We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emili Jashinski,
culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the show
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Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts, and of course to
the premium version of our website as well. Today is super Bowl Monday,
and in honor of super Bowl Monday, we are joined by Jake Crane,
Blaine Crane, and David Cohne. They're the hosts of Crane and Company,
which I know many of our listeners enjoy over at the Daily Wire. If
you haven't checked it out yet, make sure to check out Crane and Company.
Jake, Blaine, David, Welcome to the show. Hey, we're
excited. Thanks for having us. Emily. It should be a holiday today.
It should be a holiday to day. You make us walk the super
Bowl on Sunday and then go to work on Monday. I don't think Paul
Rivero rode that horse scream in the British or companies we had to go to
work the day after the super Bowl. Well, and also it should be
federal law that if the game goes into overtime. It is you have to.
It is a human right to get the day off if the I cannot
agree with you. More love this, I love how this is starting right
now. Hey guys, since it's your first time on Federal Austradio Hour,
could you each just tell us a little bit about your background. We'll just
go one by one and how you ended up doing Crane and Company for the
Daily Wire. Yeah. Well, it's a crazy story. You know,
we all coached and played at a high level. I'll let them, you
know, tell you their accolades. But I played and coached in Division one
for you know, almost a decade. And it's crazy. I was coaching
when COVID happened and they sent us all home and I was just messing around
on a microphone about a fifty dollars microphone. Didn't know what was good.
I'm not Steve Jobs by any stretch of the imagination. So just getting something
on Apple Podcasts and Spotify was like my Zuckerberg moment and it just took off.
It's weird, think, Emily, that I'm in a coma really like
I got hit by a semi like on some mountain road recruiting and I'm still
in a coma. But it's it was amazing. I ended up. You
know, obviously, I've known my brother his whole life, but I met
David Cone when we started doing the show on video and it just, you
know, blew up from there. We're less than four years in and we've
seen incredible growth and just did a movie. And I think it's because we
keep sports about sports. To be honest, yeah, I agree that.
Well, I was born into an extremely wealthy family, but I saw my
parents skip killed in an alleyway outside of a movie thing. From there on,
you know, I'm scared to wait, hold on, I'm seeing a
lot. I'm seeing a butler a city at night. It's named Alfred.
You know Alfred. I know alf First off, How are you born into
a wealthy family that'd have been nice considered not your brother? Oh man.
And I'm I'm David Cohne. I'm a close cousin. That's why. Yeah,
I tell people I'm from a small town in South Georgia. I just
grew up loving football, got an opportunity to play at the University of Michigan.
Played quarterback there for four years, and for some reason, none of
the NFL teams drafted me, which was their loss completely. So that led
to a career in video production and music production. I had ten years of
experiencing that before I met Jake and Blaine Crane. We really hit it off.
It was like a band coming together. We joined Colin Kawher's network out
the volume. Then Ben Shapiro reached out uh that fall and asked us if
we moved to Nashville and joined his company, and we were already huge fans.
So that's what Jake means when he says it feels like a dream.
And then all of a sudden, we're starring in movies with him and with
Jordan Peterson and Candae Owens and Matt wallsh So that's that solidified the fact that
we are in a dream that was Ted Cruise erasure. But we'll let it
slide for them. That's our that's our buddy. Now, Yeah, play
on two of them on. I mean, I'm playing I'm playing two on
two basketball with these guys and Ted Cruz barefoot with an eighties rocker wig on
and my name is DaVita. Yeah, me and Ted Cruz won that two
on today. No, there was no score being kept there. First of
all, yes, okay, okay, well so that's you said that.
It's you think a lot of the popularity of the show has to do with
the fact that you keep sports about sports. So in the spirit of keeping
sports about sports, guys, that was you know, a pretty it was
a good game. It was a nail bider. You can't complain when the
Super Bowl goes into overtime. I love scoring Super Bowl. What are your
thoughts basically on the game itself? Again, a lot of defense. I
know some people really love those high scoring games. It's definitely not what people
got last night. So give us your thoughts on how that game transpired.
