on him. About to go sixteen and know, pretty cool story if they, honestly, if they go sixteen and one, it would be the most amazing thing. What lose I mean fifteen like lose the first playoff. No, no no, no. If they if they would go the whole season and they and then they and before the playoffs and they go sixteen and one, it

would be incredible. That would be incredible. But what was also incredible in that game, Tony Carenti, the referee, was ready for the game to be over, and there was a it's a little complicated to explain. At one point, there's three minutes left, there's a fourth in one play, and the Panthers tried to go for it with their backup, get the first down and then then the game's over. Everyone can get home. But they but they were stopped short. And Tony Crenti, who was the official, did not realize

his mike was hot. That's what we that's how we call it in the business, Anthony. If the mic is on and everyone everyone can hear it. His mic was hot, and the television crowd and everyone at the stadium could hear it. And and he was heard saying all we needed was four inches and we can all go home. Let's give him some for that, Mr. Four inches, And he was he was talking to uh, he was talking to one of his other referees, you know, calling him

Mr four inches, referees joshing around with each other. Always like to see that. And don't talk to me about Tony Coarnti, like I don't know who he is. I got a Tony Crerenti poster on the wall. Um. You know my theory about referees, Greg, you know they my thing about referees in all sports, not just football. But they should be allowed to interfere with the game however they like, according to their whim. I think they should leave their mics on the whole time. I want to

hear them breathing with they're running on the sidelines. I want to hear them talking trash on each other. I want to hear them talking trash to players, making fun of other people, talking about, you know, what happened during their day during halftime. And sure, you know, people don't pay a lot of money to watch Tony Carenti yet, but I believe very strong and they will. It's an untapped market, don't don't. That's see. That's a great song. That's got a message that I can get behind. It's

got a sweet beat, goodell. Way to go on that one. I know that's early period Goodell if that's late Goodell, but whatever it is, Uh, he earned his stripes and the when that's why. That's why, ladies and gentlemen, he's the commission. Yeah, this if ever there was, And please don't tweet at the NFL, by the way, that's the

message Anthony gave you last week. If you want to continue this program, don't but out of anchor, don't tweet the NFL out of anger saying where's our r j VP, where's the Rosenthal and justin mcvanity project r j V. But you need to if you if you like something. And I think Goodell doesn't get enough praise for his music, and I think that he should. I think because they haven't really shined a spotlight on it. They've been kind of waiting until he has a few years under his

belt go away. I'm of the mind though, that the lower on the radar that we stay probably the better. Like I don't know if he's gonna quite want the world to be celebrating his music. It's a very serious job that he has, you know, to for it to really get out there and word to get back that his number one podcast on Wednesday's UH is talking about it.

I'll use an example. When Bernie Williams retired from the Yankees, you put out an album of of classical guitar music and it was amazing, and I just thought, Burnie, if you've been playing at the outfield, I would have been a Yankees fan. You know. I think that, Goodell, why hide this? Why keep this buried? Now? People will love you for it. People are going to love you for it. People love Steve Smith. I love Steve Smith even always.

Even though he's a raven, He's the only raven I like him and Rod Woodson historically only ravens that I've ever liked. Although no one will ever think of him as a raven after he retires. I won't anyways. Even though it's been some good there's been good memories. He's a panther to me, and he's a panther for life. And he's one of the best quotes and one of the best guys the NFL scene, I think over the last and even though he's out for this season uh due to injury and may not be coming back. He

was supposed to retire this year. Now it's up in the air. He might try to make a comeback. Even though he's out, he's still providing some great quotes. He's doing some charity work, and so he was talking to some Baltimore reporters this week about the Christmas season, and he had a little message, uh for a little guy named Santa Claus, and he said, if you come down my you come down my chimney in the middle of the night, that's gonna be your last delivery. So hardcore.

