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The days may go by kind of slow, but the months, the years time, it feels like it's flying. So let's just, let's try to enjoy, enjoy life. And like Miles Garrett, who got an enormous amount of money, was told, we need you to be a leader. He's like, guys, trade me. Took the money and now he's in Japan hanging out with his girlfriend. So we will discuss that. Caleb, got to give the young man some credit. I thought he did a really good job the other day discussing his situation. Daniel Anthony Richardson versus Daniel Jones. I feel like that decision's already been made. I really do. And I think Anthony Richardson's time in Indianapolis. Tick tock. We had a boat incident with some drugs, pink powder from Stefon Diggs and Cardi B. Well, Cardi B wasn't in the part with the drugs. Well, she came in later with some dancing, but boats and NFL players, man, it made me think of some other boat situations that I wanted to touch on. 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But Miles Garrett didn't run away from his feelings about the Cleveland Browns this off season. He went to the Super Bowl a mission. I want a trade. Get me out of here. In the Cleveland Browns, because of their owner and his desire to get Deshaun Watson, put themselves in a predicament. Worst contract of all time. The guy now has multiple Achilles tears over the last six months, is a disaster, is an anchor on the franchise. But they were giving it out. They have a 30 plus year old all time great talent who wanted to leave and they could have traded him for a hole. And then it turns out they could fleece the Jags and get multiple first round picks based on a trade back from 2 to 5. So if they had played it right, which I would imagine the coach and the GM would have been willing to do, they could be here flush with picks. But you know what they did instead? The owner like would Deshaun Watson. Because listen, money can make a lot of people shut up. Now listen, money changes a lot of our lives, right? Especially for most people. It just cures our basic necessities. Pays for room and board, pays for food, pays for transportation. Like it's pretty important to most of us. And then you get really rich. Like a guy like Miles Garrett, who made $123 million at the end of last season at 30 years old, that's an astronomical amount of money. And given that he's still in the prime of his career, whether it was the Browns or someone else, he would have another $150 million, 100% coming his way. And that doesn't even count anything he does off the field. This guy has a ton of cash. Money is not going to change how you feel at all when you're that rich. So when Jimmy Haslam's like, I'm not trading you, which is his prerogative, but it made no sense. And I remember thinking like, why don't you just trade him? Right now he's giving you the out. Because if you just impromptu traded him and he didn't want to leave, there would be pushback because most fans would go, this guy is one of the more talented guys in the history of this team and franchise and in the league. You could argue he's the most talented or definitely top two or three most talented guy in the prime of his career in the league currently. But he said he wanted out and they refused to do it. And Jimmy Haslam gave him $125 million to shut him up. Myles Garrett told him, I don't want to be there. So when I see the story that he's in Japan with his girlfriend at the Anime Awards and there was a story after they paid him that internally they wanted him to step up, he'd been showing up late. They think he could be a much better leader. He doesn't want to play for your franchise and just because you gave him a lot of money is not going to change that feeling internally for the guy. Caleb Williams, the story that broke, what, the last, I don't know, 15 days from Wickersham's book about Caleb and his dad's feelings toward the Chicago Bears is not new. The story kind of is. But those thoughts were from, as we sit here, May 29, 2025, 15 months ago. That's from January, February, March, in 2024. We're basically in June 2025. I don't blame him for having those thoughts, even if I don't agree with all of them or think that some of them are kind of laughable. You're allowed to think whatever you want to think, and when you factor in family situations. And his dad, who by all accounts is a successful businessman, had some strong beliefs. No one, including Bears fans, pushed back against his thoughts that, like, this is a place where quarterbacks go to die. Are we sure Eber Floose is good enough? They asked. We all knew that answer. No, he's not. He's objectively one of the worst coaches we've ever seen. It was like a more buttoned up Jim Tomsula, but Caleb Williams could have easily taken the mic and listen. He didn't talk last week. His prerogative don't really Blame him. Young guy, a lot of emotions. Give me a week. Let me just take a deep breath. And you know what he did? He handled it like a 10 year vet because you know how I would have handled it? Like, listen, guys, I'm not going to talk about things written in a book from 15 months ago. I'm excited. Ben's here, we have a loaded team. I can't wait for this fall. I'm fired up to be a bear. That's the end of the story. Instead, he went on like a three and a half minute kind of diatribe, acknowledging that none of that