Green Light with Chris Long - Rams Win SB LVI! Rams vs Bengals, Greatest Halftime Show Of All Time & Commercials Review.

Episode Date: February 14, 2022

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What a wonderful Super Bowl Sunday. I know you all joined us on our live stream. Thank you all for coming out, showing us some love. We had a wonderful time watching. Von Miller, Aaron Donald, Matthew Stafford, Sean McVeigh and all the other Rams take home the Super Bowl trophy. We're going to get into all that, the sequences that made it happen, the refereeing, the calls, towards the end of the game. Joe Burrough is making history. And of course, we'll get into the Super Bowl commercials and the halftime show.

The historic halftime show. All coming up. Y'all enjoy. In lieu of a hello. I was thinking about starting the show with like reading some sort of a letter pleading with the cartel to chill out with the avocados. You know, like read a letter like please dear cartel, please, whatever's going on with the avocados.

But I don't want to die, you know? So I think I'll just start with a Valentine's Day thing. And I'll say, I want to say hello to my, to my lovely wife, Meg. And I'm not a Valentine's Day guy. I think it's a corporate holiday. I think we're all getting suckered into it. It's a bad deal. But happy Valentine's Day, Megan.

I also want to be the first to wish this is a 3.30 a.m. pod. No way, Macon has told Kate, happy Valentine's Day yet. And I think you are awesome, Kate. And I want to wish you a very neighborly happy Valentine's Day on the podcast. I want to get there first. I want to wish my girlfriend, Happy Valentine's Day, too. I don't want to have you just throw that out there. to her on a podcast somewhere.

I don't want you to throw all your wishes out there. I'm doing it to Macon because generally on my kids' birthdays and all types of shit, he comes in here and like ambushes me with the date and calendars and shit, especially if the pot is like a day before, you know, it gets tricky. So I just wanted to be the first to wish Kate a very happy Valentine's Day. And of course,

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So that was a fun stream. It was a smooth, smooth stream. You know, Kyle came in. He was awesome. Maybe a little preview of things to come in the future. We'd love that. We get the big bear back in town. We do more live streams.

There's plenty of, uh, plenty of room on the couch. Capacity on this couch. for facts me Kyle maybe others a couple Ices Bo the Butter King a couple smearing off

ices that was fucked up Reed Reed iced us no no what was fucked up was that Nate didn't cash in and honor the ice you have to honor the ice dude

you have to honor the ice I know it sucks but you have to honor the ice I know that you haven't heard much about the rules of that game since 2007 so let me tell you the scenario what happened

I got iced on spring break in Miami I'm sitting I'm sitting on the couch. At Greg Olson's house. Yeah, Greg Olson's house. That's the last time I've been iced. Was that before or after you... Pete on his couch?

No, no, you didn't work in his backyard. Well, I did the work in the next day. I cut down the palm tree. Sweat it out. Reed cheated with the icing. No, no, all right. You kind of sabotaged it. He pushed it on my back.

No, I didn't touch it. Reed pushed it on your back. Well, no, I didn't turn around. I felt it on my back. And he's sitting here, just eyeing it. And he's like, you're feeling it on your back. back. Because you did and then you smiled.

I never said ice. But bro, I never touched it. So if it's on my back, you did touch it. You knew it was there. You looked and you turned. You cannot put an ice like where I'm sitting.

It was there. It was there before you sat down. I put it there at four o'clock in the afternoon. Oh. It was there at four o'clock in the afternoon. And then you sabotage the pillows and moved the pillow. I feel like fucking Judge Joe Brown here, guys. Okay.

And by the way, I feel terrible from eating that land air and sea sandwich. So you rated it. I can only imagine. You rated it a six and a half in the moment. What do you rate it now? I'm just fighting for my life right now. Like my stomach.

Bro, you went to sleep. I woke you up five minutes ago. It was actually pretty impressive. I had to take a nap. I had to take a quick nap. Like all that fucking sugar and sodium and whatever else. That was an indica land air and sea. Like, yeah.

Just it's like a quick. You were into couch. So you're saying that Reed forced, you know, iced you against your will. He put the ice, he put it on your back. I think Reed, he had a, he had just like this genius plan. He knew, he just knew we were going to sit here and he had these, and he did this whole little, oh, let's move the, let's move. Are you comfortable? Let me move this pillow and force this bottle on your back. Forced the bottle.

And it didn't work. It did work. You noticed it and you started laughing. You started laughing and you notice it. You have to honor the ice. I know you motherfuckers talk a lot back there. So tell me this. Riddle me this.

Not the seasons over. Let's be honest. What was the clubhouse bet on what I was going to do when I got ice? Did you think I was going to pay up or? They didn't know I was, I had the ice. I knew that you would pay up. You acted alone. Yeah, yeah.

I acted alone. This was my, my mission. What a fucking, uh, humble, noble man you are. I was watching. I was watching TV on the couch at like 4.30 and he was like, just don't move the pillows. Is that what he said? Oh, my God. So, I mean, we had a great time during the live stream,

and I got a lot of energy. I don't know how Mike Torrico and Maria Taylor are still doing it. Reed pointed that out there. Super Bowl stuff all day. Super Bowl ends. There's Bob Slay on TV, and they're still working. So shout out to some of the hardest working people in sports media. Monobob.

Us and Mike Tariko and Maria Taylor. Everybody else is drunk in L.A. partying with celebrities, you know, I don't have any FOMO. I'm good, dude. I'm happy. I'm right where I need to be. Gary Allen. I definitely don't have any FOMO. So I think the biggest

the ways that I would, first off, this is a movie finish for, you know, it's Hollywood, it's L.A. All that shit's cliche and people are going to wear that stuff out, but it feels like they wrote this in a script. Whether you think they're the protagonists or not,

this is my, you know, St. Louis disclaimer right here. I understand why people in St. Louis aren't happy. You know, I played in St. Louis for the Rams for a lot of years. I was very torn, but I don't worry about, like, team stuff as much as I worry about, like, friend stuff, people that, you know, I know guys on both teams, but Aaron Donald, uh, needs that Super Bowl, you know, to, he doesn't need it, but it's a nice cherry on top of what's already probably a top five all-time defensive career.

And Johnny Hecker, been there forever. I'll talk about guys that I'm happy for people that I'm kind of bummed for but I am bummed about the St. Louis thing so a little bit of a mixed feeling thing but I'm going to talk about the Rams the rest of the way on this pod having already said that so nobody can come back and say hey what about St. Louis?

I'm going to do my job and analyze the Super Bowl and everything that comes with it. And just to stamp Aaron Donald rookie of year 2014 eight time Pro Bowl, seven time first team all pro three-time defensive player of the year. 2010's all decade. Only two games missed, both not due to injury.

Right. So never been hurt. Wild. Real life Superman. And impacted the game, this game, and the conference championship when they needed the play. Absolutely. And quite frankly, could have been the MVP. We'll talk about that in a couple minutes. Hope it's not the last time we get to see them play.

Yeah, that was the Bernie Harrison's work. But if it is on consecutive games, just the performance that he left out on the field is unforgettable. And just being an ex-D. Lyman, just the type of games that he had, as a DeLyman, the thought of, quote, unquote, finishing a game, like, and he did that basically, like, multiple times in the playoff on a championship run.