I love Steve Smith. I can picture him saying it like kind of sounding mean, but also like a little bit of a smile. I love it. And what I love the most is that I did not know that Steve Smith was such a militant Jew like it just hates hates Christianity in general. I mean, that's not even that's what he said about Santa Claus. There's other quotes about what he said about Jesus. If Jesus ever comes near me, I'm gonna take his head clean off. And

I think was quote that did not happen. You know what, My My even better quote than Steve Smith is what Santa Claus responded. He said, Santa Santa asked, Santa, I said, Santa, what do you think about Steve Smith? Santa Santa replied, you feel you're feeling froggy, then jump? I wish you would. I wish you would. Oh see, here's why I like that song. It is because if you know Goodell like I do, you know he can play the xylophone like a mean mother. Goodell plays the Zilah phone like like

like a centipede, you know what I mean. He's got like he's like he's got a thousand limbs lits to play. And that was just him showing off. I think that was even really a song. I think that was just him messing around before they actually got in the studio, and I just thought was great stuff. I think it's a great B side from Goodell on the Cadets. That's

a fan. I like that. I feel like the Joe the you know, the conversation about each headline gets shorter and shorter just because Anthony wants to get to that next hot track. Oh I don't even know what the hot tracks gonna be. I just get excited when I hear it. I mean, I'm a music fan, all right. I like two things, music and Roger Goodell, and this combines them. Serena Williams not one of those two things, but someone that I am a big fan of. I'm

a huge tennis fan. This is not a bit or anything. Uh, Tennis very ignored in in America these days. Serena Williams on her way if she's not already the greatest player of all time and coming off one of her best seasons of all time this week was named the Sports

Illustrated sports Person of the Year. Well deserved. I was a little worried that her loss in the US Open would have, you know, kind of canceled her chance out for this was an awesome That's the only thing that made a questionable was that was that loss at the end only made a questionable. But she's still won three Grand Slams. I couldn't think of who would be in

second place. Who else could have taken that picture looking great on the whatever you call it, beautiful woman And yet somehow people there was a big contention and a controversy that came up when she was named sports Person of the Year from the horse community, and it was it was vocal, it was aggressive, and there was a lot of fans of American Pharaoh, who was the horse this year that won the triple clock crown right, and they were very upset that Serena Williams won the award

over a horse, which is insane to me. Again, I'm gonna say, I think, as a lot of things are, I believe it's a little bit of racism. I think it's insane that you would want a horse to be Sportsman of the Year. But I think the easy fix here, put Serena on the horse. You put Serena on the horse. Put the horse like having the horse standing on a tennis court, you know what I mean, Like straddling the net and have her holding a racket and then a whip in one hand, like hitting the horse, and then

like hitting a serve with the other hand. I think that would have settled it right away. But I'll tell you right now. But oh my god, oh my god, a centerfold. He would like you'd fold out and it would just be the horse and her. That that's I mean, that's better than the swimsuit issue me and who really

should have been Sportsman of the Year touched. I mean, Airbud's just been so much for so many people for so many years that I think it would almost be like it's almost has someone when someone gets an oscar. They get it for like their body of work. Just for that last performance that would have been h air but on the cover of s I would have been I would have been fantas right. I don't think it's

necessarily just for air Bud Golden Retriever. I don't think it's necessarily um for what was it in Airbud Golden Receiver, Golden Receiver that that would be a much better better title or Airbud Spikes back That was a good one. Touched. See, that's volleyball. The touchdown doesn't apply really. Uh that that's more Brandon's uh, you know, that's his game. Check on from volleyball now to soccer basketball. I'm curious what the

next sport Brandon. I think probably badminton. That's a good one. Yeah. Yeah, Brandon was insistent that I got in the Airbud Spikes back plug. I like that. Are they getting longer? They are getting longer from my request. That sounds like that sounds like Goodell edited to keep Greg's job. But but I'll go with it. Greg Star Wars has coming out on Friday. Yeah. Our last headline Thursday night, right, well Thursday nights. But you know it comes out the night before,

but Friday, and Friday is the big day. But Thursday night is I think Thursday night it's all sold out. But there you are, you gonna be You're gonna be waiting in line. Now I'm not. I'm not going to Star Wars. The whole thing annoys me. Have you seen all the other six Star Wars movies? I have not seen the last three. I mean I saw the first, you know, I saw the three original ones when it was a kid. I wouldn't say they ever grabbed me.

