Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another edition of Fire Up, a
new experience, just you and I. Jeremy, Yeah, that's kind of
cool, and we already have comments coming in. Jimmy, w what's going
on, Joshua or what's going on? And then he also said late start,
what's going on? While I'll admit I just finished watching the defeat of
my Milwaukee Bucks. They are out of the playoffs, and yes, so
on the couch like the Pistons who've been on the couch since they started the
season. Yeah, yeah, all, I all I'm gonna say is and
I know the Bucks have a lot of star power, and obviously Giannis was
out of commission for the whole series. So taking your number one and having
him out for the whole series and your number two player out for two games
of the series and going up against a hot, young, young team in
Indiana, they were just a better team, I'll be honest with you.
So they won, and kudos to them and good luck to them. But
that's why we didn't start, because I was literally watching that game. Leafs
are bruins. It's not the leaf, same old leaf. They'll they'll lose
in the first round. Of the playoffs, you think, so, yeah,
they suck the thing I will say about them. We so Scotline went
to Toronto. We went to visit our old stadium, and I will tell
you, I was really surprised because the out out outside of it, it
looks exactly the same. They have not changed any of it. But there
was an eighty million dollar renovation of the inside. They lifted the floor from
the bottom floor up to the sixth floor. They left the top seats around,
so they lifted the ice rink. So now that ice rink is for
college and they use it for national championships up there for the colleges. They
converted the rest of the floors. Four of them are college. Now five
are the college. One is a grocery. The first level is a grocery
store, and they actually have in one of the aisles is where Center ice.
Actually they actually have still marking where Center ices. And they have a
lot of different pictures around the different floors that we went on. But I
just thought it was really interesting. So I have to give them a lot
kudos because in Toronto there's not a lot of land, so the only thing
they can do is build up and down and so kudos to them for selling
it to the grocery store. The grocery store making the one level parking is
underground, and then selling to the college and the college making use of it.
The second floor is basketball courts, third and fourth or actually room classroom,
so I thought, so kudos for making good use of that space and
preserving some of history. That's really cool he wanted me to use. Okay,
that is cool, smoking Jay doing the voice changer, what you drinking?
Do what else? I think my kidneys process it straight out. It
doesn't even change colors anymore. Well, you and me both except mine's diet
and yours is letted. That's all right, mm hmm. So let's talk.
Well, last time we did a show was before the NFL draft,
both of us the NFL Draft for our first time. Definitely a different experience.
So talk about your experience. Let's talk about it. Well, the
experience itself was great. I just sat back and listened to all all the
other reporters and the questions they were asking. And you know what, I'm
sitting there going, why isn't anybody asking any meaty questions? The only meaty
question that got asked other than mine the entire day. That I thought was
when they asked Darius Robertson about his process on how he prepares for game day.
That's the only meaty question I heard all day. Everything was those casuals,
what you like to be gods? Like the most casual question. You
don't ask that the first night of the draft. He asked that after they've
been at OTAs and actually worked out together. I agree, I agree.
I think a lot of the media would ask general, very general questions.
And I think if they were national media and had arranged, because they could
have arranged with the team to have one on one interviews with the players after
the fact, I think that's probably where they ask more of their media,
you know, so they're not giving everybody else in the media that the answers
to the good questions. That's why I did the one I did with Harry
On and you got admit. When Jeff Risden was leaving, he goes,
what's your question for Harry And I said, I want I don't want to
know how he fell. I don't want to know how he got back to
playing. I want to know what he learned while he sat those four games.
He goes, that's a damn good question. Yep. And he actually
messaged me on Facebook after he read my article and he goes, that was
great, great answer. I can't believe you, being so new in the
media, had the ball's ask that in front of you. Good for you
go ahead. Other than that, I liked what I learned from the IT
guy and the police officer when I was standing outside just before day three.
I mean to learn that there was actually three hundred thousand additional fans from every
type of team outside of the facility, outside of the draft area. The
three hundred thousand you guys saw that was just what was in the TV area.
That was eid attendance people. That wasn't the free stuff. The free
stuff was everything outside the gates and around and so he didn't even count what
was in the streets, he said, in the bars from Greektown to the
other side of the one campus Marshes mm hm. There was about three hundred
thousand, three hundred thousands around the draft. That's amazing. If you add
that in every day, that's another nine hundred thousand, seven hundred and seventy
five eight attendants for each day total in the draft. That's one point sixty
seven five million people in Detroit. Mm hm yes. The one thing I
will I will tell people that if you have not already gotten a hotel room
in Green Bay for next year's they're almost completely sold out already, right,
You've got to start looking two counties away right now. Find decent hotel rooms
not jacked up either. Mm hm. Oh yeah, they know the year
ahead of time. Yep. And I know we deserve a super Bowl when
in Detroit after the Draft, I love it. Braylen, Yeah, seven
hundred and seventy five thousand people. There was seven hundred thousand through the gates
when Governor Whitmer just before she made that announcement that didn't include the people that
we saw still walking in because I literally was like, okay, we don't
have a picture of the fifth round or fifth round. Now, I'm gonna
go outside and have a smoke while we got this break because there was really
not a lot for me to talk about. I walk outside, I light
up my cigarette and it says lions around the clock, and I was like,
oh, well, I'm gonna stay down here till it's done because I
don't want to talk about it. So after I know the pic because by
the time I walk up there, it's done right right. Question for Candy,
when will Dave join a South Florida Tribune show? When will Dave?
