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We will talk about that with him in just a few minutes, but we were just having an argument, Matt, and so we have to start here. Do you like a frumpy kicker? Like strong? You mean like the kicker for the rims? I'll just tell you, I'll just tell you, like I was a holder for most of my career because I started with the Green Bay Packers and they had this guy named Brett Favre, who was the starting quarterback.
And so my only way on the field was as Ryan Longwell's holder, you know, to get fake field goals. And my first two touchdown passes in the NFL game on fake field goals. That was my only way in. So I pay attention to this part of the game. And the Raiders drafted very high, Sebastian Jannikowski, while I was playing.
And I'll just tell you, that dude was the envy of a lot of the other kickers. Like a lot of other kickers were former soccer players and they played midfield or whatever, striker. And they see this dude come out there, this big Polish dude who like probably drank vodka instead of Gatorade. You know, like they were just like, this dude's leg, I can't compete with it, you know? So I don't know, I'm not like opposed to it, you know, but he had a leg, man.
He needed. Yeah, well, it's fine when you have a leg, but Nevis does it and that's the problem. I mean, he's 50%. That one got blocked. Yeah, I know.
You know, was it going in? That's a whole nother question. Well, Taylor Swear, Taylor, our executive producer here, Swear, is that if it wasn't blocked, it wasn't going in anyway. That was shank to you, Matt. Yeah, that's a possibility.
Well, listen, I think, you know, I lived in Boston for a while. There's a generation of great high school quarterbacks coming out of Massachusetts, New England. I think of like the Tom Brady effect. I think there's probably a Pat McAfee effect where the college is. I'm trying to win like a $1.2 million every weekend.
There's some dudes that can kick that are just chilling, probably playing a hacky sack in between Econ and philosophy. You know, it's, I don't know. Like, didn't Mike Leach find a kicker that way once upon a time? Yes. So I know Australia's got it on lockdown for punters right now, but like, I don't know, maybe there's like this next generation of kickers is coming here in America.
I'll get off it in a second, but long well as a guy, he's built it away that would give me confidence. He's the kind of kicker I want. He looked athletic. That's all I'm saying. All for, like, a lot of those guys look like golfers.
Like, PGA Tour or kicker punter. You're not sure. Yes. Yeah, no, I mean, it's harder than it looks. I'll tell you that.
It's definitely harder than it looks. The other thing is when you're a kicker, you're swinging at air. Like, you're swinging, you're looking at the spot, and then all of a sudden the ball's there, and then it might be spinning. There's a lot that goes into that thing. So, yeah, I can remember one time, Ryan Longwell got a field goal blocked and I, and it was low.
And I felt like I was pushing, I don't have a ball on me right now, but I felt like I was pushing down on the ball too hard. Right. And it all like almost like I sabotaged it. It was like a really bad weather and whatever, green bay, and I'm pushing down too hard. And he was like, man, I can't figure out why that ball didn't get up in the air.
And I'm like, ah, I might have an idea. I'm going to bring it up right now. He knew he just wanted you to admit it. Maybe he's like wicked nice, you know, but like, you know, it's just one finger on top of the ball. Like, is it really going to make that much of a difference?
You know, whoops. My man. As somebody who got there breaking the NFL as a holder, could you make the argument that the Jaguars holder should be the MVP right now in MVP? Yes. That was huge.
If you're not sure people are talking about their snapper gets hurt. And, you know, they back up snappers in there, which is like craziness, like that's like throwing with your other hand, like having that guy out there. That was great. That was great. And I think, you know, to that guy's credit too, to the new long snapper.
And isn't there a crazy thing right now where like they need a new long snapper, but they're staying in London? Is that true? Yes. But they got to sign a new long snapper who happens to have a current passport. It's a whole better be ready for like everything.
Like literally, that's pretty good. Yeah. But I started listening. I started holding my sophomore year in high school. That was my way to get on the field as a sophomore.
And then I had a bad snap like that, a fire call through a two point conversion. Got a sticker on my helmet. Right. My high school did like the Ohio State like, you know, stickers. Yes.
And all the cool kids had a sticker and I had no stickers. I got one sticker that year from a bad snap. Right. And I fire call through a two point conversion. So that my first play in the NFL was against Notre Dame on a fake field goal as a fake holder on a play called Leprecon.
