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Yeah, I'm not telling you. Okay, smart and smart. Yeah, I know I'm going to get in shape. Here's a good one, here's one that you can use for free, I use this every year.
I'm going to start drinking more water. Yeah, no, I did one year, I did more apple juice, so I had one cup of apple juice. Yeah, I think I'm going to drink more water, I'm finally going to, the boys are getting hydrated in 2023. That's eight, yeah, hydrated, I'd like to be a great year.
Super Bowl abs, yeah, yeah, so let's hop in, best of 2022. He's won one Super Bowl, which we can get into because I have the theory that if you win one Super Bowl, you actually have none. He is a four time MVP of the league, he has an 11 in 10 postseason record, one in four in NFC Championship games. I'm just introducing you.
One of the best quarterbacks ever, Aaron Rodgers, welcome to the show. Thank you. Okay, I don't really know where to start other than like how dare you. Be careful not ask you any questions that aren't threatening.
So I'll start it because we ask everybody this. We forgot about that. I got blind information. What does grit mean to you?
Wait, are you recording this? I know you like to trust the media. I don't trust the media. Yeah, yeah.
Okay, so what does grit mean to you means you're from Pittsburgh? Ooh, okay. That's actually an answer we haven't had yet. It's a great answer.
And it's true. That's what's been ingrained in me since I was a second year player in the league. I've been surrounded by Pittsburgh people, everybody from Mike McCarthy to Tom Clements, to Ben Macadou, Dom Capers, Darren Perry, Frank Signetty, a lot of Pittsburgh people. And all I talk about is just toughness.
Yeah, that is true. Pittsburgh grit. Putting fries on sandwiches. Wait, so are you saying that you missed Mike McCarthy?
I love Mike McCarthy. Yeah, so why didn't why don't you marry him? Listen, all right, let's just let's just cut through it. Put our cards on the table.
If you had to go to jail or prison, which one would you pick? What's the difference? Well, jail is probably a little like a prison. I've said I see, listen, a lot of you had in a correctional facility with like a real jacked up former cop as you're selling it for.
Yeah, from what I've read, I think if anybody in this room, and I don't know some of the other people in here, and Tom as a sketchy past, but I think you would probably be most likely to be able to jail between all of us. Really? Yeah, I have committed some crimes. That's fine.
But I also admit to the crimes I commit where you don't and you kind of screwed around it. But listen, I'm actually very realistic about you as a player. I've always said you're a very good quarterback, very good quarterback, even League MVP four times, right? I do think that you are, you should be in jail or prison and I'm fair to say you get to pick.
I think jail is better than prison, so you can have that and I will meet you halfway. No, OK, all right. Well, I'll work on it. Let's do it.
Let's try a different angle. How close for you to retiring? Be honest, close. Yeah, close is close.
I was thinking about it. Yeah. So Jeopardy, that would have been cool. Yeah, that would have been cool.
Yeah. Did you want that job? I did. I feel like it's a thankless job, though, because that's become one of those shows where no matter who's hosting it, it's almost like the Jeopardy community loves to like nitpick at the host and be like, you're not Alex Trebek.
Well, yeah, that's the case. And I would say for many of the shows that I grew up watching, that is definitely the case. You know, price is right. Nobody can ever be Bob Barker.
Best show ever. But I will say one guy who's transcended all of that and even surpassed Louis Anderson, who nobody thought ever could is Steve Harvey. He's American's host, you know, I mean, that show went through so many different people. And I didn't mean to have one iconic host other than Louie.
You know, I think at least Steve definitely did that. So I was actually like, you know, like I said, I'm actually fair with you. You might think I'm not fair, but when you were saying that you want friends, but I don't want your stuff. What?
My what? We don't think about you at all. You're never going to retire. You're never going to retire.
I just got one follow up. Are you really sensitive about what I said last year after I scored a touchdown? OK, let's get into it. So you said I own you.
Yeah, I fucking own you to the city of Chicago. The city of Chicago has $38.7 billion a debt. So are you going to pay that? That's a good one.
I mean, you own us. No, I was I don't think I was saying that about the entire city. Now, maybe soldier field, every fan who was flipping me off, you know, that negativity that was kind of coming my way was pretty substantial FCC. Fine.
That came fox's way. Do you want that was you get to say fuck on TV. It's supposed to be a 10 second delay. So I think that's out of my hands.
Yeah, I actually own you because I'm a packer's owner. So I own you you own. You own a piece of paper that. No, it's actual value.
It's actually I actually stole it from a goldfish. So a goldfish owned you. Then he died. Then I'm here to share now.
I own you you own big cat. So I kind of I guess I'm here at that debt. OK, do you feel bad for what you've done to my friend big cat? No, I don't like not at all because I don't know if you can flick it.
You know, he's conflicted. It's kind of like Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. Remember, you know, he's like I can feel the conflict within you. And he says his fake statement like, Oh, there's no conflict.
I move on inside. He went to Wisconsin. Yeah, I hate you though. I hate you seen some of my all time best moments on the field, not only at Soldier Field, but also at Ford Field.
So I was a Lions fan for 24 hours, but I went to go help support the Lions fans to try to beat the Packers and then you threw the Hail Mary right in my face directly in my face. Like I said, you've tortured me. They had me on the way over here. They were like, what's the worst moment?