Yeah, well, look, it's it's no surprise that people want to see
a lot of points. The NFL would like high scoring games, just like
you know, Major League Baseball, just like you know NHL and the NBA
and and you know, I'm a defensive guy, was a defensive coach,
and there was some good defense being played in the in the first half,
but I think a lot of it was sloppy offense. I mean, you
had multiple turnovers in the red zone. You had, you know, from
the forty nine ers standpoint, some some pretty crucial penalties you were getting in
second and long, third and long. So while the defenses were playing well,
you know, I thought the offense is played pretty sloppy. But you
see, and we say this all the time on the show, the game
plan and the scouting report is one thing, but the coaches that are the
best at what they do are the ones that can adjust end game. And
you saw those halftime adjustments. You know, the Chiefs, you know,
just making the smart decision to throw to ball, the Travis Kelce you know,
outside of him, you know, trying to poompole slam Andy Reid.
But it ended up being a really good finish. The offense has kind of
picked it up. I enjoyed the game, but yeah, it was sloppy
to start. They kind of looked a little timid, but we did get
a big finish and you know, we hit our bets side the Chiefs winning.
There you go, I did too. I agree with a lot of
that. You can have a great football game where a lot of points don't
get scored. Just so happened in this game. We saw both defenses playing
at an elite level and then you had the sloppy mistake. So a lot
of penalties. Then you had two fumbles in the red zone, a punt
return that was also fumbled. But then to cap it off, what I
think, we had eight straight scoring drives and you count over time. So
look, anytime the Super Bowl comes down to the last play, a lot
of people are happy. Look we live stream the game, and you could
see the numbers more people jumping in as the game got closer and closer at
the end. Well, yeah, I think the first three quarters of the
Super Bowl were trash trap, boring, snoozefest. I don't think the defenses
were playing phenomenal either. It looked like sloppy football. But that's the thing
about football. The only thing you need is one quarter, just one.
You just seed one quarter, especially in the game like this in the Super
Bowl, to bring everybody back inside to sit down and watch the game.
And that's what you got in the fourth quarter. And that's what you got
in the first quarter of overtime. Okay, so you referenced Kelsey who went
massively viral for shouting at Andy Reid. What did you guys make of that?
I've seen some different theories, but what do you think was happening there?
Well, and you know, we talked about this on the live stream.
Look, when you get to the professional level, it's a lot different
than college. The players are making more than the coaches. There's not a
lot of coaches screaming at players. It's more of a friend relationship. And
look, guys get fired up. I've seen Patrick Mahomes pitch a fit on
the sidelines. I've seen Tom Brady turn into the guy from Split on the
sidelines do out different courses of the game, But where it becomes a promise
when you start putting your hands on somebody, Because in coaching we had a
rule You're not going to put your hands on me. I'm not going to
put my hands on you, because the minute it becomes physical, that's a
totally different level. So I thought, and I think Travis will tell you
this too him. You know, I don't think he intentionally tried to kind
of bowl Andy Reid over, but Travis Kelsey is a big guy, and
it went a little bit too far the shouting. That's one thing. Hey,
let's break an iPad, let's break a tablet. Get back together.
You start putting your hands on me, then we're going to play a game
of let's find out now. Hopefully it's not Travis Kelcey, because I'm gonna
get beat to sleep unless I use a ninja focus. But that was just
that was a little over the line for me. Yeah, I don't think
Travis Kelsey meant to physically put his hands on Andy Reid, but you know,
sometimes it happens even without intent. The narrative completely shifts when the Chiefs
win that game, because if the Chiefs lose that game, all of a
sudden, you're like, man, these guys were more focused on Taylor Swift
and you know there's problems in Kansas City's locker room. Whereas when they win
the football game, we say like, oh yeah, that's what it takes
sometimes for the greatest of all time to get motivated. This We're an eighteen
year old kid who's never made any plays and he goes up and he's putting
his hands on the coach. Of course, it's going to be like the
most extremely disrespectful act that you can imagine. But we're talking about a top
five greatest tight end of all time and the top five greatest coach of all
time. I don't think there was anyone happier than Andy Reid that Travis Kelcey
got that emotional about not being in the game. The Chiefs were completely pedestrian
in the first half on the offensive side of the football. So I think
whatever happened on the sidelines that we saw was a microcosm. And like Kelsey
did in the locker room at halftimes, emotion's part of football. The two
just coerced together. But I will say this one. I mean, look,
Travis Kelsey had one yard receiving walking in the halftime. That's unacceptable.
