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Speaker 1: So Danny came in and it's just Danny and I
on this episode, and uh sorry, which is always no,
I don't say it like that. I'm talking to the audience.
I enjoy those, I enjoy those. I enjoy the variety
of people on this podcast. I have come to like that.
It was pitched to me years ago to do a
radio show like that. Uh, and I thought, how can.
Speaker 2: You do that? You need consistency stories. You really don't.
Speaker 1: And when the podcast came, it just sort of by nature,
I guess naturally just went that way because people's schedules
are different. But everybody seemed to enjoy doing it and
kind of locked in on certain days. And I've really
really enjoyed that myself.
Speaker 6: But they like those Christmas nuts that you used to get,
remember with the nutcracker, Like you need a natural nutcracker.
Speaker 5: To open up each nut.
Speaker 6: Each one of us is a different variety of nut
in the podcast, right, you got Bills the nutcracker right itself.
And then you know, you got your wal nuts like Kevin,
you got your Macadamian nuts.
Speaker 1: Like me.
Speaker 5: You got you know those other nuts that are like
hard and dark.
Speaker 6: And you can't really open them, you know, like the
ones that like they look like they look like hardened
like orange peels, but they're brown.
Speaker 5: I don't even know what they are. You got those? Yeah,
it's it's an array of nuts.
Speaker 2: I just went and plugged the tree and that's what
I was doing.
Speaker 1: So Danny came in a little early because I said,
I have a heart out again, and I've been open
about this and I'm not gonna go into too much detail.
But I've been doing the talk therapy thing and I
have an appointment this evening, and this one's gonna be different.
And Danny has a preview as to why and all.
Speaker 2: This stuff and heard me.
Speaker 1: I think that may have been pretty raw moments. Was
it not very honest?
Speaker 5: It was very honest. So a couple of them, I will.
Speaker 1: There is nothing that I do that I don't usually
talk about. At some point, I'm not going to talk
about this right now. I want to wait till after
it's over, and I want to give it a little
time to breathe after that because there are other players
that I don't.
Speaker 2: Want involved in it.
Speaker 5: I can understand that it just doesn't doesn't have to
know everything.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, right, I mean, he's got to know.
Oh god, you know, he's the dirty Danny said.
Speaker 2: That's what I heard.
Speaker 5: I know who to dress as for Halloween.
Speaker 4: I could just be myself, but Danny came in and
I was.
Speaker 2: It was on.
Speaker 1: I haven't there's all these different platforms now, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: It's even a platform for platforms.
Speaker 1: There was a you've done zoom. Yes, yeah, okay, there's
also teams. There's teams. I did teams for many years.
Uh and then Google meet.
Speaker 6: Yes, so today I had a Google meet. Oh okay,
And it was about.
Speaker 1: If I'm not pushed, I will do nothing. And I've
noticed that about myself. You get comfortable, you just kind
of get your routine, and all these things that you
have ideas to do, you don't do.
Speaker 5: It's never a good time to do anything.
Speaker 1: So for many, many, many, many many years, I have
thought that it would be great to write a book
about all the shit that goes on behind the scenes
in radio. And I thought, but who's going on to
you know what I mean? You need like a personality.
You need to have people that everybody knows, right. I
mean I was Western New York and a little bit
around the country, but more playing classic rock music, no
big deal. So it's not as though you got more
Zzy Top you know what I'm saying, Like you're just anybody.
You're just anybody they plug in.
Speaker 4: So so i's what they're doing now.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, no, I understand that. But that's what I'm
gonna lose this right, I have said I was part
of the problem I think that radio. But anyway, so
I always thought it would be funny because there were
all these crazy, wild stories between management and things that
did not no matter how authentic a show was, there
were things that were.
Speaker 2: Not discussed, and I go, so that would be great.
Speaker 1: And then it grew into could we do it as
a podcast where we just interview the person and just
share stories, And then my fear with it was would
have become a bit session about radio and I'm like,
I don't want Yeah, I don't want that. I don't
want that. I want the stories that are relatable. So
somebody we know who works in television, our friend Alex. Yeah,
Alex has been on me to do radio Days. And
I bought a camera and I bought the lights that
we use in the studio now, all really to go
shoot radio days. And guess what I didn't do. I
didn't shoot Radio Days because I again couldn't conceptualize exactly
what this was going to be. And then she said
to me we should start writing a screenplay, because I
said the book that I was thinking of could then
be turned into a modern da WKRP in Cincinnati. Okay,
but again the sitcoms, I don't know how they're I
mean they're okay. Look, the Midwest loves loves the sitcom
they do, but you got to have somebody that they
think is funny.
Speaker 6: Like How I Met Your Mother is all and what's
another sitcom that like? They made a ton of money
with the nerds and my wife watches the Big Bank.
Speaker 1: Big Bang Theory.
Speaker 5: The Midwest has kept those shows, but.
Speaker 1: Those were really those were well written. I think Abbott
Elementary is very funny.
Speaker 2: I think you're white.
Speaker 5: It's it's really the office in the school setting, right.
Speaker 2: In a school setting.
Speaker 1: So I had so. Alex has since started a production
company of her own, Oh Wow, with another guy who
has stuff, and she's got projects in the pipeline, and
she wanted me to pitch Radio Days, Oh Wow to
the guy d A Z. Yeah, that's how I always
called it Radio Days. That was my title for it.
Speaker 2: That's been the final for it.
Speaker 1: So I go, okay, So it's on my account under
it's three thirty and I have stuff going on today
that I had other things. And then I'm running because
your life. Jameson's got a game. And then James's like, hey, Dad,
can you get Travis and me snacks, and I'm like, yeah,
what do you want? Bananas and apples? Come on, dad,
you know what I want. So I'm running here. I'm
running there, and I had some other thing I.
Speaker 2: Needed to be home for.
Speaker 1: I just just busy stuff, like everybody busy stuff. So
I end up texting her. I go, hey, listen, and
one thing was a schedule change on the time. I said,
I got it. I'm going to be like maybe ten
minutes late to this, And sure enough I come flying
in here at three forty. Now, I've never formally pitched anything.
Well that's not true. I have, but I haven't for
like a TV show. I have never pitched a TV show.
So what was casual? But I was talking and then
the guy goes, well, that's a lot of information. Because
I'm thinking in my head as I'm driving, I go,
what the fuck am I going to say about this? Like?
What am I going to say? So I throw out
two stories, one about me and radio and an incident
that happened, and one about somebody who was had a
nationally syndicated show who I know and what happened? And
nobody knows these stories outside of the people who were
involved in them. They don't never got out. These stories
never got out, and I know that, so I go,
that's kind of it. The guys like, I like it,
and uh, he goes, but you know this that sort
We're kicking around and Alex is jumping in and she's like,
you know, you could have a scripted in the nonscripted version,
and he said, and I love this. What if you
did a hybrid scripted unscripted in other words, much like
I don't know if anybody watched.
Speaker 5: Curb your enthusiasms, trying of like that, what'sn't it?
