The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 03/05/2021 - HOUR 2 - Washington, Brady, UFOs

Episode Date: March 5, 2021

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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Here we go. it's hour two. We're live in Los Angeles, and this is The Hurt. Wherever you may be and however you may be listening, IHeart Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and FS1. Alex Curry, so capably filling in today for Joy Taylor, who is on Speak for Yourself. Alex's all fired up for the baseball season as well. She's been covering the Angels for years and years. Grew up a Dodger fan. Has switched for the time being her allegiances. That's okay. Bringing it back up again. It's okay. players do it all the time managers do it

when it's your father and you don't have a choice and you're born and raised into it with season tickets and that's where you grow up it's a part it made me love the game so I'm grateful for it yeah John Fox in a couple minutes will join us so this is official the Washington football team has officially released Alex Smith he was 5 and 1 as a starter he's an amazing guy

by the way he should go into broadcasting or executive work in the NFL he's terrific and now the question is who's next a great play doesn't equal a career. Getting a job doesn't mean you can keep it. Lots of people in the world do things that are remarkable once or twice. That is not sustained success. Sustained success is years and years and years of overcoming obstacles and challengers.

Taylor Heineckee had a great play. He's fun. He's 6'1 barely 205, 210, played at Old Dominion, and this play against Tampa in the playoffs was awesome. It is not a career. He played in the XFL recently. He's 27 years old. Even in this game, he had a 78 passer rating.

It was 26 of 44, a touchdown in a pick. He was really okay with one great play. Washington does not have their quarterback in the building. This is where I've been predicting for a month now, Sam Darnold will land. You know I like Sam Darnold. I think he deserves a second chance. Now, some have suggested Cam Newton.

I do not believe Ron Rivera is looking for Cam Newton. I think he wants a young, coachable, head-down kid. He can teach to play football his way. Cam's a star. He's made his money. He's been to a Super Bowl. I think Cam got tired of Ron and Ron got tired of Cam. I think they're better apart.

and I don't think that's the answer, though I've seen it suggested today, and I'm kind of rolling my eyes at it. I don't think that's going to happen. Washington gives the Jets a second round pick and gets him. Remember, Washington still has a first and two thirds from the Trent Williams deal with San Francisco. So Washington's not compromising their draft. They'll still have three picks in the first, three rounds. And you can get Sam Darnold right now for a second round pick. Washington also is not, they do not.

have a good enough draft position to get a top quarterback. So I will tell you this, that Jeremy Fowler, an insider for ESPN, is echoing what we've been saying for a month now, that Washington's starting quarterback is not in the room. He says, of all the active teams in the early quarterback carousel, Washington is the one that consistently comes up. That's Jeremy Fowler. So this is my prediction. I've done it a couple times on the air.

I think Sam Darnold and Washington is a perfect fit. I think Sam was a linebacker in high school. He's a tough guy. He's a physical guy. He's a coachable guy. He's not highly demanding guy. And Ron wants a young kid he can build a round that plays his style, a tough football. Plus, I think Washington's actually a little bit like Tampa, not as good as Tampa,

but Tampa for years always had talent. They couldn't get the quarterback right. Washington's football teams got some good. players. They've got a really unbelievable front defensively. I like some of their wide receiving talent, a tight end talent, running back talent. So I think Washington's, I mean, they won the division last year. I think Washington's actually pretty good. I think it's a pretty good team that if you can get the quarterback right, be a 10-11 win team. I really believe that. John Fox has the highest winning percentage in Bronco franchise history. 16 years, two Super Bowl appearances with the Panthers and

Broncos and John Fox, former NFL head coach, is now joining us live in the herd. Love this. He's one of four head coaches to win both an NFC and an AFC championship game. You know, John, we were talking about this about, you know, Deshawn Watson. He wants a voice. When Tom Brady left New England, you read the stories, he kind of wanted a voice. Russell Wilson increasingly, hey, you know, I'd like a little voice here. You know, it's interesting, John. you and I probably grew up generationally where if you were Phil Sims you did what Bill Parcells

told you to do. But it is a different generation, John. And how do you reconcile that with still having the coach, it's running the system, but you give these emerging star quarterbacks some say? Well, I think it's actually good to let your leadership and particularly the quarterback in that locker room a voice. When players feel like they don't have a voice, you know, sometimes they'll shut you out. So I think it's a good way to do it. You know, look what Bruce Ariens did with Tom Brady. I mean, you know, they were more down the field kind of the passing team in the past, at least Bruce's philosophy. You know, I think, you know, Tom had input and Tom was able to incorporate some short, more consistent, high percentage pass a game. And I will ultimately think that

was the difference in them being a playoff team versus being a Super Bowl champion. You know, it's interesting, as you well know, when Peyton Manning came to Denver, Russell Wilson named Chicago as a team he was interested in, and people could say, well, Chicago, but Chicago reminds me a little of Denver. You had an emerging offensive line. You were 8 and 8. You had made the playoffs. You had some very nice weapons on the perimeter.