It's absolutely absurd. It's going to be sad as a fan of the game if he's retiring, but if he is what a way to go out well listen the hardest thing to do is walk away from the table when your hand is hot you know and that's um that's why you don't see a lot of guys like leave in their last game be one that you can be very proud of i mean most even the stars go out kind of like uh not the way that they were in their prime i mean look around i mean most that's why tom brady leaving this year is so impressive. Aaron Donald is going to take some time.

I'm sure he is. If that report is true, if there's any truth to it, and listen, I said this earlier with Rodney Harrison and people talking about sources saying that Aaron Donald's talking about retirement or he mentioned it to Rodney, like, Rodney doesn't want to die, dude. Rodney doesn't want to like, you know, like nobody wants to tell a lie about Aaron Donald.

Definitely not. You see how he, of all people. You see how he reacts from a little after the place. play show. So that's the thing is like there has to be some truth to it. Now I know AD pretty good. Okay. He's like he's the reason number one person I'm happy for out here.

Okay. Like we'll go through it. But I've never heard this. And you know, maybe it makes some sense. McVeigh is talking about retiring. Like there was some talk about McVeigh retiring. I'm happy for McVeigh. Day damn near.

We talked about this. The Rams were damn near the mini bills. They're knocking on the door of being the mini bills The only positive for them is that they probably weren't going to lose another one Okay Like they have burnt draft capital

They don't have a pick in the first hundred They've got to worry about But it's truly a burn the ship's fucking thing for them It's a Hollywood thing The trades they made this year Yeah it's a burn the ships thing for them What this team's really about to me is just resiliency That's the word right

Or is it resilience? I always fuck that I think either would work. Either works? Yeah. Fucking English. English major over there? Not me.

If Macon was in here, we'd know by now. At least he would deliver it in a manner with which I was convinced that he knew the word. It's resiliency or resilience. Take your pick. And it's imperfection. This team is not perfect. This team was not perfect. But they were as hot as they were resilient.

I mean, they were, you know, they were gutsy at the end of games, the Ravens game. I mean, like a bunch of little conversions. you know, red zone, hold on to your hats. I mean, the Niners game, the ending of that game, with everything they've been through with the Niners. You talk about McVeigh, talking about walking away and doing a, you know, a Gruden thing, minus the emails, hopefully.

Like, walking away from the game and averting this Buffalo Bills, this mini Buffalo Bills kind of thing, two weeks ago he damn near lost his seventh game to Kyle Shanahan in 10 tries or whatever it was. you talk about it was all good just a week ago or whatever it's like the world has changed so much from what it could have been for Sean McVeigh this was an enormous swing for him in his football career so resilient ballsy kind of the attitude of their coach man like all the games that

they won at the end this year remember Tennessee how they got their asses kicked against Tennessee I said out loud that night this team is not winning a Super Bowl okay I'm learning I'm learning. As a player, I never had to say who was and wasn't winning a Super Bowl. I was only worried about one team. But at one point this year, I wrote the Rams off. And I also didn't think that they'd get what they needed out of Odell. I did not know how that would end.

They are so resilient. You talk about looking up in the Super Bowl, no Robert Woods, no Odell, no run game, no Higbee. You're throwing the ball to Bryson Hopkins. Okay? You wake up in the second half. It's like a bad fucking dream, dude. Odell goes down, he's grabbing his knee. The movie's turning.

It's that part in the movie, four-fits the way through the movie, and I'm sure there's a term for this, where shit starts going wrong. The happy montage is over, and somebody gets fucked up or somebody dies. Like, they come out of the half.

Yeah, the plot twist. They come out of the half, and that touchdown from Joe Burrow, and then the pick on consecutive plays would have broken a lot of other teams. It did not break the Rams. And I just think that

that honestly is a credit to McVeigh. It's a credit to their leadership. It's a credit to Matt Stafford. You know, I don't know how much better. He is better. I don't know if I can quantify how much better he is than Jared Gough, okay?

But one of the ways that he is undoubtedly such a positive in a way that I'm not sure Jared Gough was is he just has that it factor, you know, that magnetism. So like even if he throws a couple picks, not great in the end zone, you know, the scuronic drop, part of that's on scurronic, part of that's on, you know, Matt Stafford, the ball's not right on target. They don't blink. He doesn't blink. Yeah. He makes shitty throws in a game. Or he never shows it. He seems like, never too high,

never too low. His ankle is bent in half. Okay. Like, I feel like, I feel like even with that situation, you can kind of tell he wanted to react to it. And it's kind of like, before he walked off the field, he was like, let me get myself together. Because I don't, I don't want my team to see me dejected or I don't want anyone to feel like, oh, like, look, he's hurt, like, or even feel that way. And that's a, that's a true leader. Yeah. And, and not to mention, I mean, like, look at their run. He's made big mistakes. He made, you know, they made as a team, a number of mistakes in the second and half of that Tampa Bay game. They survived just barely.

You know, they played so poorly that Tampa Bay didn't even play that well and came back in that game. So this has been a team that's been imperfect. They've been up and down, but they've also been really resilient. They're gamblers, they don't have a fucking first rounder until 2024. It's gonna be a seven year stretch without one.

They have literally burnt the ships. It's a movie, it's an edgy movie. You don't know if it's money ball or what, but it's a movie about people that just said, fuck it. And whether you like the St. Louis thing or not, you know where I land on that, but they just strong-armed this Super Bowl. I mean, they literally just went out and got it

and they burnt the ships. This movie was gonna go too, totally, like it could have gone two totally different directions with the outcome of this game. These guys are legends now in LA for people that like football for a very long time. these guys have bought themselves a ton of rope.

You talk about Les Need, who I'm happy for. I'm very happy for less. Like, Les cut me. You know, like Jeff Fisher and Les, you know, they cap casualtyed me, James Leranitis, Jared Cook, same day. I hold no ill will against Jeff Fisher, Les Need. I had dinner with Les Need the summer after he cut me.

You know, he's a good dude, and he's made a lot of impactful choices for that, for that franchise so i'm happy for less his wife carra um great people you know the training staff like those guys were there when i was there reggie scott byron tyler um fucking guy who's holding you know you guys are looking at odel crying i'm looking at the guy holding the sticks on the sideline his name's merg he he used to have a pizza shop in earth city missouri uh and we'd we'd eat them and drink beer in the, in the equipment room Fridays after practice. Merg's still there.

So like that for me, I know I have conflicted kind of feelings about the St. Louis L.A. thing, the people I don't. And I'm very happy for all the staff. And things could have gone a totally different way for a lot of the people making decisions in L.A. And you go back to the touchdown interception back-to-back plays. and after that pick, the L.A. Rams defense, they hold the bangles to 11 yards and 8 plays.