I was definitely not against them in any way. But I wasn't one of those sort of Star Wars kids like you were. You were. We were talking about the Avengers the other night or I think it was Batman Richard and I haven't seen like any I haven't seen any of those movie. You don't like superhero movies, you don't like action like a movies. I could see a dumb action movie. Well, it would have been with you, probably like Pacific Rim or something like that. I can't

believe that when we saw that movie together. I hated that movie. Um. I see every bad any the worst it looks, the better, the more excited I get about it. If Vin Diesel's in, it would be down, Like I saw the last witch Hunter in theaters, no one I see. I would see that more. If it has a potential to be so bad it's good maybe or just kind of fun, Like I would love Mad Max. I'm going

to see that. I know it doesn't in the theater, but like I can never get over the fact that we're adults, like watching other adults in plastic outfits and then people leave there like, oh no, the Avengers, that's

really good. Check out that one. That's going to change your mind when half of the movie are guys running around and like silly, funny outfits like Robert's and people like, oh no, but it's good and there's you know, there's good acting, there's good actually, Like at what point, like is it isn't it okay for adults to just turn that off and and have absolutely no imagination maybe for to get into that, like it's totally ridiculous that they're

running around with superpowers. There's a million books in the world that I'll never get to read. There's a million great movies or documentaries that I'll never get to see. Like, spend your time on that spend your time on the kids. Something I can I see. I thought you were always upset that like people who wanted to go see the movies were dressing up, like people would get like dressed up like Obi wants. No, you just only people. You don't like to have like a high wardrobe budget in

your film. You want all the actors to be wearing their own clothes or just like or just smocks. I could go with a period piece. That would be fine, because it would make sense for the period. But there was never a period where like some super strong guy was picking up buildings and throwing it down because he got too angry and ripped off his shirt like that. That never that never happened, And I know that never happened.

So when I'm watching those movies, I never can get past the fact that that's Mark Ruffalo in a totally preposterous outfit, Like doesn't he feel stupid? Okay, So, like how I can't watch musicals because when they all started singing, I'm like, this is so dumb. You're like that, but for little girls, you're like that version of it. We just can't. You can't set a second sense of wonder and be like, oh, Wow, that's Superman, Like, that's Batman

kicking ass. You can't you can't get into that. No. I mean, if if you could come up with some sort of scenario where it's really well written and it somehow makes sense in the world that we live in, then maybe I could get into it. Happen. I bet if you saw I bet, if you saw Captain America Winter Captain America to the Winter Soldier, you would love it. It It was a great It was a great movie. Um.

I actually had tickets for Friday. I was gonna Star Wars at noon on Friday, tickets in advance, and now I had to give them away because I have to go shoot something that I'm doing as a favor, much like this podcast. And that's that's an interesting song. Um. If you know Goodell as well as I do, you know that people call him the Big Kuna and he's always wanted like a theme song, Like whenever he walks into the room, he kind of looks around a little

bit like why aren't they playing this? And I never realized what he was talking about, what he was being four until I heard that song. That's go and ask the Big Cahuna Big, Yeah, that's a that's a good one again. Goodell knocked it out of the park. A lot of people talk about Producer of the Year for him, and I cannot I can see it happening. I don't know who would go, who else would who als would be there? Maybe she did a great job last week for Producer of the Year. I mean that's a podcaster.

She did a great job on the sound. Remember, Yeah, she was great. I don't know if if she was so good, if I'm just comparing her to what I'm used to, but she was good. Maybe LP from on the Jewels. But I think Udell and what were the chances of us getting Goodell in here to actually produce the podcast just for maybe like our like our super Bowl show? Just to get him in here? Why not? Should be pretty easy, right, Yeah, I'll send him an email.