Chicago's got Tariq Cohen, Alan Robinson's terrific. And it's funny. So when Peyton chose you, there were teams that had maybe a better record that were kind of interested. What do you think ultimately, though, Peyton, a smart guy saw in Denver that he liked? Well, I'm going to say a couple things. Let's not forget, Colin, that both the teams were taught about both Tampa and Denver back when we signed Peyton have really good defenses. And whenever you have a quarterback, you know, they understand, you. you know, look, I can kind of have real input and can control what we do on offense,

but I got to make sure wherever I'm going, whether it's a defensive coordinator or the head coach, that that defense is pretty squared away. And I think, you know, much the same happened with Tom when he was selecting Tampa Bay and also Peyton as he selected, you know, Denver back, you know, when we signed him. So I think, you know, sometimes that gets lost, but I do think that plays a big role in the decision-making, you know, whenever these guys, whether it's a Russell Wilson, and I think Russell sees that in Denver, I mean, not Denver, in Chicago as a really good defense.

John Foxe joining us. So it's interesting. I was just telling my team this morning as we were building the show, I said, so Washington's got a great coach, they made the playoffs, they have a championship defense, and it's March 3rd or 4th, and they don't have a quarterback, because Alex Smith has gone. And I said, you know, this feels like Sam Darnold to me.

and it's interesting because I love Sam out of college, but he regressed last year. How do you view Darnold? Because you and Ron are both defensive-minded coaches. He can make mistakes. He can be a little reckless. But he's 23. He's really talented. How would you view him?

Would you roll the dice in a Darnold? Yeah, I think in Washington's case, I saw your pre-show before I came on. I think I would agree that they've got a really good defense. Ron's a great coach, great communicator, players, you know, respect and play hard for him. So I do think it's good. And then as far as Sam goes, look, I loved him coming out. He was my number one quarterback when he came out. You know, I think all that's still there.

He just needs a really good quarterback coach. He's going to put a lot of confidence in him and faith in him. You know, I just think he needs to change the scenery. that team, the Jets, was not very good. I don't think he had a great supporting gas by any stretch. And all those things are there as far as going to the Washington football team. I think it's a good marriage and one that I think draft capital-wise they can afford. You know, the draft is April.

Free agency now is coming up. And free agency is interesting because it's like a little bit like buying a used car. You don't know if the odometer you're supposed to trust it completely. You don't know if the car's got quirks a little bit. What was your theory? Now, Arizona just went out and said, we're going to go get JJ Watt. We all kind of know he's a good locker room. Guy's a big presence.

What was your theory on free agency? Were you reticent sometimes to do it, bringing in a big personality? Often you're bringing in a big salary, John, and other players can resent that if you bring in an outsider and he's the highest paid guy. How did you view it? Well, I always kind of look more. more for the middle of the road type of guy. I mean, we picked up, you know,

Marlon McCree, who ended up being a starting safety. Heck, we picked up Jake Dallone for a small contract, you know, that took us to a Super Bowl early on in Carolina. But year two, we were able to go out and get Stephen Davis, Ricky Paul, and Jake Dalone, and that kicked us from a 7-9 team into a Super Bowl team. Those guys were really good players. I'm not slighting that, but they weren't big contracts,

and we were able to go, I don't want to call it bottom beating, but kind of value shopping instead of going out with a big name, you know, and paying a whole lot of money. You know, it's funny. I get a lot of crap on Baker Mayfield because I've said before, I tend to like my quarter, I always say I like my presidents to be presidential. I like my quarterbacks to be quarterbackial. I don't like him stepping in it.

I love Russell Wilson. I love Brady. I loved Eli. Baker sometimes can step in it. And, you know, this week he was talking about UFOs. And I'm like, listen, I'd prefer he not go into alien talk, but, okay, what-evs? And the fans always come in. Colin, this stuff doesn't matter.

And I'm like, well, they haven't given them an extension. You know, maybe they do have some personality concerns. How do you view what you're comfortable with? Quarterbacks, John, are just different. They're viewed differently. They're paid differently. you're demanding maturity at 23 years old. You don't have to have the most mature safety if a kid can play can play.