Speaker 1: This would be different though that, you know, not like
that drunk history.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So what we would do is my thing is I
want to go and sit down with specific people, some
really well known radio personalities and TV personalities and some
not so much, and I want to talk to them
about the crap and radio and then what we get
the story going, Then we go to scripted, so it's
acted out by actors or it's animated, okay, and then
we so you have kind of me walking in to
interview this person, kind of setting up what I'm looking for,
sitting down with the person interviewing the person getting to
this one story and boom and out of each person,
you could probably get three or four episodes and then
we're going.
Speaker 2: To try to sell that.
Speaker 5: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: So that's what came out of that meeting today. But
that meeting ran, I think we're supposed to be done
by for you came in at four twenty.
Speaker 2: We were over an hour talking about that.
Speaker 5: That's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so uh, we'll see, we'll.
Speaker 2: See what happens.
Speaker 6: A good sign when the meetings go over, when when
it's when it's your pitching something.
Speaker 5: It's not a good sign when.
Speaker 6: You're when you have a meeting that goes over and
you're talking about stuff that we handled in an email.
Speaker 1: Having been on both, I don't like. I have always
bitched that I didn't like. I don't like meetings and
blah blah blah. I always thought there were too many
meetings and things and it's a waste of people's time.
Speaker 2: Blah blah.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm doing a one eighty in my entire life.
I said the same thing about talk therapy keeps you
stuck here going tonight? Yeah, but I go I go.
Speaker 2: Hard at these things, you know, and then I look
like an idiot.
Speaker 5: But that's pretty cool though, I could see the scenarios unfolded.
Speaker 1: Well, it would be great.
Speaker 5: You could do an entire season just on Mule alone.
Speaker 1: Well okay, so that's what I said, is like, you
got to get big names for your hook first. It's
got to be somebody who knows people are familiar with
the name, right, and then from there we could work
our way to other people.
Speaker 2: But I think there would be some really great stories.
Speaker 1: That would come out of it, and I think you
can get multiple episodes, and what I would love to
do is, you know, bounce back and forth people who
used to be partners together on the radio. Why they're
not interview them separately, have their versions of each It
could be a really fun, nostalgic, behind the scenes, you know, funny,
funny way of doing it, and just a more creative way,
I think with people's attention spans today, you know. And
then you got to figure out like, well, how long
will it be and that kind of thing. And to me,
I think half hour episodes are twenty two minute episodes
depending on where we're pitching it.
Speaker 2: But that's that's the idea.
Speaker 5: No, I love it.
Speaker 4: I think that's a great spelling It here is is
soone good.
Speaker 2: You know, I just think, like.
Speaker 1: What's in my head and what's in somebody else's head
would never be the same somebody could, you know? I
love where people go, oh they stole my idea? Well
did they?
Speaker 2: Or is it?
Speaker 1: People can come up with it.
Speaker 5: You have the most refined version of it.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 1: That's that's the way I'm hoping.
Speaker 6: I had an idea for a show once and I
was hoping to pitch it to one of your friends
of friends. The idea would be, it's a late night
talk show, right, like let's say Guy Lake, like whose
name is Fimmy Jallen? Right, Fimmy Jallen is doing like
you know this show like the Shanitoe and.
Speaker 5: No, and in Walks not Robert de Niro, but in
Walks the guy from The Deer Hunter. He interviews him
for fifteen minutes. Then the next.
Speaker 6: Guy is Robert de Niro from The Godfather Part two
playing a young Vito Corleoni. And then the last guy
is me is Meet the Fockers. So you're interviewing the character, Yeah, hey,
we want to thank You're interviewed them as if they're
real people, right, and you put it on Netflix, you
do thirteen episodes, you get thirteen actors, or you just
get like three actors one night, like Tim Allen playing
you know who.
Speaker 1: Ever, and like or Santa Claus.
Speaker 5: But they're playing like the Yeah right, they're playing like
these characters.
Speaker 1: It's not them, no, you know, I think that might
be cute and funny. It could be.
Speaker 2: It could be very funny.
Speaker 6: I mean, you'd have to like find the budget to
do it, because these guys are like, you know, well
right now I'm working on a project in Hollywood with
so and so with school.
Speaker 1: Right, but it could be a great way for them
to write.
Speaker 6: Like can you imagine Jim Carrey, like you know, going
to be Avantura and then he's going to be the
cable guy and then he plays the Riddler or whom
all the I mean, like it's like we want to
thank the Riddler, and I would need writers to give
you up an arison day look at this like a
present day.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean I think that TV is I've
called it for a long time now the new Golden.
Speaker 5: Age, and because because well now they have to fill all.
Speaker 1: The stuff, you know, and so the platforms you've got
Disney you've got Netflix, Hulu Prime, Uh, they've got to
BT that's looking for stuff, the Weed Channel, which I've
dropped the ball a little bit there, but we'll have
the podcast up there eventually. And there's all kinds of
stuff that is out and available. So yeah, you know,
if you have an idea. But the thing is, I
think when you're doing a formal pitch to a network.
Speaker 2: You gotta you gotta be slick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta have you have to have what they
call a really good looking deck so people can go
through they get the show, but it's it's it's polished,
it is high level pledge.
Speaker 6: Well you got to remember, like Jerry Seinfeld and Larry
David the first time they pitched Seinfeld it didn't go well,
you know, but they they eventually came back to the
idea like years later, and we know we have now.
But I mean, yeah, you can be you gotta be sharp.
Speaker 1: Ye every well butt just it is. And I think
it was like it was something my father used to say.
Speaker 2: To me all the time.
Speaker 1: Like I remember in fourth grade we had to make
our own almanac, like like Benjamin Franklin, and so my
father's like all right, and he got me like a
felt cover. We put in glitter almanac, you know, with
glue and glitter, and then a ribbon that tied it
because that's what they use. And he got some kind
of special paper and the type set was different.
Speaker 2: I think it was all in script or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't know how this all came about, because I
think I lost interest halfway through. But he would say
to me, if you can't dazzle them with your brains,
you'll blind them with your bullshit. And I go, yeah,
slickness matters, right. If somebody comes in sloppy, I'm not
as intrigued as somebody who comes in has their shit
together when they're talking to you and pitching it. If
I'm going to invest my money in something, I want
somebody who's going to be a little.
Speaker 6: More know your audience, like David Chase the Sopranos, Right.
He pitched it to all the major networks like no, yeah,
So then he goes to HBO, and nobody wants at
that point HBO, like you won't want.
Speaker 5: To put a television show on HBO.
Speaker 6: All HBO had at that point was Larry Sanders in Odds,
which ended up become one of the greatest shows ever,
but like years later it got the acclaim that it deserved,
but like it.
Speaker 5: Wasn't no television.
Speaker 6: Then all of a sudden, the Sopranos comes out at
nine o'clock, and all of a sudden, that's the place
you want to be in television, right, not the network.
Speaker 5: All the game's moved over here. Yeah you know, I mean,
but yeah, it's it's it's not easy.
