Hour 1: We Invented Football

Jeremy, how did the livestream pitch clock go yesterday? It was a lot of fun. We had a great time. It was me, Chris, Ethan, and then we had a variety of people all show up at the same time. Yeah, including my grind, thank you for stopping by in the midst of absolute chaos on the Zoom.

Yeah, it was, it seemed like you guys were dealing with some adversity there. Yes, we pushed through. Yeah, middle linings. I didn't really ever come in. I didn't even get to say Travis Hathner, which is a ball. But I got to size more. I got to say Michael Kodayar and Kori Koski. So my job there was done. Yep. It felt good. It felt good to have everybody there.

I will tell you, I felt a little bit bad. All right, I'll admit this. I'll cop this. I felt bad two days ago. The day before we're doing the stream and and I was like, oh, you got a livestream coming up tomorrow, pitch clock. It was like, yeah, you could, you could zoom in between three and five and my response. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Well, a lot of people zoomed in.

And I think Jeremy took it as like, oh, all right. No, no, not at all.

“I'm a little bit bad. No, you shouldn't feel bad. That's what it's like when I ask”

friends to hang out. I wanted to join for real. I really did. I know how I'm onto you. I wanted to. You stop. I really, I was about, I was a little like, Lewis sent me the zoom, but then I forgot. You know what we talked about a lot. It was your boy O'Neill crew's having truly a dreadful day. Like just one of the worst days I've seen. I don't know. We're sunglasses. Yeah, just wear sunglasses. I was going to see one game to go. He missed two

pop-ups. Not pop-ups. Flyballs to center field because it's not wearing sunglasses. He was the first

person to have ABS negatively effect. Yes. He had to walk turned into a strikeout. Just a bad. And then the next guy hit a Homer. He could have been, oh, a little bit, a little bit. I was talking about that. He had to walk that turn into a strikeout. Like, was he already on his way to, he was like walking towards Perth and then they challenged it and he had to turn around and come back. Is he just like standing in the middle of the baseline, waiting for me?

Just doing his normal like starting to take off stuff, got like 10 feet down and had to just turn around. It was great. And then he struck out. Yeah, it was tough for him. So I, unfortunately, hopped in the zoom at the same time. Everybody else did, but I was a little delayed because I wanted to have all the games on TV, which this year ESPN's app is a home of MLB.tv. Now, a little something for the sports fans out there. Apparently, I had the MLB package all the last year

because I'm a legacy subscriber and they'll renew it automatically for you. So there was a time

where you willingly bought the package. Yeah, when I was doing my first year of a, now three

year bit of being a Mariners fan, I watched a bunch of Mariners game that first year and then just assumed I didn't have the package all of last year. So I got back out of baseball, but apparently I was paying for the entire time because I checked and I'm like, okay, let me just go to the ESPN app. I think I have this MLB package because I saw a charge this time and I go to do it and I got the prop that says, you know, get access. Now, I am an exfinity customer and it took several months

to be able to get ESPN unlimited and I had this additional subscription that was Disney, but with commercials, Hulu and ESPN select. So this so afford me the opportunity to get a little

“tight. But here's the thing, ESPN is trying to trick you because you can't do things on the app.”

You can't manage your accounts conveniently on your phone. Yeah, it sounds like it's like a computer. You can't even do it from the app itself. The only thing that really got me results was doing everything via desktop and it's intentional because they want you to have multiple subscriptions out there. But after 20 minutes of a lot of hard work and this is a segment we like to call old guys complaining about streaming. I finally got alignment. I reduced one of my additional

subscriptions. I don't need anymore because the exfinity thing finally worked and that took 15 minutes because they make that extra hard. But I watched baseball and I had multiple games on when it came to baseball and it was a beautiful thing to see. I was into the sport of baseball for a day and I joined this stream. But I'm doing a public service folks. You're going to have to do this all be a desktop, which is like the most boomer-weighted do it. So many of you are probably three and

not be at the end work. No dude. I also like forgot my password. So I'm like, all right,

tell me my password. But then I never got the email for the password. So I got to go on the desktop.