How do you view Baker and some of his missteps and his talent and all that packaged in? Well, I think, you know, I think it kind of is what makes Baker good. I mean, you just go all the way back even in the college. I mean, he was a walk-on. You know, he transferred. You know, he's been a guy that hasn't had the Silverstone even in college. I mean, he had to go earn it and make it. And look, it's worked for me.

Baker-Mainfield. And I don't think you're going to change that. I think that's going to be a hard trait to change, you know, because of how far it's gotten him and what he's done and accomplished, which, you know, really, when it's all said and done for what he has and coaches respect this is he's gotten the most out of it. So I actually respect it. You'd prefer and not be that way, but, you know, with players, I always said it was going to be a maintenance meter. You know, when When you can perform to whatever maintenance you have to give, all right, then you're in good shape. But whenever that maintenance gets a little higher than your performance,

then you've got problems. By the way, you look healthy and happy. What do you do these days? Well, I'm down here in Markwell, Island, Florida. And when I get done with this interview, I'm going to be taking a little boat ride and enjoying my family and my beautiful time in the sun here. That's a good life.

That is a good life. You look great, John. Thank you so much for coming. on the show. My pleasure, Colin. Great to see you, man. All right. John Fox.

There you go. So, you know, it's the maintenance meter. Yeah. You can have a little maintenance, but if your productivity goes down. So, yeah, you know, and listen, Tom Brady acknowledged my existence. It was fun yesterday. It was big. It's funny how many people text me.

Did you get a lot of texts? Oh, my God. Every friend of them, they just thought it was a riot. It was. It was great. Tom's also become very funny on social media. He's really good at it. Some athletes are very good at social media.

And I think it surprises people because Tom was always kind of stoic in New England. But my takeaway is this is who he is. Tom's always been a funny guy. If you ask, I know a couple guys that know Tom, they're like, Tom's got a great sense of humor. Great people are great at everything. It's great at humor. It's great at talking to people. There you go.

Yeah. Right there. Good stuff coming up. Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist. Kind of the most, well, he's certainly the most known astrophysicist. I mean, I couldn't name another one. And he's also actually loves football, and he's very, very funny. He's got a great sense of humor.

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I would watch the exception. Oh, who would? I would watch it. But let's move on to Ben Rathlisberger, who agreed to a new contract with the Steelers to remain with the team in 2021. The deal reduced his cap, hit by $15 million. He also took a pay cut, but he was happy to do it for the good of the team. He said, it is my greatest honor to be a Pittsburgh Steeler and give my all for this organization. I am grateful to be at this stage of my career and more than happy to take.

to adjust my contract in a way that best helps a team. I love this game and I love to compete and I believe in this team and my ability to deliver when called upon. It all starts with great preparation and I am ready to go. So we mentioned preparation. Yes. I want to know if he adjusts his off-season preparation

because he hasn't aged great. He hasn't aged bad, but he hasn't aged Tom Brady great. And we know what that takes. Well, I think a lot of times, like Drew Brees and Tom Brady, are probably not as naturally gifted as Big Ben, size, arm strength. And I think it's easy when you have such great natural size and gifts. Yeah.

To not take it for granted. But I mean, Breeze was always smaller. Tom was not built. Yeah. So they have that kind of, I've got to, they have that underdog feel to them. And I do think when you are talented like Cam or the size of Cam or Big Ben, You know, it's, it's, listen, what happens in sports? A lot of people are kind of talented and work their butt off to be really good.

Some people are super talented, but don't work hard enough to be great. The rare combination is Peyton Manning, who had great physical tools and was a workaholic. That's Kobe Bryant. That's Michael Jordan. It's very rare when you get, oh, this is a great athlete. he works like an underdog. I think the criticism of Ben I've heard is he is a great natural talent, not always the most committed.

And I think that's very common among all walks of life. It's not, he's not, this is not an outrageous claim. I think it's been reported, Jay Glazer jokes. You know, his off-season workouts, a yoga class and a beer. But I do think, I think his press release there is the way he should have handled it. So I think he handled it perfectly. He did. But that's what separates grates from the goats.

Right. Is that in between, like you have that natural, gifted talent, but are you going to go that extra mile to have a great diet, have the great trainers, take care of your body? Because when you age, and if you're that size, it's going to be harder on your body, even just walking, working out. The falls a hard sport.