You know, you said that's where it breaks a lot of teams. I mean, they got the ball right on the doorstep, and the Rams defense just stepped up, stopped them, kicked a field goal to only go down seven points. It's a lot of the same thing we were talking about with Aaron Donald. Like Aaron Donald was so great this year, and every year he's been great. but like he won't win a DPOY and people will be like,

what did he do this year? Right. You know, like he'll have 12 sacks and people will be like, was he great this year? Second quarter I'm looking up, or third quarter I'm looking up early. And, you know, they run the ball in the A gap, which is not Aaron Donald's gap.

And I hear Chris Collinsworth saying, it's a lot easier to run the ball on Aaron Donald. I'm like, here we go. We are commentating and watching the game based off a result. Why don't you think Aaron Donald, why don't you think we've heard from him? it ain't because he stopped being the best player in the world it's because they've been doing a lot to keep him out of the game every game you see three a picture or multiple pictures of three offensive

linemen all on air and don't all on they have to you have to scheme against him and they did and for while it worked but pass rushes like a fucking if you have a dominant group in a big game like that i don't care how long it doesn't seem like the rushers are there they're there like when you turn the lights on in the room. Oh, the rushers are there. It's like a tsunami, bro. You don't hear a tsunami. You don't hear a fucking tsunami. Maybe you do. But when that thing hits, that was like Aaron and those rushers, man. There was a four possession streak, I believe, starting with Aaron Donald, who by the way put another four points on his name, sack in the red zone. There were four possessions in a row late in that game where Joe took sacks. 50 sacked him, Von,

forced like a third and 13 backed up and the last sack was a excuse my French was a fucking gang bang that last sack juxtaposed with Joe burrow coming out of the half you know uh moving in the pocket climbing using his athleticism to launch the ball to t higgins those two outcomes are why listen they got away with drafting jemar chase they got away with doing and they damn near could have won a super bowl that way but in in the long run the long run I want to see the Joe Burrow who climbed the pocket and hit T. Higgins, not the guy who's getting hit by so many people.

I don't know who gets a sack on paper. Seven sacks, 11 hits, 18 pressures, 19 sacks in the postseason. That's the most by any quarterback. The next closest was 12th. Give the G-shocks back. Throw the whole line away. No, I mean, like, and it sucks to be a part of a unit like that because, like, individually, you know,

there's no Superman on that line. It's like, fuck, man, a lot of those guys who are supposed to be depth guys are being asked to be like starters and people. And block Aaron Donald. And block Aaron Donald and do all that. And Von Miller and Leonard Floyd coming off the edge. But what you can't do is getting a shoving match with Aaron Brown.

What do I say? I'm sitting here like bad idea, dude. He had zero sacks before that. Bad idea. Wolt the beast. Bad idea. And the guy got beat was doing a lot of talking. 67 was doing a lot of talking.

And with the game on the line, man, as you said, Nate, there's a playoff run where you have multiple game-defining rushes. in crunch time, that's the stuff we live for. Just to even be a part of one of them, like, to tell people, it's equivalent to hitting the game winner. Like, there's no real, like, for a defensive player, like unless you catch like an interception and you run it back for a touchdown,

like as a D-Lyman, like for you, your game winner is what Aaron Donald has been doing at the end of these games. And here's the deal, dude. It wasn't just that play too. the forcing the fourth and one that was him too in the run game he makes it play in the run game

I mentioned the thing in the red zone that's why I mean when you look at that and just the sheer like untold amount of mental and physical resources that Zach Taylor and the Bengals were committing to Aaron Donald we don't even know like you don't know

you don't know how many hours of film they watch because of Aaron Donald You don't know how many considerations, how many insurance policies they put in place, the way their protections. I mean, like, that's why to me he is the MVP. Burroughs 2.1 time to throw was tied for fastest this year. No question. So you're damn right they were thinking about it. They were damn right.

That's why a lot of people are like when you play with a guy like Aaron Donald, isn't that great? I mean, like, I actually don't know sometimes. It can be, but the ball could also get out quicker than you've ever seen it get out in your life. and it ain't because of you. Yeah. They're afraid of that motherfucker. So, um,

listen, he was so valuable to them. Vaughn was valuable to them. Um, every piece that they brought in on this crazy journey paid off. Odell, if they don't have Odell, who I feel terrible for,

terrible for, but at least he got to see the grass. Like, if they don't have Odell tonight, they don't win that game. No. They got out to a start because of him being, in their offense, and he also seemed to be one of the biggest missing factors.

So McVeigh, another check in the column for him, I do think they're better if you gave me Odell or Robert Woods the way their offense was, O'Dell now. I still think Robert Woods was probably the either or answer, but what they've done to adjust and change the way they've run their offense in the run game, we talked about Bill Barnwell, their play action game, the type of routes they've been catering to O'Dell with rather than Robert Woods. like you lose a blocker on the outside when you lost Robert Woods they have adapted man like it is impressive as fun just hearing that

it's scary to think about the the wide receiving court that they still have next year with Robert Woods coming back yeah they have Odell like hopefully he gets healthy they can work the money everything all that out and and you got Cooper Cup and that's that's absolutely scary to think about just for the future for them also Odell's contract this year, so 750,000 salary that was taken in Bitcoin. And we know how that turned out. Signing bonus of 500. That was a U.S.

American dollars. Wildcard win, he got another 500. Divisional 750 NFC Championship 750. Super Bowl win $1 million. So that's a cool three million for three months of work. So good for him. And he deserves that ring man. Like he really does.

and he should feel good about that. But again, like, you know, fuck, it's hard to tell somebody like Odell this because I'm sure he's crushed that he couldn't be out there for the whole game, but some guys, like, I remember Jason Peters didn't get to play in the Super Bowl, Darren Sprouls, you know, guys like that. Like, I think we lost a whole number of guys that Philly year.

So I've seen it where guys don't even get to play. At least he got to get out there and we know they wouldn't win the game without him. So good for him. I don't go too far without talking about the officiating. here's my take both teams were the beneficiaries of bad calls or no calls

so I think it's all even if I'm like litigating it but it's also a bad look just because it's even which is a big relief for the NFL that it you know wasn't one bad call that weighed it one way or another like no call on Higgins

on the touchdown that was bad okay the false start and the PI the same play double whammy in the the red zone third and nine like the bangles are probably Super Bowl champs or at least you're forcing a fourth and nine in that situation but at least on both ends of the spectrum the the refs fucked up the bad news good news bad news NFL the good news is kind of even bad news um big bad calls in the biggest game in the world and to play a little devil's advocate here i i really did

appreciate them not throwing flags prematurely when there was like little scuffles on the side lines here and there because I hate seeing that especially in big games. Yeah, they did a big being decided by a flag. They did a real good job of controlling that. There was a lot of little extra stuff that you, I guess in a regular season, you can see like petty flags being thrown, but they did a good, they did a decent job. And here's, here's a play, the Bengals third drive of the game, they're down seven nothing. They end up kicking a field goal, but it's third and 10 from the Rams 11 yard line.

they throw to Higgins over the middle Ramsey breaks up the pass but he pulls on the jersey to catch up up now there's a little bit there but they could have tied that game up at 7-7 they could have and that ended up being a big deal the red zone stuff

wasn't great for the Bengals the red zone stuff was bad against the Raiders I think and that you know they survived there but like going one for three in the red zone today not great Ramsey didn't have his best day but you know like that little play there in the red zone on third.