Yeah, sure you put in the right email. There's just different ways around it. It's all exhausting and it's meant to be difficult. I keep telling myself, man, I feel so old. I feel like such an

“idiot. But the thing is the system tries to make it super hard for you. I think this is also a”

difficult year in that there's a transition here from the regional sports network model to so many of these teams going internal that they have everything through whether it's marlins.tv, raise.tv, whatever that is. So now literally as of yesterday and this is MLB doing these negotiations all the way for all of these teams. As of yesterday, they were just announcing which over the air channels. You would be able to access the different teams from. So like the Marlins announced, hey, you can

if you were a fan who was trying to look in advance, you might have felt the need to go by the

subscription. Luckily, these subscriptions are a reasonable price. But then you might have this issue

“the mic ran into. So if you want to watch a game like tonight, or you know, want to continue”

through the weekend, you should get yourself set up in advance. I had 25 minutes and it was like, do my taxes or be able to watch sports. And you got to go sport. I won sports. I won sports. Yeah, I had 25 minutes to be able to watch. Do you have a guy that does your taxes? I do have a, yeah, but I got to prepare stuff. Do you have a guy? Yeah, I have, I got a guy. It's a lead. Trust me. I got a guy. I got one of those guys.

It's a, it's a, it's a lady. It's a really good one by the way. I have my stuff to go. I got you know, you got a lot of, no, no, I got to be. I got you. I got you. I had to do some work to. Yeah, but I'd rather watch baseball, which is crazy considering the discourse. All right. Sounds really complicated. How are you? That's how much baseball. Yeah. That's how much. That look when it comes to baseball or doing taxes, I'll get baseball this. I prefer watching baseball. All right. So hell of an endorsement.

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All freshman related for college basketball, men's college basketball here. So first,

per up to stats. Arizona had three freshmen who scored 15 points or more on 60% shooting or more. It's the first time that's ever happened in an NCAA tournament game. Illinois had a pair of freshmen to each have a double double. First time it's happened in an NCAA tournament game since freshman became fully eligible in 1972. And Darius A. Cuff Jr scored the most points through three career men's NCAA tournament

games by a freshman over the last 50 years. He passed Zion Williamson's record of 80 points through three. That's the one. Which is the most impressive. Why would a freshman not be eligible to play? Yes, we're back in the days to have JV. They wouldn't be able to play. It was like a mandatory register. Okay, so we'll get rid of that one. Darius A. Cuff? Back in the day, you couldn't dunk. Did you know it? Really? Yeah. Back in the day, they didn't think they didn't think,

hey, dunking is like show voting on the other teams. So you couldn't actually dunk.

“That's why you see back in the day like everybody like laying it up and finger rolling.”

Oh, that's not all those highlights. Well, Chamberlain is finger rolling. He's easily dunked. Exactly right. Because they didn't. A dunking was like a faux pas. You couldn't dunk. Wow. Did you know that Dave is shaking your head? Yes. You knew that? Yeah. You see LA and Tony is right again with the freshman season. There was a freshman team. You were not allowed to play varsity ball until your sophomore year. Thank you, Dave. I know there's a lot of excitement in

the air for baseball opening day as rightfully should be. But let's not forget our brothers playing spring football because it's also opening day for the UFO. Now, as you know, I'm a big XFL guy. I really don't like this UFO branding, but this sport has done a lot this off season to try to shock this is like the branding. What is it? I'm an XFL guy, but what's the brand? Because I'm a child of the attitude era. All right. You know about that. He hate me? Yes. I know plenty about he hate me.

And unfortunately, one of the many things that COVID took from us was the fact that the XFL relaunched right before COVID impacted everyone's life was actually really good. And the ratings were good. It was getting traction. And then we are where we are right now, which is the UFO struggling to recapture even those highs. Do you remember how the XFL used to do instead of a coin toss? What they did at the beginning of the game? Yes. Yeah, the scrum for the ball. It was it was great.