Yeah. So, yeah, that'll be interesting. I'm curious to see what this off-season preparation might be. But now we're moving over to Russell Wilson because tensions remain high between Russ and the Seahawks. He says he wants to stay in Seattle, but his agent revealed he would accept a trade to Chicago, Las Vegas, Dallas, or New Orleans.

And the latest report is that while the Seahawks are not shopping their franchise quarterback, they are answering any calls from other teams about him. And I think this makes it very clear that Pete Carroll is in charge. He's going to get what he wants. and if Russ doesn't want to get in line and continue to do what he's done in years past,

then they're going to give him what he wants. They're going to let him go. T.J. Hushmanzada said something yesterday on the show, and he played in Seattle for a year. He said, listen, Earl Thomas got outspoken. Pete got him out of town. Richard Sherman got outspoken.

Pete got him out of town. Pete has a belief system. He believes there's a way to play football, and Pete's the head coach, and he's been given un- rare unlimited power inside the organization like Belichick and Gruden power, and he's going to use it. So I think Pete's also smart enough to know it's really hard to replace Russell Wilson. It's virtually impossible.

I mean, it is impossible unless you have like Trevor Lawrence and that pick because the really great quarterbacks right now are not on the market. It's more Darnold. It's more Marioita. I do think Las Vegas the Raiders is the one place that Pete could engineer a trade. and sleep on it. If he could give him Derek Carr and Darren Waller and maybe a first pick and say, okay, I've got a good quarterback,

I've got a top tight end, and you gave me a couple picks. I think you could digest that for a couple years. And then the Raiders, I don't think that's great for Russell, Wilson, by the way. I don't think that's a great place for him. And Russell has a no trade clause, but Russell did mention the Raiders

as one of his four teams. I do think of all the teams mentioned. Gruden and the Raiders, Gruden also has power so he can okay any deal, which in a lot of these instances, the coach may like Russell, but the GM's not going to make the move. Yeah. Would the personality work, Russ and Gruden? Could you see that working? Yeah, I mean, they're both kind of stars. They've got a star power about him. Again, I don't think it's the best place for Russell, but that's the one place. If you gave me Derek Carr, Darren, Darren, and a couple of great, a first round pick and a second round pick, I don't think I'd get equal value, but I think I'd get really good value. you know, I'd probably want two firsts, Derek Carr and Darren Waller.

That's about, I think that's about as, you're getting a capable pro-bowl quarterback. You're getting a great Hall of Fame-level tight end and two firsts. That's about as good as you can get, I think. I'd rather have Darren Waller than another first-round pick. I'd rather have a certainty because Seattle's first-round picks have been hit and miss. I know we talked about this yesterday. I still think it's strange and weird that the Seahawks have not put out a statement. because when you don't, as you mentioned, everyone else is filling in the blanks.

Just give us something to work with. A little something. All right. Lamello Ball has been very impressive in his first NBA season. He's a front runner to win rookie at the year, averaging 15.8 points, six rebounds and 6.3 assists per game. And Michael Jordan is happy with what he's seen. He said, I think Mello has adjusted to the NBA game better than any of us ever thought this early in his career. He has exceeded our expectations so far this.

season. I totally agree. I didn't think he would be this offensively stimulating. He's really a nice player. I love that he didn't go the normal route. He did not go the normal route at all. He played in the JBA League. He passed on college to go play overseas.

His dad is extremely outspoken and was speaking extremely high of his son, as he always does. I'm a big fan of the ball family, but he's backing it up. And I'm all for someone breaking the norm and doing something that fits you that you think is going to make you the best player that you can be. And we've seen the ball family come out and do that. Lavar is raised three incredible children. He doesn't play much defense.

Luca doesn't play much defense. Zion doesn't play much defense. A lot, Trey Young doesn't play much defense. Is that when kids used to have high school coaches that demanded they play defense, and then they went to college for three years, and Dean Smith demanded you play defense, players were better early defensively in the NBA. Now, kids go to the AAU route. They stay in college a year.

So they come into the NBA. There's a lot of bad defensive players in the NBA as the league has gotten younger. And this is not a knock on Lamello ball. But Zion can't play defense. Luca doesn't. Lamello doesn't. Trey Young doesn't. The leagues become worse defensively.

Now, the athletes are better, but you don't have that high school coach barking at you for three and four years to play defense. You don't have that college coach barking at you to play defense. It's AAU basketball, one year of college, and you're out. The plane is landed, refueled, and is off to the NBA. And so I think what it's doing, it's gassing these offensive numbers a little bit where, I mean, just everybody feels like they're scoring. These young players, first of all, the hand check's gone, the forearm in the back is gone. So, the league's gotten more finesse over the last seven or eight years. And I just think it's an easier league for young guys to come in and score and not get pushed around.