Pretty sure he only had two, only had two targets in key moments as
well. They keep taking them out of the game. But look, Maynard,
Travis kelce dog your girls at the game. I mean, you got
it all out too. If you don't win, will Taylor Swift even be
around? Yeah, let's be on. You had to win that Super Bowl
to make sure Taylor Swift's going to be there will when it's over. Amazing.
How did the season compare? For we do like expectations versus reality to
what you guys expected to see from those I mean a lot of people could
have predicted at least the Chiefs in the Super Bowl, But what did you
now that we can sort of look back on the whole season, how did
it compare to what you expected? Well, I honestly thought, and look,
I think college football is a better product. I think we can all
agree. I thought it had its ups and downs. I think the Lions
were a great story. C J. Stroud and the Texans doing what they
did, the Browns finally making the playoffs but in Cleveland Flash and getting out
in the first round. You know, I honestly think and I know the
Chiefs. A lot of people picked the Chiefs before the year. It's Patrick
Mahomes. I think this is Andy Reid's best coaching job. I think to
be able to not only win, but win for a long time, to
have these dynastical runs, that's the biggest word I know, Emily, so
I had to use it. You've got to be able to win in multiple
ways. I always say the bestility outside of fertility is versatility. And the
Chiefs defensive team they won the Super Bowl on defense and being a balanced team.
It wasn't just you know, some high flying offense that outscored everybody.
They found different ways to win without as many superstars around Patrick Mahomes and being
led by the side of the ball that did not include Patrick Mahomes. I
mean, one of the greatest stats. And we talk about adjusting, you
know, mid game. The Chiefs didn't give up double digits in the second
half like the last ten games. That is absolutely incredible. That is absolutely
dominant. And we saw the Patriots do the same thing when they were going
on their run. They'd win some games high scoring, they'd win some games
on defense and special teams. It just goes to show you football is the
ultimate team sport. On the teams that can win in the most ways win
the most. I think we can all agree that the Chiefs were unimpressive for
the most part regular season, and that's the thing and the greatest of all
time mentality shows up biggest in those those biggest games. And you look at
the last three games they won. When they go on the road Buffalo,
they were underdogs, goal on the road, beat a team in Baltimore that
we thought was unbeatable. They were underdogs. And here they were underdogs in
the Super Bowl and they win that one too. And it's just funny to
me that the backbone of this Chief's dynasty has been the offense. The greatest
tight end of all time generational quarterback every five coach. You know, when
they trade Tyreek Hill and for that what they get defensive pieces. They got
an edge guy in a corner for those picks that they got. And it
was this young defense and Steve Spagnola that really showed up throughout the course of
the season. I know, Patrick Mahomes leads the game winning drive and wins
MVP, and that's what everyone's going to remember from this particular game. But
man, this defense, they didn't give up over twenty seven points all season
long. That's ridiculous. I think the more things change, the more things
stay the same. Who I mean, obviously the Chiefs being in the Super
Bowl, I mean here to question that in Cal Shanahan blowing the Super Bowl.
I mean, the guys won twenty five point lead, a ten point
lead, and another ten point lead in the Super Bowl. Let's be honest.
I mean, if it walks like a duck in quacks like a duck,
it's a duck. And kl Shanahan's the biggest show artist in Super Bowl.
Well, Emily, we said, I don't know what's stunk worse.
Kyle Shanahan's second half play calling for San Francisco are the streets and sidewalks.