“Dave. How did you say I enjoyed that? No, you weren't. I believe Kirby Dartar was on one of those”

teams. Yeah, yeah, doing some of the scrums. And I think like the very third one, someone to our

shoulder because obviously that stuff is going to happen. But I have surprising news. This may surprise you guys. The UFO game for one of the expansion teams in Louisville is completely sold out, completely sold out. Yes, because it's good football town. They're actually playing. I

what the UFO strategy is to get people to the games this opening weekend, but it's brilliant. Ludicrous is playing at a half time. Ludot Nelly is playing at a half time. Kuchin Mane is playing at a half time. DJ Khaled is playing at a half time. Gavin DeGraw doesn't fit this general theme,

but he's playing at a half time. They have incredible half-time performers playing at these games

and it's apparently going to be really effective. More so than even the football is come out, watch a Houston gambler's back to the gamblers, by the way, that's a big one because I hated the roughnecks. Roughnecks are stupid. Hated the roughnecks. You had the gamblers branding the entire time. I know Dave's with me on this one. I could watch the gamblers not expecting much from them this season. And that's a little that's window dressing on a ludicrous concert Dave. I am a child,

not of the XFL, but of the USFL era, which in fact with with with the AFL not with standing is the second best incarnation of football as an answer to the NFL, the XFL UFL. They kind of suck and are irrelevant. And it begs the question, why do they not just throw as much money as they possibly

“have a Colin Kaepernick and other names that get heat like that? That's the solution, isn't it?”

What am I missing about that? Well, what you're missing was who was running the XFL at first?

And how like when the XFL first announced back when Colin Kaepernick still had a window, I guess, because now the guy isn't playing for like 10. Now, now it's now it's real good. But like they part of the press conference that Vince McMahon had was, there will absolutely be zero kneeling. He made it very clear that Colin Kaepernick really wasn't the card. I get it, but the UFL, when it's, you know, I mean, I can't even remember how many times the UFL has attempted to launch

itself. But within three years, you know, three, four years ago, they certainly could have done that with Colin Kaepernick. And even if you remove him, if you find him problematic for whatever reason, just big name guys, they're all the loot you can possibly find in the same way that your soccer team and Miami went out and got messy. That's the solution, isn't it? There are some interesting names, though, everyone will look to the quarterback position and, you know, you have Matt Corral,

but like Benny Snow, like, I don't know, that probably doesn't zero for each Arnerlander. Yeah, John Ross, the Leviscush, not like there are, there are players that you're like, I remember him.

“It is like dudes, name and dudes on the UFL. And I think that what they try to do with the product”

is shock this system a little bit. And the NFL has already taken some cues from the spring ball league, formerly known as the XFL, and now presently the UFL. I don't think the games are bad. I think that the talent will surprise you. And I think from an in-game experience, you throw Gucci man or ludicrous hat, me or Nellie in the St. Lunatics, I'm inclined to have a good time. Because as you know, Dave, I like to sit outside and drink an ice cold beer.

Nothing wrong with that. I'm not going to take you to task for that friend. I'd like to be right next to you with a beer in my own hand. Watching a baseball game from six months ago. Who, I'm trying it, that's right. Hey, boy buddy, you know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody all together in unison knows to stand up on their feet. Oh, absolutely, Mike. Yeah, you've been at

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“That's what they lose. I see that photo of Daniel Day Lewis looking like Lincoln before he's”

about to start filming Lincoln. And you know what I do? I mean two gods. I jerk off all over

myself. That's what I do. Lincoln, who you outed the other day. Don't make this a re-join. This is

the dilemma for our show with this two gods. I'm trying to think though of who are those names. I say Colin Kaepernick, but you know practically his ship has sailed. It would be bad for him to throw himself out there between the lines even in the UFO. He probably get himself heard. Then again, there is Joe Flacco. But is there a name out there? That's sort of like, boy, that would be an interesting fit for a secondary league. I mean, I advocate, by the way,