Speaker 1: By the way, I will apologize on the podcast. I'm
hoping he'll hear it. At some point. Kevin has an idea,
a really good idea for a show that he has
already talked to Alex about and asked me to bring
it up again, and there was no time. We just
got so on angles of how to do this that,
and the guy you heard him, he goes, I got
to jump on another meeting of five minutes and blah
blah blah. And I I over an apology because he
texts me, he goes, hey, will you bring up my
idea again?
Speaker 2: And I said, I sure will, or something like that.
Speaker 1: Well I didn't because I suck.
Speaker 2: There'll be more.
Speaker 5: It's a good premise.
Speaker 1: What his Yeah, do you know the one he's is
the one involves a sport. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
a great premise. I think I think it'd be a
really good premise. He's Kevin has got creative ideas, but
does think he's he does his stuff, all right, Danny,
there's a lot of things to get to today. We'll
take a moment, but I would say there's something in
the water. When we hear about a teacher and inappropriate behavior,
I would say there's something in the water. I don't know.
Speaker 2: How can you go.
Speaker 1: For all this education, very focused, spent the money to
get the job, to take the test, to do the things,
to go through all this to have to sabotaze yourself,
to sabotage yourself for a penis or a vagina basically, right,
I mean, that's what we're saying. And by the way,
attached to a fifteen year old. In most cases that
we've heard over the years, I'm not saying that that's
the case here. I don't exactly know, but this is
one that's a little closer to.
Speaker 5: Home, okay, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And I just have lots of questions about it, lots
of questions, and I figure if anybody would be willing
to discuss with him. His name is Den Barrillo because
Danny has I don't know thoughts?
Speaker 4: How do you drop it?
Speaker 1: I almost got you a shirt that says, I.
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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, it's gonna be my I don't even know
what my thoughts are gonna be.
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to you. You'll got me a book about thoughts?
Speaker 1: Did I did get your book about thoughts? Don't believe
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of it. The other they say, well, look we got
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Like they don't come to places like Buffalo, let alone
Rochester anymore. You have to flight of them. So they'll
go to Pittsburgh twice, and they'll go to Nashville twice,
and they'll go to San Francisco twice, and you have.
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of it.
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in April. Debuted at number one the fun but now
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real tie. In week two it fell out of the
hot one hundred. In other words, America kind of said yeah,
and I thought it was their best record in like
thirty years.
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate that that happens. But you know, even that's
stuff streaming, It's hard to tell. Art is a subjective thing.
The really things taking on the life of their own
later on too, who knows. I just thought that song
if you listen to the words and everything is just
so uh tapped into life. Yeah, I think more just relax, Yeah,
just breathe with me and breathe. Every life must end,
you know, everyone must go.
Speaker 2: But that think.
Speaker 5: About all the people.
Speaker 6: You could think about all the people, Like if you
could count on both hands the ones you love, Yeah,
I could go beyond both hands.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty lucky.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, I know What'll pardon me while I take
over a shoe and count some more lovers, not lovers,
loved ones ones.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: And by the way, I think they love me too.
I think, yes, I don't know, I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: I believe that, I absolutely believe that you ever.
Speaker 6: Go to people's funerals and go, Holy count man, I
thought this guy or this woman deserved better. Ah, like
more of a response, because I've had that feeling now
with several people in my life.
Speaker 1: The fuck no, I hope I fucking live so long
that no one's left. That's one thing. But the other is,
I know what you're saying. But a lot of times, yeah,
I guess, how do I say this? I gotta I
need this. I can to formulate exactly how to say it,
because I have found over the years that when I
speak really off the cuff, it comes out worse than
I wanted to.
Speaker 5: Maybe get that, but that's me, that's my whole life.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, me too. But the I would say, yes,
I know what you're saying. When someone dies and there's
a huge like line at the funeral home to pay
their respect for people to pay their respects, it gives
you a sign, right that people. But I would say, like,
we had a prominent person in where we live pass
away recently.
Speaker 5: Yes, right, you know a couple of them.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm thinking of one in particular, Yes, one in
particular that you and.
Speaker 5: I both know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Well, I knew him. You knew him.
I did not, But I had a rant about that
person one time. Okay, yes, all right, now I would
say that I'm sure there are people that probably didn't
have great feelings about that person but showed up out
of respect because it's the right thing to do. Or
they were always sort of kissing that ass, so let's
kiss it goodbye. You know what I'm saying. And I go,
how authentic is that? Now?
Speaker 5: I do have to that's a great point.
Speaker 6: That's the only thing I actually when you said that,
I thought of another person in my life back home
whom I know. People did not like this guy, but
he had a huge funeral because he had money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, see, like everybody came out. I was.
Speaker 5: There were people who loved him. I loved the guy.
Speaker 6: I thought he was great, but there were people he
had enemies, but those enemies still managed to show up.
Speaker 1: Right, I got it. No, No, I mean I know exactly
what you're saying. Now. On the other side, I know
somebody who had lost a parent. I went to pay
my respects and I had to wait an hour in line.
An hour I was wrapped out and around the door.
And this was strictly because this wasn't a guy with
great power or influence or anything. This was just a
great fucking human being. Well I didn't really know, all right,
and I'm like, wow, so that's what I think you're saying.
And on the other side, my aunt Irene died great
an Irene.
Speaker 2: She was ninety. She was I was in a home.
Speaker 1: It was me, my kids, my wife at the time,
my mom, and my dad, my aunt, my uncle.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 5: Oh wow. She outlived all her friends that.
Speaker 2: She was ninety.
Speaker 1: So yeah, she outlived her two sisters. She was the
youngest she had outlived them. And uh, her name was Irene.
And it weirded me out because she loved Rod Stewart.
And I think Rod Stewart has a song good Night Irene,
and we all sang it. That's the leg closed.
Speaker 2: Oh fuck enough.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there weren't I think some friends and other
family came, but there was like nobody there. There wasn't
a line nor you could walk in and like, you know,
you know what I'm saying. So I did she deserve more? Probably,
I guess, but she wasn't. She didn't have kids of
her own, and she didn't have you know that other soul,
I all that plays into it, and then the other is,
you know, kept to herself kind of.
Speaker 5: I don't know that can happen too, Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I it is. Do you feel bad when someone dies?
And that's the case. I don't know, I think when
someone dies. I saw something online, some stupid meme or whatever,
but it grabbed my eye or real and I think
it was Sylvester Sloan, but it had captions and I
was in a place that I wasn't turning on the volume,
so I read the captions and he goes, when you die,
you know, everybody's sad for an hour or so, and
then they go and you know, they gather after the
funeral for something, and they're thinking about where they need
to go next and what happens and this and that,
and you are forgotten. So why do you care what
other people really think? Was kind of the message there,
But I was thinking, yeah, because life goes on, because
life is for the living. Yes, life is for the living.