stuff was fake, that that was real. Not that any of us didn't believe it, but he embraced it. And I thought, you know what, it would have been easy one for him just to avoid it as Rory McElroy. Where have you been, buddy? Nowhere to be seen. Won't acknowledge the press over something kind of quote unquote controversial. And golf, it's about a driver. So when you talk about a 21, 22 year old guy that has some, you know, pretty big headlines about some negativity about the franchise that he plays for, coming from himself and his father, you know it's going to be a big deal and he could have just tried to avoid it. Instead, not only did he take it head on, he acknowledged that it was all true. And not only does he not regret it, like he's excited. And if I was a Bears fan, there wasn't much to be excited for in 2024. I think we all acknowledge it was an embarrassment of a season led by Eberfluss, who was fired the day after Thanksgiving. Anytime you're fired after the day after Thanksgiving tells you how bad things are going. But part of what makes great quarterbacks are not how fast they are or how great their arm is, it's how they handle shit. It's their character, it's their focus. It's the intangible stuff. The best two quarterbacks of my adult life. Not even close. I don't even know who would be the third guy would be probably Rogers, would be Manning and Brady. Why? Because of what they could handle off the field. And that's a huge part of this crew of guys right now. Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow and Caleb clearly has a lot of the physical attributes, but what separates guys is the intangibles. And I was really impressed watching Caleb talk. I remember a couple years ago when the 49ers signed Sam Darnold, I went, I think Trey Lance's career here in San Francisco was done. And you couldn't say that because there was this Internet contingent of booger eaters that thought Trey Lance was the next Lamar Jackson. It turns out he's a borderline average third string quarterback, but he was traded before week one going into his third year. But in that off season they had told you we don't even think he's a backup now. They didn't say that, they talked. We believe, we think there's still something there. But one thing as you get older you learn is words are kind of worthless. Judge people by their actions, especially professional sports teams, because they will give you the run around and the propaganda machine. These guys are good at it. Coaches, players, general managers, most of them now are pretty well versed in the ability of bullshit. But I saw that Shane Steichen said that we are going to split the reps evenly throughout OTAs, give or take 170 snaps each each for Daniel Jones and Anthony Richardson. In my first reaction went, I think Anthony Richardson's career in Indy has a very good chance of ending. Because if I was a betting man sitting here May 29, 2025, I would bet on Daniel Jones beating him out. And I'm not pro. Daniel Jones don't think he's good either. But I've seen this song and dance before and I would imagine after last year, everything they experienced with Anthony Richardson in that moment when he quit on the team in the middle of a game and clearly his teammates turned on him, I went, I think this is probably over. And then they gave Daniel Jones, who I thought was like a three or $4 million player, $14 million to come compete, aka start for them. So I would guess as we sit here right now that Daniel Jones won't, only he will win this starting job for the Colts come week one, that they won't keep Anthony Richardson around as the backup quarterback because as we saw last year, his value as a backup quarterback, it's this guy's a project. And I have no problem with what Chris Ballard did. He took a swing for the fences. But I say this all the time because I am pro, you know, going for broke high in the draft with guys like this. But sometimes when you do that, you strike gold, you become a multimillionaire. You get Patrick Mahomes, you know, you get Jamar Chase, you get whoever, a great player, really high in the draft. And those guys, you know, Jamar Chase wasn't a project, but Mahomes was. It was risky. And sometimes when you go for broke. You do go broke. And that's what it feels like the Anthony Richardson situation is headed toward. There was a, a boat incident with Stefon Diggs, Cardi B and some, I think, as the kids say it, thoughts. Tots, influencers, strippers, hookers, lot of, lot of chicks on a boat that included some drugs. Now I'm not the moral police here. I don't care what you do for fun. Personally not a huge upper guy. I'm not a drug guy in general. I don't know. I like going to bed much more of like a day hangout, party guy, maybe some cocktails by a pool, lake, golf course than I am trying to stay up all night. So can't totally relate to that. But understand it lived long enough in this world to know some people like that stuff. So I also not naive enough to think that there are people in the NFL, maybe guys that own the team, that don't dabble in some booger sugar. I did not know what a pink powder was when Stefon Diggs handed it. We've seen a lot of different people on the Internet kind of break it down to the little mixture of a party cocktail for your nostrils. Now I think sometimes when you get on a boat as an NFL player, things have not gone well historically. And