The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 03/05/2021 - Best of The Herd

Episode Date: March 5, 2021

Colin discusses Tom Brady’s response on Twitter to seeing UFO’s and aliens and what this tells us about where Brady is at in his NFL career right now. He lays out why Russell Wilson should be interested in leaving Seattle for the Chicago Bears. Cardinals general manager Steve Keim joins the show to talk about signing JJ Watt. Plus, Colin talks to world renown astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about the probability of finding other intelligent life and UFO sightings.   Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Here we go on a Friday. So much fun. Talking aliens. Live in Los Angeles, it's the Herd, wherever you may be and however you may be listening. IHeart Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and FS1. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on our show next hour to talk about the possibility of aliens. Now, if you missed it, Alex Curry filling in for Joy, how are you, Alex? Oh, I'm doing great.

And I am so happy that we have had so much alien talk and UFO talk. I am all about it, and I am here for it today. I am as well. So this all started a couple days ago when Baker Mayfield was in Austin, Texas, with his beautiful wife. And he saw something. And then he rushed to Twitter and said, I think I just saw a UFO. and anybody else see it in Lake Travis. And I, of course, went on the air.

I had to comment on that. I went on for about two minutes, kind of rolled my eyes, kind of snarky, obviously tongue-in-cheek. I don't like Tom Brady and Troyickman, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana. They didn't see UFOs. And then Tom Brady followed up yesterday with a tweet, How do you know I've never seen aliens, Colin? He acknowledged my existence. It was a good day for me.

But you know what I thought about when I saw that, actually? Tom Brady's having fun, because that's always who Tom Brady's been. But he acquiesced for Bill Belichick in New England. But this is who he is. He's laughing more. He goes on Howard Stern, talks about his marriage. He's on James Corden. He's very funny.

He's getting drunk during victory parades. He's fantastic on social media. He's got a great sense of humor. this is of course who Tom has always been. When they signed Grunk, he went to Twitter. Football's fun again. I was talking to Eric Mangini about this. Eric and Tom were together.

They won three Super Bowls before Mangini went and later coached the Browns and the Jets. And Mangini said teams can struggle with this. Tom Brady, how you enter a business is how you're often viewed forever, regardless of how much you grow. So Tom Brady is drafted in the same. six round. Not paid much always takes a pay cut. He's part of a system led by defense. But then Tom grows and changes and he becomes a father and wealthy and he nears middle age and he's married and he's got his own brand and he has a net worth second to no pro athlete in America. His wife's a supermodel. And fun Tom is still asked to suppress

and to take a pay cut. And he does willingly because he wants to win. But New England still wants under our thumb, Tom. And he got tired of it. In that documentary, you saw it. You heard embark on the sidelines. You heard the quotes after he left New England. Tom had changed.

He wanted a voice now. He wanted to have fun now. That's who the true Tom has always been. but for the sake of the team because he's a team guy, he suppresses that. This is exactly what is happening to Russell Wilson in Seattle. He entered the Seahawks as third round pick Russell, little too short for the position, Russell, handoff to Marshawn Lynch, Russell. Defense wins the games, don't screw it up, Russell.

Never create controversy, just say, go hawks, Russell. And then Russell like Tom becomes a Hall of Fame level player and wealthy and great and marries a strong, beautiful, successful woman. Just like New England couldn't pivot in later years, Seattle's struggling to pivot with Russell Wilson. This happens. All of us at one point have told our parents, hey, I'm not a kid anymore. You know, you intern at a job and then they hire you, you no longer want to go grab your boss coffee. You're an employee. Things have changed. You're valuable.

I've told interns before, you can intern at a place, but eventually leave it because you'll be viewed by a lot of people in that building as, oh, he was an intern. Go succeed somewhere else. Come back and be seen differently. the company at a higher level. Tom's having fun. Tom's always been fun. You ask guys around him, the Kentucky Derby, the parties, the travel.

This is who Brady's always been. But with New England, he had to hold back. And as he grew and flourished, became the goat, became the biggest star in the biggest sport in America. New England struggled to pivot. off that. In the end, he wanted a voice, and can you imagine they wouldn't give Tom Brady a voice? What was attractive about Tampa is Bruce Ariens would. Pete Carroll, are you watching? This is all

Russell Wilson wants. He's not third-round Russell anymore. He's not go-hawks during every comment. I like that Tom Brady acknowledged my existence. I'm not going to lie to you about that. It does remind me of the old joke, though. There's an old joke about alien sightings. You know where you never see alien sightings? Harvard. I'm just joking. All right.