He's as about as clutch as a screen door in the summer. I didn't,
I didn't the little digit leads and that is insane. Point talk to
us about the play calling, then what should a shanahana have been calling more
of? Well, it's it. Look, you can always look back at
the play calling. Hindsight's always twenty twenty. But it seems whenever Kyle Shanahan
has a common sense answer to something, he does the opposite. You go
back to the Patriots when he was the OC at the Falcons, You're leading
the Pats twenty eight to three in the second half, and you come out
and throw the ball, throw the ball, throw the ball, throw the
ball and stop the clock instead of running the ball. Well, the Niners
were leaning on the Chiefs late in that game. It looked like that the
Chiefs were starting to get tired on defense and on first down all he kept
doing is running play action and throwing the ball instead of giving the ball to
Christian McCaffrey aka Haru the Great White Ninja and letting him take you to the
Promised Land. It just seems like if it's smart to go right, he'll
go left. If it's smart to go down, he'll go up. I
mean, I understand being a contrarian, scared money, don't make no money,
but stupid money leaves you broke too well. The Chiefs defense gave up
seven points in the second half to Josh Allen and the Bills. They gave
up three points in the second half to the MVP and Lamar Jackson with the
Ravens. So from Kyle Shanahan's perspective, you had to know the Chiefs were
going to make their adjustments at halftime. And Kyle Shanahan makes his money the
fifteen million a year for being one of the most elite play callers in the
league. And they come out in the second half and they have three straight
three and outs, and on at least one of those possessions, maybe even
two of them, Christian McCaffrey didn't get a rush attempt. You don't get
the ball to your best player. Yeah, two possessions, and they're really
key possessions, and they were in the third quarter. I believe one of
them was coming off with Patrick Mahomes pick where they didn't run the ball one
time. And what's been always a knock on College Shanahan. He doesn't run
the ball when he knows he needs a run a ball. It's a common
sense play. But at this point, is Kyle Shanahan the worst best coach
ever? And we want to talk about, you know, his genius offensive
mind. I mean, when it comes down to it, but you needed
to get six points when it mattered the most and you only got three.
I will say I think there's time for him to change that narrative. Remember
Andy Reid and Philadelphia. People talked about that a lot too when he had
Donovan McNabb. Always these really good teams but couldn't win the big one.
Now look at him, all of a sudden, people are saying, well,
now Andy reachs past Belichick and he's the greatest coach of all time.
Especially when we look at the way the NFC is set up. I think
the forty nine ers and they're gonna have to make some tough decisions with all
these key pieces. They can't pay everyone, but their quarterback is still on
a rookie contract. They're going to be a formidable opponent in the NFC.
Whereas the AFC. You look around, you know, Jim Harboss coming into
coaching starters. You know, Josh Allen's still going to win one. Joe
Burrow is going to get healthy. Lamar Jackson looks like he's here for a
couple more seasons healthy, So it's going to be really interesting next season.
Yeah, I like that. The worst best coach, that's like being well,
it's like Emily really like the smartest dumb people like Da've like the person
who you know, invented a motor that can run on water, but he
doesn't look both ways before he crosses the street, like that type of person.
What about Brock Purdy? What did you think of his performance last night?
I thought Brock was good. You know, look, Brock isn't going
to be the elite playmaker that we see some other guys, but he doesn't
have to be. He does a really good job of steering the ship.
I think he's a little more athletic than what people give him credit for.
I thought he played well enough to win last night. That there was a
couple of plays and I want to make sure and give flowers to Chris Jones,
the best defensive one of the best defensive linemans in the NFL, but
the best defensive Lineman on the Chiefs who when Brock Perdy had guys open,
Chris Jones was in his face and made it tough for him to make the
throws. So, you know, I thought Brock played well enough to win.
I think he can go back to the play calling. But expecting Brock
Perdy to just put the team on his back when you have Christian McCaffrey and
Deebo Samuel and Brandon Niyuk and George Kittle and Jawan Jennings, I can go
down the list. That wasn't the recipe to win it. So I thought
Brock, I mean again, you're paying the guy like a washing machine in
three bucks an hour to eat you to the super Bowl. And he made
some great throws and he missed some throws. And he's a second year player,
you know. And I think that a lot of people look at this
roster that they have is kind of like the Georgia Bulldogs when Stetson Bennett was
playing quarterback. And there's just a certain amount of people that are never going
to give, you know, kudos to guys who aren't highly recruited or aren't
highly drafted. But the reason is because the NFL has become a game where
you have to have one of the most elite quarterbacks of all time to even
win the Super Bowl these days. It didn't always used to be like that.