a little self promo. We football America, Pablo Tory coming out within a matter of minutes here. Make sure you check that one out. But I do address exactly that. Doesn't the NFL need it last of a minor league like every other major sport has here. The CFL is sitting there. The UFO. There's some opportunity there. I guess it's because of the collisions you don't want to throw your young prospects out there for games. Also it already exists with college football. Yeah,

that's true. But the CFL and the the brain trust behind the UFO were very close three years ago to some sort of merger partnership and it fell apart. Dave, I know Spring Football isn't your thing because yet you like college football, you love the NFL. But it doesn't the the current president of football America owe it to his football Americans to give Spring Football a chance. I'm down. I'm down. I'm not a little listen. I'm not getting up on Mount Pious about it. My heart

is open and so too will my eyeballs this weekend. I'm more than willing to give it another shot. I've given it many shots because as you say, I love football. I've watched USFL, XFL, UFL and all the rest of it. I'm down. I wonder what football America thinks of a couple rules that they actually have in the USF and the the UFL that they don't in the NFL. You know, once you get to Tony once you you move the ball into plus territory, you are not allowed to punt.

I love that. Be bold. There's no punting. Good. Once you're on the other side of the field.

“Good fourth and 13. Go for it. And I think like a 60-hour field goals worth four points. So you might”

find yourself like there's strategy implied now with the the battle of real estate acquisition, math being done. I I'm willing to let this play out and see if this stuff works in the NFL. I know the notion of a kick being worth more points scares people. But I would argue on the other side of the coin to as is original point is like this is also making punting less important. Correct. And also the hypothetical we draw we drew out a couple of weeks ago. Maybe a month ago

was all right. If it's fourth or third and whatever, are you actually going back to trying to

score points? I said I think you're right. Like if I have the ball third down and I'm on the 41 yard line, I may want to lose a couple. A little draw play go the other way. Yeah, like is that like that that's kind of wacky. And because the UFL has done this stuff with all these rules and being creative, it's kind of I'm on this Algo where people are pitching football. My house is different than you

“are. I know you're your Algo. You should know that good. If your Algo is what it says it is.”

But Dave, there was one rule that I saw somebody propose that I'm curious your thoughts on. At one point in the game, you can decide we're going to give the opposing team six points just give us a ball. We're we're not going to let them milk the clock. Like we are conceding they score just give us a ball. Cute. I can drive it. It's a fine line between trying to push the envelope and get some attention for your league. And if it really thrives and then the NFL picks it up,

it's validating and all of that. But I think you do run the risk of just being a punchline a joke league. The XFL did too much whenever it was 20 years plus ago now. It went too far. So it seemed silly. It was hard to take seriously because it didn't feel like they were taking them self-series. Well, not to be a harder. How many times have you been watching? How many times have you been watching a game? Many sports fans have said this at their TV on a Sunday. Let them score.

ball back immediately because you're down to scores and the scoring is not as important as a time that's on the clock. So I don't, what's a bigger bastardization of the sport? A defense is letting a guy score or just saying like, no, no, no, give them the points. Give me the ball. Let's make this a little bit. But then we have a little bit of score off because then the defense is like, no, no, we take six points from them. We take six points from them. We take six points from

the court. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. You want to give me six points? No, you don't get six points. No, I get six points. Because I want the clock. Wow. Dave's mind. We're stunned. Yeah. I stunned them. My bad. My bad. My bad. My bad. This is great because the football America does do exactly this today is things that we can do. Things we can incorporate from other sports in the football to make the greatest sport even better. I went the

direction of like fight songs. The, the, the dressing around it. If you're talking about halftime shows migrion, the thing that college football and in fact soccer at large has over pro football is the fan singing in the stands and the fight songs and all of that kind of stuff. I would love