Here's another story. Ben Rothfelsberger got a new contract. But it wasn't a great one for Ben Rothersberger. It was a take it or leave it contract. Yeah. 14 mill down from almost 20. and it opened up $15 million in cap space for Pittsburgh. So he gets one year, very little money,

and they're clearly going to move on at some point, probably 2022. So let's talk about Pittsburgh today. They still have a very good roster. Two of their linebackers, their best linebackers were hurt. One of them comes back. Two may, but one for sure. They always draft and develop players well, and they've now added salary cap.

So the Steelers next year will be good. How do I know that? Because the Steelers virtually every year are good. But they become the TV show, entourage, friends, the office, where they decide to bring it back one more year. And then halfway through it, you're like, why? The actors were all rich enough. It's played out.

and you tell your buddies no reason to watch this season of the entourage. The Steelers are going to go if I had to pick this morning, 9 and 7, maybe 10 and 6, probably a wildcard team in their division, one and done, that's happened a lot recently, and they won't be a Super Bowl team.

And the problem is, next year at this time, it's a really bad year to need a quarterback in the NFL draft. And so Pittsburgh's going to be good. They're going to win a bunch of games. They're probably going to finish second in their division.

Wild card team have to go on the road against, you know, like a Kansas City or a Buffalo and they'll lose. And they'll be asking themselves, why didn't we start working on this replace big Ben thing like three years ago? So they'll be good, though. not going to be bad because Pittsburgh's not bad, and Mike Tomlin has never had a losing season, and Big Ben is good enough to win some games. But finally, Pittsburgh gave him a take it or leave it contract, and he took it.

And I do think that's getting some cap space in that division, which I think next year, Cincinnati's a real team, is going to be really logjam. It's going to be a lot of 9 and 7 in that division next year, including potentially Cincinnati. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1, and the IHeart Radio app. Hey, what's up everybody? It's me, three-time Pro Bowl of LaVore Arrington, and I couldn't be more excited to announce a new podcast called Up on Game. What is Up on Game, you ask? along with my fellow pro-bowler, T.J. Hushmanzada and Super Bowl champion.

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So when Russell Wilson and or his agent listed the four teams he would possibly play for, the one that didn't make a ton of sense to most people was Chicago. Now we're learning why Russell Wilson is interested in Chicago. According to report, he likes the idea of turning around a historic NFL franchise. He also sees them as an emerging offensive line. a solid, offensive-minded coach, and the intriguing market of Chicago. Don't think these quarterbacks aren't looking around the league and seeing what works. When Tom Brady went to Tampa, I was just reading a story this morning,

Jason Light, the GM, said it was like he'd been scouting us. He knew our personnel. He knew what we needed. He knew what I wanted. Tom Brady called them and interviewed the Bucks. They didn't interview him. So Peyton Manning to Denver reminds me of Russell to Chicago. Remember when Peyton Manning went to Denver?

They were just 8 and 8 the year before but squeaked into the playoffs. They had an emerging offensive line, Ryan Clady, a very good young player. They had two stars on offense receivers. What are the Bears? Eight and eight made the playoffs. Russell sees them as an emerging offensive line. line. And they have two offensive stars, Tariq Cohen coming off an injury and the great wide receiving talent, Alan Robinson. They also have a young tied in from Notre Dame I love.

So Chicago may sound a little strange. Do you want to go into a division with Aaron Rogers twice a year? Well, Tom Brady entered a division with the heavily favored Drew Breeze and the Saints twice a year. So what you get in common with Tom in Tampa and Peyton Manning in Denver and if he ever went to Chicago, Russell Wilson with the Bears, is these are not finished products. They see themselves as the missing piece. And there's also two things very attractive to Russell Wilson in Chicago. He can go, Mitch Trevisky went 25 and 13 with Matt Nagy. What am I going to go? And also Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace, the head coach and general manager respectively in Chicago,

are a little bit on the hot seat. They don't have the power of Pete Carroll. And that's one of the things turning off Russell, very much so in Seattle. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd, weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific. It's really interesting. Having spent over a decade on the East Coast, I noticed this. the New York media is really tough on you early, but then they're pussycats. They'll support you, Joe Torrey, Derek Jeter, Eli Manning, they'll support you. You win early, they've got your back forever.