When I got to the Packers, Sean Landa was the punter and he's like, I'm not going to hold. I mean, punting so long. I don't want to hold. And then Doug Peterson left. He was the holder.
And then I was like, Oh, this is my ticket on the field. So special teams, man, the more you can do. I know you had no stickers, but I feel like you had the last laugh. Is that fair? I mean, just suppose everyone else on that team.
You made it to the NFL, Matt. I mean, ironically, the guy who was the snapper on that on that where I got the fire call, he played in the NFL. Also Greg Camilla, he was Tiki Barber's fullback. He ended up going to Stanford. So I'm then Harvard Business School.
I maybe he got the last laugh. I don't know. But I'm wondering. I got to tell you one other story. I'm sorry to hijack.
No, no, no, we love it. I'll talk to you all day. And we're playing a team. We're playing a team down in New York. I want to say it was like shaman otters.
One of those schools that were playing a team down there. And I think it was them and our snapper was our running back 34. Greg Camilla, so he snaps the ball, bad snap, scramble, fire drill. I'm looking for the tight end. I'm looking for the other way.
No one's there. I see him standing right there in the middle, like no one's covering him because he was the snapper. And I throw him the ball and the refs are oblivious. And they're like, yeah, two points. He's just like inversion.
I'm just scrambled. And I literally threw it to the snapper. But he was wearing 34. So they're just like, yeah, feels right. That's the running back normally.
I thought he'd be statute of limitations. I feel like we're good now, probably. They assumed he was good just based on the number. It was a lot of us like left, right. I'm the guy in the middle.
Like, yeah, all right. Sure. How do you play by you, Hasselbeck? I feel like officiating's never worked out in my favor since that time. So it would be my fault for not like, god, sorry.
He was never probably should have raised my hand. It's illegal. That's so good. I'm wondering as a former quarterback of the NFL, do you watch Josh Allen and Marvel the way we do when we're watching Josh Allen? You know, it's funny when I watch him, I'm actually like yelling at the TV, like, come on, Josh, you're better than that.
It was sloppy. That was dangerous. Like he misses some dude sometimes. And you're like, come on, I know you can make that throw. And it looks like he's saying the same thing to himself.
He'll be like, oh my gosh, he was open. I had him. I know I can make that throw. Then there's other times where he's scrambling, like end of the game, your team just fumbled over time. And he's running with one hand on the ball.
And I'm like, bro, protect the ball. But he makes it look easy. He does things that I could never do. He's, I don't know, he's really incredible. He makes the hard things look super simple.
Yeah. Matt, when Drake may plays the way he did in the second half against Buffalo in his past week against the Raiders, are the Patriots in the conversation for best team in football? No, no, they're not. They're improving. They're getting better.
They're no longer falling off the cliff. But no, they're certainly not. That's, you know, I know Sully Fitzy and Murph up in New England think they are. But no, they're not. He's not going to be back on track.
I'm a huge fan of his. I think he's awesome. He was trying to do too much. He was getting frustrated. He wasn't letting the kicker kick.
He wasn't letting their pun or punt. And he was kind of giving these like throw it up for grab type situations. He ran into a little bit of that in North Carolina at times where he put the Cape on. And quite honestly, like did what Josh Allen did early in his career. You know, and that's not, that's not going to help you host a Lombardi.
That's not it. Like you're going to need to be special. You're going to need to be like above the X's and O's a lot. But, but he's like, like no quarterback room that I've ever been in. I played a long time.
No one has ever said 50 50 ball. Like that is a defensive term or a TV term. It's like not a thing. Right. You throw a 50 50 ball in an NFL quarterback room.
That's a minus. That's like a no. That's like a D plus. Right. So that's what he was doing.
Right. He was in a sense throwing it up. So something good happened. Yes. And I think he learned the hard way and he's back on track.
So they're a good team. But no, no, I think I think that's reserved for like San Fran, Minnesota, Kansas City, probably Buffalo. I would say those are kind of the top teams right now. The running it up for grabs. Is that something we discussed in the quarterback room?
I mean, no, that's what you. You had recess in middle school called 500 or flyers up. Right. That's you know, or DB drills. Like I was a ballboy for the Patriots growing up.
And at first I was working with the quarterbacks, but then all I was doing was catching balls. And so I was like, all right, well, I'd rather throw. So can I work with the can I work with the wide receivers and tight ends? And that was kind of fun. Well, then they throw me over with the DBs sometimes.
