THESE GUYS! - 41 days until NFL combine

Episode Date: January 13, 2026

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This actually was your dad's idea, though, wasn't it? Like, this is one of those ones. Joe, I've been telling you, people want an airline where they could get that kind of candy, they can get that kind of service. I've been telling you this is what they want. Not bad for a fat guy. Steelers Nation. Steelers Nation. They should know about Steelers Nation.

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I've been banging POD Dude Last day you're the rest of my life You know you just like hear one song And then you just start listening To all of them Oh my God Heaters

I I feel so alive That one So Dude I remember Not a reminiscent podcast But I remember It was like New Year's Eve, I don't know, probably like 2007 or something.

And you know how when they're having Dix rock a New Year's Eve and all the different New Year's Eve shows were in every city, especially in New York, but they have like so many different performances, right? And I vividly remember that song. They were performing that song live on New Year's Eve and I was at David Heckman's bass. Smith and he was having a New Year's Eve sleepover. What year? What year? I think like 2007, I want to say. What a time, dude.

Oh, seven. Dude, and I remember I did. I was like, I looked around and I was like, holy cow, does it get better than this? I do feel so alive. Yeah, when you're really feeling it. You're taking it all in. For the very first time. I can't deny you.

I feel so a lot. White guy with dreads. go with dreads. It's just kind of on in the background. You're like really like, damn, this is happening right now. We got all the snacks. His house is one of the houses that with like cool mom we talked about that just had all sorts of snacks, all sorts of good food, down in a finish basement,

computer stand set up with AIM and Facebook going or MySpace going at the same time, saying what's up to, I don't know, Sophia or something. And then you're over there. You got I feel so alive playing. doesn't get better. You're talking to RHS cheer girl 22. Yeah. You're like, I got it made right now.

The boys are here. Like, what more could I want? What more could I? I'm not in trouble. What a feeling when you're just not in trouble. God, you're at, you're at,

you're at Friends house that you know your parents approve of. So you have even more, a little bit of a leeway because anything that goes out of their house, like, well, that was a, that was a David's house. You weren't at Tommy's house.

If you're a Tommy's house, you would be in deep shit. David's house, I know you guys were fine. Yeah, our mom's talk at basketball games. We're good. That's how you know. Hot start, hot start, not a reminiscent podcast, TG168. I do feel so alive. I feel so alive in so many different ways.

Just got back from the trip. So I'm feeling nice and refreshed. No kids for four days. Where were you? I kept seeing on your Instagram story. I'm like, is he at the Grand Canyon? in? Kind of close. Was in Sedona, Arizona.

Nice. I was like, is he in California? I was like, should we like do a podcast? Didn't even ask, but I was like, you know, I'm just going to stay out of it. And that would have officially been my divorce because, oh yeah, honey, Ben's coming down. We're going to do a live show from the cottage that we have here at this resort in Sedona. It's never going to end, bro. Always. your whole married life

I'll always be like, yo, you got a cabin two hours away, I can bring the camera. It's going to be like that your whole life, dude. It's just always walking in. What's up? We're going to film this for like an hour and then I'll leave. Yep, pretty much. That's how it goes.

But yeah, dude, Arizona was sick. I loved it. It had so much fun. How Arizona is Arizona, though? Aren't you just like, damn? This is everything I thought. They go full in. Yeah, isn't they great though?

They don't mince words when it comes to how they put on for Arizona. They got their own patterns. They're like all about the cactus. I'm like, okay, yeah, good. This is what I thought it would be. There should be lizards everywhere and there are. Yep. Went on this Jeep tour.

Just got, I absolutely got my bell rung in the backseat of this Jeep tour going through the Red Rocks. That sounds amazing. It was, dude. It was really like, it almost got emotional in a certain sense. Like, you were, I mean, it was that breathtaking, that beautiful views that you see, right? But I just, I was in, me and I were in the very back. So it was a cutout Jeep.

And so it was just a big U shape, right? There were other people sitting in there. And me and Rye were in the two back seats. So we had the worst seats because we were just getting thrown around. Oh, dang. You know what I mean? You got seatbelts on during something like that? Yeah, yeah, had seatbelts on.