on a serious note, I've talked a lot about, you know, how difficult it is and I've used Ben Johnson as an example because he was an elite coordinator. I mean he's best coordinator in the league for the last couple years. But when something like this happened, if it did happen with the Lions, it was on the general manager and Dan Campbell to handle it. It's not his problem. When Jameson Williams had an issue with a gun and pulled over with a brother, that's Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes problem, not Ben Johnson's problem. So when this happens for Mike Vrabel, it's like he's been head coach in the NFL for a long time. There is no chance that he hasn't had drug issues with players before. He knows how to handle it. Whether he handles it correctly or not, time will tell. You could argue why you even signed him in the first place, but he has experience with this exact situation. So I think when you look at this boat situation for the Patriots, it's kind of funny. But also like, you know, when you get a player like this who's dating Cardi B. If I told you right now that Cardi B. Was just dating some other entertainer, actor, rapper, whatever, and was on a boat with A ton of other stripper looking chicks, dude, and they were just partying all day. Would you imagine drugs would be involved? I think the answer would be yes. So really, just because it's Diggs and not someone that fits some other line of work, it's pretty jarring to see if you are Mike Vrabel and the Patriots brass and if you're Diggs and his agent is like, bro, let's, let's keep our head on a swivel here for the cameras. But we have some recent memory or some recent events. Obviously the Odell Beckham situation. Because if you're on a boat doing stupid shit in the middle of May or late May, who really cares One, he has a torn acl. He couldn't even practice if he wanted to. He's not even gonna be ready. Week one, Odell Beckham and crew went to a boat. I had forgotten the exact date. I was like, did they have a bye week? I'm like, no, that was Tony Romo when he went with Jason Whitten to Cancun. Which honestly isn't even that crazy. He's definitely not the first and won't be the last player to go hang out for a couple days as the number one seed during the buy. Weird. Look, I guess if you're the starting quarterback who's never had much success in the playoffs, you're dating someone really famous, as he was Jessica Simpson, but Oto Beckham, because the season used to end right around New Year's because it wasn't 17 games, it was only 16. So either the 31st, the 1st, the 30th, right around there. So the, the New York Giants flew down to Miami on Monday of a playoff week and they proceeded, I'm pretty sure to get blown out like 40 to 10. They got destroyed and he got destroyed as well. But you can even argue, is that that crazy? It's like these guys, all five private. I don't know how long the private jet is from New York to Miami. A couple hours, Two, three, three and a half, two, whatever. But not that, not that wild. One event that gets lost in translation that is never talked about anymore is the Love Boat. And sometimes I just miss pre social media events because I feel like they were actually way crazier than anything that could happen now because of a camera. Like if I was to defend Stefon Diggs, you would have to be pretty naive to think he's the only guy in the NFL in the off season that is dabbling in some drugs, you know, anti Drugs here. But I'm also not dumb enough to think that some people are having a good time with some things they probably shouldn't be and that aren't the healthiest thing for them and could result in problems. But young people, especially with money, tends to be a rich guy drug. That's what cocaine is. And the love boat with the Minnesota Vikings in 2005 is something we just do not talk about enough because the franchise, it was right post. Randy Moss, Dante Culpepper was very famous quarterback Fred Smoot pretty sure was one of the better corners in the league. Bryant McKinney was a star left tackle and they had just a solid team and they chartered a boat with other people. So it was a bunch of players, a bunch of hoes and just some random people. And I had to google the event because they got in big trouble. And I was like, what exactly happened on the love boat? And then I read this article that said Eyewitness reports starting offensive lineman Bryant McKinney is charged with giving and receiving he's a giver or oral sex from an unidentified woman. Fred Smoot, who is believed to have chartered the boat with another player, was charged with using a sex toy on not one but two unclothed women. The witnesses say all the acts happened in view of the other passengers. These cats were just having a massive orgy pre. I mean 2005. I'm not even sure that we had cameras on cell phones. This thing was like a vivid shoot in the Hollywood hills, just out in the lake in Minnesota. All these guys got in big trouble. This also was during the season. So while the step on dig situation, funny, I do think to go party on a boat playoff game, then get your ass kicked and have an orgy mid season on a boat actually is a little bit crazier. So just wanted to put a little context into boatgate. The NBA finals are almost here and every play could be the one that changes everything. This is the NBA playoffs where heroes rise, legacies are built, and the action never lets up. With DraftKings Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NBA, you don't just watch the madness, you live it back. Your favorite team ride with your clutch time killer. Bet on the buzzer beaters, the breakout performances, the game winning threes, from player props to same game parlays, this is how you take your fandom to the next level. Okay, we got a couple big series here. You know, the Thunder had an incredible regular season. Not going to lie, I like the T wolves. And you can get them to win this season. Obviously lines are subject to change. 