“for that to happen. I think the UFL, I think it's the UFL that has this rule. My long standing one,”

let's replace the stupid pro ball that nobody gives a crap about what the loser ball have the two worst teams play each other in the winner gets the first overall pick in the next draft. That would

be the greatest thing. And then then the curmudgeon say who would want to watch that? The answer is

every football fan would want to watch that. Where, where draft obsessed if you haven't noticed. Right, but Dave, why would that? But if the number one pick in the trap like this year it's Fernando Mendoza. He's going to be the number one pick in the trap. Why would the quarterback for the Raiders want to win that game so that he loses his job? Exactly. You know, team A wants to run the ball. That's how their offense is built. They love to run the ball. The problem is they're going

up against the team that's number one. It's stopping the run. Figure it out. Coach, that's your job. If you don't think the quarterback is going to try, they go with another quarterback. I mean that and by the way, for professional reasons, you can't put bad tape out there. You can't tank a game openly like that in front of the public. No one would ever hire you to be there quarterback ever again. So for better, worse, you would try if you're the current quarterback

of a team and you're playing to give your team the right to draft your replacement. What about the fourth and 12 conversion instead of an onsite kick? Nobody gets on side kicks anymore because the you also have to announce them beforehand. So you don't they've eliminated the surprise on side kick because the players are way out. You know what, before the fourth quarter. Yeah,

“yeah, you have to announce it. I like the fourth and 12 conversion rule. I think the NFL should”

say that really that feels very that feels very I get it. You are fourth and 13. The onsite kick is one of the most exciting things. The the the scare city of it and how and how rarely it worked even when it was working periodically. I mean, now it has zero chance of working. But again, this is a contrivence that feels like you're watching a game show in the final round where you can win the first three rounds. But then the other than the other guy can win the whole thing

just by winning the final round because they're more points available on the pitch. Let's feel food. No, Dave, let's pretend we're just building this sport. We are starting the sport

of football. The past has never happened. Great invention. All right. First off, credit to us.

We invented foot. Wow. How do we keep it a better name because there's very little feet. How we come up with this ball. All right. Yeah. It's oblong. We got that issue. All right. But that makes it easier to throw in the air. All right. More aerodynamic. What do you think is a better way if a team wants to get the ball back after scoring? Kicking this oblong ball, a mandatory distance of 10 yards. And hopefully you get the right bounce or we actually lined up in offense versus

a defense. And we go for fourth and 12. That one. And you do one play. Yeah. I'm not crazy. You're crazy. The onsite kick is crazy. Got to be fourth and 15. Yes. That's that's a carnival side show attraction. The onsite kick. Fourth and 12. That's football. I guess so. Also, my problem is though

“that when everything has already skewed towards whatever favors the offense, I think we've reached”

a place where you would see a lot of conversions on that. Would that be a good thing? I mean, you'd start to see scores like I think it wouldn't be. It's not wild to suggest that you would see some 61 to 54 kind of final scores with semi regularity. If you started to do that,

because you would understand that if you're down by a couple of scores in the second half,

that offense, you know, if you have a good quarterback and a good offense, that you would probably

especially for a spring football league that has already got the deck stacked against them,

right to get eyes and attention. I mean, if you're tuning into a blowout, you want as many opportunities as you can in the game for the other team to get back into it. Give me some drama here, because I don't want to watch good football teams in a blowout. The hell I'm going to watch, per see bad football teams in a blowout. But the answer to the short cut is, though, the short cut to this is, is Levian Bell is our starting running back. Antonio Brown has now been signed to

be a wide receiver. Like I say, the names are out there. It's weird that they're not grabbing to to get these people. That's how your league resonates. It's why the AF, the reason they have

made it was because they outspent to get your name and some other big name guys coming out of school

“in the 60s. That's why it made it. And the USFL almost made it. I can't remember the owner who”

really muck things up and tried to force it into the fall to the pool. But either way, the USFL was about to make it because they did exactly what I'm talking about. People forget about Steve Young and they signed song good too, didn't they? No, that's the 70s world football league, Jim Kick and Zonk and all of those guys. But I'm talking about the 80s as, please, keep up. This is, this is, it's the great, it really was. Talk about somebody who has a chip on his shoulder. I love the USFL.