You know, that's a four point difference. That's a four point swing. And Ramsey wouldn't have had as bad of a day if he had gotten a call on his, the face. Absolutely. That was the big, that was the big pimple on the ass there. Yeah. I just you know, I don't think

that the Rams can I don't think any team should be watching on TV saying let's try this at home. So many things happened for this to work out for them. And it was such a special group. I just don't think burning draft capital,

lighting it on fire, and taking big chances like this normally pays off. Never does. Never does. So what you just saw was somebody hit the lottery a little bit. You know, what you just saw was you walked in the casino, if you're studying the NFL for the first time this year, you walked in the casino and you saw somebody hit like a really ill-advised bet.

Yeah. You know, and then you're gonna keep playing the slot machine. the rest of, don't try to copy the Rams this year. What they did was incredible. Like I said, it was like a movie and one that I didn't see coming. I did not see the ending coming. That's why I'm happy for McVeigh. I'm happy for less.

I said AD. You know, I'm not happy for Stanford Steve because Stanford Steve had bet, I guess, a sizable amount of money on Aaron Donald to win the MVP. And fuck, that didn't happen and maybe should have. Cooper Cup, man, though. here's an interesting point. Cooper Cup props were actually higher than, you know, like in a lot of ways, the way his stat line ended up. 92 yards or whatever it was. Nine for 92 and two.

Remember we asked those props are so high. We were talking to the dude from the win, Moe, Pearson. We were like, when are people going to get burnt on? Now, if you told me, I'm going to take the over on the Super Bowl MVP and I'm going to lose money. Right, right. I mean, that's wild. So Cooper Cup. Amazing. Who's the last non-white guy wide receiver to win the Super Bowl MVP? It's a bit of trivia for you guys.

It's becoming a real trend here. Oh, Wes Walker. Well, I got news for you. I got some news for you. Julian Edelman is the guy you're thinking of, and he won. So what I'm saying is, who's the last non-white? Wide receiver.

Wide receiver. This actually, it's fucking been a while. Jerry Rice. I think it's San Antonio Holmes. Oh. Is it San Antonio Holmes? What a run for Amish-looking guys and former quarterbacks from Ken State. I mean, incredible run.

Golf clap. Why did you say, why did you laugh when I say Wolf's Walker? Well, because I asked for the last non-white wide receiver to win. Oh, oh, my bad. Been there. Been there. And Stafford, dude. like here we are.

This is Stafford in a lot of ways. The guy won the Super Bowl, game winning drive, not perfect, got the job done, kind of like his team, but pretty fucking awesome. And in my opinion,

a Hall of Fame or somebody who solidifies his career answers all the questions. And does it in spectacular fashion. Like, we just went 15, 20 minutes talking about the Rams and haven't gotten to Matt Stafford, really.

Incredible. He makes so many throws that aren't. aren't great, he's human. You know, that's why people like, that's why some people really like Matt Stafford. He's fucking relatable. You get blown up in Detroit for eight, 10 years,

you take your medicine, you get to LA, you still seem to get just murdered in the pocket. The hit he took against Jacksonville, I was like, oh, fuck more of the same. There's hits, there's picks in the middle of the season, people talk about injuries, he finds a way. He's, he's regular, dude. He's regular, but he's great at the same time.

And we kind of overlook him sometimes. So I'm really glad that he answered those questions tonight. You talk about him being relatable. How many guys who play, you know, backyard football can relate to him rolling left out of the pocket, waving his receiver deep down the field and launching a bomb that gets picked off, but just having the confidence like, yo, I'm going to chuck this thing. The confidence to throw it,

the confidence to come back and ball the rest of the game in big spots, the confidence in the Ravens game to lead them to victory when he looked like shit at times the confidence to battle back in a loss against the Niners to finish the season you know that drive uh we talk about throwing in the left sideline a lot it's a beautiful throw it was a great answer um he's he's been kind of that resilient guy his whole career and he finishes uh this season in l.A that way he's 12th all time passing yards 12th all time passing touchdown 11 they're all-time completions and fourth all-time passing yards a game now he is a Super Bowl and he threw the ball to Cooper Cup and Calvin Johnson which you know like I know usually that counts

against the quarterback but I do think it counts for something you know it has to historic receivers he got them the rock and great great guy fucking everybody loves him how many quarterbacks can say they had two receivers put up the type of stats that that that he's he can right i mean you look at some wide receivers and it's like if they had had a quarterback what were their stats have been i.e. Andre johnson you know that's interesting he had a tough you know you i mean not everybody was terrible but it wasn't matt stafford yeah um so i'm not saying calvin johnson would have been any less of the player but if he didn't have yeah it could be a 10% edge or something even though you know Calvin johnson the matt's matthew is the clear beneficiary

it counts for something and you know he he he threw the ball to those guys great deal. I'll say the guys that I'm relieved for, well, I'll tell you who I feel bad for. My hollow man's Tyler Boyd. Tyler Boyd, that drop on third and nine. First drop of the season. First drop of the season. Come in the Super Bowl. What a terrible time to have it happen. I think that game's different. It's so hard. The season ends and his stat line is, you know, X catches, X yards, X touchdowns drops one. And if that had come in the first game on the first driving, maybe they lose the game, but they still make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, the job doesn't matter. It comes in the Super Bowl and the biggest thing.

Think about it. I'm relieved for Scoronic. I mean, like, he had a bad drop that turns into a pick and they lose that game. You're looking at him. He dropped the ball in the end zone against the Niners. He drops that ball. You know, I'm relieved for him. I'm very relieved for Johnny Hecker, who's my guy.

And Hecker just had one little fucked up hold. It's not even his job, really. it is his job, he'd tell you that, but he's one of the best punters I've ever seen. He could go his whole career, like a Hall of Fame or like, you know, the millennial Ray guy and then drops the ball, you know, like, that's not even his job. That could have been the difference in the game. I mean, like, they go into overtime. They can't go into overtime if he holds onto that ball and they kick the ball through

the upright on the extra point early. So relief for him, relief for Jalen. Relief for acres from a couple of games ago. Think about how bad those fucking homes were. Holy shit. You fumble twice, like in big major spots. They all could have been Hollow Men. But Tyler Boyd is the Hollow Man, dude.

Like, that sucks. You know who I also feel really bad for? What's his name? Penalty Boy, Flip Flops. Well, I feel that's, you know what's funny? Taylor two flip flops this weekend. You have Jason Kelsey goes out there and flip flops for man of the year. It gets recognized.

People call him a folk hero. That's one way to wear a flip-flops. flops as one way to opt out of shoes the other way is to run onto the field during the Super Bowl and street clothes and fucking shower shoes he had to get out the word is that the one they were doing the gritty he just couldn't miss out oh my that's how the gritty is kind of like addicting dude he he he had to get in on the on the celebration gritty the gritty is addictive now we've seen adam schaefter into his knee your brother your your brother did it on live But that might be good for us.

I saw a kid all drunk on Novakain, embarrass himself, he under a sports center, doing the gritty, walking out of the dentist office. And now you see this guy, Vernon Hargraves, probably not such a great memory. Lucky for him early in the game, and nobody remembers what might have been had you not started on like the 10-yard line.