And as stupid, as clear as dumb as that may sound,
sometimes we don't think that way, right. We hold on
to something so hard, and you hold yourself back from living,
you can you can be dead while you're alive if
in certain ways you really can. And we got off
on this tangent, but that's that's right. I just caught
a glimpse of myself on the camera. And I've been
open about substitute teaching. And today these girls in front
row of tenth grade class, all of a sudden they
start giggling.
Speaker 2: So I look over and they're.
Speaker 1: Kind of laughing or whatever, and one of them goes
looks at me and goes, what And I said to her,
I go, let me just tell you something right now,
if you do that to a parent or a teacher
and they know that you're guilty of something, because you
don't just blurt out what unless you're doing something you
don't want me to know about. And then they started
giggling and the other girl goes, yeah, that's pretty true.
And then it turned out that they were comparing me
to somebody. They were looking up pictures of Alec Baldwin
in Cat and the Hat. They said that I looked
like Alec Baldwin, and I went, yeah, cause I got
fucking fat in the face and I got to lose weight,
and thank God for your TV twelve that I have
been looking at I wait to do the recipes and things.
I'm not kidding, and I was like, I got I
got to drop some weight. And they weren't being mean.
They're like in a good way, in a good way,
you look like this is what you look like. Yeah,
and then these kids now imagine me as your substitute teacher,
just as you know, you know what I'm saying. I
never thought this would be something I did and really enjoy,
Like I like kind of interacting with the kids, and
I like when I could actually teach something like I go, boy,
I kind of dig this. I don't know where I'll
go with it, and maybe nowhere, but I've enjoyed it.
So today though, I was covering Spanish class, not a
whole lot of teaching for me there, but the teacher
leaves these strict instructions and she says, like, for example,
Dan Burrillo can help you with attendance, and he will
make sure that everybody's phone is in the phone hotel. Okay,
So how do you think I present that to the class?
How do you think that Bill Moran walks in and says,
Danny here, and Danny goes, yeah, I go Danny apparently
you are the.
Speaker 5: Police officer for the the snitchka the snitch.
Speaker 1: I go, Danny's the snitch, guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's the one.
Speaker 1: You're the informant that's gonna tell everybody that their phones
are not in the phone hotel, so you better check
them in.
Speaker 5: This poor guy. Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: It's like I was a terrible baseball player. I was
a terrible athlete. So but I knew the game really well.
Like I even begged the JV coach he can I
give signs to sending no and but they go. So
when we had a substitute coach because our one coach
was he was out for a game. The substitute coach
comes in, who had already coached before. He goes Dan, mister,
mister so and so says that you're the first base coach.
You know the signs, so I expect you to be like,
oh he told you, Yeah, okay, sure, I'll go do it.
I hated coaching first base. It was basically looked like, well,
you're smart. It's like being a team manager. Yeah yeah,
so you know the signs, but if if the idiot
at first base doesn't get the sign, it's your job.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, and these guys didn't want to listen to me.
Speaker 6: I can't just say, hey, he wants you to steal
second base, bro, give him a nod.
Speaker 1: You know, well, it's an a position for you to
be in because you're a peer. Yes, And I'll say
it this way, and I think you will agree. But
it's not a nice way to say. They look down
on you, yes, because you're not. You didn't have the
ability to make the team.
Speaker 2: So what well I.
Speaker 5: Made the team. I was just like the nineteenth guy
in the Rochester.
Speaker 6: All right, so you're way down on the team. Yeah,
and while I got to play non league games.
Speaker 1: And what and what makes you think that you get
to tell men what to do. I know this game
better than you. Yes, yeah, I get it. I know
that I'm seeing that.
Speaker 6: I get I get all the crap when they didn't
steal second base. Yeah you know it sucked. Yes, it
was awful, So I know it. Like to be the snitch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I called these one kid and so this
one kid who's like, you know, five aps and something else,
and he's like yeah, he like totally rolls with it.
Other class I say it, and the kids like comes
up to me later on and goes. I mean, I
don't like to think of myself as a snitch. But
whoever has number twelve in the phone hotel, they did
not put their phone in there.
Speaker 2: So I get up and go.
Speaker 1: Everybody's just go get your phones, which is the worst, right.
Speaker 6: I know a guy who's a teacher, I go, can you,
I go? How about you take attendance with their phones
if their phones are on?
Speaker 5: He goes.
Speaker 6: Then what happens is if the phone gets damaged or
something or gets stolen, you are, as a teacher now
responsible for the phone getting damaged or stolen.
Speaker 1: These kids are well, yeah, these are well behaved kids.
Yeah this is in grease. Yeah, all bets are off
in Greece speaking of teachers and things. Though, I don't
know if you saw this, but a rush Henrietta teacher
named Scott Stradley. He's fifty two years old. He lives
in Pittsford. He got arrested on Friday and charged with
predatory sexual assault against the child, a class A felony.
Now we have we live in a world where it
is supposed to be proven guilt, thank you.
Speaker 4: However, I hope he didn't do it. When these things happen.
Speaker 1: We I think, I think the stink is on you,
and I don't know that I can ever come off.
There was the guy in Webster basketball coach forgetting his name, and.
Speaker 5: That's a good thing.
Speaker 1: He fought. He got accused of that. I think he
was a girls basketball coach. He got accused of inappropriate
behavior and fought and sued and won. They went to trial.
It went to trial. And I know people who were, like,
you know, married to the guy and one person he
had been married before. No, no, no, no, this is low
And I knew the guy, uh somewhat And the.
Speaker 5: Way he said, I know people who were married.
Speaker 1: He married a friend of mine's sister, sister in law.
But I've got a whole crew.
Speaker 4: But I go so and that guy fought, but I go,
I thought, the stink.
Speaker 1: Is on you.
Speaker 6: Like your name is always gonna have to leave the area,
because when like people google your name for whatever reason,
that's gonna that's the first thing that's gonna come up.
Speaker 1: Mm. And this one was an arrest, a charge, a
criminal trial, whole thing, you know, accusations or accusations. I
wouldn't believe anything unless there's something hard and fast of
a legal document. Otherwise it's fucking hot air and bullshit
and somebody who's got an extra grind is my way
of looking at it. But that one was real. I
don't know, this guy got arrested. They don't usually rescue
without some sort of evidence. Okay, so the victim was
a child he knew personally, not a student. So if
you're in the Rush Henrietta district, you just go not right, So,
I don't know. Here's the letter they put out from
Rush Henrietta. We are at we are at liberty to
share the following. A faculty member who works at this
high school, junior high school, was arrested off campus on
Friday the thirteenth. Man that motherfucker hates that day. Now
from this day far, Friday thirteenth, it's one of those
ones you go. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office and the
school district have no evidence at this time to suggest
that are any allegations involving Rush Henrietta students. The employee
has been placed on administrative leave. The district will continue
to cooperate. Blah blah blah. Now, this is what I
was really really impressed with that the school district did
in their letter to parents. Please keep in mind that
news and rumors, especially in the hands and on the
devices of our teenagers, spreads rapidly, not accurately rapidly.
Speaker 2: Right, So, as.