You could have great defenses that are led by quote unquote game managers,
even though we kind of hate that term here at Craning Company. But you
know, down the stretch of this game right here, you saw that when
the Chiefs needed a big play on defense, what did they do to brock
Purty. They heated him and let him up. They heeded him up,
and they knew that they could get home by doing that. Even the nickel
blitz there in the fourth quarter, that's what forced them to kick the field
goal instead of getting that third and four, third and five. Whereas when
you do that against Patrick Mahomes, when you do that against Tom Brady,
He's going to hit a crossing route over the middle and it's going to get
thirty yards if you blitze it. Well, I think brock Purdy went toe
to toe with Patrick Mahomes in his second year being a quarterback in the NFL,
and I think Brock Perdy gets enough credit. I think brock Purdy Helpedkyle
Shanahan out a lot because people don't remember Kyle Shanahan gave a lot up to
get Trey lance Ye say who was a bus? Say an absolute bust and
brock Purty mystery relevant the last pick of the NFL coming almost saved Kyle Shanahan's
career. Yeah, the roster is great, but you can look alone around
a lot of rosters in the NFL with elite quarterbacks who can't beat Patrick Mahomes
and the Chiefs, a lot of the Ravens. So I think brock perty
needs his money. Mean, I mean how the guy has a roommate,
drives it to coma to work and you're losing over Patrick Mahon. I think
that's a good point. Maybe some of it, too, is because of
this window that the forty nine ers have, right, all of these pieces
on offense and defense, and they're not going to be able to pay everyone
forever. That it's like, okay, right now is the forty nine ers
window. We don't care if your quarterback was the last pick. We don't
care. What it is now is when you have to win. Whereas if
this were some really really young team, like let's say the Packers, who
the forty nine are just beat to get here. We'd all be saying,
oh, well, they got this far with a young team and a young
quarterback, they're going to be a problem for years to come, whereas now
we're kind of saying, Okay, well the quarterback's young, but some of
these guys you're going to have to move off from in the next couple of
seasons. I was just going in that direction because you were talking about future
the AFC and just pivoting over to the NFC. My god, Jordan Love
looked fantastic this season, and in terms of expectations versus reality, totally.
I think blew a lot of US Packer fans away with his performance. You're
not entirely surprising, but still remarkable. And yeah, there's Aaron Rodgers are
still out there. You mentioned all those guys in the AFC side, Lions
look fantastic this season. What are you guys expecting from next season? You
know, look, as much as things change, I think a lot of
them are going to stay the same. First off, Emily, you speak
our language when it comes to football. I'm very impressed. And also Joe
pat Go our father played for the Package for a few years. We got
family from up there. Look, when you look at the NFL going forward,
it's you know, guys are getting thrown into the fire quicker at the
quarterback position than ever before. You have coaches that are getting highed that are
younger than ever before, and which I think is a good thing. It's
all cyclical. But going forward, the Chiefs are not going anywhere. You
look at the way that team's built, you know, with what they're trying
to do, I don't expect any change there. But Jim Harball getting hired
by the Chargers. You look at the AFC West, Now what are the
Raiders going to do now? With Antonio Pierce. You can go down the
list, but you know, you look at the Detroit Lions, who are
slowly becoming my favorite team outside of the Green Bay Packers with what Dan Campbell's
doing. I'm interesting to see what the Falcons are going to do. But
Emily, this draft, to me is so fascinating because we've never seen an
NFL draft that's this deep at quarterback. So you look at the Chicago Bears,
who have the number one overall pick. You're going to keep justin fields
and maybe trade that pick or get Marvin Harrison junior and put some p around
him, or do you go and get Kaylen Williams and then trade justin Field.
So I think this draft is going to have so much and every draft
has some ripple effect, but I think that the effect of this draft on
how many quarterbacks are coming out that could be legitimate problems in a good way
and turn franchises around. And you see what CJ. Stroud did and some
of these young guys, Jordan Love and Brock Purdy, It's again, it's
a young man's game. Guys are getting thrown in the fire. So I
like the anomalist factor of a lot of new quarterbacks. But I just hope
overall that the product's a little bit better, not not as sloppy as it
was this year, even though I am a defensive guy. Well, Emily,
congrats on being a fan of a franchise that has successfully passed the baton
from Brett Favre to Aaron Rodgers and not to Jordan Love. And look,
I have to be honest, he surpassed any expectations that I had for him.
Even just watching him in the pocket, I could tell that he sat
behind Aaron Rodgers and took mental reps year after year. And it's not just
he's in the same helmet in the same jersey. The way he pushes the
pocket reminds me a lot of Aaron Rodgers and they're young. Think the Packers
are going to be real good. Now. Compare that with divisional rival Chicago
Bears, like just mentioned, have never had a four thousand yard passer.
Meanwhile, the Packers are going from Brett bar to Aaron Rodgers to Jordan Love.