I was Gaga for it for it's two or three year window of relevance, but like her show walker

would be unquestionably a hall of fame or right now, if he had not gone off to the USFL. And

there are a number of guys who probably fit that description. It was, it would be, they threw money at these guys to do it. Steve Young, like I say, Jim Kelly and otherwise. And that seems to be

“the answer we can talk about. Sanka, good halftime shows and Mercury Morris, maybe I don't know.”

Don't live a TARD. My algorithm on Instagram is dance, all boobs. Stugats, it's a good algorithm. This is the Don't live a TARD show with their Stugats. I like reminiscing about the old rules, the old gimmicks that the XFL used to be. Remember, they had a cheerleader locker room camp. That's a camera. Sorry, cheerleaders. Shressing room. No, they didn't. I had a two-edera. Ryan Clement was the opening game starter.

He was a former university, Miami quarterback. He was starting for the Las Vegas outlaws in this game, and they did like a pre-game interview where he was in a hot tub surrounded by cheerleaders. What a time to be alive. We're so close to being back to that. We are, thank God. It's been a long 25 years. As soon as Clevicular gets out of prison, he'll be on it. Yeah, maybe you can play quarterback for the salience. Tony, what was I hearing from you this

“morning where you, you're upset with some of your friends with the way that they call you?”

Yeah, there's a bit of a situation going on that I like to call. Are we friends? The are we friends paradox, right? We all have each other's numbers in our phones. Everybody, there's nobody that I know that memorizes everybody's number, and then a random number calls him like, oh, that's Jeremy. Oh, that's crazy. Like, if you ask me right now, I can remember, I know my phone number from my original house when I was a kid. Move that out of there when I was 11.

All right, I know that phone number, so I can tell you right now, okay? If you also ask me right now, what are my, I have two teenage boys? What are their phone numbers? I have no clue. Really? I have no clue what the phone number seems to be important. I know my parents, my wife, and my wife. I know my wife. I know my, I don't know my dad. I know my wife's, I know my mother's. I don't know my dad's cell phone. I don't know my boy's number. I know everybody's number

and my family by heart. So like, I know all of those, but all of you guys, like, I have you guys saved. Like, my friend, nine five four something. Okay. So all of you guys, he got it. Damn it. He knows that. I'm thrilled. But that's just a real fine team die. You're a 76 guy. What? Fuck you. So all of a sudden, his mic learning, he's seven eight seven eight seven. I have an issue where somebody in my life answers the phone, like if they don't know who I am.

So every time I call them, I'll do, I can do a good. I don't know how to say hello. Three, three, hello. Exactly right. Why? He answers it like a question. Like, who is this? Like, if it's a number that he likes to disguise the voice? Hello. No, but I don't know the number. Hello. No, because you have a problem with them answering, hello, or the answering, hello, like, they're confused. Confused. Because if this is a, a back and forth that, like,

I'm calling because we're talking back and forth that I'm answering your question. I have to ask

like, do not have my number saved in your phone. Could this, do you know who I am? Could this just be

“there? Hello. Maybe that's just how they say hello. They never say hello as a state. Maybe”

they're just always like, hello, walk into a room. Hello. Hello. It's always with a question mark.

And it's like, I'm a very, I don't know, a friendly guy when I talk on the phone. Like, hey, like, Jeremy called the, hey, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up? Like, talk to me. He was just like, when you have an eye call, you're just like, yo, or, or it's a good one though. But like, I feel like I'm not getting the proper response from the next time you call me, I'll make sure that I give you a more zapped up response. Thank you. But this one,

would we know the person? We would. Now I want to put their, oh, it's a coworker. It's somebody that is close in the vision. And why did Lewis answer? Yeah, why didn't Lewis do that? I know why Lewis does that. It's not Lewis. I'm not going to say who it is. I'm not going to say who it is. Where did somebody amongst us in our midst? Why did they do this with a hello with a question mark? And I know you have my number in your phone. And I have your number in my phone. And everybody knows, but you answer me

with a hello with a question mark. Like you don't know who I am. So my question is, it could be rose. Are we friends? No, it's not rose, buddy. No, no, but he's good. I need to know if this person has my name in their phone or if they don't. I do have an issue recently with my phone where I have saved numbers. And I know I've gone through the process of saving them. I'll even say Matt Sullivan, who works for our program. Every time I get a text from him, it says maybe

Matt Sullivan. I've saved his contact over and over and over again. My phone won't save you.