But I kept finding myself just feeling like I was on NFL films because the entire time I was like holding on. And you know when you're watching NFL films or somebody miced up on the field and every time, you know, the ball snapped and you hear nothing but... time and the like little pad clacking. Yeah, that was, that was me for two hours on the pink jeep stuff. You getting out of breath. Chad, Chad Ochos Cinco. Oh my God. Do you ever watch those? Oh yeah, man.

How come every night I just see Chad Otro's and go doing a cone drill and he's like, ah! Yeah! Like, damn, he's getting it. No white guy can do that. You're like, you have to be, you have to be, The only white guy that can do that is... Ricky Proll. Like Julian Edelman. Like, and nobody else, you know what I mean? Like, you have to be so fast to be able to make, to be allowed to make those kind of noises when you're doing footwork drills and running. Yeah, right, dude.

Biggest idiot if I was doing that. But I'm in the back seat. I'm literally... Dude, that's a good idea. White guy miced up, but it's just you doing just normal everyday things. Ah! Ah, watering like plants. Hey, when I have to change my cat's litter box, that's it.

That's a workout. You might as well be doing a three cone drill. That's an absolute workout. It really is. It's really crazy. Crazy how much like just normal everyday things are workouts. I'm like, wow. Wow.

Yeah, because I want to go downstairs. I'm bending down a whole bunch back and forth back and forth bending down sweeping up fop fop fop taking trash bags ah taking trash bag up the stairs

laundry like loading and unloading I'm like this is just lunges this is just lunges if we're really thinking about it when you have the one on top oh my God you got the

you get you got it you got You got wash here on bottom, dry it on top. Hold, hold, hold, hold. We're in. Hey, may just speak to my physical condition, but even folding the laundry. Oh, that's a whole, whole problem.

That's planks, dude. Gets a little, hey. A little core, a little core activation. Shoulders start getting a little weary. Yeah. Hanging stuff up in the closet, shoulder raises. Oh, yeah. Scott, three more, Scott!

Hey, even just looking through your top shelf in your closet. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! The next day? All right. Back to the front. You know. Flip! That's the regular guy, uh, DB.

Hit. Yeah. Yeah. Center field turn, skip So true Combine's only a little over a month away Regular Combine Regular Combine guy video How many people have done it? Everyone

Everyone Always sounds good Till you really Start to get it on film Yeah Yeah Combin though What'd you say

What'd you say A month away? way. So insane. The turnaround is a little over. It's like a month and a half, like the end of February beginning of March. Like you don't have a calendar right there next year. Just days slashed off.

Combine. No, no, no. I have the official logo with a little digital clock that every day it flips up. So funny. One of those chain link things. You rip a chain every day. Yeah. pretty much pretty much

it's an exciting time it's a fun week it's a fun week and indie it's all about those things that get you through Clubhouse you know that we've talked about this oh that's what everything's for

if we didn't have things to get us through we'd all be dead if the NFL combine wasn't coming up I'd think I'd have thoughts should I jump off this balcony NFL combine's coming up hold on

we'll give it a couple weeks You got Tuesday through Sunday at Combine action You come back into town It's like a party for the entire week It is Clubhouse Not a reminiscent high school podcast Clubhouse origin stories

Joe King When the combine was an indie We went out there And we're like the combine's downtown bro We got to get people's autographs Like that was our life Oh yeah

Just on a Wednesday night Just ice everywhere and we just see somebody and be like dude I think that's I think that's who's a wide receiver for the Titans for a while I can't remember I think that's Kenny Britt yeah I think that's Kenny Britt

I think that's Kenny Britt ran over there with a wrong collie student planner had him sign it just on like a weird like Thursday like you know whatever just the most random date dude I think he just did it with a pen then not even a Sharpie just we tracked down Matt Stafford, dude.

Did you really? In the ice in the snow, I got Stafford. He was going to the hotel. I was like, yo, bro, can I get, can you sign this real quick? You know, I was probably stuttering all over my words. And he was like, I got to go to this meeting. And I knew he was lying and he knew he was lying. But we both looked at each other and we were like, yeah.