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And depending on how long and how hot it is, you're probably on the field truly practicing for like an hour and a half, maybe an hour and 45 minutes. And on some days it might be closer to an hour. The key to this time of year is bonding and getting to know each other. You have every single year in the NFL. On average, it's like 28 to 35% turnover. So you have a lot of new players. Clearly you have rookies, you have undrafted free agents, you have free agent signings, you have guys that maybe were not around last year because of major injuries sustained in the offseason or in training camp. So you're trying to integrate all these people. A lot of programs, if they're not an entirely new staff, have new coaches. It's on the coaching staff, specifically the head coach and the gm, to just figure out ways to bond and get to know each other. Because in a couple weeks you'll break for summer, you'll be gone for 40 days, then all of a sudden you'll just report to training camp and about 15 hours a day you will grind on football. And the better you get to know people. It's why, you know, historically this time of year, if you know you live in a place and you have an NHL team that's making run in the playoff, buy a suite, and as many guys that want to go, go hang out, drink beers, position coaches, have guys to their house, have a barbecue and just get to know each other, hang out with each other. Because I do think it's a tried and true formula when you know, respect and honestly, like the other person you're working with, you are willing to work harder. And that's no different in football or any of the businesses we're in. And I think it's harder now than ever, especially with all these rookies and young guys in the NFL that have been bouncing around college programs all over the place. So their relationships with others are different historically than the older guys in the league that most guys that have been in the league five plus years, when they went to Texas, when they went to Alabama, when they went to Washington, when they went to Florida, Florida State, whether it went well or not early on they stayed because that's what happened in the history of college football. Now see you, you're not paying me enough, I'm out. And that creates a different type atmosphere. And I think in the NFL the atmosphere of like ideally you're going to be on this team for a while now we're going to have to pay you for it but and extend your contract one day. But we want you here for a while and we need to get to know you and we need to spend time together and this is a great time when not much is going on where you can have people over to your house, set up a barbecue, set up events where everyone gets to hang out, maybe some booze involved and just get to know each other. 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Still got a million questions, so I appreciate everyone that interacts with this. We will start with Harris just my my Instagram. You guys know the drill. Let's say you're a gm. Would you rather be in a position where the talent on the team is great and the quarterback is not up to the standards of winning a championship like Dallas, Pittsburgh or Miami? Or would you rather be in a position where the quarterback is great but the talent itself is subpar? For example, like the Chargers, some could say the Bears. I think you could throw the Bengals in there as well. I would say you would. It's like the NBA version. Would you rather just have the star and then figure it out or would you have rather have like a really deep team but no star? I think you always choose a star. Would I rather have Burrow or Herbert? Yeah, over the Cowboys. I wouldn't compare the Cowboys to the Steelers. I mean they won 12 games three straight years and Dak just kind of shit the bed. I mean they did win one playoff game of the three but like he's Dak, he's still a top 12ish quarterback. Steelers don't don't have anybody. I mean it doesn't exist. They do not have it. We think Aaron Rodgers. I just assume that. But the Dolphins to me are the worst spot because clearly their guy is like more than functional you can just win with them, but he gets injured and he's not good enough to beat anyone actually good. So I would definitely choose the Chargers. Definitely choose the Bengals. I mean look at the Chargers. They get Jim Harbaugh. Last year they went 11. This year it feels like they're going to win double digit, be back in the playoffs. So I think you would always choose the quarterback first because you could have a really good team and just like struggle to find a quarterback. Do you think the BS holding on Bradbury and Super Bowl 57 is the difference being the Chiefs dynasty instead of the Eagles? As a diehard