And that was brutal. It's like just throw it up. You know, just throw it up high. You know, there's throw it in like there's no precision to that. Like none.
It's like it's kind of stupid. It feels like you're, you know, like shooter tutor, tutor. You know, like when you, when you have a goalie in hockey, like a youth goalie, like a goalies are free. Or maybe they do this in other sports. Like you pay all this money to go to the camp and goalies are free.
Like why? Because you're just like, you're there for them to get a rep. That's kind of what 50 50 balls are. What the hell happened to Jaden Daniels and the commanders towards the end of that game? Sunday.
I have no idea. Like literally for the, I mean, from the coaching side of it, like I could see maybe there was just like no one said anything because like we all get it. Right. There could be a lot of traffic on the headset. You know, and so like that's the thing.
And so typically when you have a defensive head coach, he's on the defensive side of the headset, most of the time he has a button, he flips over to the offensive side. I think like CB radio, like walkie talking, it's not like the clearest. It's not like we're talking now. It's a little like, uh, we're going to spider left, uh, mash, you know, kind of sounds like that at times. But like there can be a lot of people talking.
And so sometimes maybe no one's talking because like, yeah, we all understand what's going on, right? And clearly you would hope that the quarterback would know what was going on. And so to me, I have no excuse that I could even, I've tried to like in my mind defend that situation with the quarterback. I can't. Like I live across the street from a middle school.
I promise you, all those middle school kids that play Madden all day, they know what to do in that situation. So this idea that like, well, it starts at the top down. No one told me that we need to throw the ball away. No one told you. What is this paint by numbers?
Like you're, you were the rookie of the year. You played at LSU. Like what are you talking about? Right. Like this is, I don't know, it's going to haunt them.
It's going to be like sticking their brain, their whole career. And, uh, and I feel like I'm throwing rocks here because, you know, because I am. I also, I also don't live in a glass house. Sure. Like I've screwed up a situation like this, me and Sean Alexander, two of the highest paid players on the Seahawks were playing a game down in Arizona.
And we have a, basically a check with me. It's a runner, a pass and it's loud, fine, whatever. And I games over. We just need to run the ball. Well, I say, let it roll instead of leave it on or something like that.
And Sean gets confused and I, and it's my fault. And I go to hand it off and he thinks it's a play action and the ball is on the ground. And then they, you know, we're in a go on the Arizona. They kick a field with the next play. It's like, what?
Like, who's fault is that mine? Can you understand how it happened? Like, yeah, you could explain it, but like it's my fault, you know, and it's fault, but like my fault, really. And I still remember it. And so, you know, this will be that for them.
This will be like, man, we screwed that up so bad. And there's, it's embarrassing is what it is. It's embarrassing. And they're not alone this week. There was some bad as all situationally.
Taylor thinks that every team should have a Madden coordinator on the sidelines. What do you think? So listen, I joke, I joke with people about this, but there are people, especially people who work in TV and they, they know a lot about, just know a lot about situational football. It's like literally their job to watch TV. They also know like when to throw the challenge flag.
The guy who's the producer of college game day right now is Matt Garrett. I think an NFL team should hire him. This dude knows exactly how many cameras are in the stadium. If there's a pylon game, if there's a high-end zone away, if camera sevens over here, like all the stuff, like he would say like, oh, Brantown game throw the challenge flag. Oh, one o'clock game in Jacksonville.
Like no, don't challenge it. There's not enough cameras for that one. Like it's just, I actually think you're onto something and teams do hire people for that. Like they usually hire someone from like a league office or a former referee or a retired coach. But no outside the box.
I think the, the dude who wears a jersey and has a couple of Bud lights and sits on his couch and watches Red Zone Channel. Like maybe that might be your best bet. Tell us about team impact and what you're doing there, man. Yeah, team impact is an incredible organization. It's paired up in the NCAA world.
It pairs kids with disease or disability with athletic teams, Yukon basketball, Boston College lacrosse, UCLA football. You name it and it gives something to these kids with disease and disability, something that medicine could never give them. It also, I've seen this firsthand, gives these athletes who in this NIL world and this transfer portal world, it's all about you. It gives them a perspective of something that is so much bigger than what they're going through and it's not all about them. So it's an incredible organization.
Team Impact.org is the website. If your college or university isn't a part of it, they absolutely should be. They have fun events. They've got one in Boston, a sneaker ball. They've got one in Chicago in November.