You know who I also feel really bad for? Jerry Springer, Nick Lechay, all the other Bengals celebrities. There were many others that I was surprised. Are you Carmen Elektra? Nick Lachia, yeah. I feel for them. I feel for them.

I feel bad for Kyle Guy, our guy, Kyle Guy, man. Like being a Bengals fan's got to be tough. But here's the thing. Your team is going to be so good for such a long time. You're sitting on a goal mine. Just protect that Joe Burrow guy. And it's going to be a fun generation of being a Bengals fan for you. I feel bad for parents in Sinci, though.

Because think about the, a week of two ago. City of Cincinnati, what do they say? We're canceling school Monday after the Super Bowl. And I don't know if I ever thought about this until it happened, but how terrible is that that you not only have your kids at home on Monday morning. So you've got to watch your kids or figure out, like,

you know, what you've got to do with work? All of a sudden you got a lot less free time, but you're also hung over and mad about the Bengals. Oh, yeah. If you were going to have your kids at home on fucking daddy daycare duty, you want that after a win. That's tough, I feel for parents in Cincinnati.

And it's Valentine's Day, too. Oh, man. Ball drop. Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow. That's bad. So I feel bad for them. I feel bad for Jared Goff.

You know, we were talking about Matt Stafford earlier. Jared Goff, wish he didn't have to see this. It's not fair. It's not fair. I mean, he fucking fought admirably. He had a great year in Detroit. Well, not a great year, but what they did was respectable. Very.

And Macon will disagree, but Macon's wrong. Yeah, he's wrong. And the court of public opinion went up on Jergoff. It always happens. People like redemption, even if it's ugly. And, you know, I thought he redeemed himself by, you know, stepping in and winning some memorable games this year. being on the doorstep of about three or four other wins.

Yeah, and I don't know. Do you think tonight that Jared Goff wins that game? No. No, I don't think so, but I don't think they needed to do a whole bunch. So I'm sure part of Jared's like, fuck, that could have been me, but no. Matt Stafford definitely was the difference, and I do feel for Jared Gough. I kind of feel for Zach Taylor, even though it's his own damn fault a little bit here, The Rams have a fourth and one at the end of this game, right?

And what'd they go? They go Cooper Cup and around. They have a call for it. They get Cooper Cup the ball. They get the ball in the hands of their best playmaker, and they convert. They go on to score. The Bengals have second and one at the 48

with like a minute 15 to go in a field goal football game, and they don't get a fresh set of downs. That is bad. Some people will say that Joe Mixon not being on the field, for a number of those rush rushes, those short rushes. There were four separate third and one and fourth and one situations where Mixon was not on the field. Now that that's important because either the Bengals

thought they couldn't get that short yardage with their offensive line against the defensive line, or they wanted to trust going outside and they didn't trust Mixin like running the ball period. I don't know what they're doing, but you have three downs to get like three yards. get like three yards. It's like, dude, this is the Super Bowl is on the line. And so again, you're facing off with a young offensive mind that if he beat you, you're going to be the

guy that lost two Super Bowls. You know, both of them you score under 28 points and you're an offensive genius. And the other guy is going to be this guy that took a team that was like two and 14 to the Super Bowl and won with a second year quarterback. Zach Taylor was going to be a new flavor of the month, dude. Lou Anirumo is probably getting a head coach job. You know, like, so much happens win or lose in this game, and

you know, Zach Taylor missed a big opportunity to be the new hot shot for the next five years. All it takes is a Super Bowl, and people are going to give you a rope so long, dude, and Zach Taylor missed his opportunity right there. They'll be back.

And you go back to the Rams running the ball, 23 carries 43 yards. Couldn't run the ball. If you take away Cup and Stafford, a couple of rushes between those, 19 for 30 between the running backs. So Cups end around for that first down was huge that they had that in their back pocket. Yep. Huge. You got no run game. I talked about all the factors. You know, it's fourth and one. You come up with a winning play. Bengals have three chances to have a winning play. Right. Don't get one. And, you know, of course, you talk about AD taking things into his hands,

but I feel for Deshawn Jackson. A couple more here. Deshawn Jackson. Sean Jackson decided, you know, this wasn't for him. Probably mutual. But, God, that guy's had a great career, possibly a Hall of Fame career. And he's still chasing that ring, man.

It's tough. It's tough, man. It's like cookie crumbles. A lot of guys that deserve a ring today aren't getting one. You know? Eli Apple. Hey, man. I mean, the lesson,

the lesson is man here's a lesson just be careful going scorched earth man when you go scorched earth make sure you have the the trump card make sure you have a way and the postseason had not concluded and we're fucking burning the city of new york down we're burning the city of new orleans down and you end up in the super bowl and the first and last touchdown or on you're on you and that's That's the, it's the loneliest position in football. So I'm certainly not like, you know, fuck, I've had bad games. But you set yourself up. They're not there without him, though.

They're not. They're not there without him. And for a guy, if you're going to be a guy who likes to talk shit, you have to take it. You have to, you have to take it with a grain of a salt. Like they said, like, a grain of a salt. A grain of salt. At the end of the day, he's a guy that, I think for him, he just, has to suck it up and take all this.

A grain of assault just energize me. I'm going to get to get through the last few minutes of this podcast, dude. I am so fucking fired up to continue now, Nate. I'm glad I go. Let's take it with a grain of assault. Hey, and fucking, here's the thing. I'm not saying Eli Apple's a bad guy. I'm not piling on because he had two bad stops or wherever he's been.

Football is hard. The people that become hated by the general public and by fans, it's unfair okay Carson Wentz today here's you know he says he expects to be traded people viscerally hate Carson Wentz okay like people viscerally hate Eli Apple they're both probably awesome dudes

I mean I know Carson's an awesome dude but Eli did make some place to lead him here all I'm saying is when you fucking do all that you leave your blind side open and I'm talking he's getting to the he's getting to his locker and he's got people

saying that Eli Apple pack is going to be hitting. You got the Ravens jumping in on the fun. You have the Chiefs. You got me, Cole Hardman talking, you know, noise about you. It's just, it's tough. It's a cold world out there. When you decide to go on the offensive, just know it eventually might come back around.

But at the end of the day, you know, in all Marvel movies, everyone loves a good villain. It's good marketing. It is. But like you said, some fans, they get too crazy with it. And hopefully this will be something that, It just happens now, but new year, new season next year. It's the year of the what?

What is the year of Tiger? Tiger. The Tiger, not the year of the Bengal. No, yeah. We should have read a little closer into that. Yeah. Yeah, rest in peace to my groundhog system. Yeah, your groundhog system.

It lasted real quick. Another six weeks of winter for that system. Aged like a warm glass of milk. Damn. Sounds pretty good right now. All right. So I can't forget Andrew Whitworth, Walter Payne Man of the Year, amazing human being, like literally an amazing human being. I can remember when I was doing a literacy program in 2017, it was first quarter for literacy.