I do not know any motoral words a teacher, no man, Dave's not
here, and Jimmy V are you guys going to the draft next year?
And I would say at this point it's TBD to be determined. We don't
know yet. I can tell you that I do have family that still live
in the Menominee Falls area. So let me see if I, oh,
Dave from my ah from Smoking Jay's show. Hm, you mean Dan von
Doom. Oh, he'll be on again. Let's see if I do I'm
having issues tonight. Let's see Dan Davis. That's who he's talking about,
Big Dan David. So the answer is, I'm not sure. Mammy falls
w that guy that I don't ever. I've never had a David. Oh
those guys, Okay, I know who he's talking about, Dave, Chris
Sierra and Dave. They are Fourth and Goal Sports podcast Andy, and he's
really good. He would love Dave to be on Inside the Pig Skin with
us. I'll talk to Dave s if he'd be interested in that. I
don't know if he's available those days because he works as a truck driver during
the week. He has a set schedule now. But if he is available,
I'm quite sure if Scott's good with it, I'd had to talk to
Scott first, introduce him to Scott and get it that way. I'm not
just gonna say yeah, I can get him on the show, because I'm
not the boss, right neither. Let's see back to the question about next
year's draft. I have family there within two hours of Green Bay, so
if we decided to, we could stay with them. I mean, by
the time you really the the day that makes the most sense obviously is Thursday
night. It's you know, that's the big night that really counts. And
the suggestion I made would have a have a spot for me to remember run
an RV, run an RV. All I'd have to do is show up
and pitch in. Yeah, that's that's always on the table as well.
You never know, that's probably your best bet to get a room even right
now. Mm hmm, Andy, give you a dog chat. I don't
know if she barked, Oh, my bite might might be worse than my
bark. I don't know what I was thinking, because I don't know if
I'd ever want to make you mad, because I think it takes quite a
bit though. Oh, your friend, he's a truck driver, he must
be rich. Truck drivers make good money. But at the same time,
you know what it actually is a drain on the body. And how many
skinny fit truck drivers are there under the age of fifty? Think about it.
You don't see it? Very rare, very rare. We just do
this. That actually sounded good? That did, Joshua. She's officially a
dog, josh There we go. Jesse Staubers mom is a truck driver and
she's rich. You know, there is good money to be made, but
there's also some drawbacks because you're not home very much, depending on what and
it also depends on what your kind of truck you're driving, you know.
I mean, now that they have those automatic ones, I think the average
person can get away with it if they just figure out the breaking disc mm
hmm. Next to god, good luck, Joshua. I don't know that
you're gonna get that ever, But did you get that I sent you?
They went up a little bit. But about the sound card I got,
I did I haven't had a chance, but yes, it's brutal being on
the road all the time. Yes, I can imagine. It's aware on
the family. You have to have a certain mindset, and you know what,
when you're a truck driver, you got to find a wife that does
want to be the homemaker. And that's rare these days, finding a woman
that wants to stay home, be faithful, take care of kids, keep
the house up, make it a home, because you know what, in
the traditional old values, the reason why the woman was called the wife and
the homemaker is because that's exactly what she was and they were happy to do
it forever. Mm hmm. It's kind of interesting because my uncle had the
exact opposite role. Now they didn't have any kids, but he stayed home
and she went to work and she wasn't a truck driver. But so you
just never know, right, Well, that's how this whole crazy stuff with
the mental disorder that's known as changing sects that started, as far as I'm
concerned, is because there were guys that were capable that were more feminine than
they were masculine. And it's been all throughout history, there's always been guys
that's been that way where they weren't the athletic guy. They weren't the man's
band, but they didn't do like guys. Now now it's the opposite.
Candy works and Scott stays home. I don't think Scott really stays home all
the time though he's not. He networking and you know, writing and stuff
like that. He's not home all the time. But so when we were
out there taking our pictures prior to the draft on day three for everybody so
they see the stage and all that good stuff, when we ran into that
guy that was talking to us, m hm, he's actually a comedian.
He' sprended me on Facebook. His name is Crystal Ball Flores and yes,
he calls himself the dirtiest comic that sports oriented around, and he might be,
and he'd be perfect on my show. And I made all actions.
I can't say any names, but guess what, I might have a former
Hall of Fame player on my podcast soon. Candy was there when I was
told about it. I'm working the details out now, should be within the
next couple of couple of weeks. But all was like to say is he
was at the draft. M Oh yeah, And it's a it's a big
name. So that's that would be a really good interview for you, a
really good, really good possibility too, which is awesome. And that's what
I think the NFL Draft really was for a lot of people. Chance to
talk to all people. And Jimmy asked us, on a scale on one
and ten, how did you like the draft. I'm going to let you
answer with your answer first, kid, on a scale of one to ten.