They've gone out one out in LA. It's a great organization. It's kind of like those things that you do, not to rip on other organizations, but they come in for a day and it's a photo shoot and it's an experience. These kids get drafted to the team. They sign a two year commitment at that school, which is more than I can say for a lot of athletes who are one and done.
It's really special for everybody. That is great work, man. Taylor, let's see if we can connect them with North Carolina. It's our help. We're maybe Northwestern.
I got you at Northwestern. Okay. Great. Great. And we're going to play a game one table in just a second.
CTE study. What's happening there? Yeah. So CTE study, I'm part of this study. Basically, if you're 50 years old or older and you played college football or more, but just had to play college football, there's a two day study that you can sign up for that is really kind of paying it forward.
So basically, you spend two days at a, you know, neurocog thing, you do a brain MRI, you do a pet scan, they take blood, you do some neurocog testing similar to like a concussion test and they try to get a baseline. Basically it's this. Bad publicity out there with head trauma and certain sports, football being one, but my feeling is they're only studying the bad brain. So they're only studying the people that are symptomatic. So to get a better medical kind of look at everything, you need to study more people, more brains, people that are asymptomatic.
People like me that I don't have anything that I'm complaining about, but who knows? I played 18 years in the NFL. I might have some issues. So, you know, whatever the data says the data says, but we're looking for volunteers for that. It's a, it's a diagnosed CTE.org is the website.
And it's kind of fun because for you, it kind of tells you where you're at. So quite honestly, for me, in my situation, I turned 50 and I was expecting sort of bad results and I got great results. And so, I don't know, it was like, it was almost comforting in a way, but that wasn't my intention. My intention was to kind of, I don't know, lend my help to science, especially the guys that are dealing with stuff, probably the guys that protected me more than, you know, they took more hits than I did. So that was, that was really my motivation for signing up for it in the first spot.
I actually have a friend who signed up for it and he's very appreciative for the work you're doing. So I want to pass along that thing. Well, the cool thing about it is that they hope that they can diagnose CTE while you're still alive. Right now you can only diagnose it when you're after you're dead. Right.
And the other thing is they're hoping we can differentiate CTE from other forms of dementia, like Alzheimer's or things like that. And that would be a game changer, not just for athletes, but for anybody who's, you know, had a loved one or something like that that's suffered from Alzheimer's or something it's a terrible disease. So the more that we can learn, you know, the quicker we can find cures. Right, keep up the great work. We appreciate your time and always fun.
We'll do it again soon. I can't be on here enough, man, you're fun. This is mine. You guys are fun. I'd like to hear from you guys next time, but this is great.
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What do you say to people who say that Dodgers are banned for baseball, right? Oh, no, no, everything's good for everything. I'm more on the WWE side of things. Whatever it is, it's all good. Whether they're the villains or whether you've got the Upstart Brewers, the little engine that could, that's all good.
I don't think the Dodgers are bad for baseball at all. I don't agree with that. I believe that. I've got a lot of friends over there. They do it right.
They spend money. They're not afraid. They take care of their fans with elite talent up and down their lineup and on their pitching staff. They have 55, 57,000 seats to sell every game at Dodgers Stadium. There's a lot going on in Los Angeles.
You've got to run your business the way you run it. And I got no problems with any of that. Brian, me and Mikey are two depressed Yankee fans. And I saw this stat yesterday that made me even more depressed where the Guardians had 14 hits and their Game 1 win versus Drew Rasmussen in the Rays. The Yankees had 12 total hits and never had the lead in three games in the ALDS versus the Rays.
How surprised are you that the Yankees didn't make it to the ALCS? I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not. Tampa Bay by far, best team in the American League. They were just, they outclassed the Yankees even before the series. You know, I didn't want to get passive aggressive on the air last night.
But the Guardians, more than any team, exposed the faults of the Yankees. The way they approach the game. I mean, you know, the Yankees just aren't there. You know, they're not there yet. And they've got a long way to go.
And obviously, again, they don't have stand. They don't have charge. That changes everything. They pitch a good chunk of the season without lagan. Good chunk of the season.
Or at least a window of the season with Cole coming back from Tommy John and Max Reed out. So, and they still, you know, won over 90 games. Like they're a success story in the regular season, but for their roster was a wreck in the postseason. And it kind of reminded me when they played the Astros, in the LCS got swept by Houston. That's what the vibe was.