It's a redeemable media. The Boston media is often fawning early. They fawn over the new stars. And then they just wait for you to fail. And then there's the Philadelphia media. They just mostly hate you. And a lot of this is because Philadelphia wants to come off as tough. It is the classic, I'll give you an example why.

New York's where all the money is on the East Coast. Boston's got Harvard, MIT, the IQ, the smart city on the East Coast and great sports history. D.C. has all the power. And Philly has cheese steaks. And they got a chip on their shoulder. They got a chip on both shoulders. They're balanced. So in Philadelphia, they're always trying to prove themselves as fans and as media.

They're relentless, even if you're great. They're always trying to prove, hey, we're tougher than New York, Boston, and D.C. And they've had this, they take pride in this attitude. And that is why it is tougher to play in Philadelphia than New York, Boston, and D.C. to me in that corridor. Now the good news for Carson Wentz, this is very good news. Charles Barkley left Philly and won a Super Bowl. Reggie White left Philly and won a Super Bowl. Kurt Schilling left Philly and won two World Series. It is often much easier to play in other places than Philadelphia. You know, Rocky is the ultimate hero in Philadelphia. And Rocky is the underdog. Nobody believes in me. I'm going to prove you wrong. And that's why he is today, still.

like the hero of Philadelphia. He is Philadelphia. But it is a tough place to play. And when I lived out in the East Coast, I really felt that. Philadelphia was always trying to prove itself because D.C. has the power. And New York's got the money. And Boston's got the Harvard and the MIT and the 50 universities and a lot of winning. And Philadelphia wants to prove they belong.

Tough place to play in tough media. Want more herd? The herd streams 24 hours a day, seven days a week within the IHeart Radio app. Search Herd to listen live or on demand whenever you'd like. Well, Steve Kime has been a, he is swinging for the fences. And he hired a coach and had to move off him in a year. And he drafted a quarterback and had to move off him in a year. And it's worked.

And he went out and got DeAndre Hopkins. And he went out and just got J.J. Watt. And in the best division in football, you cannot sit on your hands. Les Needs a go-for-it guy. John Schneider is. John Lynch is. and Steve Kym is now joining us, brought to you by Mercedes-Benz. All right, Steve, great to have you in a Friday.

Great to see you again and talk to you again. I love to come on the show. So you have been, you have gone big on this stuff. Now, I'm going to play devil's advocate. I'm going to say, Steve, you guys were fourth in sacks. You got Chandler Jones. Did you really need a $15 million, $14 million pass rusher? And to that, you would say what?

Well, I mean, I think that any time you have the ability to acquire a player like JJ Watt, not only what he brings to the team on the field, Colin, but the things that he does in the locker room, his infectious personality, his passion for the game, and really something that I felt like that we vastly needed was somebody that can hold people accountable internally. And that's something that comes to attention to detail. Last year, we led the National Football League in penalties,

and that was unacceptable. So to be able to acquire a guy like this who cannot, in some regards, self-police your locker room, it was a huge coup for us, in my opinion. You know, I've said this for years. When Brady was playing in the AFC East or Peyton Manning was playing in the AFC North, you had to, as a general manager, consider drafting pass rushers. You had to make those quarterbacks uncomfortable. Now Matt Stafford's in your division.

You already got Russell in your division. When Jimmy G is healthy, he got to a Super Bowl in the one year he was. Is some of this, Steve Kime looking around and going, all right, I got Matt Stafford in my division. I can't have a good enough pass rush. There's no doubt. I mean, I think that you can even point to the Super Bowl and say that that was the one team that was able to get Patrick Mahomes off his spot.

Anytime you can get all these talented quarterbacks off their spot, they have to throw from other angles, they get flushed out of the pocket, they get flustered. It gets them out of their game. To me, that is the recipe for success. And we all know that you have to run the ball, stop the run to be effective to, win football games, but when you create a situation where quarterbacks are uneasy, and now that

we have Chandler Jones and JJ Watt on the same front, I think that poses a problem. Yeah. You know, it's interesting. You've been very aggressive. I talked to Les Need about a month ago, and he's like, hey, in this division, you just got to be aggressive. This is the reality of it. Everybody's good. And you went out and got Kyler Murray. And I said, full disclosure, I'm like, man, he looks small. I don't know if it's going to work. And then about three games in, I'm like, okay, this kid's great. I get the move. I thought he made a heck of a jump last year, but if you looked at passing stats alone, you'd say, eh, but if you looked at total touchdowns, pocket presence, what did you see as a GM? Where did you see the growth in Kyler Murray last year? Same thing, command of the