So I don't know what they're going to do at number one. But
if you stick with Justin Fields in a year where you have the number one
pick and you could go get one of these generational quarterbacks that's coming out,
you know, you take a big risk by doing that. And Justin Fields
is an incredible player. I get that, and it's hard to have success
in the environment that he was in this past year. But they're going to
be in a tough spot they if they pass on too many of these talents
coming out. Yeah, I agree. I think Jordan Love is the real
deal, and I've given my flowers him. I was rough on the kid
earlier year. I didn't think he would be what he is now. But
I mean, the one thing about the Lions and the Packers, you can
kind of look at the same thing. They're young. I mean they're young
pieces. Romeo Doves, Christian Watson, Randall, Reed Randall, Reid Rix,
Tucker Kraft at Ted End He's going to be a good piece. And
it's the same thing with the Lions. I'm really excited about this Lions team.
Jared Goff proved himself this year. I think Jared Gosson now a guy
you can believe. But they're young too, Jamiir Gibbs, Jameson Williams of
Sam Brown's not old, Sam Laporta, I mean the guy Montgomery, Aiden
Hutchinson, Brian Branch. They're young all around, and they're drafting well.
And the way they're built is a run first team. Run first, and
you can win a lot of games by turning around and handing the ball off.
But now, if you're Dan Campbell, you have to go shure up
that the young, hungary and pissed is a great way to happen. You
have to go sure up that secondary right now. If you're a Packers fan,
are you're a Lions fan, stock is trending up. You guys are
getting everyone really hyped up about next season, and now there's like, let's
get emotion on here. Yeah, so I have to do it. I'm
sorry about this, but I do have to ask about the Taylor Swift of
it all. Of course, you know it's they were They were really conservative
in taking shots or showing shots of her, at least it seemed like in
the first half. And then I feel like they just let it go and
just kept going back and back to back and forth to her booth. What'd
you guys think of how often they went to Taylor? What'd you guys think
of the kind of cultural appreciation for Taylor and Travis and how all that was
handled this last week? I can't wait for mine here. Well yeah,
well, I'm just there's the part. I'm like, Trump, here's the
thing, You're ready. I'm just I'm over it. I'm so over it.
I get look, I'm happy. I hope they're in love. I
hope they're in just the loviiest love of all time. Right, But if
I go to a Taylor Swift concert and I'm looking at the jumbo tron,
I don't want to see Travis Kelcey smashing a Miller light over his head.
Every thirty seconds, Like, I just want to watch the game. I
treat the Taylor Swift thing. It's like with Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo,
right, they kind of overdid that right a little bit, so you can
say the same thing there. But it's almost like the Pride Night at the
Ballpark thing for me. I don't care when I'm going to the game.
I don't care if you're gay, if you're straight, if you dress up
like a hamster, or if you're dating Taylor Swift. I'm just trying to
win money on the game. I want to watch the game. Can we
just please for five minutes not talk about Taylor Swift and talk about why Travis
Kelse trying to fight Andy Reid on the sideline? Boy? What do you
think? One? I'll tell you this right now. I hate that Taylor
Swift and Travis Kelse one. But I'm so glad it's over. I'm seeing
it over the over Is it over? Though? Look? And I kind
of agree with Jake and I said this when I found out that Taylor Swift
and Travis Kelce were a thing. Well, well, the Chiefs are going
to go to the Super Bowl and win it because Taylor Swift is nothing but
money. She's brought almost five hundred million dollars to the Chiefs and the NFL.
Look, Roger Goodell's a business man. We know how this works.
But look, if they're dating, that's fine. Just don't shove it down
my throat the entire game. Oh if it is the first down, let's
show Taylor Swift. Oh, look, some guys selling a hot dog.