You know, they knew they were good enough to be in the postseason, but I don't, I don't think they were even close to being good enough to make a run in the postseason. And the Rays exposed every weakness because Tampa Bay plays the game in the way you're supposed to. And then you show up and you see how Cleveland kind of game plan against the Rays. And as I said, I think it really exposed the Yankees deficiency even more. Brian, if I told you way back when I think it was 91, you were interning for the San Antonio Spurs that one day you would be, you would be the play-by-play voice of the ALCS.
You would have told me what. Just that would have been laughable. Laffable. I mean, I started as a handheld cameraman and I play college baseball. So I always had this notion that I thought I could, honestly, my brother was a, he played in the big leagues briefly, but he came up through the minor leagues and I would go visit him.
So I was still playing in high school in college. So I would go spend weeks at a time in the summers where he was. And my brother still in the game. Mike, he's a scout with a Rangers. Matter of fact, you guys will remember it was a famous game in baseball history.
Mark Whitten hit four homers. Yeah. Well, RB guys, do you remember that game? Yes. My brother gave up the middle two homers in that game.
That was his major league debut. So he made it. And he signed out of a tri-op camp and he made it. So as I was kind of thinking about my life, I knew I wasn't going to be good enough to play professionally. I was a scholarship athlete at a small college in San Antonio.
I was working for the Spurs. And I started just kind of attaching myself to these radio broadcasters wherever they were in my brother's team, Screen'sboro and Chattanooga and Indianapolis. And I kind of was like, I think I can do that. I had no formal training. I didn't, I was an English major.
I didn't have any broadcasting journal. I wouldn't have made it five minutes in any high school. It's put that way. So I didn't know what I didn't know. And I just started, I kind of got my job calling my early baseball because I could throw batting practice.
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You know, I'm like, that was kind of my, like my path. And I was terrible when I first started. But no, in those 1991, like there's no way, no way that would have ever have dreamed any of this. But, you know, I did play all the sports and I just never said no. They said, you want to do soccer?
You want to do baseball golf? I just say, sure. I'll give a try. Brian Anderson with us. He is on the ALCS.
He is calling it game two tonight, 7 p.m. on TBS, true TV and HBO Max. I feel like the Guardian, another race are good, Brian. I feel like the Guardian is going to be tough to beat when you're down. Oh, you kind of get through that.
You win three straight beat the White Sox move on. It galvanizes a team in a locker room. What do you think about what it is? I'm saying they're going to be a tough out the rest of the way here. Yeah, the series definitely slipped with that game last night.
They beat the race ace, you know, well, I mean, rest was a pitch well, but they got them. You know, they won the game that they were raised and a fully rested bullpen, which Kevin Cash didn't play because they got down in the game. But I will say there is some concern with the Guardians, with Parker Messick. You know, they're kind of lined up on paper. Messick can get some rookie of the year, but he's pitching game two tonight.
But, you know, he's in an inning zone, but he's never been. And he pitched two and a third game four. Like they are definitely concerned and will watch his pitch profile. They all the other hood stuff like when they feel like fatigue is setting in, but he's had a long year. High-stress pitches.
Johnson's always told me that pitching in the playoffs, one pitch is like three. And so I think that's a real factor, even though Messick and William Gavin Williams are set up for the next two games. It looks great for the Guardians, but I think this is going to be a really good series. I still think Tampa Bay is heavily favored. They're just better in a lot of ways.
But the Guardians find a way, man. Like they do. And that's their real team. They put incredible pressure on to take extra bases and steal bases. So this is going to be a really good series with two teams that are kind of peaking right now, which is great for us on television.
Brian, Joey Otani in his last 24 games, dating back to August 19th, is batting 157 with zero home runs and one RBI. And now the conversation with the Dodgers is they might venture Otani because he's just, he might be too hurt out there to continue with them now down to 0 in the series. What would you do if you were the Dodgers? I'm not Ben Chantony. I'm not sure where that's coming from. I can't imagine that is coming from anybody inside the Dodgers camp.
To me, that feels like a scout or some scouts or some baseball person. I'll kind of drop it off to some of the media there. I mean, just go look at last year. We did the Dodgers Brewers. We had a national last year with TBS remember.
So he didn't do a thing in the first three games of that series. He was just there. He was a presence. All of that. But my Lord, then he had the greatest game ever played in the history of this game and won the MVP of the NLCA.