I love the baby. And so if I get a phone call, they're never wrong. It doesn't always say that

on the text it'll save me on the phone call that won't. No, there's some times wrong. No, that never love. Maybe it's this guy's Steve. Yeah, maybe. But, but as always, Tony, please.

“I'm sorry. I'm with you completely. The hello, I think movies had it right forever ago.”

Weird thing, because some people in movies don't say hello. They just start talking when they pick the phone up. It is a weird way to acknowledge the conversation is beginning. Before it's it, hello with a question. Yes, people don't talk that way except on the phone. But as far as that goes, I'm surprised that you answer the phone. Do you answer the phone if you don't know who is calling you? No, and that's the thing. Usually says spam likely or the new update on the iPhone,

won't even give me the call. It'll just to send it straight to voicemail, spam, and then I'll open my phone and it's like, oh, yeah, but it's called. I look at it and it's from some, you know, Daggestani number somewhere and I'm like, okay, good thing they didn't call me. But to, I'm a big phone talker. I like talking on the phone. Like Dave, if you call me, we'll talk. Right? Like, I'm not the guy. It's like, no, don't call me, text me. No, I want to talk on the phone.

I want to hear the tone of your voice. I want to hear your text. You can text me. Not interested in taking anybody's calls so much. So, in fact, that the, the world at large, no, don't call me and expect me to answer the phone. My sister sent me a meme a couple of days ago that it, that it said it laid out a hypothetical that for it, you get $1 billion. If you can call somebody in on your phone list and a pitch and then actually pick up and no, they don't pick up.

You get a million dollars. My sister said I would call you because I know you would answer and I said, wrong, I've trained you to not call me for random casual conversation. So, that means if I do see, you calling me or our mother calling me, I know it's an emergency. Somebody has died. So, I must answer the phone. So, I would answer the phone in that situation. But otherwise, don't bother calling me to, to, to, to, to campus. What do I, I'm, I'm a busy man, please. Be ready to borrow watching a game

from six months ago. What are you talking about? Don't, be busy. Give me a call and talk about the, talk about the game. Do you not, so, so, so Tony, if someone calls you who you know a friend,

yeah, do you answer with hello or do you go right into conversation? I've never answered the phone

with hello ever in my life. Hey, what's going on? What's up? What are we doing? Where you at? I always say hello. I always say hello. No, never. I never say. I always speakers, Spanish speakers don't say, oh, wow, what is the, what is the speed? A lot of things,

“Demelo. Oh, you go. Come on, Tomo. Good. Okay. When it's a work call, that's what people would say.”

When it's a work call, it's hey, whatever their name is, has it going. Hey, Jeremy, what's up? No, I always say hello. Hey, Tony, what's up? That's how, that's how I answer work calls. I like how Mike answers the phone, because sometimes Mike answers the phone in the, in the studio, and he's got a, like, take a call, and even he goes, hey, it's my crying. We got that depends. What am I expecting a number, uh, a call potentially from a number that I won't recognize,

so I self identify, um, usually the way that I answer the call is, hey, I can't talk right now. Text me. It's time. Hey, I'm going through tunnel. When I was a kid, I used to answer the house

I used to answer with a high and my parents would get mad at me. Like, that's not how you,

that's not how you have never heard anyone answer the phone. There was nothing more

emasculating than answer. That's like the high-talking sign fan. Hello, ma'am. I want to talk to you about this cleaning product. God God. In your 20s, when you're thinking cool, it's you know, you answer wrangering your 20s when you think you're cool. Yeah, yeah, I answer you. I used to be a big yellow guy, not anymore. Yeah, what's up? Did you guys see this this morning? Do you see that? You know,

“athletes, star players, some of them have nicknames. Okay, nicknames are cool if you're an athlete, right?”