Birds fan, that still bothers me. Well, they've won. They won three of five and now you've won. So they would only have two and you would have two. It would have been a pretty big moment. I mean Howie would have had three Super Bowls. Sirianni would had two. Jalen Hurts would add two. Been a pretty big sliding doors moment in the NFL. I typically hate tic tac ticky tack calls in general. I do believe that pass interference is the one that like, I mean most of these play, I mean obviously the famous one in the Saints Rams game where the dude got taken out, but I, yeah, I don't know. I'd have to re see the play. I mean you'd know better than me. That feels like 10 years ago. Something you said sparked a question. With the media rights evolving and the shift towards streaming supposed Amazon offers the Big Ten half a billion for broadcasting rights and outbids a traditional partner like Fox. What is to stop Fox from going directly to a powerhouse program like Michigan or Ohio State and saying if you go independent, we'll pay you 80 million each. Instead of schools forming super conferences, could we see more teams following a model like Notre Dame? Well, Notre Dame clearly, I mean part of their pushback, why they wouldn't join the Big Ten is they're making so much money off NBC and they're a great partner because their games rate on NBC, whether they're playing Navy, army or niu or whether they're playing A and M or Scott. Like they do big, big numbers for NBC. I think one of the worst mistakes I saw, you know, Fox gets excellent Big Ten game mainly because they just, if Michigan's good or Ohio State's good, they just show all their games. And then when Penn State plays Michigan, when Penn State plays Ohio State, so they just, they just ride those two brands. Where I saw the, the CBS the game at, you know, for me it was always 12:30 kickoff. But if you live on the Eastern Seaboard 3:30 that Alabama, LSU, Florida, Georgia, the SEC game, well, ESPN stole the SEC from them. And now some of the games like Purdue, usc, I think it was like Ohio State, San Jose State. I mean, some of the games is like, this is what you guys are showing. I saw someone tweet like, this is why Gary Danielson's quitting. I do think the thing with college football is you bring up a good point. Michigan, Ohio State are really like NFL teams. If Michigan is good, Ohio State has been continuously good. They do huge, huge television numbers. I mean massive. A Michigan, Penn State game will do a bigger number than any of the. In fairness, Oklahoma City is a tiny, tiny market. But I saw that the Oklahoma City Minnesota series was not highly rated, which makes sense. I mean, if it was Lakers, Mavericks or Lakers Warriors, I mean it triple the number. But Ohio State is just a really, really valuable property. I do think they're locked in for a while and Fox is a pretty good partner for the Big Ten. It's been very lucrative. I mean, for everybody involved. The Big Ten is making a ton of money. Fox is doing huge ratings. But I would say big picture, everything's on the table. I don't pretend to be like some genius when it comes to never say never. If Fox got asked out in your hypothetical world, I think you would be naive to think that they wouldn't. If they were desperate to try to do something like that and go after Ohio State, I even think the number would be bigger. I would imagine, if you asked like the Murdoch family and the people running the business of Fox. Ohio State is probably worth $200 million. Like they would have no problem just doing a direct deal, giving them $200 million a year. Maybe that. Maybe that number is crazy. Definitely well over 100. You said 80. I think it dwarfs that number. Minimum. Double it. Love the pod. Keep me awake. The question comes from a Seahawk fan living in enemy territory. I live in Northern California, heart of 49er nation. I'm curious to know your overall opinion on the Seahawks moving on from Pete and hiring a younger Mike McDonald. And by not choosing to follow the rest of the league, by hiring a young offensive guru and instead sticking to their roots, hiring a defensive guru. I have mixed feelings myself and tend to lean heavier on an offensive coach. But again, as a Seahawk fan, after seeing arguably one of the best, if not the best defense in the NFL during our super bowl run, what they did, did, did, to quote unquote, the best offense in the game, I think he's talking Denver and just knowing in the division we have Sean McVeigh is the right move. You are like you're. If you're drafting one overall and you need a quarterback and there are no quarterbacks in the draft, what are you supposed to do? Right. The Titans, would they have rather had Caleb Williams or Jaden Daniels than Cam Ward? Sure, but Cam Ward was in the draft that they were in and those two guys were not. Would they rather have Peyton Manning or Andrew Luck? My point is, is that you, if you fire your coach, the candidates are the candidates, right? Like, would John Schneider rather hire Kyle Shanahan or Sean McVay than Mike McDonald? Of course he would because there's way less risk. It's like, why already know those guys can be head coaches and they coach offense, which is the most important thing to do, but those guys aren't available. Kevin O' Connell, LaFleur, all these guys had jobs and Ben Johnson last year wouldn't leave. So Mike McDonald's, if