Aaron Rodgers versus the Bears. And I just started listing like a laundry list and it goes on forever. Do you get extra like do you actually relish in the fact that you beat the Bears the way you do every single year? Yes, I mean, I mean, I knew that because it's a great sports down.
You know, if we're beating up on town, it doesn't have great sports history. It's like just another win, but Chicago is Chicago. You get 100 years of Bears football almost, right? You have the Chicago Bulls, like Rebel Bulls fan, you know, back on metal TV where like seven dials, you know, and you had to like hit it just right with the antenna doing, we could get WGN.
So we could watch, you know, Cubs baseball and Harry Curie, you know, that was like iconic and Bulls basketball. So we're like watching Chicago sports. So all right, what's your favorite memory? I'm just going to do this because everyone's going to want to hear it.
What's your favorite memory of being the Bears? What's your favorite Bears all time? Cause there are a lot. I actually like weirdly, I'll tell you mine first, because there's, you know, Randall Cobb was terrible.
The Tennessee Championship game was terrible when you faked. We got an injury with Cleo Mack, that first half and came back weirdly, though, the one that just kills me the most because actually Hank and Dave, we were in Arizona for some college football thing and we watched Sunday night football. It was a game that you put up like, I think you guys were 42, nothing and half. And they just laughed at me for an entire half.
And they're like, how do you watch this? That one hurts. I think weirdly the most. So what's your favorite?
Go ahead. Well, that one hurts because it was 42, whatever at half time. And I'd thrown six touchdowns and the record is seven. And Mike was, and Mike was going to sit me and I was like, huh, how about one more possession?
He goes, okay, one more. So we got down to the nine yard line and threw it three times, three completions. So then don't break. Yeah.
So we went up 45, nothing. Yeah. All right. So what's your favorite?
Probably 2013. Okay. Only because I came back from my collarbone, Randall came back from his knee injury. And then somehow it was for the division, you know, after so many things happened, you know, for us to be able to be in it.
And I believe that Detroit was still in the week before then they had a bad loss to somebody. So then it came down to like our game. And, you know, neither team I think was great that year, but we're still playing for a home playoff game and I started off. I threw a pick the Chris Conti on a roll out and I'm like, shit, like, is it going to go like this?
You know, tonight, and then I threw another pick to, to Jennings, and I think the second or third quarter. And then we had that weird flooky pep, you know, cause a fumble and boy can picks it up and nobody's doing anything and he runs in the end zone. And on the last drive, we converted three, four downs, you know, fourth and like inches on a dive play, a fourth and three and a throw to Jordi. But the last one was pretty amazing.
So what this is terrible. I actually hate that I'm doing this. This is actually my least favorite thing I've ever done coming here right now. But you look good.
Thank you. No, I mean, sometimes, no, I mean, you know, I know that we've all struggled with our own issues and I know weight's been kind of up and down for you. But I feel like you don't watch anything I do. No, I just heard.
Oh, OK, you heard about the way. All right, I'll be honest. I like you. I don't like what you've done to my friend because you probably Asian, like 30 years.
Well, you're watching fans. So you don't care. Yeah, but you don't watch anything. Right.
I'm a nihilist. OK, like I'm convincing myself to root for Carson once this year. That's how bad things have got. I mean, I'm actually commander's fan.
Don't forget about that name change. But I do like you. I noticed that you had almost like a significant change in perspective over the last few years. You become it seems like you're having more fun from what I've seen.
You're enjoying your teammates. You're enjoying the process. You're enjoying what you get to do while you're still able to do it, which I think is very cool. And you have a good perspective on like where football fits into your life.
I think a lot of people don't have that, especially from the outside. So I guess my question is when did you first try Ayahuasca a few years ago? Yeah, yeah, straight from the source. What source would or I don't think I'm going to be the source Amazon Amazon.
Yeah. Better in person. Thank you. That's another thing I admire about.
Yeah. You're totally go ahead. You're like, listen, if you want to put a needle in my arm and inject whatever you want in there, I'm totally on board with that. I can never do that.
People say, oh, I'm a musician. Vaccination. I did. I said a lot.
Yeah, you did. How many people do you think you killed? What's your camera? I'm a grandmother.
So just do grandmas. I mean, I know you guys are fucking right. I don't find that part funny. I really don't.
Oh, shit. I'm going to get Johnson. No. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Can I ask you a non condescending, a non condescending way, a question? Yeah, I'm going to talk about that. That intro question was a little bit condescending. It was rhetorical.
Yeah, OK, it truly is it hard for you as a bears fan that some of your greatest moments are cheering against me when the bears aren't playing. OK, good question. Very good question. No, it's actually great because what I've told everyone is I'm very realistic about the bears, not a great franchise.
Just don't do the right things for the most part. Every year I look forward to the playoffs and the game that you're going to lose. And I've told this story on air. But like when you guys lost San Francisco this year, we were watching the game in New Jersey and I drove back to Brooklyn, Bragg, and I listened to Tousher ESPN Wisconsin for three hours.
I sat in my car at my, I arrived home. It's a 20 minute drive. I'd ride home. I sat for three hours listening to callers, be like, blow up Lambo, get 12 out of here, we need to build a dome.
This team isn't built for the outside. And it was that was the highlight of my NFL season. And I have no problem saying that because I know I'm a loser. That's the best part of coming to grips with the fact that I'm a loser.