Like, not right now. But I was like, I know you're not serious, but like, I got you, bro. No big deal. Didn't get his autograph. Was it Kenny Britt, though? Was it Kenny Britt? It was? 100% of Kennedy Britt.

That was a great call, by the way. I kind of downplayed it. Because I was like, I'll never remember this guy's name. He was kind of a... Kenny Britt on the Titans. Kind of a big deal for a little bit. Kenny Britters? Wait, for some reason, did he play quarterback for a year or something?

Was there something going on with him? Dude, the wider receiver quarterback thing. You're thinking of Mohammed Sunnu. Was he Rutgers too? Yeah. Wow. Guy just knows everything I'm thinking. What else am I thinking?

What else am I thinking? All right. I'll just, hey, you just do this whole thing. I'm going to get out. Yeah, dude. That Rutgers era. Yeah, when they had Greg Shiana the first time,

little Ray Rice. Such a Rutgers coach. Hey, did your dad just love him? My dad loved them, bro. Shiano. Guy had it all going. Guy had strong jaw, always wore a whistle, probably Catholic. Military cut.

Military cut. Had a phrase like chopping wood. You know, it's just every dad coach's dream. And he like reinvented special teams. Did you know about that? Stationed out about that. Station out about that. Greg Shiano like had a whole plan.

to like restructure the kicking game and it was pretty good like I don't know my dad my dad was telling me about it and I was just like yeah this might work but they're like didn't know about shiano what are you sure it's not beamer are you sure you're not talking about beamer little beaver I don't think I'd ever forget I think it was shiano but it was like a new kickoff and it was like a different way to do I was like you know what he must have been he must have been having a day and he just went off in the playbook about some stuff. Wife's mad at him. I'll reinvent the kickoff.

My wife's not talking to me, so I reinvented the NFL. That's something my dad would say that he did. You know, we talk about how, like, dad said they come up with everything. Oh, yeah, the new kickoff rule, the new overtime rules? I thought about that in 92. I was telling her about that. 100%. My dad would be like, I actually drafted up a letter, sent it to the offices of the NFL.

They sent me something back saying, oh, hey, Joe, we appreciate it. We'll keep it on file in case we want to reach back out to you. And here we are these years later. And what are they using? I'm like, I don't know. I don't know what to tell you, dad. Hey, dad, maybe look into some copyright before you send out your ideas. Yeah, you hit your dad with that, bro.

I don't know. I've never been man enough to be like, did you patent it first? That'd be crazy to say that. To your dad, you're six, do you patent that? I mean,

do you patent go that? Patting go best drill. Well, Pat and go. I'm like, what is this? So we're just running? Who's not running some patent go?

Holy shit. How many of these during patent go? Oh, yeah. Never had a better get off. The line. Yeah. Back to the laundry noises.

Then during Pat and Go on a Tuesday night at St. Barnabas in 2007. So chill. Pat and Go, no pressure. Yeah, your coach isn't really moving. He's just kind of standing there. Get the ball up and over trajectory. Hey. You high point it.

Come down. You think you're Calvin Johnson. one of these with nobody on you. That was so cool. When a receiver started like catching it up here and holding it up here. Oh my God. That one receiver, you know who. He's number, Dwayne Jarrett on USC.

Putting on a clinic. And the D.Bs would still be swiping at it. But this dude, you know, he was like six, five. He was like. Oh, yeah. And then they hold. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

All right. Just absolutely calm in it. Yeah. just But they stick it up there and then they come down with it and then they just take it with one hand down and they're like toying with people. Then they're Michael Jordaning.

Yeah. Oh yeah. God. That's how good you. It's not a sports podcast. All right. Jeez. We're talking about how four play is mock drafts.

You could also throw that in there too. Yeah. Receiver high points. Kenny Brett. Just high point it for. me, baby. You just high point it. Yeah, tell your girl to high point something in the kitchen.

See how that works. Can you grab that for me, honey? Yeah, high point that cut. High point that. What the hell did you just say? Yeah, Dwayne Jarrett that for me. Come on. With the visor, with the visor, with the visor.