he had been an offensive coordinator, what he did in Baltimore, he would have been discussed like Ben Johnson was this year and he was. But it's just a little different because he's a defensive guy. So I think, listen, anytime that you can get. He was called boy genius in Baltimore. I mean, the guy is really, really impressed. Whenever I watch Mike McDonald talk, he actually conducts himself in front of a microphone. Closer to an offensive personality. He's not like screaming F bombs. He's not your typical defensive coach. So I like the higher. I think he's really high level guy. I thought he did a good job last year. I guess the only thing is, you know, eventually, if they draft a quarterback, and I'm sure they're going to try over the next couple of years, or if Sam Darnold, they invest a decent amount of money in them. You know, Mike, like Pete can coach personality, can coach like offensive philosophy and big picture stuff, but like on a daily basis when it comes to footwork, when it comes to decision making, when it comes to the execution of the offense, he's not really going to have anything to do with that. And that's the, the overall pushback of like, at the end of the day, when you give Brock Purdy a lot of money or Matt Stafford a lot of money or Jordan Love a lot of money, your head coach is with that guy every single day. So sink or swim, he's right next to him in the pool where Mike, like his baby really is Witherspoon and The defense and the pass rush and the coverage and the tackling, that's what he does well. That's his expertise. So in a perfect world, if I get them both Ben Johnson and Mike McDonald, I think most people, including yourself, would just take Ben Johnson, but they didn't really have that option. And I think when you look at the coaches that were hired last year, I think Mike was a no brainer hire for them and a really, really good one. Love the show. Writing in a non football question, I have lived in the upper Midwest my entire life. When I tell people I'm from Minnesota, they always ask what's the weather? Especially if they are from the south or western part of the country. I assume they think it's freezing most of the time, but it's really not. Meanwhile, I just looked at the temperature in Scottsdale, Arizona and it's already 97 degrees at one o' clock in the afternoon in late May. That sounds awful to me, especially since it's going to be even hotter in July and August that my friend, it will be in the winter. Where I live, I can always put on an extra layer or two and be fine to go outside. But you can only take off so many clothes when it's 110 degrees. How are you not stuck inside during those unbearable summer months? And why is the weather in Arizona considered to be better than the weather in Minnesota? I think if you just polled most people, whether you're from Minnesota, whether you're from New Mexico, Florida, Philly, whatever, most human beings do not like the cold. And having lived here, you know, I lived in Philly for a couple years, which was by far the coldest place I'd ever lived for a long period of time. But living in Arizona, we get a lot of Midwest transplants. So I get to meet and through golf I meet a ton of Bears fans, I've met a ton of Vikings fans, Chiefs fans, like that, that stretch of the country, they come here and I would say to a man and when you say put on an extra layer. 110 degrees hot. No one would argue that. And honestly we had stretches last year when it was 115 degrees. Where I grew up in Sacramento, California. I grew up in Davis, but it's separated by causeway. It got 105 to 108 degrees. I lived in Fresno, it was 110 degrees. Like it gets really hot in places in California. Even when I lived in Walnut Creek, which is a suburb of the Bay Area, it definitely got high 90s, maybe 100, 101 like it. That's hot's hot. Cold sucks. I would take the hot. Now 115 is pretty unbearable. And like you said, you spend a lot of time inside. Guess what? They have air conditioning. I do think when it's 0 degrees or again, I've never lived in the Midwest. Really. I stayed in Kansas City for a little bit, but I left in early December. You know, obviously, Chicago, where you are in Minnesota, the Dakotas, places that are freezing. Michigan, I would think if we just pulled. Most people. Cold sucks. You can do. I can play golf in 112. You ain't doing dick in minus 10 degrees. It's safe to drive when it's hot. Is it safe to drive in a sleet storm? So I can just speak for myself. I hate the cold. And maybe you hate the heat. And some people just are more comfortable in their environment. And I'm very comfortable. As comfortable as you can be. Like you said 115 degrees. Maybe don't go outside. Right? And, you know, it's why the smaller percentage of people around here that are rich, they just leave. Like, where are you going? Leaving for the summer. It's like, you're 48 years old. Don't you have a job? But you hear that a lot, depending on what crew you're running with. And then some of us, you're just stuck here. You can try to play golf, maybe go to the gym. I don't know. You just do normal stuff. But school's never been canceled because it's 112 degrees. When I talk to people that are from your area, like, they cancel stuff when it's too cold to, I don't know, step outside your house because it's never too hot to actually step outside. You're just gonna be warm. And here's