I kind of opened up the fundraising to guys around the league. There was like a matching investment, donation, match with an investment from us to where we'll, you know, stock libraries and your area. I had one player, the first player that gave a donation and he gave like a multi-thousand donation was Andrew Whitworth. Me and Andrew Whitworth never had an extended conversation off the field. We played against each other, not even that much because he was a left tackle, I was a left end. But just the respect I had for him coming out of that didn't make a big deal about it, just wanted to help. And then getting to know him at the man of the year stuff,

the year I was lucky enough to be there, getting to know his family, the whirlwind of a fucking career he's had, and to end up in L.A., lose a Super Bowl. Think you're probably going to retire, losing a Super Bowl, and that's going to be it. I can remember after they lost that Super Bowl, I was like, damn, I'm bummed for Andrew Whitworth,

and this is probably it, like coming up here soon. Not only did he continue to play He played well, he played well tonight He gave a sack early He got kind of knocked off by the back I didn't think he was gonna play as well against Hendrickson And he does it against his old team One man of the year a couple nights ago

Very happy for him What a speech he had First 40 year old to start at tackle Ridiculous Everything about it is ridiculous It's movie stuff And you know Eric Weddell movie stuff dude Who?

Eric Weddell on the On the couch The play caller in the Super Super Bowl. It was crazy. Dude, he was just on the couch. He's out there with ruptured Peck, evidently. That happened early in the game.

Happen early, that's what it was. Yeah. When he tried to chop mixing down. Yep. So ruptured pack early in the game. He was on the couch, damn near two years retired. They call him up.

He's an L.A. kid. He played his whole career. I thought he wasn't going to get a Super Bowl and wins it in his hometown. Surreal. Sony Michelle beat the Rams, joins the Rams, helps them get a title. I mean, like, incredible. And another thing that they had to hit the curveball on was they didn't have camakers.

Their run game since Todd Gurley has been a figure at the fuck out. Sony Michelle was a big help for them. So another like movie type thing. I'm looking at Van Jefferson's Instagram. He's holding his new baby in his arms 10 minutes ago. What the hell is going on? Talk about the NFL is rigged. Taylor Rap proposed who his girlfriend

NFL's rigged I'm I am with that guy from our from our live chat from the couple weeks ago the NFL's absolutely rigged and shout out a quick shout out can't forget about this wah-who-wah to Bryce Perkins getting the ring yes like Bryce Perkins Wah hoo-wah Greg Gaines

okay we gotta go through I'm gonna call ID and be like hey man he's gonna think I'm gonna ask him come on the show and be like can you get me Greg Gaines so I'm fucking psyched about you know this kind of stuff so happy for Evan McPherson he got to see the halftime show

he stayed out there kicker from the Bengals got to stay out there and watch what I tweeted earlier was the best half time show of all time I understand that a lot of you middle age white guys really like Prince and really want me to know it and everybody else on the internet to know it but Chris it rained

during purple rain. I understand. I understand. But imagine me being 36 and not being stone when I saw that particular halftime show. So you got to understand where I am right now. I am a 36 year old dad. I just watched Dr. Dre, M&M, 50 cent in a G unit, a shirt, Kendrick Lamar, one of the only damn near new rappers I absolutely love. Mary, J. Blige. Did I forget anybody? You said 50? Snoop.

Snoop. Snoop. And the drummer. Oh, yeah. It was a pack. But what I mean to say is that Eminem. Yeah, Eminem. Yeah, Eminem.

Everybody that I just mentioned was like the hottest thing when we were high school guys, dude. Yep. I was in high school again. I was in high school again, and I had a studio. I had my own studio. I had good weed, my friends sitting with me, and I was watching, it was like it was 2003 again, 2001, Chronic 2001. That was a great show.

That was a very enjoyable halftime show. And the set was awesome. Yo, the same. But look, they were in L.A. So like if they were going to do one thing extraordinary and have one thing right, it had to be the halftime show. And they hit it out of the park. And they hit it out of the park. That's what LA is about about movie scenes and sets and production.

And I think they did a great job. Dude, it was, it was insane. Like it really looked cool. It sounded cool. I don't know if people were lip syncing. I never know. I don't care. I just want to see a fucking good show, dude.

I've never really paid that close to. attention to halftime shows us some of you noticed but i mean like i thought this one was electric so i know somebody's nitpicky out there and maybe things weren't perfect but 50 cent hung upside down with blood rushing to his head for like 30 seconds and was rapping there was all types of cool shit snoop was high they're me they're miming 50 cent because he's not in the shape he was oh he's definitely not in the shape but he's still 50's a badass dude's a boxer and everything like he might be even tougher now. He's got old man strength and he's carrying more

LBs. So yeah, the halftime show is incredible. The whole production desk, the whole production beat for for Drey, he was just standing in front of that like 50 foot long producer desk. Yep, that was cool. It was incredible, dude. There were multiple.

Look at that moments here in the studio. Mayor J.B. Hey, listen. You, hey, you Prince fans, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't want to, I don't want you guys to become new hockey fans. I'll turn you guys in the new hockey fans. I will have you,

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Yeah. I'll just cue you in a little bit. There's two teams at seven to one that are the favorites. And there's one big, big, big dog at 200 to one. I can't remember because I never play them this early. The team that wins, do they kind of get grandfathered into the number one spot? Because I was going to say Rams and Chiefs. Chiefs is one of them. Okay. So maybe it's the Packers. Reed, you got a guess? Nate, you got a guess? See, I feel like the bills have a really high chance. Buffalo. I don't know if they get that. Yeah, 7-1.

Bills and Chiefs, both 7-1. The bills might be an early, like, favorite. And then 200-1? Hold on. Maybe you all, Jets are obviously going to be up there. It's Jets. Yeah, it's the Jets. Fuck.

Try to give it some, you know, suspense. You guys see any odds up here that you like? Oh, yeah, let's look. To me, what really stuff. stuck out was Eagles at 40 to 1 with all the cap space they have, the picks they have. That's right. That's right. I think I like the Steelers. Packers 21. I don't see value in the yeah commanders. Commanders at you know 50 to 1 commanders who knows what happens with the quarterback position this off season. You don't think it's a good value read. Hey man. Shoot your shot.

commanders dude you see russell wilson in in dc that could be fun that could be fun i mean where's denver i think the best values in in the team that's why denver's so because you don't know like maybe but stranger things have happened russell you think new york giants like where the giants right now giants can't win even with that roster but washington well Washington you know if they picked up a quarterback could be pretty good and you could at least like take a flyer Seattle and seen enough Jacksonville Jacksonville can make some moves you got a new coach might put a spark my you never know well uh I bet you're something here's what's funny to put it in perspective I don't know if you pulled up the futures from that year uh that we won the Super Bowl but Jacksonville and the Eagles not far off

on the futures when it comes I'm not saying Jacksonville's or there's any value at all embedding the Jags. That's exactly what you're saying. But I'm selling Taylor Hope. I'm making the win money. And the Colts, I mean, like, I don't know what the hell is going to happen there. We just said Carson Wentz expect to be traded or cut because of money. Money.

Football, but money. Right. The Chargers. Yeah. The Chargers. That looks tempting 21 to 1. Chargers 21. I like that.