Actually it's not an email. It's one of those things we like, put a thing in a tube and then you stick it and it flies up. But he he reads everything you see. You maybe see him in the elevator, the escalator, wherever it is that you often run into. I take both, you know, I you know I want to work out, but I also I'm gonna Rush. Our hot take of the Week sponsored by No One UH is provided by Chuck Pagano this week, who I who I really like as a quote and as a as

a guy. I don't know if he's the best coach in the world, but I like the way he sounds. I can tell why his players love him. And they asked him about the probability at this point that he is not going to be the coach of the Colts next season. And his response to that was, they can't eat you. They can't eat you. They can fire you, but they can't eat you. So if the worst thing is a year from now, let's say I'm in boys he playing him with my granddaughters, I'm gonna be fine.

That's true. You know, a lot of a lot of football coaches do get eaten by the owners after their fire. They do. They are eating consumed. It's in the contract. But with Pagano, you just can't eat him, you know what I mean? Edited because I used the C word. See, I can picture Goodell. I can picture them planning he needs a little something extra and needs a little something extra, you know, I mean that's kind of a more of a Marange gee. And then he threw in kind of

the the industrial kind of thing at the end. It's a big trademark of the G Man. Well, the NFL celebrates the span of Carritage month and uh, that was just part of the whole package. I just realized that's why they call him the Big Gahuna, not the Big Kahuna, because it's Goodell with the G that's that get it good? Now, I always feel like an idiot. The T shirts make more sense now. Our Ask Anthony segment through the question

is provided by Craig Are. Uh, if you wanted to find him on Twitter CFR six two four at CFR two six four, would you want to find him on to I don't know. I'm just making sure just to give him a shot up. But no one's gonna be like, well, I gotta look that guy up here. You're you're very angry when I didn't give one of the people shout out. So I'm just making sure. Craig asked what are Anthony's thoughts on a version of the Will Smith Concussion movie

coming out featuring a retired Airbud touch job. Abud, I mean I would. I would be so happy because the movie Concussion does not look good to me, all right, I don't like the way we're talking about, you know, like them in costumes when they put on like a ridiculous accent for the whole movie. Will Smith, you don't talk like that Will Smith movie on the phone. I mean, that's a really good that's a really good accent, Will Smith.

But in a whole movie, talk like yourself maybe in the beginning, have the accent and someone like you know that you see something from someone's point of view where they kind of like make it into his own. You were seen the movie where they talking like they talk in a different language and then all of a sudden they just phase it into to make it happy and make people okay. Then you've not seen as much science fiction as I have. I don't like I don't like

the movie Concussion. But if Airbud, if it was airbud concussion, touch job, which was that's basically the basketball version was airbud concussion, then first of all, I'm gonna say, if a golden retriever has a concussion, how would you know? You know what I mean, there's no protocol. They all seemed like they have concussions anyway, They don't really know what's going on. They can't really follow, they can't really

follow instructions. They would never be allowed to play um I I think the whole movie would be lawyers arguing over which sport did the most damage, because Airbud's played every sport, and every sport he plays involves going face first without a helmet, even though we have the technology to give him a helmet. Like, Airbud tortured himself in front of us for years and we loved it. But now where are we when Airbud needs us? Now? Where's

the applause? And I'd have to say that my favorite part of the movie would be when air Bud kills himself. That would be terrible, everybody. Abud is one of America's greatest treasures. He's following us both on that's following us both on Twitter. Now that's the tragedy. Airbud trying to work a shotgun. So he'd be like the he would be the Mike Webster of of the Concussion movie. Essentially, I think he'uld be like more edited for just the right amount of Airbud like Webster was like two early.