the other thing I would say about where I live, and I've never lived in the south, but I know we have people that listen to the show from wherever. Florida, Texas, obviously, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina. It's not humid here now. When it's really hot, it feels thick, but it's not. There is no humidity. Like, even when I was in New Orleans for the super bowl, you're in early February. You could feel it outside. Like the air was thick. It's not like that here. So I'm not defending. If you don't like heat, you don't like heat. I hate cold. I despise the cold. I mean, I get cold anything under 60 degrees. So I just think that you get. You also, you get used to your surroundings. You know, I've grown up with the majority of my life in warmer weather, clients, climates. That's why I always like speak to these quarterbacks. It's much easier. Shit. I'll never forget when I got hired with the Eagles. I owned one suit. I owned one suit. My dad had bought it for me, I think when I graduated college. And I never even needed it when I went to get a job at Fresno State. But I remember coming back and he, he took me to this place in Sacramento. I'd never been to a tailor really. And he got me just like a Italian suit, you know, Again, it was probably, I don't know, 500 bucks, which again was extremely nice and it was cool. I own the suit, but I don't think I ever wore it until I got hired in Philadelphia. And I remember maybe, maybe bought it for me when I got the Eagles job. I forget, but I remember you were sued on game biz. Cool. You're like official. You're in the front office. I'm working for the Eagles, you wear a suit. Problem is, you know, in training camp or preseason game, it's not me. It's unbearably hot. So you're just soaked now. I guess you could, you didn't have to wear suit. You just wear a button up shirt. But as the season goes on, you put on a suit. I remember showing up to our first, first cold game. I just wore the suit and everyone else had like that extra long ass, thick coat. I'm like, what? I was outside for maybe five minutes and I couldn't feel my body. And this is just walking from the car to the field and standing there for five minutes and I had to go over to the heater and stood by the heater, which you got to be careful you get. You stay there too long, it'll like, it'll burn a hole in your, in your pants. But it's just we're all wired differently. Some of us like what we like, right? I think it's no different. Like we all got different taste buds. We all got different, you know, sexual preferences. We all like our climates a little different though. Most people in my life I think prefer warmer over colder. Quick question. Do you see Kyle getting the 2000s Andy Reid treatment? Always a bridesmaid on crazy talented team until he moves onto a really solidified, to really solidify his craft. Andy to the Chiefs, maybe Kyle to the question. I hate to admit that being a Niner fan, but it is what it is. I think both guys are pretty similar that you know, Jimmy Garoppolo had some moments and Purdy's been good, but you would never say those guys are as good as the top quarterbacks. Now Andy Donovan, who was a pretty consistent Pro Bowler and a really talented player, but no one ever thought Donovan was like as good as Peyton or Brady or trying to think who would have been playing in the early 2000 like Favre, you know, he wasn't on the level. Like you would take those other quarterbacks over him. And then he got Alex and Michael Vick who had, you know, these guys were talented guys and obviously Michael was really good the one year, but Patrick Mahomes like one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time and they just go to the super bowl every single year, right? But before that, like he went to the super bowl once and he lost to Tom Brady, which really isn't that weird, right? Kyle has gone to the super bowl twice with Purdy and with Jimmy and he lost to Patrick Mahomes. When you say that out loud, it's not even that weird. Like andy Reid in 2000, whatever, four or five lost to Belichick and Brady, not really that bad of a loss. Kyle Shanahan has gone to the super bowl and lost to Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes. Howie Sirianni and Jalen Hurts lost to him too. It happens. So I think if Purdy is going to be above average and a good player, but never like a superstar, your margin for error is really small. The Chiefs margin for error is a little higher. No different than even like the Ravens and the Bills just to be in the playoffs every year. Their margin for error is higher because their quarterbacks are superstars and to me a lot. If Purdy can become a consistent Pro Bowler, then they're going to be really good and it's just going to come down to an individual game playing at a high level. But if he's up and down, it could be all over the place and get weird. Last fall I created an Instagram account for myself and to interact with the mailbag. Anyway, tried interacting several times but only got on the scene status once. Basically wanted to make sure you don't think it's spam account since there are no posts and I only follow one person. Maybe I just suck at the timing. In fairness to anyone that's tried this and hasn't been answered, this is not a buttoned up process in the sense of like Instagram can be all over the place. Stuff gets deleted, stuff