Now I'm going to say, Jimmy, my answer, I know is
going to be very different from Jeremy's, and it would be different from Scott's
because it was not in my hometown I was. I would say mine was
probably an eight. And probably the only reason why it's not down a couple
is because I was a little disappointed that from where we were in the media
center that we couldn't actually ever look out and see the whole stage with the
crowd. We had to watch it from a screen like everybody else. I
wish at one point they had to have even if it was a small room
or something where we could have gone to look out at the crowd from time
to time, you know, even if it was just down the hallway and
like you know, you'd rotate people or something like that. That that's one
of the things I missed is that, yes, I was there, and
I wasn't actually out there, and that was why because the exit that I
found was so close to the stage. That's one of the reasons why I
had more cigarettes this past weekend than I do when I'm working and I work
in a shop wrack and smoke. I'm gonna say that, Oh yeah,
I think I was taking what two cigarette breaks an hour there for a little
bit. I know I went through some packs. But anyway, for me,
it's a nine. And for the exact same reason that Candy said,
because it was in my hometown. It's a nine because I'll tell you what
when I talked to that officer and he told me that all they had all
weekend was one duy in that area and two fist fights between two individuals,
different different ones each time. But and then there was some lady who brought
in a ceramic pocket knife and she got busted. That was it. That's
all the crime that happened in that area. And you're talking about Detroit,
a city that used to be one of the top ten in crime rate in
the country. To have it be cleaned up and monitored that close. And
I found out some more details about the four hundred cops that were on duty.
Five of them were swapped with sniper rifles on the top of the buildings
of surrounding the draft. Just be mm hmm, Josh, I do want
to acknowledge what he's saying. Josh, and the guys were thinking the same
thing. You guys were just watching it on the screen. You could have
done that from home. Yes, we could have watched that, but we
wouldn't have had the interaction with any of the other media. We wouldn't have
been able to that first night interview you all of the draftees that came into
the room and to talk to the media, So you would have missed all
of that. And so just for those reasons, I mean, that's why
you go to the draft is to you know, interview some of them,
some of the players, some of the future You know, some of those
will be future Hall of famers. Now do we know which ones will know?
The jury will still be out and it depends on what team you went
to and stuff like that, but it's definitely an experience that you have to
experience. If you're a fan of the NFL, you have to experience it
at least once and everybody, I'll tell you what it was worth it to
be in the press room, because those are the interviews you don't get to
see. You get to see the one on one one or the ones near
the green room. The average people don't get to see the interview room like
we had. I mean, yes, there risk cameras there, a couple
of them got it on film. That's amazing experience. And it was my
first time being in that situation and when I had a chance, i rose
to it for the terry On Arnold. But I mean we only had five
minutes per guy. That's it. It was five minutes. So if the
questions were long winded, that meant you only got about five questions in.
And let's face it, the media room probably had close to would you say,
three hundred four hundred of us in the media asking the questions, trying
to get questions in. Well, if you look, it was about there
was six rows and they were twenty five across approximately, because it looked like
they split an aisle down the middle at twelve and so I think there was
close to one hundred and fifty maybe two hundred people in that room, but
in our room where we were sitting doing the draft stuff on day one,
there was five six hundred people in there because each one of those tables had
twenty tears down side. Mm hmm, Jimmy w thank you. It's something
I've done every year, even from home, and whether I'm in Green Bay
or at home, I hope Scott will do something similar to what I did,
and because that was fun for me, It's what I do. And
you know, Scott realized how much I actually watch college football and pay attention
to the players and everything because I had comments about players he knew I knew
didn't know anything about. He was just like, I mean, I go,
I go in depth with it. I love college football. I love
college football because those kids are playing, you know, prior to the nil
and some of them still do because not all of them get nil. De
deal. So, yes, we're glad that you enjoyed his live reactions.
That was awesome sitting next to them and trying to sometimes keep quiet and sometimes
not gotta say hello hello. We enjoy Yeah, I highly highly recommend it
as well, because it's it's a passion for me to do this because I
like to try to think as a GM when I'm doing my mock drafts.
Because Candy has watched a couple of my shows where I've done it before.
Mm hm. Yes, thanks for the beverage. Love college football. When
national champs, you can love it then, but I love it most of
the time no matter who is the champ. Yes, of course it's better
for your team to be on top. I get it. But you know
that's how I think is I try to put my head into brand hole head
listening to what he says and the type of players he's drafted. And what's
funny is I actually got three players right out of the six we drafted.
Mm hmm. Because if you look at every mock there were certain players I
took every time. Siam Vaki was one of them, but I didn't know
he played running back. I was just going purely off of safety. In
the fact we brought him in for a visit, I didn't know its pro
day. He did four different workouts for four different positions. I even said
we'd probably take Giovanni Manus in Day three just because of his size and athleticism.
Can we talk about how awful that what a prone wants commercially. Oh
god, it was horrible. I hated it. You saw it so many
times too. Yes, And if he was there at twenty nine, I
was taking Terry on Arnold. That's three guys I was taken, and you
can technically say four because I always took him in the third round. I
didn't think he'd balled a sixth. Christian Mahogany, the Guard out of Boston
College. It comes on constantly during NHL games. The funniest moment for me
is, you know, cayleab was the number one pick overall, but they
had him do the other part of the interview car wash versus all the individuals
stuff with the with the big name guys and on the NFL network and then
at the ESPN desk that was there and all that stuff. What was funny
is as he gets up to leave in the actual press media room and he
leans down and he grabs that microphone. He goes Goberts as he walks out
the room, Salute, good sir, thank you for coming on the show.