So yes, watching you lose in the playoffs is my that's my Super Bowl. And I've won a lot of Super Bowls. If you do it that way more than you. We're going to get right back to the show.
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We are at Reiner Sol's house. It is Reiner Sol, Mark Titus, PFT, myself, Life Episode 2. Yeah, there's definitely there's a lot of times where I'm like, you know, especially like on the weekend when I'm, you know, doing a lot of parenting, I'm like, I miss the dude who can just go and get drunk at a bar at like noon. But then you don't really miss him, but you do.
What is the biggest difference between having the two kids? Not emotionally. Cause like, I mean, your answer is going to be like, you know, I love more blah, blah, blah. That is the truth, but that's one of those ones that, like, if you don't have kids and I don't, I'm not shaming anyone, but like when you do have a kid, you're like, Oh, fuck, this is completely different than anything.
Yeah, I have a dog. I get it. So love you can't understand. What is the biggest difference day to day life or like the thing you've had to cut out that you didn't anticipate having to cut out and having kids?
It's like there's no, there's like very little time where I can just do nothing. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like there's very, there's like maybe it's like Friday night and then like maybe like an hour or two on like a week night where I can literally just do absolutely nothing.
That's the part where you can't like, I can't just like sleep till 11 and be like, I'm going to do nothing on Saturday. Yeah. That's, I'd say that's the biggest time thing. But it's, you know, it is what it is, right?
Yeah, I don't have kids. I actually think you should, but who me or all of us? Everybody. No.
Yes. Yes. That's actually a funny, well, it wasn't funny for me at the time, but I remember being like, well, fuck, like, I guess how am I going to do this? Like, this isn't going to, this is going to, like, can I go on Thursday?
Still cut off Wednesday, like, will it be a custody thing? Because I'll definitely like not have 50 50. I'm 21 in school and like, we have a dog and there's six of us so a kid can't probably stay with us that much. So anyway, you know, look, it didn't happen and here we are.
So all right. So we do have Hank. So this is going to air right before he has to give the speech, but he's giving his first best man speech ever next weekend at his brother's wedding. So he asked for some advice.
And I think I think we've all done it at least once a couple of times. So like, what, what, what is the expectation, Hank? I do think there is like a expectation for me to put on a show. Definitely like the outgoing one.
Yeah. Always got in trouble and stuff. I feel like, I feel like there will be some expectation similar to you. You know, my family's expecting a show.
So what do we mean, the show? They're like, they're like, they're like, oh, like, you know, like this, this speech is coming, like something's coming. No, I know that that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's what we're talking about. Yeah.
The reverse is my brother's very shy, like a little more guarded. If it was reversed, I don't think they were expecting a great speech. Yeah. No, Hank, you like, like you have a job, you have a lifestyle that you're in front of a camera sometimes and talking to microphones and stuff.
So I think people go to a ton of weddings and you see people get up there. They're nervous. So anytime it's a situation where you know someone might not be nervous to publicly speak, you're like, oh, thank God. This is not going to be the one fucking speech I've heard.
Yeah. So then it kind of sets expectation. Yes. People are expecting it.
Yeah. No, you're, you're absolutely right. I, so I have a couple high level thoughts that you guys can go off with, but I already told Hank, I think this, I think you have to keep it like five minutes or less. I think anyone who goes longer than that is people don't mean every woman.
Yeah. Well, I didn't say that you did. Yes. I did say that I was like, I was like, make sure you go out the science backs.
Well, that's true. What Ryan just said, you got to remember that you're not the start of the show. You got to remember that the stars of the show are actually the, the bride's dad and then her made of honor. They're going to go super long.
Yeah. You're probably going to go on after the made of honor. Your job is like, people at that point are looking around like, when can I go back to the bar? Yes, three to five minutes.
The biggest thing though, you can't have notes. Yeah. You have to speak from, I think the notes make you, the guy who goes up with, I've seen some really bad ones, they're not as seasoned as you. I think one friend that's listening right now that's going to know exactly.
I'm talking about his wedding, but he brought like cue cards and it was, he forgot to mention the bride, which you can't, you have to mention the bride, have to, but I think no notes is the way to go. I think you have to prepare notes and then don't use it. Correct. You can't, you can't.
The worst thing you could possibly do is be the wing of guy. No, you can't be the wing of guy and then that is, that is an absolute disaster. So, but it's like, pair of the speech, but then don't, if you're up there, reading notes. Yeah, you lose.
All right. Cause everyone's like, wait, you need notes for this? Like you got to be, it's got to be, because people will be like, Oh, wow, you really spoke from the heart. It's like, well, I did practice it, but yeah, right.
I think it's a pretty simple formula for the most part. Yeah. Is there a formula of like, you know, old anecdote from your kids? Yes.
Yes. He taught me. Yeah. Yes.
Bride. He's a better person than me. That's actually a good one to be like, you know, like I've always looked up to him. Yes.
Yeah. And then a bride, but you know, he's out of it. Yeah. No, don't do the, don't, don't do the, the one thing you can screw up and a lot of people do it is they do like the bride add on at the end.
They're like, everything I said about you, like, and it's your, your wife too. Like you got to have a story about the bride. Yeah, the way to get around that is you, you talk, you find the things about your brother that you appreciate about him that you don't have, and then you can say, like, this is what I've always looked up to him for. And then at the end, well, then also include one story about time you got into trouble and then everybody will laugh at that and that not too much trouble.