gets misplaced. It's not like an Excel spreadsheet where everything is like, evenly organized and it's very, very straightforward. I like doing this because I think it's an organic way. You guys follow me on Instagram. It's just an easy way to interact. But it'd probably be easier if we had an email account to mess with everything. But I'm not going to change at this point in time. Anyway. I do have a Fugazi Friday for you. Amazon streaming services. We pay them a monthly fee, but yet every good movie in their catalog costs 399 to rent. If I have to pay to rent the movie or a show I want to watch, what on earth is the monthly fee for? Clearly, Amazon has the movie or show in their catalog, but now I have to pay extra to see it. I think it's a total scam. Obviously Amazon isn't going anywhere and I'm going to stop using it and I'm not going to stop using it. But it still annoys me. I can't speak to the business model. I do wonder if a movie that they charge you like, let's say I want to watch Goodfellas, let's just say. Or Dumb and Dumber or just some hit movie from my childhood. And sometimes when I look and all the streaming services, if it's not on Netflix or any of the free services, it'll be on a place like Amazon and they'll charge me. And I do wonder in that situation, they have to pay whoever has the rights to them. It's not necessarily under. Could be wrong. I don't work in this industry. I'm not quite sure all the logistics of it, but I would guess there's some element of that because no one complains. Let's just say Mission Impossible or whatever the hit movie is, is out. We know in a couple months that is going to be available on Amazon prime to rent. I don't know about you, but like, when I rent a movie, I typically do it through Amazon prime. Not like in your scenario, but just in the scenario that I want to watch Mission Impossible in a month. I've done that with probably 20 movies in the last year. Rented a movie. But I don't feel as bad because it's like the equivalent of going to the DVD store or the movie store back in the day because I know it's relatively new. I do. I've always wondered when they're charging me for a movie that's like 20, 25, 30, 40 years old, is there some sort of like, they have to pay someone and they don't want to eat those costs because you would say typically Amazon historically has been good at like eating a bunch of costs for us. But I don't know. I, I don't view it as much as a fugazi because I, I think there's some business element of the deal. I don't think they're just pocketing that 399. I, I think there's a cost on them. Would be my, would be my educated guess of just a consumer. I did probably in the last month. I don't want to say talk shit. I just, I thought Tom Hardy. I didn't quite get it. I have watched Mobland. I do think it's pretty good. I've kind of enjoyed the show and I. He's pretty good. I mean he's, he's an enjoyable character. Maybe is like I don't know in previous movies or shows something about him. But I've, I've really, really liked him. I actually think he is. He makes the mo. The show because Pierce Brosnan, I don't want to say he's over the hill, but he's kind of got some like. It feels like a guy that's been a five time all star that's 40 years old that's playing for a, you know, some awful team. It's like, God, this is sad to see. That's how his vibes are kind of given me. There are a lot of other good characters in the show. Does have its cheesy moments and unrealistic moments which sometimes if I go into an action movie or a show I'm cool with, I can live with. Like I've said all the time, I don't really do like Dungeons and Dragons. It's why I didn't do what was the hit show with the dragons. It wasn't really for me. Not because Game of Thrones, not because I watched it because I knew it was big culturally and I wanted to kind of. I got a little fomo but those type things don't do much for me now. I think this stuff is more realistic even though I know that it's probably not quite happening like this. But you give me Tom Hardy who's who stole a show. He was. He's really good. So I take it back. All star performance by my man and Pierce Brosnan. You know, once, you know, for us guys that grew up on Nintendo 64 and the James Bond video game GoldenEye, which I would say non sports would be. It'd have to be on the top 10 list of video games. Of all time. I'd have to do some serious thinking on that one but I think non like arcade game but like it's definitely one of the best. It might be the best Nintendo 64 that or like Mario Kart and Pierce Brosnan was Jubilee 7 James Bond. He was good in it. This version of them. I don't know. Some guys age well as actors and some guys don't as well and maybe part of it is trying to cheese it up but I thought it's like, I don't know, not really buying it the volume Interested in investing in Bitcoin but not sure how to get started with the Gemini credit card? You can dip your toes into Bitcoin with without even trying to spend like you normally do groceries, gas or even a night out and instantly earn up to 4% back in Bitcoin or one of over 50 other cryptos straight to your account with no annual fee. The Gemini Credit Card is a no brainer and right now you can grab a $200 bitcoin intro bonus. Go to gemini.com card to learn more and start earning today. Terms apply. 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