There, Joshua, we appreciate you. You have an early flight to
catch, so thank you, thank you, Thank you. There five for
the five salutes. There, I'll there, there you go, there you
go. So what was your surprise of the draft, And it can be
it doesn't have to be a pick, it can be whatever. It's a
pick. It was Michael Pennix going to Atlanta causing a QB controversy that was
not needed. As Orlando says right there about in his namon Wayne's voice,
hated it. Yeah, it kind of kind of reminded me of drafted love
and I'm like that didn't sit well with Aaron. Quite difference there, because
Rogers was already starting to waffle about retirement every year at that time. There's
a big difference there. If a players letting himself talk about possibly retiring,
trading up for a QB makes sense to have him sit behind that guy.
We'll vogel he speak of the devil. There he goes, Yes, hello,
mister Will, thinking about you Will. How are you doing? Are
you alive? Are you good? Oh? No, we love you.
Will. You'll be back on soon. We'll message you when you get your
chance. Yep, yep, Hey, I'm happy it's where they had Mitchell
and oh, well, miss you all. You'll be back, well,
you'll be back at some point, we kind of have done a little bit
of changing with the Fire Up programming, and for right now, it's going
to be me and Jeremy. We're gonna invite one guest on certain weeks.
We just don't know exactly who it'll be, but we will do that,
and one of these weeks it could be you will. You just never know.
But we were kind of taming it down a little bit and just letting
Jeremy and I talk. So he misses your show chair Ah that three,
Well, you know what or what not to do. That's all I'm going
to say. But I think for me it was interesting because I was talking
with one of the media that was covering it from the Milwaukee market and they
live they actually live in Kenosha, and we were talking about how different it'll
be and where they'll have it in Green Bay, because they really haven't come
out. They've kind of said it'll be around Lambeau. It's not going to
be in Lambeau because you obviously can't draw. It's going to be in Tidle
Town. But where and you're thinking of that area the only thing big enough,
how's that many people right there? It's the parking lot of lambeau Field,
because I you know, I've looked at the map. There's not a
close based park like there is a Detroit. There's not even a high school
football field that would be big enough, close enough like it would be in
Detroit. So I'm thinking it's probably going to be right in the parking lot.
They're going to build a structure, a temporary structure Orlando. But in
a way, he's right, there's just a better infrastructure and a bigger facility
available dom Do you there's that one automotive plant that's still sitting vacant in decrepit.
They're in Milwaukee. I know because I've been there in the last twenty
years. You take that and you turn that into a sports complex, and
you don't have to make it for one sport. Think about it. Isn't
the Milwaukee Brewers Stadium having issues? Yeah, they were there. They've approved
money now to fix it. Though, So if they took that money and
coupled it with the money that they're going to get to build a new stadium,
you guys could make a super stadium that shared between the two teams,
is what I'm getting at. They used to, but it's really hard because
Baseball and football really have different and to have a really good stadium, it's
hard. But Orlando, your super Bowl is not going to happen in Wisconsin.
It will not because one, we have an outdoor stadium and it's too
cold old at that time of year that they'll never have a Super Bowl.
They do not have the hotel space. They know that. I mean,
that's just the way it is. And I don't see them tearing Lambo down
anytime soon to change it up. We're gonna be one of the only teams
in the NFC North still have an outdoor stadium. Yea, because the Ants
are in for a dome, either going on Soldier Field or moving to that
place in Arlington Heights. I think it's called right right right where the two
is gonna happen with the Bears, They're going to end up in a dome
there, and I think all these northern markets Chiefs are talking about doing a
retractable dome because of that cold weather. Because it just affect the Dolphins players,
it affects the Chiefs players too. Remember at the end of that game,
Andy Reid's face matched his coat. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
It'll be interesting if Lamb wasn't so historic, you know, there would
be a chance that they would change it. But because it is so historic
that at least for right now, there's no plans of changing it. Yeah,
because I think they said when Pdfield was built, Nick got finished in
what was it two thousand and one was when we opened for that season.
That was the first season we had Joey Harrington, if I remember right,
he never got to play in the Silver Dome. So all we know is
that it's in Green Bay next year, and they'll decide on the next two
locations this year. They do it two locations at a time when they do
it, so probably middle to end of the season, just like when they
announced it would be in Detroit in Green Bay. It's going to be that
a thing because the year before they say announced it, Oh, it's going
to be in Las Vegas and in Kansas City. Yeah, you're no,
Yankee Stadium does not still exist, although they've they've built a field around that
on that same stadium. And you're right, Tiger Stadium is no longer,
but Tiger Stadium actually is still. That's not where they changed. No,
Tiger Stadium is. Yeah, it's gone gone, that's one of the things
I missed, the things that were lost. I had my two seats from
when I was thirteen watching the Tigers during the World Series run. I had
my two seats from when I watched mister Billy Simms karate kick Stevie Brown say
what you want. That was a karate kick all day. It was a
jumping sidekick, great for the guy's chest to make them get the burst down
m I had. I had those four seats. It was the same.
The one with the seat I sat him with my mom, and the other
one with the seat I sat him with my dad. And those being gone,
that's my reason I can't bring back I can't afford to bring back down
because I bought them back when they were first tearing stuff down, and you
could buy it from the construction guys for next to nothing. That's just smart.