offense, progression, ability to see the field. Really all of those things were the areas that I see that he continues to grow. And to me, that's what happens to all young quarterbacks who are really talented. It takes a little bit of time. But you also look back at his track record. And he didn't play a ton of college football. He never played spring ball because of baseball. And then now he goes, Oklahoma, has one big year and comes to the NFL and is thrown

right into the fire and becomes rookie of the year. Second year, he's one of three NFC quarterbacks. So the trajectory and the, you know, really where he is going is on the rise. And all he's going to do is get better, which is pretty scary because he hasn't scratched the surface yet. Let's talk about your coach, Cliff Kingsbury. So he goes 5, 10, and 1.

He goes to 8 and 8. Where did he grow last year? You know, I think it's really, it's just being comfortable, being a head coach, being in front of a team, being able to hold the players accountable, which is something we continue to do better. And at the end of the day, just his presence alone. I think he does a fantastic job as a play caller, but we all know that head coaches aren't just play callers.

We're talking about guys who are CEOs and leaders and have to be in front of not only offensive players, but the defensive players and the special teams players as well. You know, Larry Fitzgerald is literally a player I could see at some point, and I'm not joking here, vying for commissionership. He's that kind of human being. I think at some point we will have a former player be a commissioner perhaps, or number two,

in charge of the NFL. I think he has such an important DNA in any locker room. Will he be back? Where does he stand this morning on that? He hasn't told us yet. We have respected the process for him and given him his space like we have every year. Generally, Michael and I will talk to Larry prior to free agency, but you nailed it. I mean, this guy is as special as it gets.

As tremendous of a player as he has been, he's even a better person. He's so charismatic. he could run for governor, he could be the president. I mean, really anything that Larry Fitzgerald sets his mind to do to me in the future, he is going to have a tremendous amount of success no matter what he does. Okay, you don't have to name specifics because I know you GMs get in trouble with this stuff. But in terms of the draft, some of my guys have said it's great for about four and a half rounds. Then it's, there's a lot of good players.

Give me, and you can be somewhat vague here. give me your last seven, eight drafts. Where does this one rank? Where is it good? Where is it not? Maybe it's good. Well, I think it's really strong at a number of positions. I think there's a number of linebackers in this draft that are strong, wide receivers.

I think there are some pass rushers that are very, very talented. But I do agree that I think once you get into rounds four and five, because of the COVID situation, because of players opting out, some of the guys having to return to college, some of the depth in the later rounds may not be there, is. is there was in the past. You know, finally, Steve, we're seeing something. In the NBA, it's always been understood as a players league, even when I was an NBA fan in the 70s.

It was a players league. It wasn't a coaches league. Football's always been a GM coach's sport. But increasingly, Russell Wilson wants an opinion. Tom Brady wants an opinion. Deshawn Watson wants an opinion. You have an emerging star at quarterback. How do you manage that as he gets better?

He gets richer. He learns the game. You know, he plays six, seven, eight. nine years has more success. Do you see that as a challenge? How the quarterbacks now in America are they're literally the stars of the country. They're bigger than our politicians. They're bigger than NBA guys.

They're like soccer stars in Europe. How do you manage when your star quarterback wants a voice? I actually go the other way, Colin. I embrace it. To me, it means that our players are vested. They're bought into what we're doing. It doesn't mean that I have to agree. and it doesn't mean that we have to make those decisions that those guys are interested in.

But I think whenever you hear these guys talk about different players or things that they would love to see us do, to me, it goes back to show that they're football junkies, they care about the game, they care about the organization, and quite frankly, they want to win. Again, I think there's a line you draw on the sand where you have to make decisions, and that's part of my job, part of Michael Bidwell's job, and part of Cliff's job. But at the end of the day, I love hearing from D'Andre Hopkins. Kyla Murray and I constantly text each other about players.

Larry Fitzgerald, the same thing. I really do embrace that. And I think that it can help lead to success because so many times they're the same guys that you're asking to help recruit JJ Watt. Yeah. Steve Kime, ninth year, Cardinals GM. Great seeing you again. Next time you're in L.A., I'll make Fox pick up the tabs.