Let's show Taylor Swift eleven times. Eleven times in the super Bowl, and
I don't even want to know how many times throughout the playoffs. There's some
weird about it. I don't believe in it. Travis Kelce, a white
due from Cincinnati with the Fade, going to date Taylor Swift. The girls
probably had three boyfriends and won quit talking about it. Look, star athletes
dating pop stars. It's a tale as old as time. As long as
it's organic. I really don't care if we come to find out later that
it was all just a set up, a trap. Man, it was
all just a setup. Yeah, best believe. I would very much like
to come back on your show because I'm going all in on it. Well,
Emily, they said they brought into all these Taylor Swift view here's my
thing on it. This is why I think it was a bad decision for
the NFL. You better hope that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey get married,
okay, because all those viewers that you brought in that they're dating the minute
Taylor Swift breaks up with this guy and write some song that's like the tight
end wasn't you know the right end? Or whatever the hell she wants to
call it. Now, Oh man, they're gonna leney. Yeah, they're
gonna lose twice as many people as they brought in. So you read what
you sew, all right. You want Taylor Swift, you bring her in
here on the plane. All of a sudden, she gets pushed on the
raft down the river. You're gonna have a prop. So I feel really
bad for all the Swifties in the first half who were just there because of
Taylor Swift and didn't know anything about football. Because I'm sitting there like,
man, this is the first game they've ever seen, and they think this
is how they all go. They probably think this is soccer at the point,
you think, and the only reason is she's there, said you have
a costco card I can't believe you just gave away the tight end right end
line for free. That's d of Bykrate and Company. Four. So the
other thing I want to ask you guys about, because again you're the you
know, making sports about sports, keeping sports about sports guys, a noticeable
decline in wokeness around advertisements, the commercials during the game, the halftime show.
It almost feels like the sort of business world, the c suite,
kind of Madison Avenue. Guys have realized, especially in light of the bud
light situation, that people just want things to go back to normal. What
did you make of all the sort of commercials advertising that climate surrounding the game
this year? Well, it's it's amazing when you hit him in the pocket
books things change. It's amazing how quickly that happens. Here's what I'll say.
I think some of the commercials were kind of funny. I mean,
the Christopher walking one to me was the best one, if not because I
got to do my Christopher walking impression on the live stream, which I was
pretty excited about, which got rave reviews. By the way, if you
want it's crazy, it's wild, But no, I look, at the
end of the day, I still don't. I still think everybody's afraid to
offend anybody, so like it's hard for these commercials to be funny. And
I'm gonna let Coan speak to this point. I think he's one hundred percent
right. I think now they're like, listen, let's not rock the boat.
Let's put a touple celebrities in here, so we don't have to have
a real good plan or something smart written for the commercial. The super Bowl
has become simply a corporate event, right and by design to get non football
viewers into the game. So when you look at the elaborate halftime performances and
the high dollar commercial spent, and obviously Taylor swifts presence only exacerbates all that.
But when I was growing up, I didn't think like the funniest commercials
were the ones that were just simple and they were funny. I mean I
remember watching a time when of your commercial could could just say what's happ and
three guys sitting around non celebrities they do that, and I was laughing.
Is that because I was twelve years old? And maybe Richard, I don't
know. I just feel like I would have still laughed at that yesterday.
Now, like you said, everyone's trying to be so careful. They're trying
to tiptoe around the content. They're just like, you know what we could
do. Let's let's just get an a list celebrity Ben Affleck, Matt Damon,
let's put him in a commercial and it'll just automatically be good. That
doesn't make it good. Well, if bud Light was smart, and we
were talking about this earlier, like if you came out and just had like
the CEO of Nhuzard Bush look at the camera and say, hey, I
screwed up, Like please forgive me. We you know, we love our
big base or whatever. But you know what would have been even better?
What if they'd have somehow bud Light would have had Dylan Molveny in the commercial
making fun of like so of himself and like what happened? And then it
was Dylan Molveni drinking every other beer that's their competitor. They're like, why
don't we put this around? But you couldn't do that because you know,
like twelve people, these guys not complicated. I think all this Super Bowl
commercials were trashed, even Christopher Walking trying to give me the pagric car what.
I'm not doing that and too, David, I go back to what
you're saying. It's it's not complicated to make it super Bowl commercial. I
go back to the Dodo Super Bowl. Yeah, the best ones, and
they're super simple. I mean, look, just put puppies and a horse
in there. It's a winner, all right. It's like the Peach off
the Elf. Yeah, the vulnerable pach It's not tough. The super Bowl
commercials were trashed bud Light. I'm sorry. I go back to Jonahill from
Super Bad. All right, even the third grade people don't forget. Yeah,
all right. I will never drink bud Light, and hopefully society is
well. I think society is dumb enough to where if you do put one
hundred million dollars down, which bud Light did in the UFC, that they
will forget. But majority, I think us are in the minority. But
I do think majority of people. Put paint Manning in there. You can
put postmone they'll get past. Yeah. Bud Light's clearly trying to buy their
way out of this without an apology or even acknowledging any wrongdoing. And to
Jake's point, like if the CEO of Anheuser Bush who a year ago was
saying, well, our quarterly profits are unaffankful. Yeah, like we're not.