Speaker 1: Best we can, we will continue to work as a
school in a district to address comments, questions, or concerns
from students by attending to their social emotional needs. Without
discussing any of the specifics of this ongoing investigation, please
take time to explore the following resources to help you
your students. Blah blah blah blah blah. Wouldn't you love
to know what the kids are saying? Oh? Yeah, I
would love to know, because how many times I remember
a teacher that big, bushy beer somewhat effeminine, always stood
with his wrist like this and had an earring in
the opposite ear or whatever, and I think everybody decided
that guy was gay, and the rumors just flew. Yeah. Man,
so I'm looking at your butt when you left the room,
like all these awful things that probably weren't true at all. Right,
that's that's I go. I would love to know what
the kids are saying, because you know, we don't even
know if this is really true.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, when I was in school, there were a
couple of teachers whom I don't want to like, you know,
say specifics, but the people questioned their their sexual preference
at the time, and we would come back and we
would say it in front of my mother, and she goes, oh, yeah,
there have been rumors about.
Speaker 5: Those two fuck years.
Speaker 6: So my mother, my mother had graduated like thirty years
before I diet or something like that.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, holy cow.
Speaker 6: So this is like a generational thing, you know, like
these rumors have gone off for it's gotta be true.
Speaker 5: She goes, No, that's not, that's not the point.
Speaker 6: The point is is that people perpetuating rumors about these
people for years.
Speaker 5: You can't necessarily blame that.
Speaker 1: And how long what's the statue of limitation from one
a rumor becomes what we believe? You know what I'm saying,
Like all of a sudden win from a rumor, it's
to a hard and fast like fuck man, you know
that guy, you know they're Oh, they go in the
faculty room, they make sure nobody's in there, and there's
sixty nine and on the table.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's always something.
Speaker 1: Or something terrible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, my brother told me. My brother told
me that he was a story about like and then
all of a sudden, well, your brother's on the football
team and he's really cool.
Speaker 6: It's gotta be true, right, So everyone wants to kiss
this guy's you know what because his brother's on the
football team.
Speaker 5: So of course we're going to enhance the story. Hey,
do you hear what Jerry said?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: But and you always when something came out about a
teacher like something like this, always, I always knew there
was something.
Speaker 2: Creepy about that guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I told you he was looking at your ass
when you want that. Yeah, you know that sort of thing.
But I don't know. You still have to know what
is and what isn't. Like I'm sure this guy was
probably a great teacher late in his career, right fifty
two years old, later in his career, or maybe maybe
second career, who knows. Uh, here's my thing. Are you
able to keep anything private anymore?
Speaker 5: I don't know, And it's scary because anyone finds out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean yes, and I think that I mean,
I think there's certain things that you that need to
be exposed if you're doing something wrong.
Speaker 5: Obviously, here's the problem though, here's the slippery slope with that.
Speaker 6: Okay, it's America and nobody should like that's like allowing
a police officer to just go into your house and
just check your house for random searches of anything possibly illegal.
You know, this is still America. Like Bill Martin a
whole thing about it. In New Rules about a year
or so ago, the iPhone Apple was going to detect
child pornography on your phone. If you had an iPhone
and you had child pornography, they're going to ratch you out,
And which sounds like a great idea. It is, except
for one thing.
Speaker 1: Is how to naked picture of your baby in the bathtub?
Speaker 5: Right, which is.
Speaker 1: Not uncommon rights to Grandma.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the AI says, according to the algorithm, you've.
Speaker 6: Got child pornography. Or let's it's America. Even though that
is awful. At the end of the day, there are
procedures to uncover stuff like that, right, you know what
I'm saying, Like, you can't just go because then if
you allow that, guess what, You're gonna allow everything and before.
Speaker 4: You're not, you're gonna have it.
Speaker 5: You're not gonna have any privacy.
Speaker 6: What if I like sent you a text about Kevin
right that was really dirty or okay, and then all
of a sudden it comes out that because of like
some search that oh yeah you said this is that true?
Speaker 5: Yeah we were joking. Well, it didn't look like you
were joking in this text message.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: It was just a mere joke.
Speaker 6: The point is is that, like we we should be
able to protect our privacy.
Speaker 1: Well, I bring this up because we don't know what
happened in this case. It's upsetting to think that you
were sending your kids to somewhere where they would be
danger by those that are there to protect them.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: The worst thing you're hoping is an elbow in the
ribs from a classmate maybe, uh not something where somebody's
grooming them or doing whatever. Right, But Kelli Watkins, what's
the guy couldn't remember the name? The coach in Webster, Okay,
And he was accused of some stuff with an underage
girl or whatever.
Speaker 2: It was followed through.
Speaker 1: He was arrested, the whole thing, and he man, he
went to the mat and he was found to be
not guilty. Good for him, not guilty, right, And that's
why I'm saying even with this story, we don't look at.
Speaker 6: The Duke la cross case. It just came out that
the accuser. Yeah, it made the whole thing up.
Speaker 1: I always do wonder though, when you do find the
stories about they did right, made the whole thing up. Yes,
I'm sorry to cut that off, that is a very
important fact. But I because you were taking what people
thought were rich spoiled white guy.
Speaker 5: And the DA got involved.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna use this as a way to celebate my
own political career.
Speaker 5: What happened. I think, yeah, he had up paying dearly.
Speaker 1: But it sure because you think that it makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, on the option of it. It makes sense,
all right.
Speaker 1: If I tell you a fifty two year old guys
accused of sixteen year old girl who could be well
developed and look like a woman, and put makeup on
her and send her into a club, and I bet
she doesn't get carded. She looks twenty four to twenty five.
It happens, you know, But he shouldn't be doing this
and he knows better, right, and he's been educated if
that's the case, But we don't know. Kelly Watkins turned
out not to be And do you know how hard
it is to fight something like that, how expensive it is,
how emotionally draining on your family this guy maybe I
don't know anything about how long it takes, but I
don't know if this guy's married or not. You're the
spouse of this person. You're trying to support them, You
love them, no matter what right you want to see.
But God, the stuff is horrible. What's the rumor mill saying?
What are people saying behind your back? What are your
girlfriends saying that?
Speaker 2: Or not?
Speaker 1: If it's the wife, it's like, holy shit, man that
it's a horrible accusation. And I go, you almost I
would say, I it's right for the sake of all involved.
I guess I don't know one for somebody to be believed.
Then how about the person the victim right right, who
feels it's like something was done to them? The whole
fucking thing is wild. But I always think with teachers,
I go, you went through all that education, got a
master's degree, narrowed in on exactly what you wanted to
do for the purpose of raising young people up, helping
them fill their minds and rich their lives, give them
better perspective on stuff. And then a fourteen or fifteen
year old Peenis or Vagina comes by and you're throwing
it all away.
Speaker 2: Makes no sense.
Speaker 6: I don't get it either. Remember like Mary A Kaila Turner,
she's since passed away. But that was like the first
major case in America where you had a female.
Speaker 5: Teacher, yeah, you know, and a sixth grade student.