But Orlando, Yes, you're right that some stadiums aren't still there,
but some of them still are. Like I can tell you where County Stadium
was. They changed that to a Little League field, So yes, the
big complex isn't there, but the field is actually still partly there. Home
plate is Bill the original home plate. If I remember right, that the
location. A home plate for that Little League field is still the local that
is the home plate from Tigers Station. The location is not the same plate,
of course, six years old by now. And when we were we
were just talking earlier off camera that we had gone to Toronto and the Maple
leafs Old Stadium, the original stadium that they had built, I think it
was nineteen thirty one, and how they've transformed that stadium. It's still the
outside is still all the same dimensions, same brick, same everything. But
now the first floor is a grocery store and a college bought the rest of
it, and its floor is two, three, four, five and six.
One's a hockey still. The top floor is the hockey rink with the
original seating that was up on the top upper bowl, and then one level
is a basketball court and then rooms. So it's it's interesting what you can
convert some things to what money will do these days. Right. Yeah,
In the very first time that they tried to destroy the Silver Dome and they
placed all those blasting the blasting stuff around the pillars, and we called it
the House that Bury built in the Silver Dome live up to the name because
it literally bounced and stayed standing up. I mean, I've never seen a
building jump afoot and just land back on its foundation. Is that? No,
I don't want them. That's a Barry Sanders move if I ever heard
it. That is Orlando. My trip there was great, although Scott and
I both got sick and got this nasty little head cold going on. But
I'll notice any big changes since you were last here, Well, obviously the
whole downtown area where we were, where you know where they built the stage
I Orlando. I've honestly been to Detroit, and I hate to say this
more times in the last couple of years than I care to, unfortunately for
funerals. So we were last let's see twenty one and twenty twenty twenty we
were there for funerals. So twenty twenty three were there to meet me,
Yes, exactly. We've been there numerous times. So the biggest changes I
would say would be the downtown where we were. I've been to Joe Louis,
I've been to Little Caesars, I've been to Ford Field. We've driven
by the Antiac Silver Dome when it was still up obviously not when I wasn't
there when it was still in use. But it was still up and I
have I was at the Palace of Auburn Hills at one point, I was
inside there, so I have been to some of those places too. But
so the biggest change I would just say is we're downtown where we were for
the draft. What they had done with all of that down there. So
Mom's Spaghetti. That is Eminem's restaurant after that line in his song Lose Yourself,
Mom Spaghetti and that's all they there, spaghetti and breadsticks and salad.
But uh no, we didn't get a chance to go to that. But
I wish they'd have been one of the caterers one day while we were in
the media room, because I would spaghetti goes a long way and it's teams.
Yeah, Detroit need the city needed it so bad. Detroit showed up
and Detroit really did. Did the NFL proud. I'll say, I really
think the NFL was happy that they did put it in Detroit, and the
way that Detroit responded was awesome. You know, to see a city embrace
the team and the NFL like they did was just really good to see.
I had seen a stat I'm trying to think, you guys, was it
Nashville was the one that had hundred thousands, and that was back in so
twenty nineteen. It was the year prior to COVID, and like last year,
that was very little. How many people I thought I screened shotted.
Three hundred and twelve thousand is what was in Kansas City last year, and
the year before that was Vegas was three hundred thousand, and then Chico.
Two years before that was Chicago, if I remember right, well, they
didn't have one in twenty twenty or twenty one, So then twenty nineteen was
Nashville was six hundred. The year before that, twenty eighteen was Dallas with
only two hundred thousand. The year before that was twenty seventeen with Philadelphia with
two hundred and fifty thousand. The previous two years were twenty sixteen and twenty
fifteen, were both in Chicago. One had two two thousand and the other
one was two hundred and twenty five. So you guys blew everybody out of
the water this way. We almost beat the Chiefs on day one mm hmm,
kind of like Week one last year, and Orlando Niagara Falls was beautiful.
We were pleasantly surprised by mister Wilson who had passed away, and his
widow has basically she was left a boatload of money from the sale of their
team, and I want to say it's something like a billion dollars that she
has sitting making money, and she takes the money that she makes off that
money, which is two hundred million dollars, and puts it into New York
in some spot in the state. She has. They have built a welcoming
visitors center on the US side of Niagara. They have they're building in the
process of building two other little buildings. One that's gonna hold I think a
little movie theater. She can go in and see like the progress of Niagara
Falls and all that change. And they have a gift shop. We did
take the boat tour Mist of the I always forget how it's said what it's
but it's like you basically sit in the boat and they take you around by
the falls and it is quite the quite a wed expendi because you don't realize
how what mist comes off in the falls. Lady of the myst Yes,
I've take that's what we took. Awesome experience going off Canada side. Obviously
you can see more of the actual falls, but it was that was definitely
beautiful. And then we headed up to Toronto. We covered Royals and Toronto
Blue Jays baseball game. Scott got to talk with Don Mattingly, who he's
you know, when Don was a manager down here, they got to talk
quite more frequently, and now that he's up in Toronto, I don't see
each other very often. And Don's like, wait a minute, where what
are you doing up here? And he's like, well, we came up
to visit you. We did you know, we did the draft things.