The blue visor that all the USC guys wore for absolutely no reason. It was the coolest thing in the world. Please. Lendell White's blue visor. I was like, God, what a choice. Like, it's just nothing I'd ever think of. Like, just the coolest guy ever. Lendale White had a couple good years in the league.

That dude was insane. Remember he, like, played, wasn't him? Or did I make this up in my head that, like, made a mannequin and threw it off of, like, a dorm. Like, the top story of a dorm. It was Lendell White in a jersey and pads. He threw it off the top of a, like a, like a three. three-story dorm? Or it might have been

when he played for the Titans or something. No, I think this is coming back to me. I think it was like a big elaborate prank where they were trying to really get Pete Carroll pissed off or something. It is coming back to me a little bit. That's so funny to me.

Like that's the guy that didn't care. That's was Marshawn Lynch before Marshawn Lynch. Lindele White walked. Was definitely was definitely on that Trojan horse 30 for 30. He threw himself off. on top of the door, bro.

Wearing the USC stuff. So fried. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here it is. I thought they scrubbed it from the internet, honestly. Because I was like, that is crazy. Lindale White, Lyndall White talks about this crazy prank Pete Carroll had.

Dead error. You can't hear that? Oh, no, dang. What is it? Got to play it on your phone. Well, you can't. I can't. Hold on.

I'm giving you the play-by-play as it's going on. So Pete Carroll is the one who did it. Oh, no way. That's classic. That's classic USC Pete Carroll. Guy did anything. Everything worked.

Had the most fun. Everybody loved them. Just won three national titles in a row. But yeah, he got Reggie White and Reggie Bush and Lindale White to be in on it with him. And he did this prank to the team. He threw him off the top floors of like a building.

Here we go. Here we go. So Reggie Bush is out Because Reggie didn't want to do it But now it's Lindale So it's just between Pete and Lindale White Maybe this isn't the mannequin one Hold on, hold on, hold on

Okay, so he's talking about kick him off the team Maybe he goes up to the roof Yep Oh, here we go Yeah All right, all right, all right So let me give the recap here Sorry for a little bit of a dead air

All right, so Pete Carroll enlists Lendale White to do this prank with him. So he gets Lendell White to be super pissed off at practice, make a big scene, and then Pete Carroll fake throws Lendell White off the team because he's going so crazy. So he's going so crazy. Pete Carroll's like, get out of here, get the F out of here, you're done, you're off the team, everything like that. So Lendell White's like making a big scene walking off the field. He goes around the other side of the building with his equipment manager. goes up to the top of the building,

to the equipment building, goes up to the top of the building, yells down all the team on the practice field, says, F, y'all, I don't need you, MFs. Can't believe you turn me back on them. There it is.

And as he says that, he falls while they throw the dummy off the balcony. What a callback by you, man. Wow. I'll just never, hey, where did I see it? PTI.

Just Lendale on the right side. and then Kornheiser and Wilbon talking about it and just replays of that like Manichet. And I was like, what is happening at USC? They're that good and they're doing this. You know? Like, they don't even care.

Right. They're that good that they can just fake suicides of their best players. So funny, man. So the Titans had Chris Johnson and Lundel White at the same time. Yeah, I was about to say. 25, 28. was having a pretty good.

Linda White was having a pretty decent career, pretty solid one, two punch their thunder and lightning with Chris Johnson. And then he stomped all over the terrible towel. Who, Lyndall White did? Yeah. Oh, so you really hate him. You know, it's what it is, but it's like, it's pretty proven now. You do stuff like that to the terrible towel.

It usually doesn't work out in your favor. Karma, really? Yeah. Not bad for a fact guy. Sorry, it just sounded like you're about to rip one. Lendo White, best helmet visor I've ever seen in my entire life. Like the combo or just the visor itself? The positioning on his head, great helmet, great face mask, a helmet with visors never looked better.