Speaker 6: Well that we knew of that, we knew of it, right,
And all of a sudden, then it started they all
started coming out. It was like it was like it
was like a monthly thing. Even Jim Rome made a
joke about it on.
Speaker 5: The show Where were these teachers when I was in
high school?
Speaker 6: And it's like, but and that showed the double standard
of it because like guys could joke about that stuff, Oh.
Speaker 5: That's so cool, But if it's a girl, that's awful.
You know, it's really awful for both. Right, So there's
even a double standard about how we as people look
at you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Then there's the flip side where remember the mea hold,
the whole me too movement, It got carried away to
a point where all of a sudden, like even like
light accusations.
Speaker 5: Became like oh me too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, And like it was like, okay, now we're
now you're discrediting real victims here by making.
Speaker 5: Everybody a victim. Yes, you weren't a victim.
Speaker 1: We can we could also say this. There was behaviors
and things that were be said in the.
Speaker 5: Office, right, like flirting back and forth.
Speaker 1: We had a couple of former radio people who now
run a big agency in town, stopped in one night.
I don't think you were here there, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
do you remember what she said?
Speaker 2: What did she say?
Speaker 1: Julie said that like told us to put on our
closing skirt.
Speaker 5: That's right clothing.
Speaker 1: It went on our closing skirt. Imagine that being fucking
said today And there was no malice really behind it,
but you would be brought up with that kind of
a charge.
Speaker 5: That's what I was told.
Speaker 6: Like when I first got into radio, I was told
by a couple of like broadcasts, they go, I go, yeah,
there's a lot of good looking saleswomen here, and they
go yeah, there's a reason for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you could.
Speaker 5: Show a little leg they call it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I go oh oh.
Speaker 6: But maybe in a naive twenty three year old of like, well,
I'm just they're smart business people.
Speaker 1: No, then well, yes, but the point being like, you
wouldn't say that, Yeah, in twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: Four, you don't say that now, you don't even joke
about that.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean, sales. But there was never I
don't think there was any There was no malice palace
behind it. And I almost wonder, and I don't know
anybody will admit to it, but if you were told that,
it meant you were it was sort of a compliment, yes,
because they weren't that to Lori Califonso, put on your
closing skirt, put on your closing moo moo. You know
what I mean, like and again mean horrible, but that
we we can't do that today. And I think that
that's the point where people would be canceled, let's say,
for that right, or lose a job for saying something
like that making me uncomfortable. That making me uncomfortable, you
should give the person a chance to not do it again.
And if we're to evolve in any way and we're
looking for better, then we have to kind of give
people a little bit of breathing room to prove that
they've learned and go forward, unless it's something so egregious
that you would wind up in jail or we absolutely
can't tolerate this at our company whatever it is, right, absolutely,
you know, but I think that there's got to be
a little bit of room with that.
Speaker 6: Yes, we need room, and we need to take a breath,
just breathe, just Frank says, and let the circumstances play out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, can we because we have to have an
opinion right now, Billy, right now, damn it.
Speaker 5: Hot take Cot, take Cot take.
Speaker 6: And then all of a sudden, the Candace Owans is
a conservative pundit, right yeah, And she she became a
conservative when she was involved in a situation where some
white kids treated her badly because she was black, and
the whole school and everybody got involved.
Speaker 5: As soon as the case was over.
Speaker 6: Everything vanished. Those kids' lives were ruined. And then she
went back to just like blending in with the wallpaper.
And she goes, wait a minute, you're gonna trast these
kids lives the rest of their lives because something that
happened in high school.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, because you're a victim.
Speaker 6: She's like, well, yeah, but like I we addressed it,
We talked about it, and she saw the way that
people used her to further their agenda and trash these
kids to make an example, and then realized, oh my gosh,
what was it worth it?
Speaker 5: No, it wasn't worth it.
Speaker 1: But you being a man of the Bible. Yes, I
always thought that the story of Saul becoming Paul is
a great examp as evolution, right and speaking and giving
you a chance to evolve, repent and.
Speaker 6: Change, and people should be allowed to change. Exactly if
my father weren't allowed to change, I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 5: That's the power of the Gospel. Some people be like, like, uh, so,
what's the problem.
Speaker 1: Why are you here?
Speaker 6: Yeah, alright, no, but but yeah, I mean that that's
you should be allowed to repent and change, and you
have until the final breath to do that.
Speaker 2: We are gonna take a moment.
Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts, I know, on on
the bills, Lions bills moving forward. There's three games left,
two of them against New England won at home, won away,
Jets in between there, I believe, right, yes, uh Jets
Sandwich and uh Cody Bellinger, Yeah, yeah, we'll get to
uh all that because it's got to be abbreviated.
Speaker 2: I have a heart out tonight.
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police made me stop walk straight line and Bloway by
loaning out. Police stop my car at least stop my car.
The police may me sed up straight line and low
by Lord enough, they want to wish me soul Christmas.
Speaker 1: There you go. Bob Rivers, who is a radio personality,
spent most of his career out of Seattle, but was
in Baltimore for a minute or two, Boston, Worcester, and then.
Speaker 5: He's still hanging on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, I think health wise, he's okay, Okay,
I know there was cancer. I don't. I don't. I
don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Out of the loop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be one for radio.
Speaker 5: He tell you some great story.
Speaker 2: There was probably some good stories.
Speaker 6: But my favorite Christmas spoof is Grandma got forked over
by the Grandpa got forked over by the mafia.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I haven't heard it in years, but that's it's somewhere.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll have to find it for tomorrow. Yeah, so, Danny,
only because I have to abbreviated version of the pod
tonight with you, and I because I I have the
thing I gotta go to get to. But thoughts on
the Buffalo Bills right now. Josh Allen, I'll ask this question,
secured the MVP or not.
Speaker 5: I believe he has. Yes.
Speaker 6: I think there's a national game bias. And when everybody
sees how miraculous you are, like last year, Lamar secured
it on Christmas when he beat the crap out of
the forty nine ers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's the guy.
Speaker 6: And I think at the last like twenty years fifty,
the MVPs have gone to the team of the best
record in the NFL or a number one seed. So
I mean, yeah, I mean Josh Allen may have secured
like the greatest player ever.
Speaker 1: At this point.
Speaker 6: Well there's people, I mean, who's played better than Josh
Allen ever.
Speaker 1: I just read a breakdown I think it was on
I follow the silly site called bro Bible. I went
to bro Bible and I'm looking through the headlines and
they go the ranking the top ten quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 2: Currently or whatever, or maybe it was the top.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're all thirty two and Josh Allen was number one,
and they go, who's playing better than Josh Allen in
the league. He is so fun to watch, buddy.
Speaker 2: Yeah No.
Speaker 1: And that chess pass he almost wishes that somebody didn't
hold that was.
Speaker 5: That was a player of the Year candidate.