As he picks six innings, he struck out 10, he had three homers. It's like he's always got that in him. I don't, I am not buying that for one. I don't think the Brewers are buying that. So and if he's bad, I do think pitching has really tapped into his resources.
You know, it's hard to pitch and hit in the big leagues. That's why it's never been done. He really made up his mind. He wanted to try to win a Sighone award this year. And he was on a pace to do that, but then the body kind of failed him. He was in his third. He's not like he's got mileage.
You know, before even he's been in the big leagues a long time and then he had a whole run where he was the guy in Japan through high school. You know, big high school baseball is in Japan. It's literally like March Madness. Those guys still like 190 pitches game there. So he had all that. He then had all of his Japanese professional league run and then he came to Major League Baseball.
So there's a lot of mileage on that body and it catches up with everyone, but I'm not counting him. No way. No way. I know you're working, but is it tricky? Is it difficult being away from your team, the Brewers as they go through the NLCS here? No, no, no, no.
I don't mind. I'd rather not call the Brewers in playoffs. Interesting. So it's kind of fun just being on this side of it. You know, just to be able to do our game, come back, watch the Brewers or, you know, we were watching them in the booth yesterday before our game started.
So, and then you can just kind of be a fan of all those fan things and, you know, talk about the game like a fan. When you're doing the game, I know it's hard for fans to understand and I get it, but when you're doing the game, you don't think that way. It's very assembly line oriented. You're just what's the next element? What's the next pitch? What's the play called that right?
T of your analyst gets to the graphic, gets to the promo, all that stuff. Like, and you do that over and over for 18 happenings. So you're not thinking about your fandom or being with the team and I know fans love like to call out me and Joe Davis and boo, Shambi when he's doing the Cubs in the playoffs. It just doesn't work like that. I promise. It doesn't work like that.
So it's actually easier for me and fun and I get to get on the text and chopping up with all my friends and the people I work with. We're like fans. Right? What are they doing? I actually enjoy a lot more. But if I do the Brewers, I've done them three times in the postseason. You just you do the job.
You know, you're you're putting the engine in the car. So you're not thinking about how it's going to run. So as a fan, you have the Brewers in four, right? Sweet. Yeah. 100% Yeah.
Yeah. They should bet Joe Donnie, right? It's a whole team. Actually. I mean, just like your text in your friends. Yumamoto Stigs.
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Oh, man. What a great... I don't know who invented these things. I don't know who actually has access to these things. I know I just got lucky, I got a credit card that lets me have access to a lot of these lounges.
How did people exist before these things? How did you currently people exist without these things? Because I had one of those weird situations where it was a late flight, it was early evening, whatever, 6pm flight. But you know, the latest you can check out at the hotel, even if you're like platinum, is like four, right? So I'm like, alright, I've got a couple of hours to kill here.
Yes. Man, those places are amazing. I just never... I just can't take it for granted. You can just eat as much as you want.
Drink as much as you want. And it's all free. And it's absolutely insane. Right, and the food's good. It was really good.
I mean, it was better than any of the restaurants I was at in Minneapolis. I mean, I'm not going to tell the question yourself as to why you're staying in a hotel, not just sleeping there. Well, I do often set an alarm. Because it's just like, what if I have a few too many glasses of wine and then maybe take a little snooze-fest and then all of a sudden I miss my flight? What's the worst thing that could happen?
Well, I got to stay at the lounge for a little longer. So, is it you said how do people survive without this? I think the answer is, I've never experienced it. And the airport lounge almost sounds like a once you go back, you never go back. Or once you experience you never go back.
Because my plan when I go to the airport is, I'm showing up as close to the boarding time as possible because I think I don't have access to the lounge and I don't want to be sitting around like a schlep the entire time. I'm not going to be as delayed as long as you're sitting in an airport lounge. I mean, I'm with Izzy on that. It could be delayed for days. I've gotten so used to this luxury that if there's ever an airport that doesn't have an MX lounge and then doesn't have a lounge and I have access to, I'm willing to pay a lot of money to get into these things.
I'm doing the math. I'm like, say, if four glasses of wine, two full plates of food, it's got to be worth a hundred bucks, right? Sure. I haven't done that fortunately because I've been able to get into these things. But being rejected for an airport lounge is one of the worst feelings in the world.