Yeah, exactly. You have to edit it a little bit. You can't be like, oh, I remember that time that he got busted with a hook or an acopole. No, you got to be like, you remember that time where we, you know, we were on a road trip together or something like that, and you made the best place like joke around a little bit about stuff, but don't make it too serious.
And then at the end, say something about how she's so much better than he is because that gets a laugh, too, where it's like, I always thought that you'd marry well, but I had no idea that you would keep your coverage by this far. You know, like something nice. I hate jokes like that. Yeah.
That one stuff. I'm just saying like this is how you got into it say that she's better than them a little bit. See, I think you got to, I think you have to add a story about her that doesn't, like you can't, the mistake you can make is like you say a poll speech, you do four and a half minutes, and in the last 10 seconds you're like, oh, and also goes for her. You have to have a story about her.
Or you can say Ryan. Did he ever tell you a story about meeting her, there's got to be something in there about that he met her. It had to be a moment that he shared with you about how he cared for her. That's what I did for my brother.
I also have a total zag because you said you wanted to give him a show and that your brother's quiet. Ooh, I like this. It's a dying art ventriloquist. Yes.
And you bring one out and you say it to your brother and you talk to him and ask him questions and tell stories. And because he's shy, you don't even have to be good at it because he doesn't want to talk. He's in front of all these people. And that's how you play it off.
You give your speech through a ventriloquist. Dummy that you're not even using. Just talk about that. I got another one for you think that could bring the house down because your close personal friend Tom Brady has some time on his hands.
Get him to give him a message. Play that. I do those for free by the way. You do?
We're still will do it for him. Yeah, that's probably going to bum people out. You know, when you're younger, a lot of the stuff that you're going through when you're younger is kind of like your own insecurity. And I always try to remind this to like people and say, okay, just remember like the other person you're talking to and all the insecurity that you have about yourself, pretty good chance they have just as many.
So just, you know, go up and talk to the hot girl. Right. You know, there's a moment where she doubts herself and maybe that night. Yeah.
You know, who knows. I think it's like a good rule to kind of operate with where you're like, you know, just remember like the stuff that you second guess yourself, you're not the only one doing literally everybody else. And even though they're trying as hard as they can to project that they're not having any of those things, just like you do, just admit that like, all right, this guy probably gets a weak spot. Let's go.
It's absolutely right. You're right. But I also love that the statement boils down to like, you can fuck a really hot check if you try. Don't give up on yourself.
That's a little aggressive. I mean, you know, relationship with your family. But you're saying it links into what you said and what I'm saying about caring. Like a lot of times you, when you're younger, you're like, I don't care about this or this is cool.
Yeah. You don't want to open yourself up to have someone be like, Oh, you like that? Yeah. It's the same thing too as, you know, where I went to school, you know, Vermont, smaller school, for whatever reason, you know, there's a ton of Boston guys, a ton of Fairfield County guys.
And then we'd always be like, why are you here when you're from Arizona? But all we did was make fun of each other. That's all we did. So like the only way to keep up, not that this is like, Oh, wow, that was the college we're college guys made fun of each other all the time.
But like, I remember carrying it into our 20s and I would just be like, ripping on everybody all the time. And then you're like, wait, you know, it was probably not a great time to hang out with. I don't know if it was, it was just what I was used to and I remember talking to my buddies and be like, Hey, do you have like weird moments at work and a couple of guys were like, Oh my God. Like I just stopped doing that a couple of years ago.
Like I always got fired. And what I'd say is that there are these moments, you know, like when you're in your 20, you think you have, like this is a bigger thing, like I'll use the hangover theory on this one. Like when you're hungover, you know, big night with the boys and it goes away like on Tuesday, it fucking goes away. It goes away.
It doesn't feel like it's going to go away. And you know, like take a foreign language, you know, maybe I finally learned an instrument this year. I'll get back on the dating apps. And then by Tuesday, you're like, what a fucking weirdo I was with 36, right?
What was that? Right. You read a poem or something? You fucking weirdo.
Yeah. So it goes away. I say that you can expand life out that way because all of these little moments, all these little things, and I think this is, you know, we're all kind of around the age and obviously all of the new guys, but you start to learn like almost none of it ever fucking mattered. None of it.
All of it kind of goes away. And that's the one thing that I still try to now that I know that when I'm dealing with something in the moment, you're like, you know, this is going to mean almost nothing. Like this is going to be completely insignificant, even though you're consumed by it today. You know that later on, this will have meant fucking dick and it's hard to learn that until you go through it enough.
But I would just keep hammering it over and over again. Like as you're aging and you're getting a little older, it's a great feeling when you start to be like, hey, I don't want to be an asshole everybody, but I also, I'm like, not going to worry about this stuff as much because it's not as significant on the path of the bigger stuff. Yeah. The world keeps on.
When you realize the world keeps on moving, it's a freeing thought and you're like, oh, this is not. Yeah. Not everybody is thinking about me. Nobody really cares.
Do you want to do any little life assets? I don't like that lesson. Yeah. Yeah.
So start us off PFT. Okay. So I've got three or four years to put my clothes away at hotel rooms. When I know I'm going to be staying there for like four days, three or four days, I don't live out of the suitcase.
I set up the kitchen sink or the bathroom sink with like all the shit that I need out there. Never done it. Never unpack. Oh, it's great.