I like it a lot. I like it a lot. I like it a lot. And we forget quickly about Kyler Murray. That might be a good little bet right there too. The Cardinals at plus. Well, if Kyler's in Arizona next year. Yeah, they're not.

What do you think that means? He unfollowed the Cardinals. I think they're all trolling. Did you see what they did? Yeah, they unfollowed everybody and they only left two pictures up of him. Like, they took everything off of their main page to do what he did, but they put pictures of him to show him like, hey, like, we still. love you. That's weird.

Yeah, it's weird because you, like, I wonder how marketing wise, like, people who probably pay to have, I think that's what your most Cardinals fans are thinking about, wondering, you know, how the money's changing hands here. They only did that for a second because their Instagram page right now is, yeah. Oh, it was just maybe it was short lived. Yeah, very short lived. So, yeah, I don't know what to bet now, but, uh, how about your Vikings? Oh, what are the Vikings? See, I'm more of a win total guy. The futures are cool.

I can't wait to the win totals come out. Commercials. What do we say? Best in show here, Cowboy. Commercials are right. Aight is exactly the way I would put it. Yeah. I, the, we love the Dolly Parton commercials.

Yeah. By the way, she's given free tuition to all the workers at her theme parks. Yeah. So, like, they're all going to go to college. She's cool, man. She's cool as fuck. Now, that commercial definitely helps. offset. Right. Really kind of thing because I hope they paid her well. And look at her just putting

it into something good. Well, she could have been a billionaire, probably a time or two over, but she's giving back. She's allowed people to just gives back, man, and she doesn't need a billion dollars. She's the shit. Yeah. Anytime Dolly Parton gets paid, what I mean to say is something good's going to happen. That's right. So love Dolly Parton. She was up there for me. My favorite. Her and Miley Cyrus. Did you say what your favorite was? Arnold Schwarzenegger, Zeus and Salmaheic as Zeus's wife and her name is Hera. So my favorite was a good one. Yeah.

Was I forget what the commercial was for now, but was metal soprano. Was that a car commercial? Yeah. Where she's parking and they meet up with little Tony, AJ, I mean. Little Tony. We were saying definitely not smoking pot in the garage anymore. That guys are grown up. Yeah.

Definitely not. Definitely not being a little. animal anymore. Coinbase, the bouncing QR code. I thought the TV broke and I thought that we hadn't noticed yet. I was like, oh, shit. When the coin base, this QR code was bouncing around, I thought the TV broke. Yeah,

that was fucking crazy. It got quiet. There were squares, like, just moving around and Reed was whipping out the phone trying to scan it. Could you imagine that in the bar, the scene? Oh, yeah, everyone climbing over each other. Like, what is it? What is that? What is that? That's just

genius. marketing listen here's where we are now you can tell by you know like historians will go back like kind of like carbon dating you look at the super bowl commercials to see where we're headed fake apartments fake fucking lives in the metaverse electric cars which is cool less road noise a lot electric car commercials good for the planet okay good with that coin base have no fucking clue what to make of that and we still Doritos, right? There was a whole forest commercial that was pretty like Pringles.

The sloth, yeah, we're gonna have, we as humans have evolved in such a way that we are gonna have fake apartments and businesses and side lives and we're still gonna eat Doritos. That's what the historians are gonna find out about this very special time that we're living in right now, 2022. I mean, I have no idea where we're going from here,

but it's gonna be interesting judging by those fucking commercials. We also have to shout out our commercial. Green light. There was a green light. There was a green light. Fuck yeah. Congratulations, guys.

Our first Super Bowl commercial. Oh, it was great. Appreciate it, Chris. I mean, you're generous. I know big bucks. Guys, we had a great 25 million viewers in the stream. That's right.

We had a great couple weeks on the windbed app. And hey, a couple of my props fell just short. We almost got a car. Seven yards away on Van Jefferson. And it would have hit if that pass had just sailed a little short. Yeah, Matt, Matt missed him. Matthew missed him. Matthew missed him.

You're absolutely right, Reed. And fuck, dude, we would have had a motorcycle. I was going to get a green light motorcycle. I mean, there was a lot of money. Your branded parley on win would have hit as well if Odell hadn't gotten injured. Every other part hit. He needed 60 plus yards. He had 50-3 at time of injury.

Brutal, brutal in so many ways. But he's a champion. But yeah, Matt. you have a favorite commercial i'd agree with need i was like in the sopranos commercial and actually you know when reed was talking about the QR code commercial thinking the tv was broken i thought the tv was broken too and it reminded me of the sopranos finale when everybody thought their tv was broken no it was just a bunch of people in a room taking the fucking easy way out right into the show that you decide that's all it was sorry i don't feel any kind of way about it

But it was a good commercial. A lot of good commercials tonight. Sorry if we didn't mention your favorite. I know how that sucks when that happens. But it is late here. And I think we're going to go home here in a second. Okay. You know, I saw Reed out in the wild this weekend.

Yeah. How was that? It was hilarious. Awesome, dude. It was so funny. So my wife, who's definitely not listening to the pod this far in, but who I love and who, is newly acquired SUV owner, like a large SUV.

And is not, well, there's good news, bad news here. Good news, got an SUV, you can fit the family, all our things. Bad news is parking sometimes. Is she a nudgeer? No, she just doesn't trust that the giant SUV and it feels giant is not going to strike the car in front. And to her credit, the parking area that you were at. We were a trigger hollow.

Very tight. It's a very tight parking area. We took the kids hiking and get off the trail and Meg's doing a 56 point turn. I mean, she's struggling through this turn. There's people coming off the trail. We're by the trailhead. There's people like stopping, waiting awkwardly. There's some people just jutting out there.

There's cars everywhere. The kids are asking questions. And Meg's struggling. And we've all been there, some of us. Not me, but I can imagine many of you have. And I'm saying Meg, like, pull up, I'm offering to get out. All of a sudden there's a guy outside the passenger window

directing traffic. Being really nice and telling my wife how much room she has. And I look up and it's Cowboy Reed. Oh my God. And Cowboy Reed can't tell that it's us in the truck. Oh. Because it's a new SUV. And so you're just really just a nice guy.

Yes. That's awesome. And I, the kids enjoyed the hike. We had a lot of fun. but they never got as excited as they did when Cowboy Reed. Luke is jacked up. Cowboy Reed's like methamphetamine to him. So much so that the only time I ever think my wife's been like Reed is at the airport

and you were hyping up Luke and the kid was bouncing off the walls. I felt bad, but that was fun. But no. So the moral story is Reed is just as we know him to be out in the wild. helpful on the spot clutch all right so tell me this Cleveland so it's it's the Hudson Ohio mayor yeah no Hudson hudson Ohio mayor and the Hudson Ohio mayor believed that ice fishing will lead to prostitution okay I'm gonna try to shenny is rocking don't come knocking additionally if you open this up to ice fishing while on the surface it sounds good

then what happens next year to someone come back can say I want an ice shanty on Hudson Springs Park for X amount of time. And if you then allow ice fishing with shanties, then that leads to another problem. Prostitution. And now you got the police chief and the police department involved. Just data points to consider. So I just heard the clip. So what this guy is saying is that there will be these ice fishermen encampments.