What do you mean it? Rejected? Well, if you don't have an MX Platinum card, you're not getting in. Yeah. And sometimes even if you have money to offer, they're like, sorry, we're full. We can't take stragglers. We can't take these weirdos who don't have access to our lounge.
Wait, so you go to the lounge not knowing if you're going to have access to? No. These days you just do your research ahead of time. Make sure that my credit card gets me in or my status on an airline gets me in. But there have been times where I thought my credit card or my status would get me in and they're like, sorry.
That's embarrassing. Yeah. It's terrible. And then there's this one diamond in Denver where the MX lounge was so packed, you're on a wait list and you're holding on. I'm just like, oh no. Now I have to sit here and then what if I don't get in time, I'm just going to have to board my plane and sit here and raw dog awaiting.
When they don't let you in, what do you think they're basing that on? Just as it, you know, spending powers. Your balance. It's funny. One of my men, the Amex card has a figure who spends $75,000 that year on your card.
You get a free guest every time you come to the lounge and I'm just like, I have a lot of money to spend on a single credit card to just get a guest on the four or five times you go to the airport. Yeah. Yeah. Happy Thanksgiving all the time. Is he getting rejected by it? Made me think of the Kelly Clarkson. Have you seen the few that Kelly Clarkson's in with a small Brooklyn shop called Art of Play?
Apparently she wanted to buy a singing mechanical bird named Molly for $15,000. Right. For $15,000 and the store basically came out and said the bird wasn't for sale but Carson was like, no, it was for sale. They didn't let me buy it. They didn't know that I could afford a $15,000 mechanical bird and they're like feuding online where it basically sounds like Kelly Clarkson took the Twitter almost immediately.
Like this store profiled me and said I couldn't afford this bird when I could have and the store is coming out saying, no, the bird is not for sale. We just offered her an alternative. Kelly Clarkson thinks this is a Julia Roberts pretty woman. Yes. Yes. She said pretty woman.
And people are just like, no, that's my freaking bird. I love the bird. She can't have my bird for any amount of money. Yeah, but every bird has a price. I mean, what does this bird do? Because I would give it up for $500. Oh, it looked terrible to be honest. It was like a bird on a wall and it just chirps on occasion.
Right. So the store didn't want to give it up. I mean, the store was like, the bird is not for sale. Here are less expensive ones or here are ones that are cheaper than whatever you're claiming you saw for $15,000. Like this is a $5,000 one and Kelly Clarkson was like, no, now that you told me I can't get that one. That's the one I want.
People are very torn on it because they're like, why is a multi-millionaire and Kelly Clarkson publicly attacking a small business? Well, why is a small business not selling a bird that is worthless for $15,000 to someone who's willing to pay $15,000? Yeah, I mean, look, that small business owner must be doing just fine. They're like, no, no, I'm keeping this bird. It doesn't matter how much money you have made a small business that says no to $15,000.
Take it right to the day off. That's the best bird I've done for the day. Also, there's no way a Brooklyn, like a store in Brooklyn didn't know who Kelly Clarkson is. Kelly Clarkson is like the perfect level of fame where if somebody comes in and starts demanding to buy the $15,000 bird on your wall, you wouldn't turn your nose up to them and be like, oh, this person can't afford it. Having never seen Kelly Clarkson in person, I don't know like her stature or whatever how short or tall she is, I don't know.
I think she's the perfect level of normal looking so that she doesn't stand out in the crowd. Is that Kelly Clarkson or is that just a regular person? I think she looks pretty regular. It's not an insult whatsoever. Some people have things that stand out about them, features that stand out about them.
I feel like she's singing. I'm not really going to know if that's Kelly Clarkson in there. If Kelly Clarkson isn't certain that they know it's Kelly Clarkson, do you start singing if you're Kelly Clarkson? That's a good one. I'm not like this.
You've got to be somebody. Because I'm not certain I would know if Kelly Clarkson walked into the studio. Oh my goodness, that's exactly what she should have done. Does this bird sing this song? And then just belts out one of her bangers.
And it's just like, wow, Kelly Clarkson, have my bird. You know who I am now? If Kelly Clarkson walked into the studio, she'd start requesting a bio-hour microphone. And I would sell them for $15,000 a piece. What do you mean?
I wouldn't even ask anyone here an i-heart. Oh man. I would just rip them out and sell it to her $15,000. I love airport lounges. Yeah.
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