And apparently Caleb Williams quarterback for the Browns, he is, he, he's trying to trade Caleb Williams is not a quarterback for the Browns because I'd be a Browns fan for the bears for the bears, like I said, Caleb Williams, those bears are Browns. Very Zank also. Quarterback for the bears, he's trying to trade Mark his nickname. He wants to trade Mark the name. Iceman. Oh, come on. Dave, did you see this? George Garvin. Yes, I'm out. Yeah, go ahead. You, you, you, you saw this.

I mean, listen, we sports has an iceman. We, it, it's not in question. How lacking in creativity

are we as a society that this is where we've reached now? This isn't the first time. It's happened.

Obviously, we have Aaron Rogers deciding to be a rod. We already have an a rod, man. And LaDamian Tomlinson. Yeah, MLT now. No, no, we already have an LT in your sport, man. And he was

“better than you as good as you were. What do we do it? And by the way, this is a whole new layer of”

awful because I don't even know if George Garvin can rightly say he might be the, oh, I don't think he's the OG iceman because, um, iceman, I don't know when iceman made the scene in Marvel comics, but he's out there. And then, of course, you have iceman Val Kilmer. Tom Cruise is Maverick's arch nemesis in the skies. Who is the greatest iceman of them all? I'll tell you one who is it, Caitlin Williams. He's a thief.

What is the most egregious stealing of nickname? Because I would tell you, if somebody

says mellow, you can't be talk about lamella ball. No, it's mellow. Because people call them illible, mellow. Like, yeah, mellow. You know, who's another thief? Bam out of buy a Dwight Howard. Superman, you can't be Superman. Shack Superman. Oh, is that right? He's trying to take Superman. You remember when he did the dumb thing? He took a white hat and he had the Superman thing. Yeah, it's actually Dwight Howard, not the Philippines Dwight Howard. It's a whole thing.

Which is Bam out of buy it. I also call myself King James. After the Bible. This is our story. We have to put our foot down. We have to put our foot down as collectively. We can't allow this. Just like, well, yeah, but George Garve and played a couple of generations ago. So we can we can put that name back into the pipeline. No, we cannot. I've got a better nickname for Taylor. There cannot be another mean joke. I want to. I mean, look, when someone is clutch,

they usually describe them as nails. What do we know about Caleb Williams? Outside of his, you know, he's he comes in through the clutch and he paints his nails. nails. He should be nails.

“nails are real. You should be nails. Williams is a bad nails Williams. That's not bad. Marvelous.”

Hello, he should drop the lawsuit and we should sue Caleb Williams. Because he's trying to make his nickname. The iceman, when his nickname should be nails. But what if the nickname, like, is it okay if it's a different sport? Because Lenny Dijkshow is nails. I think this one's fine. Wait, what do you mean? We can, we can forget Lenny Dijkshow. No one can. What are you doing? It's pretty unforgettable.

Dave though. Outra Williams. Outra Williams. Outra Williams. This one makes sense. He's got, he paints his nails. We all park our cars in that garage. Dave, I'll call you about it later. We'll talk. Right. So like I was saying before Dave, which we see matchup, you most look at forward to tonight. Michigan. I don't know. I don't give a good goddamn about that. I'm all about,

I'm all about the chase, the final 10 games for the people are missing out. NBA, this, and NFL draft that what you're missing is the home stretch of the regular season. But what I wanted to tell you, you didn't want to give the whole studio the semester by tag-leptor-bücher soft-behind the internet. So master's really great. I'm saying, you can say that you're a hero. You're a player. But you don't believe it.

Egal, it's a loss for a job. Make the whole thing like this. And if you work,