And then you call the hotel home. Like let's go back home. It does. It feels really good.
You wake up and in the morning you go to your drawer and you pull it out and you're like, I know what everything is. It's like a little mini home. Hang up your shit. Although I got.
I had one for bachelor parties be do get up early one morning and clean the whole place. You're the king for the whole weekend. There's that one guy. If you get a house, if you make the effort because it's always that like who's cleaning and everyone knows.
Yeah. So who doesn't do anything. If you're just like one morning, you're like, all right, I'm getting up and like everyone's going to get up and they're going to see the whole place is clean. You now have like basically checked off your I've done something to help the crew here.
So expand on that. I think just the the every so often grand gesture in general is a great play. Right. The like selectively picking up the table.
If you're someone who doesn't have a lot of money and you know that you can't you can't not pick up the tab every single time. One time when you're at like a mid tier restaurant, you're not out of the really fancy place with all the friends. You're like, you know what guys? I got this one.
And then they'll remember it forever. Yes. That was a trick I pulled with my rich friends once they got to the NBA and then come back. I would try like once every like two years, I would pick up the tab and they would all look at me like, what the fuck?
And then I feel like in my mind, I position myself on like all those other mooches over here. Like I'm trying. I'm doing my best. And I don't know.
You know, it also is like if you are in a spot where you've made, you know, some money and you have people you're working with, you haven't like doing the little things of like picking up lunch doing shit like that. Like it actually it matters. You know what I mean? And like people, I also am a big believer in like if you do, if you're in a spot where you're whatever job you're in and you have people that do a really like good job helping you be better, you have to make sure that you take care of them.
Like I heard a story once that like Saban just like he has everyone over his house. Like everyone literally like ballboys like everyone who has anything to do with the program and like everyone gets like a huge Christmas bonus and it's like from like every person down the line. And it's like that type of thing. Like if you have a, if you're in a spot where you have the ability to do that, it means a lot to people and you don't want to be the guy who doesn't do that.
So I noticed that we're talking to you that had like Matt LaFloor over and he thought he's going to a party. Brian Kelly. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if I'm changing my opinion in everything.
Yeah. you're more dismissive and I'm like look we just spend all the time talking about how hard it was to make friends and meet friends when you're older and stuff and some of you fucking guys want to argue over $75 from a fucking bachelor party weekend where you're ready to and I get like hey there is a guy in the group that always thinks he's winning by not kicking money and fucking sucks and the only thing you can do is just keep hammering him on it when he keeps doing it all the time and that's his role in the friend group but don't be so like ready to go on some of the money stuff where it's like you realize like some of the stuff you guys are gonna lose lifelong friends over 50 years 75 you know look if somebody keeps doing it like I said I can understand it being an issue but I can't believe how many emails we get and you're just like alright you want to start cutting guys off because a happy hour after fucking at 26 years old go ahead but you're gonna regret it yeah I would I would encourage people to call for more meetings now they've been out in LA for a couple years people love fucking meeting I would say you should take that back to like the Midwest Midwest sensibilities maybe maybe northeast Pacific Northwest American Southwest yeah turquoise yeah if you're at the office you're 23 start asking people to meet you know you do feel important when you got a meeting yeah yeah yeah I'll still never forget this one intern like emailed Greenie this guy was out of control this is most aggressive intern I've ever seen in my entire life he would just start emailing guys on the corporate email to be like would like to set aside some time with you for like 30 minutes and Greenie was like do I know what and he would like leave the voice acting why do I have a lunch at 10 45 with that right did I agree to this what and he was so confused and happened to vampel vampel one time was like who the fuck is this guy this intern was just running around he has smart just booking me and he would actually like he would phrase it in a way that was vague right so it was like do you want to meet because I know it'd be like was hoping to follow through on the time I'd set aside you're like what the fuck is going on so again that guy went a little too hard with it and then what's everybody kind of figured him out of here talking to because it was like hey I don't think Chris Fowler's gonna meet with you anytime soon I don't Chris probably wouldn't meet with me but don't be afraid to maybe you know like to follow up on something you said here and take that LA sensibility and apply that to other places I like that off of that to you my favorite thing to do and I think most people know this but like maybe like first week of December is the perfect time to be like let's touch base after New Year's and just want to push everything like you can start that like the day after Thanksgiving like like you know what let's say this for afternoon years Hollywood doesn't do vacations they shut down like season like hey like hey can you get this in and I'm like why you'll have to eat like well you're gonna pick it back around February 12th what the meeting is good though it really does make you feel important we like some meeting yeah let's talk about this I can meet we're gonna get right back to the show order up thank you no no no no come on this is not happening here's a shot off the pipe they're there gosh it's everywhere are we covered for this don't know don't worry a licensed TD insurance advisor can help you get the right insurance coverage to protect your business it's how we're making insurance more human all right back to part of my take okay we now welcome on a very very very special guest long time coming it is the Schwam boomer Chris Berman you know the natural thing that you would say if somebody was doing the squield big play would that would be a whoop situation yes no no no no rumblin stumbling stumbling and fumbling would be part of the whoop came from Barry Sanders