Airbud knows what's happening to him. It's the tragedy of air Butud. I think we were good until then. We have to cut that out. I think you guys can believe it. I won't have I won't have any cuts to my airbut and you know, on and every cut has to just be filled in with touchdown air butud but touched by Wait, no one. No one is going to see that movie. I am not saying this from a perspective of that. I worked for the NFL, and obviously it's an uncomfortable movie for the NFL. I don't

care about that. I just am predicting that movie is gonna tank because who wants to go see a movie about concussions on December. No one wanted to see Will Smith as Muhammad Ali when that came out on Christmas. They're definitely You don't remember remember working for Paul Hall. Yeah, Greg and I our first internship out in l A. We worked for place called Hallway Pictures, guy named Paul Hall who produced mostly movies with with an African American

audience in mind, you know, movies for everybody. But he we would get a lot of movies about slavery. Remember that, we would he would get screenplays about slavery and he wants sat us down. He goes guys, and he was like giving us advice. He wasn't like madis was guys. White people do not want to sit in a movie theater for two hours and listen to how they are. You're like, no slavery movies, no movies with racism, Like,

we cannot have that in the concussion. It's just people sitting in a theater listening to how screwed up they are for watching football. No one is going to want to see that movie. Ever. This is why I keep you around, seeing that I do remember now that you're telling me that it happened. I would have never remember that ever happened. And that was great. Pall was great best.

He was the best. Whenever I hear it, when I see a movie like Twelve Years of Slave, I'm like, do people do not want to sit in a theater and listen? Now? Screwed up? He did make Shaft fifteen nine Miles to Jacksonville edited by Goodell or good And uh, now we have fifty nine miles to Jacksonville, which has gotta be we only heard the chorus there. That's gotta be a racist song. I guarantee every verse is just

a racist. Here is his plan. Hey, here, listen to listen to Williams's album and copy it as poorly as possible. Let's come up with a city, come up with some sort of travel, and then put it together. And that's I want to be Loosten to Williams song I Will not have it one of my favorites. Fift to Jacksonville is like the least romantic thing you could ever say, fifteen miles away from the worst place in the world. All right, we almost we almost forgot our listener of

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be driving around. You're gonna in a car accident. Put your car in your garage, close the door, make sure the heats on, and then just sit back and then just drag it on, drift off. Listening to the Rosenthal and Justin mcvanity project r j VP. All right, let's let's talk. Every week we do movie recommendations or book recommendations. Last week we do recommendation and we talked about what shows we would like to see. This week, it's gonna

be a little bit different. You're gonna do anti recommendation. You're gonna tell me about a movie not to see. Yeah, I I I never walk out of movies. I rarely walk out of things. But I I've walked out of many live shows. I cannot stand plays and musicals um and and I get like a I get a rush out of walking out. It's like I made this decision. I'm not gonna sit here and waste my time anymore. I walked out of Macbeth. I saw McBeth the movie, the FoST Spender movie, Fast Spender movie U Macbeth, and

I was very excited for it. I love the play, uh and I love Fast Spender. I love all the actors involved. And I could not stand it. It is Shakespeare, which I like, but everyone, every single character, no matter what the situation or what's going on, is whispering. Every line is whispered. And it just drove me nuts where I thought, like, you know what, it's I got another hour left in this, I'm just going to get up

and leave. And I got more joy. Did you hear them? Oh? Yeah, you could hear them, But it was just it just it was too much. It was too much that I couldn't stand it. And I got up and left, and I was more. I was happier that I left than I ever would have been. Uh entertained by any movie. Shakespeare. I mean, you're you, You're the title of your first album is called Shakespeare's Such a Shakespeare fan. You were, really, I mean, you were genuinely an addict when we were

in college. Is Shakespeare not? And now it seems like maybe you're falling a little bit out of love with Bill. Yeah, I mean i've kind of you know, I've read the players that I like, and I know them well enough that it's tough to watch. It would take a lot for me to go see Shakespeare. Shakespeare playing now. I still like the quotes, but I can't. I can't sit down and go go front to back. Oh, your girlfriend's wearing a mustache. You can't recognize her. I get it.