Speaker 1: Well, these are just things that he's doing that Mahomes
has done, the behind the back pass, all the improvisational
stuff that I wonder if you get to a level
where the game almost slows down for you and you
see opportunities to just play.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's called it. Like Jordan said, being in the zone. Yeah,
of like the basket to him was like a Hulu hoop.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm watching with my own kid, right basketball,
And one of the things he's saying to me is
I don't get He goes, I can look at the plays,
I can understand the plays, but then I get out
on the on the court and he's like, I can't
sometimes remember where I'm going what I'm doing, And he goes,
it's so frustrating. And I said, this is a higher
level of Is this a higher level of basketball than
you were playing in Alabama and he goes yeah, he
goes absolutely, And I said, okay, I said, it's a
real team thing. Like there, I said, when you learn
this system, it is the system all the way through.
You get it. Now, you got it, build on and
build on it, build on it, and we'll work on
the other skills in the off season and stuff. But
so I'm just thinking with the NFL, an NFL playbook
is like it looks insane.
Speaker 5: I mean we talk about like reading text code.
Speaker 1: We say things like the you know the dumb jock,
you're the dumb football player.
Speaker 5: All their brain cells are into the football playbook.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but man, it is on our believable. It's hard
first to go to college. Yes, but I think a
quarterback more than anything is the one. You've got to
know everything that's happening on every play. Yep, running back,
I just got to block. Here's got to find the hole.
Yeah right, Receiver, I gotta run the route. I got
to read the defense a little bit. But the quarterbacks
got to know the protection. He's got to know where
the blitz is coming from. He's got to know he's
shut down. He's got to be on the same page
as receivers. Like sometimes if you see, like like Super
Bowl thirty, Neil O'donnald throws a famous interception to Larry Brown.
Larry Brown takes off for a touchdown, game game ends, and.
Speaker 5: He's like, oh, the game's fixed. That was a clear
he clearly No, the receiver ran the wrong route. Yeah,
they weren't on the same page.
Speaker 1: Well, we saw that early in this season with Josh.
Speaker 5: We saw it with Gave Davis last year.
Speaker 2: Coleman. I think Coleman r.
Speaker 5: Coleman ran the wrong round route.
Speaker 1: It was pretty obviously. Yeah, that was that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was the Miami game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think that, you know, you see that
stuff and normally go where the hell is he thrown to? No,
he's thrown to where he needs to. But it's his
seventh year in the league, Josh. Now we go, Josh
throwing it where he needs to go back a few
years ago, Josh is inaccurate. Look at that. The guy
was on the opposite side of the field the Josh.
Speaker 5: Start first year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: For a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but now there's almost like a hang on a second,
this guy has done so much stuff, so when you
watch the Lions game, was there any I mean, I was,
We watched it together. I was kind of on the
edge of my seat, very nervous that something would fall apart.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because he blew a three touchdown lead almost. I mean,
you didn't blow the lead, but you, I mean you
gave up like a three touchdown deficite of one.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 6: I was pretty relaxed the entire game because I went
into it thinking they were gonna lose. Everything else was
a bonus, but like they were like coasting for a while.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, you said.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I said, I thought they're gonna lose.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: The difference between this, you gotta remember in two games, well,
Josh Allen on the offense has put up eighty six
points or whatever the Bills or eighty eight porard or
something like that. The Bills defense is given up seventy nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, right.
Speaker 5: The difference in.
Speaker 6: The Rams game and the difference in the Lions game
was in the Rams game there was a block punt
return for a touchdown against the Bills. In the Lions game,
the Lions, you know, Saint Brown fumble the football, Bills
recover end up going and scoring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 6: That's that's the difference. So your defense still has to
show up. And I know there's a lot of people saying, well,
maybe you know McDermott and Bobby Babitch, the defensive coordinator,
are holding things back.
Speaker 5: They think they could beat these guys. I don't think
you were holding anything back against the Stroit.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 6: You're the best team in the NFL. You don't have
a full They stopped their run games.
Speaker 1: These are these are we don't even know the names
of the people out there, right, do we right? I
mean we do, yeah, some of them, I don't know.
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, I mean, Rasul
Douglas missed, you know, missed the game because and by
the way he's getting up there, like when corners go,
they go quickly.
Speaker 5: I mean that defense is still a liability. He's like, well,
they stopped the run game. Okay, they stopped the run,
but they still threw for like you know, yeah, for
the ages.
Speaker 6: I mean, Detroit still played a heck of a game,
and it was a six point game when it ended.
Speaker 5: And you could make the argument that if Campbell.
Speaker 6: Doesn't decide to like on side, they kick the ball
with eleven minutes to go, you may have a different outcome,
But but you gotta do you love a coach like
that or do you hate it? Gas I do love
a coach like that. But you gotta be smart. You
can't be reckless. He's reckless. He was reckless in the
NFC Championship game last year and it flipped the entire game.
Lions were head to the Super Bowl, and they just said, yeah,
let's go for it when a field goal would have
put you up like three scores.
Speaker 5: Now, let's not do that. And so again like he
didn't have to do that.
Speaker 6: Now, I think the philosophy was, we're not going to
stop the Bills offense, okay, but you still gotta you
still gotta try eleven minutes to go.
Speaker 5: Because in the old days, you could just kick an
on side kick. Nobody would know it's coming.
Speaker 6: And believe me, Buffalo special teams they would not know
it's coming. They're not that good, all right, But now
you have to announce it. You have to basically send
it a grave devitation. We would now like to odd
sides kick the ball. By the way, the second eyd
Sight's kicked they almost didn't get it Buffalo. They only
won by six, and it wasn't like a back and forth.
You know, the Bills had a lead and then they
held on for dear life. I'm not saying I'm unhappy
about it. I'm very happy.
Speaker 5: Now you got three games where if you take care
of business one.
Speaker 6: Way or another, you could probably if they're going if
they're going for the number one seed, they're probably gonna
have to win out if they figure out by the
next by the second game, the Jets game, that they're
only gonna lock up a two seed, you're probably gonna
be treat the last Patriots game as a bye week. Yeah,
like Josh is not gonna play, Your stars are not
gonna play. It's gonna be backups and stuff. We're gonna
get ready for the first game of the playoffs. So
but I mean, the Bills are a good shape. But
the goals to win the Super Bowl, let's not forget that.
Speaker 1: And the chances on that in your thought, in your opinion.
Speaker 6: I think they're more likely the two seed. But the
thing you gotta remember though, well.
Speaker 1: The two seed. But I'm saying still an opportunity. Yes,
super Bowl, Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, look, do you realize that if you take
Josh Shouting off the Buffalo Bills, they may be one
of the five worst teams in the NFL. Look at
their coaching, look at their special teams, look at their offense.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's a quarterback league. You're only as good
as your quarterback. I don't care who you are.
Speaker 6: But some coaches can overcome that. Like I mean, a
lot of people are killing Shanahan and San Francisco. Do
you realize he took two Super Bowl two guys in
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5: One guy's last name was irrelevant, first name mister yeah.
Speaker 6: And the guy before them was a guy named Garoppolo
who he left San Francisco.