Like 10 years. Generationalally, the game has changed. It has. Okay. Alex for the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The herd lie news.

I didn't think it was interesting. So LeBron and Kevin Durant picked the all-star teams last night. Chris Broussard and I did it. They looked. And Bruce Ard's ended up looking like a. Eastern Conference All-Star team and ended up looking like a Western Conference All-Star team. So what happened is Rudy Gober and Donovan Mitchell

were the last two guys to get picked. Right? And so Utah, it felt like, man, LeBron and Katie are crushing Utah, and LeBron joked about it. You guys got to understand. Just like in video games growing up, we never played with Utah.

Even as great as Carl Malone and John Stockton was, we would have never picked those guys in video games. Never. It's actually kind of funny. Utah's interesting. They're 27 and 9. One of the best home court advantages in the league. Number one NBA record.

They have two all-stars. And they're terrific against top teams. They're 15 and 7. And yet nobody gives them a shot to win the title. I watch a lot of Utah games because I go to Utah a lot to ski and they're always on. It's interesting. Regular seasons in the NBA are a treadmill and post-season are an obstacle. course because you play the same team over and over and over and over again.

And let's be honest, the last nine finals MVP's are LeBron and the guy that guarded him and then Kauai Leonard. That's kind of what the MVP is. And Utah has a LeBron problem. They do not have anybody on the wing to defend him. So they're not beaten LeBron James four times in two weeks. So they are the classic built for the regular C. not to win a championship.

By the way, it's not slander. I'll give you another. Baltimore Ravens are starting to get that reputation. They don't play the same football playing from behind. But in the playoffs, you play the best teams, you're often playing from behind. You have to overcome that. Derek Rose's Bulls, great energy, very explosive. But if you played them over and over and over, they weren't a great shooting team,

and they would unravel. The Milwaukee Bucks, great regular season team. but in the playoffs at situational basketball, you've got to be good in the last two and a half three minutes. And their best player, Janice, is kind of a liability shooting at the free throw line in the last three minutes. So there are these teams in sports,

the Phoenix Suns with Steve Nash. They couldn't really defend the interior. But when they waltz into town, you don't get a ton of practice time or game film, they bring this blizzard of offense and you can't keep up. And Utah's got a bunch of depth and a bunch of three point shooters. and they walk into town, and if you don't, in a condensed NBA schedule, they're hard to prepare for. Same coach, same players, multiple years.

They know their stuff. But if you got to play them seven times or six times in two weeks, they've got certain holes. And that hole is they're not great at defending a wing, a Kauai, a LeBron James. They could struggle with that. But they're a really good basketball team. And I just kind of laughed at LeBron's reasoning. I would have never in a million years guess. That was the reasoning, but I thought it was funny.

His name is Neil deGrasse Tyson. He is an astrophysicist. Yeah, I know. What you're saying is an astrophysicist. He loves football. He's very funny. He's obviously smart. And there's all this alien talk with Tom Brady and Baker Mayfield.

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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 centers.

There's just simply more people. So A. B, today, everybody's got a smartphone with a high-resolution camera for still pictures. and video. 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. And he asks 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 Tic Tac, right? So is 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? But you, 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 cell phone. 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've 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're saying, gee, I wonder what they're thinking.

No, you don't care with it. You step on them. Okay? So probably if they've never visited 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 okay now by the way I would get back to your quarterback

I read the description and 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 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 okay there's so like 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 ex-examination. 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. This has 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 for the last hundred years? I'm not authorized to tell you anything. No, I'm just kidding.

No, I'm just, I've 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 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, 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 him 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. Landings flying saucers. Excuse me?

Neil deGrasse Tyson, by the way, he has a new goal. I'm sorry. So I'm 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, absolute pleasure. That was fun. I was geeking out over here the whole time, smiling, just ear to ear. I am such a big fan of Neil. So I told you, Amazon Prime has a series called The Phenomena. I didn't see that one. I thought you were talking about something else yesterday.

I looked it up and it's on my watch list. Yeah, it's actually really good. I think it's the most serious, most adult, most thoughtful 90 minutes I've seen on unidentified flying objects. Okay. He does make a great point. How do you get through the galaxy and avoid all those meteors and stars and then you crash in New Mexico? No, I don't know. That would make no sense.

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