Yeah? The people come there for ice fishing season. I guess with shanties. They're fishing with shanties. They're just little huts. And so basically it's like all four walls and a roof. But it keeps it stops the wind when you're like out on the ice and you can fish overnight. So like you drill your hole and then you put up, you know, your four walls.

I watch YouTube. I'm very like I almost feel like I could do it. I watch a lot of YouTube like hookers love ice fishing shanties. Can you believe that like a mayor would say that though? Seriously? No. Well, yeah. Yeah.

We live in America. do. I understand it's logic. Do you think he was tell, do you think he was like so do you think

that's what I was going to bring up. The North Dakota things. What's that? Well, yes. So there's these worker encampments that there's prostitution oil drilling and that's not all.

That's not all. Needless to say. A large rash of men moved to North Dakota for oil drilling and then that was followed by a lot of prostitution. Well, wouldn't it be better if in whether it's an oil

drilling encampment or an ice fishing encampment it was regulated and legal 100% sex work is work okay there we go sorry mayor that's like the kryptonite yeah well you're arguing against yourself yeah the mayor he's tripping the mayor's tripping I just I just feel like he I think he was sort of probably like telling on himself plus dude as a pescatarian as a pescatarian we need more ice fish okay we need more ice fish not less ice fish. You know what I say when the salmon hits the plate? Fish on.

Whatever there's a new fish for me at dinner time. Fish on. I'm like a seal now. By the way, I apologize about doing the Super Bowl steak earlier. I just want to put that on the open here. Okay? I know I had a steak. I know I ordered it. I knew you guys

would see it. Okay, I wouldn't sneak in a steak in. It's just that once a year, I'm going to eat a steak. And it's going to be the most American day on the whole fucking docket and that's Super Bowl Sunday. So, Reed, how much money did I win with this

over on the day? What do you mean? Bro, how much money did I win? Or like, what did I run? I'm not off the, no, I'm not off my diet. I got one steak a year. It's a Super Bowl. This was in the bylaws of Pescatarian diet, man.

Yo, I'm going to start, like, if you're going to do this, I'm going to start trolling. I'm going to start trolling you. It was my patriotic duty. But it was disgusting. Look, I'm going to start trolling you, and I'm going to, like, send incentives out to fans to text me and send me pictures of you eating steak. No, no, not eating steak. Does anything other than fish?

Well, guess what? Like, why you're out and about? Listen, people are going to be walking up to me and, like, hey, man, you want this steak? And you have to say no. Yeah, you don't want to be turning down steaks. I am who I say I am. It's just as Super Bowl Sunday is my patronage duty. Tuna steak.

But no red meat steak. Just bison, bro. Bison. I had a pretty good week with that whole thing. You should try it, man. I had bison this past week. I might swim home tonight. Shout out to imperfect foods.

Every good diet is a cheat day. Have you ever had that? Hell yeah, man. Do you like it? You get it every week. Yo, me and my girl, too. We're hit. We just got the bison for.

I'm a big guy, so the portions are kind of, but it works. It works for me and my girl. For real. Imperfect. So basically you put in the order online every Wednesday or every Tuesday they deliver to your house. So you can get... Yeah, yeah, yeah, same thing.

There's a lot of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tomato, yeah. Both awesome. Yours is way richer, though. Yeah, their perfect foods is like the... It's like the reject fruits and vegetables that people might not like. Yeah, because they aesthetically look like weird.

Cook unity is fire. I bet it is. And they got pescatarian options. All right, well, um... Yeah, and just to let you all know, our schedule is going to be changing. Not yet, but next week. This week we'll have our normal show on Wednesday and Friday. And the week after that, we'll be shifting to two times a week on Tuesdays and Fridays.

And that's all great news because people, motherfuckers are tired. Okay. I know motherfuckers are tired, but I want to thank y'all for pushing through this season. Incredible work. Love is love. Any growth we have, the dudes in this boxhole here. Reed, Taylor, Matt, Nate, Sunday nights,

Macon, like we have grinded it out all season. Ralph, Ralph, Ralph, Brian, John. John. But there's also some really late nights, you know, being put in in person here, and y'all cats deserve a lot of fucking credit. So, cheers to you. One last thing.

The metaverse is for cowards. I want to be on the record. It's for quitters. No. I want to be on the record. Finish the show. with this bold take no I'm not because bro like what happens I can't eat something fake you what happens if we start getting a million viewers from the metaverse then what

what the fuck are you saying exactly exactly like what those fuck are you saying right now way into the metaverse way to the metaver you know you have you ever played sims like little play mobile people yeah but like they're going to be able to watch movies and watch podcasts and They might choose ours to do that to get all those views. And then I will move into the forest. So fucking hard, dude. I will move into, like, there is nothing. Bro, when I know this shit right now, we're flirting with it.

I know we're going there. But I'm just telling you, if you have to leave this world to go into another world, I know that at one point it will be offensive to say this. I don't care. You are a quitter. and if you're going to tell me well not everybody lives in your world Chris some people need to escape

their world I would say some people can't escape their world so shut up and go into the metaverse and I don't want to hear from you again it's fake I'm on the record this is going to be problematic at some point you'll eat your words

I don't know fuck somebody's going to sell me tomorrow on some way that the metaverse is really beneficial to human beings and I'm just, if you got it, hit me with it, but I, I'm off the,

I'm out on the Metaverse. I'm going to be, like I said, I'm going to be on hydraulic road and 29. Yo, stop saying that. I am,

stop saying that. I am. Stop saying. I'm going to be dead broke if the Metaverse becomes a thing. You're going to be a panhandleger. If investing in blockchain and all this stuff, I'm a fucking,

I'm a Luddite, dude, I'm stuck in the past. I just want to be the first to say that. I actually wrote a movie script a couple years ago, kind of like with toying with the idea of like drones with chips in their necks, deciding to choose to live in a digital metaverse world. And then like people who decide to live like you're saying. Oh,

it's in like. If you add a shower scene and anything's possible, Starship Troopers. Hey, bro, you're on to it though. Hey, Taylor, let's get it done. We got, we got time. I mean, it's already been written. I wrote it a couple years ago. It's the script's done.

Let's get it to the fucking people that need to read it. I got to, I got to get with Taylor. Who are we going to put me? You got to put me in one of these roles. Taylor, you get to give it to, you get one person. All right, there's a metaverse gun to your head. You have 10 seconds. I'm taking the goggles off.

All right. Who are you going to get this script to? You got 10 seconds. You got one breakfast meeting. Fake food. seven, six, five, four, three, A-24. A-24. Yeah.

Who was that? They're a movie production company, and I think they, I associate them with very good movies, like kind of. They made card counter, which is fantasy. But they also made, did they make the green night? I saw the green night recently. There's some really, like, artsy kind of movies that they make, too. Yeah, sometimes it kind of pushes.

at least for my personal taste kind of pushes that artsy envelope too much for me to yourself in the interview yeah you know what i'm saying tay we'll get you to 824 fucking one day we'll have a movie studio production studio you know that'd be living existence it'll be a real one it won't be fake like the metaverse y'all take care