So just get a hold of it. Let's do it, Colin. All right. Thanks, Steve. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd. Weekdays and New Neon East. 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1, and the IHeart Radio app. Hey, what's up, everybody? It's me, three-time Pro Bowl of LaVarrington,

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and plexico burrish on the i heart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast from imagine an olympics where doping is not only legal but encouraged it's the enhanced games some call it grotesque others say it's unleashing human potential either way the podcast's superhuman at all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year. Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the I-Hard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, fam? It's Isaiah Thomas.

And I'm C.J. Toledano, and our podcast, Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs.

I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reid. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too.

Steve Nash will get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He running up the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball, like, after you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball.

So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're watching the latest season of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, you already know there's a lot to break down. She's accusing Kelly of sleeping with a merry man. They holding Kay Michelle back from fighting Drew. Pinky has financial issues.

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I understand the game. As somebody who creates shows, I'll even say this. At the end of the day, when people are at home, they want entertainment. To hear this and more, listen to Reality with the King on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, I'm Jared Adano. You might know me as that loud guy who yells out, help on the internet. Help! Somebody, please! But there's so much more to me than that.

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get your podcasts. So yesterday was obviously a lot of fun for us. Baker Mayfield a couple nights ago said him and his beautiful wife, Emily, were out to dinner in Austin, Texas, and they saw U.F. and wondered if anybody else saw the UFO. You know, I prefer my quarterbacks not talk about that.

But Brady responded when I kind of poke fun at Baker Mayfield. Brady, yesterday went on Twitter and said, Colin, how do you know? I've never seen aliens, which, by the way, is the way I like my franchise quarterback to talk about aliens with a wink. This is something fans have a blind spot about. Like, listen, the media has blind spots, too. The media leans left.

They have since, I've been in this business 30 years. years. They lean left politically. They always have. They can never admit it changes their coverage. It's a blind spot for the media. They lean left. They've done polls on it. 75% of newspaper writers are Democrats. The media just can't own the fact that their personal feelings get in the way of their coverage. I've been 30 years multiple TV stations. They've all, all lean left. And by the way, I'm saying that as a Democrat. There's a saying in sports and in our business called stepping in it. You don't want to step in it. The three best athletes in my lifetime, stars, who never stepped in it.

Brady, Michael Jordan, and Derek Jeter. Not a coincidence they came from really great families. They were very secure in themselves. They never stepped in it. They always said the right thing. They didn't inflame situations. All those years of being interviewed, they talked and said nothing. Always about winning in the team.

They stayed out of the newspapers. They understood they not only represented themselves, but owners, leagues, conferences, momentum. Baker Mayfield's very talented, but he's stepped in it three or four times already. He called out the medical staff in Cleveland. The organization was pissed. I know I was told out inside the building. He called out Duke Johnson's money. He stepped in it.

He sparred with me on social media. They asked him not to. Now, I don't think calling out a UFO qualifies as stepping in it. I don't. But this stuff is monitored by teams. Jimmy Garoppolo out to dinner with a porn star. All of you said it doesn't matter. I told you on the air.

Yeah, it does. Garopolo got yelled at by the owner in the gym. GM. Mark Sanchez did a photo shoot in GQ before he ever played a game. They weren't happy. Duane Haskins with a selfie on the sideline. He lost the coaching staff that day. James Winston's college nonsense, it didn't land well for a lot of people. Folks, Baker Mayfield's talented and just got crappy historically bad Cleveland of the playoffs. Why aren't they giving him a contract extension? You know, answer. He stepped in it. And in 2018, he was very good at the end of the year. And what

he do in the offseason? Put on wait and did a dozen commercials. They weren't happy. And he just had success. And what is the organization doing? Waiting to see what Baker they get in 2021. My opinion is, he'll be Baker. He'll be outspoken, be a little bit of a maverick, a little bit of a contrarian. That's okay. And I do think he's talented. And I don't think he's a bad guy at all. A little cocky, little immature when he came in the league. That's okay. Not everybody's perfect. But this is one of these things. The media has a blind spot and never admits it. This is the fan's blind spot. This stuff doesn't matter. It does matter to high school principals and CEOs who have shareholders and franchise quarterbacks. You don't want to be in a picture without

alcohol in your hand. You don't want to be out there screaming. I saw an alien. Yeah, just don't. It's not the end of the world. I don't consider this stepping in it. But the way to talk aliens is the way Brady did yesterday with a wink. It's funny.