okay so that it came as a whoa there's no other way to describe Barry's I think his ankles were bionic Tommy and I both think this because he there's no way you could swivel as a human being like this speed and so that was whoop that was more Barry's moves that come from Barry Sanders uh-huh he's he's the impetus for that and now it's anybody that kind of does that yes now it because the sound I get stopped all the two people like fifteen twenty or what let's say but it's so now I moved it to this wheel pick it was started with Barry Sanders and of course on the March action type of player you would do it with but that's where came from out of respect for Barry so what is the secret to a good book I've heard you I've heard you hit somewhere was one of the options in the kitchen yes left it was like down at the right somewhere it was against the Falcons it was like early like early October or something you let out this whoop that I swear oh yeah it bounced off the back wall the studio gave back to you yeah I heard it twice and I was inspired by his leap like he took a five-yard it was like a someone trying to do the pole vault you know in the Olympics like you run a long way to take this leap it wasn't just a little leap because the tackle went low I don't even think the tackle went that low he's a little guy yeah so he went I it was like the first it was at halftime right yep so it's the first real whoop of the season that I could crank out on a half time play I do think of that every now the early of the year let's let's put more ingredients in it a little bit yeah warm up the pipes right yeah yeah warm it up first yeah I was not the first you got a prior two minutes in right yeah so do you like open up your chest is it from the diaphragm is it just like McKishik did I took a running leap yeah it is I mean even you doing those little whoops for berry Sanders like we do it but when you do it it's like oh yeah you're doing it you like it yeah but the way you just do that the little like it's not the same it's only you we also love the the raiders I try to do the raiders when we run the scores back I do as much as I can do a good job I've heard it thank you so much that means the world to me but when I do it I feel like it takes my my entire body about two minutes to recover from it I don't know if that's does it hurt yeah well that really is it's again it's taken on a life of its own but everybody loves that and Scott of course van Pelt runs it I mean yeah he has my best couple and he has it on a button even if they're not playing I think he presses it and they it was really an ODAO Davis yeah who really liked us out this is Al's voice in the 80s and I met him for a couple times you know why I root for ESPN because you had the underdog just like that like okay yeah the raid is never winning all the time then of course you heard him all the raid so that's really an ODAO so a lot of these are O2 berry howl so that but the raiders now everybody loves the law that again that's great that's a Louis Tiant wind-up yeah that's a yeah I'm right yeah I'm having a ship a water and a half an hour yeah so I'll be ready the next time yes so alright so the whoop the raiders we had to circle the wagons because that's I mean that picture to of you holding the big bills Jersey well and we're we're we're honorary members of bills mafia we right on the above low we love Josh Allen but there's just something about no one circles the wagons like the buffalo bills it just well that team in the late 80s and 90s were I mean they never won a Super Bowl but they only want to go to four straight to say no more and it's all the famers and obviously Jim Kelly and Andre Reed and Thomas and Bruce Smith and you know they may have others and Cornelius men it was a great player we go on Marv's Marv leaves in the Hall of Fame Bill Pulling one of great executives of all times in the Hall of Fame Ralph Wilson the owners in the Hall of Fame and it's Buffalo right you know it's it's other than Green Bay it's about the smallest now I mean it's the bills and this is the city in western New York they asked for nothing I started picking them in 88 they were horrible for the whole decade they thought I was out of my mind they started 4-0 and I got to the championship given loss of the Bengals I actually thought these Bengals except they've now gone to the Super Bowl reminded me of the 88 bills like I wasn't sure they were gonna get passed Kansas City but they've already announced we're here for a while like we're really good yeah you know I actually said that so I forget what game it was and I just cranked it out on prime time no one you know looking right in the camera no one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills and it became a war chant even the years they were terrible I mean up until Josh here and coach McDermott et cetera not a lot of great right but it just became so much fun and I don't want to do this but I guess I will tell the story since you brought it up what so if you're a rock and roll singer let's say because I saw Billy Joel in Fenway and then you're singing piano man everybody knows the words right he played it really play me play all these places any arena and you get halfway through and then you lay out and you hear if you're really totally hear them sing every word anything oh my oh my god like this is so when Thurman Thomas had his number with tires only about four years ago on a Monday night they asked me Thurman did what I come up in the pills it's a quick I'm gonna speak real quick someone else can say some for a minute therms gonna speak it's halftime and I got up for 20 seconds I'm again a place to pack they're playing the Patriots when the Patriots will be done a lot this way they played well that night Buffalo they weren't ready yet you know Josh was a rookie okay so I think yeah he was um and I said okay Buffalo you know what we're going here we're doing it on three and like this in a 70,000 I went no one and I stopped and I heard shark off the lights like the buffalo bills I mean wow that's Billy Joel singing piano man it was really my relationship in my 43 years the relationship that I've ended up by accident because I'm on ESPN and the bills and it's Buffalo and the players the team the organization the players and the city 30 years later it's the most rewarding relationship I've gotten through my job they're great people yeah we've they're great people we've experienced nothing yeah we every time we go it's like this place one thing I wrote down that I have to bring up we're a big fan of yours all around big fan of your golf game as well I love the wide brim hats has has anybody ever told you like maybe don't wear a gray shirt when you're gonna be out in the degree yeah sweating I sweated at 12 okay so it's I sweated a long time ago before