We're you lost four billion dollars right in revenue. So if that,
if that guy had just come out and simply look down the barrel of a
lens and and you know, you can still dance around an issue without you
know, going after attacking certain groups of people, but coming out and acknowledge
wrongdoing, said we made a mistake, We apologize. I think bud Light
would have experienced record breaking sales today. It's like that South Park episode you
remember over there. I was like, I'm sorry, Yeah, I'm sorry.
That's all you have to do. But the thing about it is they're
not so Yeah, and you guys can write Taylor Swift songs and Super Bowl
commercials. What can't you do ageat dunk of bas trampoline? Yeah, I'm
risky. One of it hurts me in my life. It's not it's not
like money. It's not taxes. I can't throw a frisbee and we're gonna
work them. We're gonna work it's bad, gotta hit the for of course.
Alright. My last question, Yeah, I was watching at my school.
That's where everybody they'd be like, oh, we're froffling tonight. It
just meant that they were smoking a lot of weak because yeah, well you
know, we had another name for it. But I see where you he
where you're going. Well, all right, My last question is I was
watching your live stream and it has to be kind of weird. I mean,
it's it seems like it's fun. But how do you guys watch a
game and then also make sure that your reactions are like a live stream appropriate
and be just like helpful to your viewers. Does that make sense? So,
like, you guys are watching the game, tell us a little bit
about just the process behind the set. Well, first off, thank you.
We love doing the live streams. Here's what I'll say. I think
one of the cool parts about our show is like this is really us.
Like I'm not saying like that show on ABC with Manny, more like this
is us. Sometimes like this is like us in real lives. So if
you were hanging out with us watching the game, like in our living room,
you would get the same kind of reactions, albeit it's a little bit
more restrict on the live streams. There's some things that we can't say,
and some things that we can. I think we've done it so much now,
you know, we've kind of gotten used to it. But this is
this is really us, like you. I mean, we had Blaine go
to the Square of despair from a betting standpoint. Multiple come that would have
happened. It's like Blaine says, listen, we're the type of people where,
oh no, the game's over, there's two holes in the wall and
our team won. Like people, it's just this, this is who we
are. And I think that's why it works. It's because it's genuine.
We don't sit here in like plot like hey, you say this and then
I'm gonna get pitted and you're gonna say this and we're gonna be friends again.
Right, No, it's like it's really us. Well thanks for tuning
into the live stream. And yeah, I think people that they like it
because I think together the three of us have what would you say, seventy
five years of combined experience with football products. I know we sound really old
now, but you know, we just we can bring that to a game
with our analysis and our commentary and then you know, not sucker punch people
with any sort of woke content or disrespect them or be disingenuous. So I
think as long as we're being ourselves and we're able to provide some sort of
analysis that helps our listeners what we call win the water cooler, then we're
off to a good start. Well, what did James Franco say? Same?
Same, thame, same, But let's still say yeah. I mean,
Jake and David are really good at their jobs from an analysis standpoint,
and I just pretend like I'm Batman on the ships. That's two references.
You're done. You're done. Yeah, that's it. It's the limit is
too Actually yeah, come on all right, Well, the guys from Craning
Company, it has been absolute pleasure to have you guys on Federalist Radio Hour.
Thank you so much for stopping by. You can listen to them over
at the Daily Wire. Just appreciate all your guys thoughts and what you're doing
over there. Emily, listen anytime you need us to swoop in. I
know you're you're a sports fan, but anytime you need to in, here
is time for the third Batman reference. No, not sky Hook, not
guy Hook, not skyhook, different things. But Emily, thank you much
for having us. Yeah, we have a great time. We're trying to
bring sports media back to what it used to be, when you could just
watch it and it was about sports. So if you're into that thing,
check us out. All right, you've been listening to another edition of the
Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Drashinsky, culture editor here at The Saturalist.
Will be back soon with more. Until then, be lovers of freedom and
anxious for the fray.