Speaker 4: What has he done since?
Speaker 5: Nothing? Right, He's a pretty damn good coach. Oh, by
the way, he made Matt Ryan an MVP.
Speaker 1: There's rumors or talk, I don't know, about him possibly
being traded Shanahan to the.
Speaker 5: Chicago Bears compensation. I could see it because they think
he can work with Caleb Williams. I don't know. I
think it's I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 6: But there's also rumors that last night, Kirk Cousins, I mean,
not last night.
Speaker 5: But the other night he was benched.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was.
Speaker 5: And it's gonna be the Michael pennoxara coming up. Okay.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: They guaranteed him ninety million more dollars or whatever, and
so he could go to San Francisco sign because like
Atlanta still got to pay him that money.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Period, that money's already accounted for and it's gonna count
against the Caps.
Speaker 5: So what do they do?
Speaker 6: He could refuse the trade or he they kindomy can
go to San Francisco or wherever Shanahan goes for the
league minimum and still get his money from Atlanta.
Speaker 5: And those guys work well together. They work well in Washington.
Speaker 6: Kirk Cousins, Yeah, Kirk Cousins like Mike Shanahan or Kyle
Shannahan could rebuild quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Man, well, I would like you could.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine what he would do with Josh Allen?
Speaker 1: No, I don't want to know. I don't want to know.
I just like what's happening. Yes, I'll get the leaver there.
I got to wrap it up in just a second here.
But Cody Bellinger, yes, loved him with the Dodgers now
in New York.
Speaker 5: Yankees now New York Yankee.
Speaker 1: He went to the Chicago Cubs in between renown directed
his career. There is something that is being highlighted about
this trade.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger's wife in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen dated Gian
Carlos Stin. Oh, okay, And so the question is will
there be awkwardness?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger has been married to this woman for a
couple of years. They have two daughters together. She is
a former swimsuit model or whatever it is. But I mean,
will it be will there be strained in the locker room?
It could be funny.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. No, I don't think so at all.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing that I don't get sometimes because
I think they I.
Speaker 6: Think guys like being guys of course, of course about it,
have some fun break balls about it or not whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But how do you handle the situation like that? You
got to be secure enough to realize she is with
you and not him. And there's a reason why probably,
and I go, But how about the couples that get divorced,
have kids, get divorced, go on to new part and
then everybody gets together for holidays and they get together
for this.
Speaker 5: Wasn't that like with Laura's situation?
Speaker 1: Well sort of, but I go, do they But sometimes
they do that for years, like continue for years even
after everybody's grown and now new families right there, ghost
kids are grown and have families and they're own and
the original couples still get together, And I go, is
that weird? Maybe it's not.
Speaker 5: I think it's I think it's weird if you make
it weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: What do we say here all the time?
Speaker 1: There is no meaning unless attack the meaning you give it.
Speaker 6: That's it, you know, I mean, I mean, so one
time I was at I was at a Christmas party
at a radio station when we first started working together,
and my then girlfriend at the time, we're going up
the stairs and this girl that I, you know, had
a brief relationship with is coming down the stairs and
my then girlfriend at the times awkward.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 5: I'm like, only because you said awkward.
Speaker 1: Oh I think I was behind you. Yeah, I'm like,
she said it really loud. Yeah, yeah awkward.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, it's only awkward because you said awkward. I
think we're both adults. We both moved on. I'm with you,
and she's with whoever that dude is.
Speaker 1: We've all seen each other naked, folks, I mean, do
we have to like?
Speaker 6: I mean, it's only awkward, like when people Sometimes it's
the people outside that make it awkward, but it's awkward
to us.
Speaker 1: Well, I saw a story that made me laugh kind
of a little bit here Will Levis. Will Levis's model
girlfriend that he broke up with, who I think came.
Speaker 5: With him at the draft.
Speaker 1: Yes, she got famous at the draft. He fell to
the second round. She became famous. Attractive girl, pretty, I
would say to me, just pretty, But okay, she did
a whole thing. Get ready with me. I'm going to
my first Titans game this past week. And she goes,
I've had all this Titans gear in my clauses.
Speaker 2: Has just been rotting.
Speaker 1: That's what she said. It's all she was with Will.
Will gets drafted by the Titans. There, Will has a
horrible game and gets benched in the third quarter, and
I go, he not that it was in his head.
I'm not saying that, But that's the game you want
to show out, you know what I mean. I mean,
take it down to our own level, you know, Beer
Softball League yeah, you're playing your ex wife's a new
boyfriend or husband's team. You want to show out, even
with your big old beer belly. You're coming around second,
you're plowing someone over. You're you want to show off
here a little bit right, You're hoping the other guy
flames out. I felt bad for Will.
Speaker 4: Maybe it doesn't even matter in his head, but boy,
I think headline, I.
Speaker 1: Think it does a little bit.
Speaker 6: Young enough, your quarterback, you dropped in the draft. Your
girl's mocking you.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know.
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, I have all this Titans gear that's
rotting in this closet.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's because now all these you got to remember
the call Wag's wives and girlfriends and athletes, they all
had their own personal brand. Now, I mean Josh Allen's
ex Brittany, she wants to let the world.
Speaker 5: Know how often my life is without Josh Allen. I
mean she's going out of her way to do it.
I mean like these like they have no they have
no skills.
Speaker 6: Their whole their currency is they're hot and they were
with a former athlete or I'm.
Speaker 5: Sorry, they're they're they're they're they're in the x of
an athlete. It's embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Well it yes, yes, but it's interesting.
Speaker 5: It is interesting for us.
Speaker 1: It's interesting to me because they have the confidence to
do that and say who they are, and it's slightly
different world those things. I don't know, Yes, because you
got to stand up there, because you're gonna get ship
unless you turn off the comments. I mean, you're gonna
get some ship back. There's gonna be people who say
stuff to you. So I always go, well, maybe that's
a confidence thing, and that's okay.
Speaker 5: It could be.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what to really think
about it. I haven't given a whole lot of thoughts.
Speaker 6: Jeanine Talley, who's Terrell Tally's wife, once said that when
Britney Mahomes was like after like Patrick Mahomes and the
Chiefs had finally won a Super Bowl, she became this
big internet celebrity and a lot of people her and
she so she goes, I know what that's like because
I lived it. I know what it's like to be
the wife or a girlfriend of the next of a jock.
Speaker 5: And she goes, life will start to humble you. Sure
one day, it's just hasn't hasn't done it yet?
Speaker 1: All right, well, I gotta wrap it up. Dan, Sorry,
it's okay, it's all right. For Dan Burrillo, for Cody Bellinger,
for Joan Carlos, John Carlos, Josh Allen, for Will Levis,
Bill Levis, for the teacher Rush Henrietta, who may be innocent.
I don't know.
Speaker 5: He's gonna have his day.
Speaker 1: Afore, for people who don't have a lot of people
at their funeral home at their funeral. Yeah, your radio days,
I Bill Morett.
Speaker 2: We'll see you tomorrow.
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