So it was really kind of cool. That's right, Yeah, you need
you need Summer Olympics. We do need to place that bid. We just
proved we can handle one point six million people just around Greek Town and everything
else. So and we've got the space for the facilities that need to be
built for the Olympics. That's what everybody doesn't realize. Since they took away
the blight and they've knocked out so many of those decrepit buildings for they're turning
most of them into new high rises, those expensive New York style flats.
And who buys them or rents them usually as corporations that have visiting people from
out of state or out of country because it gives them an nice, secure
location to put people up in and once they own the building, they can
get it for cheap. Well. And I think a lot of people don't
realize how close Detroit and Windsor are because there's a lot of hotels in both.
So like, if you have it in one spot, you have a
lot of hotels in the other city that people can stay at two So I
hate that makes it even better and easier for you know, the people of
Detroit too. Okay, also close university facilities, that's true. Yeah,
you got Olympic style. A university track and field event is the same as
an Olympic track and field event. The only thing you'd really have to do
is clear the path for the marathon the triathlon, no problem. Think clear
rivers right there now. Saying you want to swim in hey, you gotta
do what you gotta do. People don't want to swim in the ocean near
those big cities either, but they do it in those things. And arbor's
available, that's another one. But Detroit is the city that can have the
infrastructure to handle it. Ann Arbor Windsor really don't either if you actually look
at the amount of cops they have on duty, they would have to triple
to quadruple their police force to be able to handle that type of business.
They'd be able to handle the overflow to the hotels, but not the actual
event itself. Right, and you already have you have little seats. I
mean, well for summer you have little Caesars, but that could be the
basketball you have. I mean your big fields are right there at Ford Field.
You know, I don't know that people realize how close those are.
In propimunity. It's not city blocks, but they are all six blocks apart.
If you put it into actual city blocks, it's probably a twenty blocks
circumference where all of those things are. Yep, I could see it.
They could do it in Wayne State Universities right there with the tracks for them,
but they don't have the seating at that track. For I think they
would hold all the track stuff at ann Arbor where they have the bigger stadium
for it. I just I just think that would be the better spot for
the track and field. I could see it. I could see it.
Let's put in a bed now. But also I wanted to say I was
when we were driving in the first day and I looked up and I saw
this building. I was like, it said town Line Apartments. I was
like, oh my god, that was the old hotel that we had to
go to to stay in the night before we took our testing at the met
Center to get into the military. So from eighty eight to twenty twenty four,
yeah, I'm old people, that's how much it changed. But the
building's still there. It just has prettier tinted windows, and they're not looking
like a hotel anymore. It looks more like apartments mm hmm, because you'll
have the couple little windows for the bedrooms and then you'll have the big bay
window for the living room, and then it's the same thing down the way.
So it was amazing to see all that stuff. You know, when
you go in from a different venue point of approach to what you're used to
going, you see different stuff you didn't even realize that you saw when you
were a kid. Oh yeah, yeah. But you know what else,
this tells a certain commissioner, Adam Stern, you're screwing up. There's Adam
Silver's, David Stern, all of them not letting Detroit host an NBA All
Star Game is a travesty when we've hosted a Super Bowl technically two because we
had one at the Silver Dome as well. Yep. And if we can
handle the fans for the NFL in the middle of winner like that, the
All Star Game shouldn't be an issue. Nope, I agree. I agree.
Yes, come back story and the Lions have done an amazing job coming
back. But at the same time, if you look at free agency around
the league and the draft, NFC North might be the most competitive division in
football this year other than the AFC North. I think we're gonna get the
same amount because it's usually only five or six at most of the team gets
in a season, and usually it's the Super Bowl winner that gets the sixth
to one because they usually get the Hall of Fame game prior to the preseason,
starting for the very first preseason game. And I think the national TV
games are going to be down only because so much more with Amazon Prime.
I mean, all these side streaming places that they're going to Let's face it,
you know, and I'll say this again, I do not like this,
and I've made myself very clear about this, But the opening weekend and
you're going to put a game in Brazil and you're going to put that on
streaming on Peacock, and you're not going to put that on national TV.
Yet you want all of you want all to get into all these new markets,
but yet you don't want those of us that are the fan to see
unless you're going to pay for extra for streaming to see some of these played
in different outside the country. Let's put it that way. Why I will
this summer because I have to renew it in August. I'm going to get
you the link to the streaming service I use, because it doesn't matter what
channel it's done, you get it. Mm hmm. And I'd rather say
people money exactly I want. I've been promoting them so much. I want
them to see my show and make me make me a deal for me to
be sponsored by them, because I will promote it because it's it's very economic
when you can get a streaming service that for the year costs you as much
as cable does for one month with two premium channels. Mm hmmm. I
hear you, I hear you. And now you've got to pay extra with
comcasts or Exfinity as it's called. If you want Bally Sports to watch Tiger
games because somebody got greedy at Bally Sports and ask for too much money and
they were like bye bye. Yep. Because Exfinity is the biggest one in
second place the Spectrum, then it's the Times Warner, right, I think,
so yeah, mm hmm, you got Spectrum your gold. So in
other words, if you live in Davison, which is right around the corner
from me, who has Spectrum? Where you live up there near the tried
cities, you have Spectrum there, you guys get Bally and Fox Sports.