That's not a comedy. My my uh Anti recommendation is very specific to adults who are considering going to Frozen on Ice without children, because those people do exist. And if you listen to last week's episode, I talked a little bit about how it was going to go to Frozen on Ice on Friday. You wanted to come badly, just you always come up with big ideas. You also

say you want to dress up as Santa. I thought of my house, but I want to freak out your kids because Santa is kind of scary, you know, hilarious. I don't want to read them out, but I would do. I want to do fun things with with my god kids. Yea, and you keep cutting me out. They had she had her she had her Christmas pageant, school and you didn't tell me about I would have gone to that. I don't have a real job. I got my days free and want to be a part of my godchild's life

and you won't let me. I mean, I could sue you should have. You would have really enjoyed because we're not religious at all, my my wife and I, but she goes to a Methodist church um preschool, and I mean they really do it up. They like are acting it out where there was an actual baby playing the role of Baby Jesus that was walking up, you know, to the manger or whatever. I don't I'm not, I don't know, And I was just thinking, like, that's a lot of pressure on that baby in that spot. Sure,

that's your first role. Yeah, where do you go from there? Baby playing Jesus? I mean nowhere. I mean, if you can find me an actor who played baby Jesus and then went on to become anything other than a damn hair win addict, I'd love to hear it. We've gotten

well off track here. Frozen on Ice went there, had a much better time than I expected, because it's awesome to just spend time one on one with your with your kid and just have sort of a you know, it's not the whole family, it's just me and Alice. And she was so happy, Like during intermission you could just tell her mind was like going to you know, a million miles an hour and talking and so excited. She was excited all day and it was great to

see that. But there was like nothing in me, like people, oh, but did you enjoy the show? And I was like, like, nothing would have It would have nothing would have occurred to me, less than to think about trying to enjoy the Frozen on Ice like a bunch of Disney characters. If you didn't know the story, it makes no sense. They're literally just playing the movie and like the people are dancing around like sort of mouthing the words. Are they playing the movie like on a screen, so you're

watching the movie. You know, it's just like audio from the movie, which they've edited in such a way that you know, they cut out parts of it because it's not I don't think it's quite that long. They cut out parts of it. But it's basically them, you know, doing sort of the things. I'm mimicking it right now while the movie. You just hear the audio and they're and they're doing while they're doing figure skating jumps skating, are they like are you like, oh wow, that was

pretty goods An Axle. Yeah, I mean they do some they do some jumps and whatnot. But I saw some like during intermission, I saw like some groups of adults and some of them were pretty young that did not have children with them. And now all I was thinking was like, you know, Grandma and grandpa better be back with the kids at their seats for us. Those people should be put on a list. No, they were probably highs balls where that was. It was a good Dell's mom.

He kind of threw her bone and said, all right, mom, hopping the studio, I'll let you do one track, one track only. And that's kind of how she sings. It's how she talks. If you ever get her on the phone, it sounds a lot like that. And I have, um, let's uh, let's do some predictions greg uh this week. Again, I have not repeated any of my my prediction buckets. I'm gonna go ahead and say too loudly into the microphone. This week, I've got a new game called put it

in Perspective. All Right, we we talk a lot about football. We don't often get a chance to put it in perspective. So you go ahead, What does that mean. It's just a game, I'm saying. Okay, kind of like check Pagano, he was putting in perspective exactly exactly with the cancer. Um, but this is this isn't all have to be cancer related. Let's just uh, let's just just give me your give me a pick, and give me a pick, and I'll give you one of mine. But I'll put it in

perspective for you. Uh my first pick this week of the Buffalo Bills over the Washington Redskins. Redskins have something to play for. They're fighting for the NFC East title. Bills are basically out of it. But just watch the teams at their peak. The Bills are better team. Bills are gonna win that game. Okay, okay, um, that's not about pick. I'm gonna put in perspective. You know, at first, at first I thought Denver Pittsburgh sounded like a fun game.