It's, you know, kind of sardonic. It's classic. And I do think Jeter M.J. And Tom really had an, it's really rare this happens at a young age. I certainly wasn't capable of this. They always had an understanding. They were not only representing themselves, but they were representing many people beyond them.

And that's why sometimes you keep thoughts to yourself. You bite your tongue. You're really upset, but you don't tell the media. That's incredibly human. But there is value in it. That's all I'm saying. There's value in it. You don't want to step in it.

This doesn't qualify as stepping in it. But it is interesting. Why aren't they giving Baker an extension? He's certainly good enough. He won a playoff game. Everybody signs their quarterbacks early. I think they're waiting to see how he responds to some success. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific.

Folks, every few decades, every few times a decade, I'm going to bring on Neil deGrasse and the astrophysicist from Harvard and Columbia, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City in 2004. NASA bestowed upon him, the Distinguished Public Service Medal. It's the highest civilian honor bestowed by NASA. He is smart and he is funny and he's entertaining and he's an astrophysicist. So he's officially the smartest guest. I bring on about three times a decade and he is now joining us live.

Okay. So we got the story about Baker Mayfield's easy UFO. And then I said, give me a break. I don't want my quarterback saying that. And Tom Brady shouts me out on Twitter and says, Colin, how do you know I haven't seen an alien? so these quarterbacks are all after me now. I will say this. Okay, I will say this.

Every time I hear about this, I've always had a theory, Neil, that some of this stuff is space junk, and I've seen some of that stuff, and if you get away from light pollution in small towns, you see a bunch of stuff, and some of it could be our government that doesn't want to give a heads up to other governments or us working on military projects.

That is my theory. Is that nonsense or is some of that true? It could be all of the above. I mean, so why would the government want you to know if it's experimenting on top secret aircraft, for example? So they're not going to want you to know. And by the way, in the 1960s, there was Project Blue Book. A subtext of the Project Blue Book, which, by the way, was the investigation of UFOs, was, by the way, keep reporting them if you see them. Because it could be a Russian experimental aircraft.

And we were in the middle of the Cold War. So if you crowdsource the monitoring of the sky, then you can be way more effective than just simple regional military observations of what might be happening up there. So sure. And by the way, if you see a UFO, it just means you didn't know what it was. That's what the U stands for, unidentified. So it's not a problem if your quarterback sees something in the sky and they don't know what it is. What else are they going to call it but a UFO? So give them a break.

All right. All right, I'll scale back on that. Okay, I want to show you, I want to show you, Neil. From 1905 to now, I'm going to show you a map of UFO sightings in America. And there's a lot of them around New Mexico and Arizona. There's a lot Midwest, Great Lakes region, a lot over there. It looks like Virginia, New York City. When you see any of that, does that mean anything to you?

Why would they be in those areas? Well, first of all, you'd expect there to be more sightings where there's a higher population. So, therefore, you see more green dots near Chicago and in the northeast corridor and over L.A., San Diego, as I recognize these places on the map up there near Seattle. So you expect there to be near population center because there's just simply more people. So A. B, today, everybody's got a smartphone with a high-resolution camera for still pictures and V. So if those were sightings of Bigfoot, the internet would be full of high-resolution photos and videos of Bigfoot trying to escape. We don't have any such data other than people's eyewitness accounts.

And in science, eyewitness testimony is the lowest form of evidence, whereas in the court of law, it's a very high form of evidence. of evidence. And he asked a psychologist, how's that eyewitness testimony going in your suspect who was just shocked by what they saw? It doesn't bode well. Then, where we do have some kind of video evidence, I'm disappointed that it's sort of fuzzy monochromatic, like the Navy video that's been to the Tick-Tac, right? So it's that the best video you have? Everybody's got a camera. And if they are aliens are they only just revealing themselves to the Navy? That would be kind of weird. All right? I'm just thinking, you know? So it's fuzzy monochromatic video. So I don't know what those things are. Okay. And that's kind of the end of my sentence. And admitting that I don't know what it is does not

give me the right to then declare that I do know what it is. Just think about that, right? I say, oh, I don't know what it is. Therefore, it must be visiting aliens from outer space curious about us on Earth. How do you justify the rest of those conclusions? By the way, go keep, if you think the aliens, keep chasing them down. I'm just not personally, I'm not convinced enough by fuzzy monochromatic video and testimonies from people to devote my time or energy to investigate it. But let them do it. If they can snare an alien, bring them to town hall, into the square.