Expinity's done with it. Mm hmm, I hear, I know. And
other news that broke around Detroit while we were there that I didn't even get
a chance to mention is in Warren, the lake View Mall. It's last
day open is July first. We're talking about them all where it was one
of the biggest ones were seeing Santa. They had Pro Sports Zone there.
That's one of the Pro Sports Zone locations where the rookies from every team in
Detroit would go to sign apparel and many moments and pictures and stuff that's going
to be gone. A mall rats type of mall. Absolutely Orlando Escrabano,
And when I was a kid here in Flint, we had one called Genesee
Valley. Now it's like it's called Genesee Valley Center anymore. It's not called
the mall. It's it's sad. You know, all this stuff is going
away and changing, and it's mostly due to Amazon and all the internet stuff
that me buying stuff on team or ordering it through Walmart dot Com is what's
hurting the retail America business. Top shops barely have a chance anymore. Mm
hmm because they got to be races so low they can't afford to pay people
to run it for them, so they have to run it themselves. Mm
hmm. Yep. And the world that we knew in the world that we
grew up is definitely not the same my own boostore. They are charging three
thousand a month for your rent. Oh yeah. I used to talk with
one of the subway shops that was near my branch when I worked at a
different location, and they were saying their rent was four thousand dollars a month,
and even during COVID, which made it really hard to make, you
know, make those dollars. So I can only imagine mall space how much
the premium for that is? So my suggestion, since they're closing up quicker
than anything since speed seven eleven gotten bed with Speedway, find a closing seven
eleven and make a bit on the building quick, yep, because I don't
care. If it's the corner a corner lot purpose, you can draw your
business there, Orlando. A monthly payment is probably way less than that three
thousand a month for the mall space. Oh yeah, food for thought,
Ralph, How you doing, buddy, Steelers had a great draft. You
guys should be much better this year. I think a lot of teams overall
drafted pretty well. The only gim near failing great I have is the Falcons
just because of that first round pick. They needed so much on defense and
on the old line and even another weapon. They could have had Roma Dunze
to go with Kirk Cousins, the pair with Drake London and then have Kyle
Pitts as a slot receiver because he's not a tight end. He's a receiver
and a tight ends body. Mm hmm. I still think genetically he's related
to Julio Jones. Wow, it's called the end zone. If we are
good, we are a little tired. I will say I'm a little road
weary. Uh. Tuesday night, at ten pm Eastern time, we took
off to end our vacation and we had drove. We drove from here to
Detroit, Detroit to Niagara, Niagara to Toronto, and so Toronto all the
way back home to South Florida was over twenty two hours in the car.
So that was quite the hall to do it from Tuesday night and home last
night. And the fact that we both caught colds and are sick and coughing,
that didn't help any I will tell you, normally I have a stayed
intimidator, but because he was under the weather, he did not drive.
Normally he drives three quarters to almost all of it. He did not even
make it for a quarter of that drive. So I put put my driving
pants on and gloves on. I guess that was the longest I've ever driven,
but we made it. Andy had to put her big girl pants.
I did. And then today I had I had the extreme pleasure of going
to my vet because we when we leave for a long period of time,
we board our two cats, Bucky in boots, and I can tell you
that Bucky does not like to be boarded. Boots doesn't mind it. Bucky
so much so that when we had asked the vet to just come out and
he went to go get Bucky, and Bucky Histon almost bitems. So he
had to be sedated. And so when we went when I went to pick
him up tonight, they said that the doc even had to help them get
him into the cage into his carrier, and when they did that, he
again did not like them. And let's just put it to you this way.
Yeah, he made that very well known. By how should I put
the defecating all over? That was yeah, yeah, So I have a
carrier in my garage that I need to hose completely down and I had to
wipe down a cat and he wasn't very happy with me. But so I
have to figure out what I'm going to be able to do next time to
get him. Whereas my other cat loved all the attention and all girls coming
over and rubbing his head and the other one Nope, that deserves yes.
And no, I did not wear my cheese head when I was driving.
I don't think Candy is your typical cheese head. No, I've never seen
her wear one. I have seen her wear a jersey one, but we
were we were just talking that we weren't on a show because Scott doesn't like
us to wear jersey on the show. Fourteen paraphernalia. I'm lucky I get
away with my love old people. But I do have and I wore this
during in the whole draft. I do have a necklace that is uh,
it's gold and it's just a little football and inside the football it says Packers.
My mom gave me that many years ago. So I do wear that,
but it's not very like It's not a bling, bling type of necklace.