The best defense in the league, This is the hottest offense in the league. But then I put things in perspective. Child slavery greg one sixty eight million kids are engaged in child labor and eighty five million of those little whipper snappers are working under hazardous conditions when you think about it like that, when you put things in a perspective. Steelers went big at home. Do you have another prediction? Yeah?

I do. The Green Bay Packers this week, coming off an impressive performance new offensive coordinator rather new play caller Mike McCarthy, the coach took the play calling duties back. Basically said to the offensive coordinator, you're not doing a good job. We need to round the ball more. It worked last week, It's gonna work again against the Raiders. Derek Carr is not coming up to Khalil Mack in the in the locker room this time. Packers win big

over Oakland. Okay, Packers over Oakland, even though at Oakland overdone for last week and Packers are gonna tay. It was a big time upset picked by me last It wasn't big and I I was, I was fully, fully into it. Uh, Greg. The Niners can't seem to do anything right this season, and Cincinnati has allowed to prove on the road this week. But it got me thinking,

elder abuse. Did you know the one intense senior citizens suffers physical abuse from a relative or a caregiver, and the vast majority of these cases go unreported, while the victims suffer quietly and forgotten. When I think about those poor human beings, it really puts things in perspective. And I gotta say the forty Niners pull this one out at home against the Bungles the Arizona Cardinals this week, playing on Sunday Night football, you can't Philadelphia, and it's

in Philadelphia. We're sending one of our great writers, Connor Or, to go cover it, and he thinks he thinks Philly is gonna win this game. But I disagree. I think the Arizona Cardinals are the best team in the NFL. I think they're gonna make it to the super Bowl. I think they're gonna win the Super Bowl, and I wouldn't surprise me if they wound up having a rematch with your Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl. I think Arizona destroys Philadelphia on Sunday Night. I like that, So

I like I like everything you said. They're except Carson Palmer can stay healthy, which is a huge chinks. Uh. Greg Um. Carolina Panthers visiting New York to play the Giants has all the hallmarks of a classic game. The Panthers are chasing history, but the Giants have a little history of their own when it comes to stopping undefeated teams. If you know what I mean, Greg, not your head, Okay, But then I started thinking about how stupid football is.

When you consider of Crystal Matthewses are under the age of eighteen, and the method is the highest relapse rate of any drug. It's almost like it's not even worth trying to quit. The odds are so stacked against you. And when you put it into perspective, looks like the Panthers are gonna keep on rolling in the wind column. Chicago Bears this week coming off a brutal loss Robbie Gold back to back weeks. He's missed a field goal to cost him a chance to go to overtime. It's

been tough in the Minnesota Vikings. They're really in position to make the playoffs, but I don't think they're gonna make it. I think they're gonna stumb stub their toe down the stretch. Maybe they make the playoffs, but they're not gonna win this game. I think the the Chicago Bears pull off a big division upset over Minnesota. Wow, oh, here's my last one. Finally, the beaten and bruised Baltimore Ravens play host to the red hot Kansas City Chiefs.

And even though three d car accidents were caused by texting and driving, and every day in this country alone, nine people are needlessly killed by texting and driving accidents, that'll just make it all the sweeter When Baltimore pulls off the upset against k C, and that was putting it in perspective. The man can conduct an orchestra. Goodell can do anything. When I saw him wearing the white gloves the first time, I was like, what, Roger, Roger, what are those all about? And he said, just wait

and see. And we walked into the next room full blown orchestra and Goodell just starts waving around. I don't even know how it works, but it was beautiful. It was if there is a god. If there is a God, then he answers to Roger Goodell, uh Greg Before we get out of here. We haven't really talked and not we haven't really gotten in detail about about the God kids.

How are how are my God kids? Walker and Ellis. Yeah, I was tough this morning because she was supposed to go to her school and I was supposed to read to her entire class, but she's not feeling very well lately, so I still wanted to. It's called the Mystery Reader, and this week I was the mystery Reader, and that's like a special thing, and I wanted me. I lay on time