You don't need me. everybody will have self-overers. You won't need me. You won't give a rat's ass what I think or say because you'll be rich and famous overnight. Okay, here's another question. And again, you're an astrophysicist. I'm clearly not. So I always hear this.

Well, there is a life form out there and they're going to be super intelligent for us mere mortals. And I think to myself, is it possible if we did find a colony or a bunch of aliens, they couldn't even figure out how to use a zipper. I mean, they just did not be any smarter than me. Is it possible we're the smarter form? Okay. No. Have you looked around the world recently?

Okay. All right. Wait, wait. That's my first point. A better argument would be if they manage to travel to Earth through the depths of interstellar space, they're smarter than us. Okay.

They got more technology than us. Okay. All right? We haven't been out of low Earth orbit since 1973. So I'm thinking they're smarter than us. And if they're really, really, really smarter than us, we might ask what kind of hubris do we have to think that they're going to care what we think at all. When you walk by a colony of worms, so you say, gee, I wonder what they're thinking.

No, you don't care what they're. You step on them. Okay? So probably, if they've never visited us, us, it's because they've decided that there's no sign of intelligent life. That's a good answer. That's why you're an astrophysicist. By the way, I want get back to your quarterback. I read the description. I think it was at night, no brighter than twilight, and he saw a streak of light come down. It looks like it landed

in town lake or wherever it was in Austin. And that's what meteors look like they do. Okay? So a meteor, a bright meteor, a shooting start. There, got Okay, there it's. UFO dropped straight out of the sky. There it is. We stopped and looked at each other and asked if we each sort. That's good first check to see because you have multiple sources of data. Very bright ball of light going straight down out of the sky towards Lake Travis.

Okay. So what he should do is go look at what meteors look like. And most of them just look like sort of simple shooting stars, but the occasional one. The occasional bigger one is called a bolide. We have special words for them. And they flash through the sky. It takes just half a second. It flashes through the sky,

and at the end, sometimes they explode. And so they're really beautiful, and they're called bolides. And by the way, amateur astronomers, who, by the way, are really good at looking at the night sky, do not have a higher fraction of what they see identified as UFOs because they are highly trained in what they look like,

because they spend the whole lives looking up at night. So I think if there were aliens visiting, the amateur astronomy community would catch it immediately. And by the way, amateur astronomer means you are an expert at the night sky. Unlike amateur neurosurgeon, you wouldn't go to that person if you had an ailment. But if you want to know people who know the night sky like the back of the hand, they're called amateur astronomers. That's been very, very good.

By the way, I only have one minute left. Oh, okay. I'll talk fast. Okay, okay. Is there any new data on UFOs that has emerged or is it the same thing? them for the last hundred years. I'm not authorized to tell you anything. No, I'm just kidding.

No, I'm knocked out my headphones here. So all I'm just saying is that the, I think we are all in a position to crowdsource images of visiting aliens. And so I can't wait to people start producing images and or an alien itself and bring it into town. And then you don't have to try to convince people with anybody's eyewitness testimony. That's all. And same with Bigfoot.

With Bigfoot, you look at Bigfoot on the internet, the best evidence is home shot video from 1967. Is that your best evidence of a big hairy ape crawling around in the Pacific Northwest? No one else had saw them with the smartphone. So let us ask each other these other kinds of questions about if it really were aliens, what would it be? We would see them. Or if they didn't want us to see them, we wouldn't see them. And what's this about crashed flying saucers? What, what?

They navigate the depths of intergalactic space and they come to Earth and then they crash. I don't want to meet those aliens. Okay? Give me the ones that know how to navigate. Yeah, right. They navigate space, but they drive like, you know, we all did as teenagers the minute they hit Earth. I drive like drunk teenagers. It's right.

Makes no sense. Crash Atlantic flying saucers. Excuse me? Neil degrass Tyson, by the way, he has a new... I'm sorry. Some skeptical. I'm skeptical, but let it, let them find it. Let it happen. I want to read this book. Cosmic Queries, StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got There, and Where We're Growing. Please, I'm going to purchase it. I hope you do. Neil.

There's a whole chapter on The Search for Life in it. So yeah, if you're into this, go for it. Thank you for being patient and tolerating me, sir. I appreciate that once again. Okay. We're good. All right. Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Absolutely. pleasure. Another podcast from some SNL, late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer, Streeter Seidel, help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the I-heart radio app, Apple

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