I was well I'm better I you know I lost a lot of weight now but I mean again it's the Titanic losing a few decades so they're floating right out there right now so um a great I never worked right no it's always colorful but I mean if it's warm it's not you got a carnation shirt you know or a or a nice sharp purple shirt look I it's what if you've ever come to my studio which now I mean I'm only but back in the day three hours you know countdown even in September the camera people had the word jacket you can hang meat in there yeah because I sweatin it a glue I run pretty hot too no I do a shirt yes right yes they do that it gets it's like a magic I post it whack and that would be a blast always but I wear black shirt but not on a golf course 88 yes can we tell you some funny that you probably have no idea about it's a very weird you're gonna think we're stalkers your suit cleaner in Connecticut now had a signed poster of the grandfather we have that in our studio he gave it to us I can send you as many as you want we have that one from your dry cleaner no his son is a huge fan of ours and he said I've had this my dad's done the swam suits for 30 years I want you guys to have it it's sitting in our studio it's not funny every single time you know come in it's right there I have I have plenty of them they supposed to print 400 20 years ago and I thought there's 4000 so I haven't got rid of all those okay yeah but that guy here I mean your dry cleaners got a great fun we made a look at a knuckle ring there's everything you know ish yeah but your dry cleaner he's probably had to do some work with sweat oh yeah and some was like just sorry I tried my best all right so this has been incredible we got a wrap I mean we don't want to take you know your entire life here but we got it we got to do your best nicknames what are your best nicknames what are the ones that you you know at the end of the day it's like oh that one because we have some of yours that we all I want to hear those but so we're gonna football whatever you want to do because that's kind of I mean so baseball a lot of them now will predate even so much you guys because I'm going to the ones that because the 80s I did 10 sports centers a week we all did Bob Lee did Tommy Mies did John Saunders days John's birthday we lost in what five years ago six years ago great you know we could go on all the guys we we did 10 shells a week doesn't make us heroes with hey we're we're network but we have one fourth of the staff so you okay to do the next show I did a list yeah we got another one go ahead so it based all the time so the best I'll go right to that bird my love because that's be home by love yeah because you don't have to see the lot of these nicknames are you don't have to know a he's a pitcher he pitches for the twins or the pirates or whoever see he has a curveball kind of an all thing you are kid and you heard from your parents be home by 11 and as a parent you've told your kid be home by 11 you don't have to be a genius to figure these out right so that's probably the best I mean the early ones are baseball hosts a can you see cruise Julio won't you let me take you want to see cruise a lot of them were from rock and roll vulnerable haze a couple that's stuck and I just saw him last month crime dog with griff yeah he that stuck with him doggy like he's every player calls him dog he loves he's such a good guy certainly borderline all the famer didn't touch a thing and he hit almost 500 home runs by the way but Chuck no blocks my new kids on knob lock yeah even like the two even when he didn't make the throw correct out yeah oh no I'm spade Roberto remember the Alamar that history yeah all that one I mean food there's a movie blame it not food but George Taco Bell I mean that we're like food everyone knows the Taco Bell is you don't have to know he plays for Toronto that's the that's the best part of them and it's did I really hear that and even if I get a chuckle out of it yeah even more so what do you have so one of my favorite baseball ones is Miguel Tata very good see I'm gonna I don't forget these yeah how do they come to how do they fall right I mean it should be right should be cliff the best oh man so I'm going too far back I'm trying to think we can go to football to yeah so football the best ones are those you can deliver under the highlights you can sing with them we've resurrected Lito Shepherd this year with Deebo you know which is boss gags and Deebo whoa it's a Lito shuffle one of the great wind-up songs of all time that we used to do for Lito Shepherd defensive back Philadelphia the GM of the Niners John Lynch texted me like a month ago Deebo whoa whoa whoa like you know and I've known when she since I played of course but so when Steve Bono would go back to pass and complete it you could go to do I got you bet on completion right yeah you could go so Elvis Gerback again these are but there's plenty right now um if Elvis went back and was gonna be sacked caught in a trap you know I mean you can I mean okay Mark Bulger remember him with the Rams well that's a scarecrow right so he go back to bet that it did it did it if I could only find a receiver you know and then the kickers had a lot of them including David green acres and at the vet they used to play the theme from the TV so but oh so now and a guy that should be a head coach is Eric sleeping with be enemy yep you know like he should be and that was really Curtis my favorite Martin Marcin was a TV show obscure good for this audience do you remember Steelers primarily fullback Chris Mahofala yes funal too mafala yes we called him Chris Fermatou bad mafala and Tommy would try me in there's I came out of shaft it was with like you know kitty-dee-dee we throw those into the we'll throw in like the teens going back with I know that. You're absolutely right best. No, I'm so now.
Okay. Now. I have. Yeah, we're missing a couple of my apps over here.
Who's in the Super Bowl? Who's in the Super Bowl? So I'm going to go mix and match. It's okay.
It's okay. I'm thinking. It's bangles. I can give you one for the bangles.
Go ahead. Please. So Jobaro throws a pass to Jamar Chase. Burrow and Chase hide and seek.
It works. Hide and seek. Hide and seek. Or you could go.
What do we do for Jobaro? Do we do like January? All systems. Yeah.
Which is what it is. Think about it. Yeah. Two years ago, we won a national title and now we can win the Super Bowl.
Yep. Two years ago, he sat in the box with us at the Super Bowl. Yeah. Now he's playing it.
He might win. It's crazy. It's not good for him. But why am I?
I mean, we have. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The tube of missile crisis. Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, there's all. Go ahead. Well, I mean, Jake Toulomb is one of my all-time favorites.