It's very soft. And although someone at the draft noticed it and said,
I really let you must be a Packers fan. And I'm like,
what gave that away exactly? But yes, I thought it was great that
happened before we got there on day one, while we were at media hospitality
at McAfee shows going on, and it was when the sun first broke out
and it started to warm up, and they did have a Packers beat writer
on as a guest and the whole crowd Orlando, Yes, yes, it's
not fair. I'll get Scott the ron bergendy whatever you guys wanted me to
get him to say, but the whole crowd started screaming the FTP but actually
using the words at the guy. He just grabs a mic and he turns
on the way. Nobody goes. Have the Lions sorright up that. You
know, I'm quite sure ESPN is not as happy with the bat McAfee shows
as they thought they'd be. Yeah, I'm sure, but it was an
experience. I'll never forget. That's me. But you know, you got
at the early part. You know it's gonna be mostly Lions fans there because
the draft is here, we got a first round pick, We're all hyped
up, We're ready to rock, and so it was like ten to twenty
thousand Lions fans screaming it so loud you could hear it through the mics in
the studio, and you know they try to sound proof those things to not
have that. So I would I'm just dying. Well, anytime, like
any I would say, I don't. I don't remember hearing it so much
the first round picks for Minnesota or Chicago, but anytime any packer went up
there or they were talk talking about a packer's pick, the crowd obviously booed
got into it because obviously their arrival. But I would say as the later
rounds went on, I noticed they were also starting to do it for some
of the Bears and some of the Minnesota And it was most what the people
said on the stage. It wasn't because of the scene itself. Right when
they started letting the fans pick on day three and they start trashing the Lions,
I'm sorry, one hundred and sixty thousand people outnumbered the main part of
the the rest of the guys. I think about it. It was a
whole sixty thousand on day one that we're the fans there. Oh yeah,
and they bowed the Packers for even the second round when it was Brian Blago
was up there. But you know, it's all good because it's all good
rivalry and you like to see the the spirit. I mean, let's face
it, they should be rooting for their team, just like I expect none
nothing different when they go to Green Bay next year. Each team has their
big rivalries and they're gonna do it so but well, Jeremy, normally we
talk about normally one topic each on my town. Have you prepared anything about
your town? I want to get into a UDFA that we picked up after
the draft, and it's somebody that was talked about. If he wouldn't have
got hurt, he probably would have been a Day one or Day two pick
at center. It's Kingsley Egguacoom of Florida, which I know Candy has seen
him before because Florida plays it in Florida, and I know she knows who
I'm talking about. He had a bad lower leg injury about four weeks into
the season, and he's fully recovered and he's passed his medicals. So the
Lions actually guaranteed him two hundred and forty thousand of his UDFA salary. And
I only say that because when it's that amount of money, those guys tend
to make the fifty three man roster. And seeing is how we don't have
just a center to back up rag Now, I think that's the guy that
they're targeting to be the backup for Ragnow. So Glasgow can focus at being
left guard because Zieitler's predominantly and only a right guard my town. Obviously,
I said the opening of the show. We waited till a little bit later
because I was watching the Indiana Pacers beat Ronckey Bucks in the NBA playoffs sprout.
But what I want to get down to and what I want to talk
about is I want it's time for on all of the sports, for the
refs, umpires, you name it, for them to get their heads in
the game and to be making the right calls because some of the calls all
seem have been so controversial. In fact, there was a call in Brewers
versus Yankees the other day that the league came back after the fact and said
that was the wrong call against the Brewers and it went in favor of none
other Aaron Judge. And until we can stop the biases and giving these extremely
overpaid players the benefit of the doubt too much or overcompensating, it's just sad.
It's sad that some of these calls are coming down to and making such
a and we can talk about how they make they change the course of a
game, and oh but it doesn't come down to one call because there was
how many of their plays, But it can really change the direction of a
team and their mentality. And I even saw it tonight some in the Bucks
game, and I'm like, are you kidding me? And I know I'm
all for my team and obviously I'm going to be a little more biased,
but we've seen it even in the NFL some of these games, some of
these umpires are refs not making the right call. We've seen it in baseball,
We've seen it in basketball, we see it in hockey. I don't
know what the answer is baseball. I mean, they're getting to the point
where robot robot umps. Is that the answer? I don't know. You
know, and you know what's funny is it actually works. They used it
in the minor leagues in the Double A, Single A, and Triple A,
using the computer to call. It's a computers camera. That's special.
Mm hmm, it actually is, and they can use it to overturn turn
an ump It's just a matter of time before it's going to start being used
in the major leagues because you know what, they're tired of the gym West
calling a ball that's across the plate outside fall four right, or just the
opposite if it's the opposing team, a ball that's a foot off the plate
and call a strike blatantly missing it. And Jim West is one of the
worst at it. Yep, I agree, but that Kay is starting to
get it right. Because they have their to get the white guys for the
playoffs every year, they have to be x amount of percent accurate or better
on their regular season games. That's a step in the right direction. And
the fact that they do have replay now in the NBA, so if the
refs think they got it wrong, if one of them says, hey,
that's not what I saw, they get together and they watch the replay and
they correct it. The problem is you're not always going to have a ref
see when a guy makes the wrong call exactly. There should be coaches challenges
in the NBA as well, because if they can review it, then you
should be able to call for it. Well. They are allowed what I
think it's two because I saw tonight the Indiana Pacers coach did use I think
it was twice, and I think that's the max, right. I think
they need to have the new rule that Dan Campbell and Sheila hamp got him
invoked in the NFL. If you get it right in the first half,
you get an extra one in the second half. And there's certain things that
if the refs can review it to get it right, then the coaches should
be able to call the review to get it right right. I don't like
that because there are times when an interception is called and they say it's automatically
reviewed, and we can watch the review and see they got the call wrong,
and they still uphold the call, and I'm sorry, I'm not watching
it in a screen that's right here within an inch of my face, with
everything blacked out around me, So that's all I get to see. If
I can see it on my ch TV across the twenty foot room. They
should be able to see it on a twelve inch screen that's up to their
eyeballs. If they can't, they need their eyes check exactly anything else showing
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