Say like come and you got it the long. Yeah. That's right. That one's and then John Kittena was my other favorite that you want to do.
Well, yeah. Well, go ahead. Yeah, I know. I love those.
Look, a lot of them, a lot of the kickers. And I think it was with Jeff Feigles, Jeff Philadelphia Feigles, which is like so, it's so easy, but it's just so funny to say because he's playing for the Giants and you're like Jeff Feigles. But when they work when they're from where they're from, like Royce Clayton was a shortstop with the Giants. Royce Oroni Clayton.
But Jeff, not Feigles. Jay Feeley, who TV now? Yeah. So I would do the who for that one.
I'm a long ones. See me? Feeley. You like to sing, right?
Yeah, when we do our boxing. Yeah. That's a hard song. It is.
Bob Seager and you and Lewis and others, Stephen Stills, like it's really cool that what you guys are finding. Yes. You have your hardcore audience that's sports and all that. You meet people from all over America, Canada, etc.
white, black, old, young, who like, hey, we're football fans. Yeah. For example, and sports has allowed me and us to meet you guys. Rightly.
You like football? You like football? I like football. I like football.
Let's have a meal. You want to start football? Some spread. From a commercial.
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And we have added the biggest nerd in the office in nicks or any hot seat Jake. So it's going to be an incredible experience. We're going to start fresh because we know we've done a bunch of Dungeons and Dragons episodes where like the first hour of the episode was just recapping what happened in the last one. So we're like, fuck it.
Let's just start fresh. Let's do an extended version all in one episode. I am so excited. Tim, take it away.
Absolutely. It's so good to be here. Great to be back. It's been a while.
And I'm so excited for us to dive back into D&D. I think it's also going to be great that we're starting fresh. The adventure that I have planned for us today is a classic. It is known as Lost Minds of Fandelver.
It is one of the most well known D&D adventures and it is in fact the one that we started playing but only did a little bit of before we turned upon each other and killed each other. So now I think we're actually. No, it's like three years. That was so long ago.
Absolutely. Are you going to drink those beers or are they just for show? I actually should. They're going to have you on my head.
Go ahead. Drink them. Crack them up. Yeah.
Okay. Hangs crack in the beers. Let's do it. Absolutely.
And in fact, our story begins with a little bit of drinking. Oh, here we go. At dinner and drinks are being served because of course they always are being served at a dwarven merchant's house. We're at the home of one Gundren rock seeker.
He's a dwarven merchant, one of the three rock seeker brothers and the first thing is they serve in his house. We're always the drinks first. Food second. It sounds like a crack head.
It'll cause me. Okay. It's strong. And I'll just say that Wayne, the Bard, just a reminder as to who our characters are.
Wayne, the Bard, you are also a dwarf. So I'm going to say that's probably how you know Gundren rock seeker already as a dwarf. In the city of Neverwinter, you are part of that dwarven community. Right.
But like, it's not because I'm short, right? No, it's not just because the shores tend to congregate together. They're close knit families and plans and they are always hanging out together. A lot of dwarves in Neverwinter know each other and are part of this thriving community.
Boys are back in town. Absolutely. And norm the barbarian. That's me.
You are a human. And in theory, in the thriving city of Neverwinter, you're even rarer than a dwarf because most of the barbarians live out in Neverwinter woods, which is full of like werewolves and witches and all kinds of monsters. You're making maybe one of your rare visits to the city of Neverwinter mainly because Gundren rock seeker has offered you money for a job. I'm like the kid that bleeds your report post, like the seventh grader who's seven feet and he's just dunking on a bunch of like five foot kids.
That's me right now. Absolutely. Though you are younger than Gundren, you are significantly larger than him. As a barbarian, you are muscled and strong and very much stand a good twice the height of Gundren when you are standing.
This kid's going to be a problem. It's 20-30. Absolutely. Never is.
He was just taller than everyone. He got the natural talent, but you got to level it up. Of course. You didn't learn how to play center in seventh grade and then you're never going to grow and you're going to be like six-three.
Yeah. No boss skills. Close his fuck. Yeah.
Okay. There's a good analogy for a barbarian because whereas you don't focus on the strategy of fighting, you just rush right in and have all that natural rage that is carrying you through. You know, you said something about drugs and he forgot about that. He is just focused.
He spilled all the beans. Yeah. If he knows where to get some drugs though, just for tonight. Yeah.
I mean, I do. And he pulls it out of one of his bags. This pouch. Not for me, by the way.
I've got some pipe leaf here. If that's what you need, we can break this out and I just, listen, I just ask you keep it away from Gundren because he starts blazing this tonight. He's never going to leave. He's just going to hang out.
And the next thing I know, I'll be the one tying him onto his pony to get him out the city gate. It's going to be a whole mess. Right. Got it.
I smelled the weed and I called the guards. I'm making it for such a check. If you wish to smell what is in the pouch. This would be a D20 roll for you.
Yeah, I got it. Is this mid-leaf? 14. And with a persuasion of plus 6 and 19, I'm going to say, you don't know where it's coming from this house, but you are catching a whiff.
And I don't like it. Of some dank, pike leaf. One bit real dank, pike. Straight gas.
And as a paladin of protection, you certainly, like, this is, like, this is, this is, against the law. Wow. What? I'm a pussy.