Lendell White just had it going on. I don't know what he did, but some guys just know how to wear a helmet. Him and Reggie Bush both had that classic helmet, that classic face mask that just doesn't get much better. How crazy that Reggie Bush Had that type of a season And he was like splitting carries Yeah Nobody ever thinks about that

And I'm like what Right Not a sports podcast Never has been FedEx Orange Bowl What Dude I thought I thought I was going I thought I was going down

In the flight On the flight to Arizona What's what I'm talking about Would you start thinking about Final thoughts You're like DJ Wong Damn

Not even your family Is Dylan Cook gonna be able to hold up Against Danielle Hunter and Will Anderson Shit Guess I'll never know Guess I'll never know No but we get to We fly into Phoenix

And then Phoenix To sit on us Yeah Pretty easy to navigate Long but Phoenix to Sedona is like a two-hour drive, I guess. The drive. It's like a 40-minute flight.

And so we had a connector from Phoenix to Flagstaff, which is close. Anyways, regardless, we get on our flight from Phoenix to Sedona and they're like, you know, Oh, folks, thanks for being with us here tonight. It should be a quick flight. Jump over to Flagstaff, get you there. Flight time be for, I'd say, about 37 minutes from liftoff to touchdown. We'll get you off momentarily. Thanks for being with us.

And you're like, all right, sweet. Like, I don't even need to download a pod or anything because it's going to be 35 minutes. It would be up and down. There you go. So they're sitting there for a while, sitting there for a while. You know, they keep you on the runway forever. And you're just like, the hell is going on. What are we doing?

Like, we're all strapped in here. What is happening? Why did we all come on and do this if we're just going to wait for 45 minutes to even get on the runway? They come on. They're like, sorry for the delay, folks. Having a little bit of trouble with the air quality in the cloud over Sedona. We're just trying to wait that up and hopefully don't run out of fuel. So, like, well, yeah, that would be nice, not to run out of fuel, you know, but all right.

So finally we get off, get going. sick. They were in the air for like 25 minutes and they're coming on. They, I'm like, oh, they're about to say like, we're about to prepare for landing. They come on and they're like, uh, our apologies, folks. The weather conditions are not favorable to land in Sedona right now. So we're going to have to turn back and head back to Phoenix to refuel. Apologies for the inconvenience.

So I'm like, holy shit. We're going back to Phoenix now. Like, so we're going back to Phoenix now? Yeah, it's a good thing. You guys refueled. Yeah, they said it was like, it was snowing. So like the air pressure. How many tornadoes?

Like, is there a hurricane right now at the airport? Is this the end of the world? So then I'm like, okay, we're guests we're heading back to Phoenix. As we're heading back to Phoenix, uh, folks, uh, looks like we're not going to be able to go back to Phoenix. Uh, Phoenix airport shut down as well. So we're going to try to figure some things out of here. Looks like we might be heading to Yuma. And we'll keep you updated.

We want to get any further details. Apology for the inconvenience. So now I've been on the plane for like an hour and a half. It was supposed to be a 37-minute flight. I don't know where the hell we're going. Can't see anything out of any of the windows. I'm like Yuma? Is that a town?

Is that the name of an airport? Where the hell are we going? Takes us like another 40 minutes to get to Yuma. So now we're up to two hours on this flight. That's supposed to be a 37 minute flight. Like I look at Ryan, I'm like, we're literally just up in the air. Like, I have no idea where we are in the world. This might be like a manifest situation.

This might be like one of those shows where a plane goes up and then it disappears and they land like and all of a sudden it's like 10 years later. Like we went to some time warp or some shit. God, could only wish. So he landed Yuma. we're like I look I find myself on the map when I can turn off airplane mode

we're like basically in Mexico I mean like you're on the border like what the hell man they come back on again all right folks looks to be things have cleared up in Sedona so we're just gonna refuel here

and push back and start to head that way dude this is the fourth time I've heard from you captain this better be the real thing man I don't want to fucking hear from you one more time me until I'm saying, see ya, thanks so much when I'm getting off the plane.

So nonchalant about everything in the air. Everything. I'm like, if you don't care, I don't care. All right, cool. Yeah, I mean, I got to hand it to him. I'm like, there was never any panic in his voice. But at the same time, damn, dude, like, let's land this puppy. So all in all, it ended up being about a three and a half hour trip,

what should have been a 37-minute trip. Dude, just best time of your life up there. I mean Watching Mission Impossible 37 Just Perfect What are you supposed to do Man?

You're just in a plant Cool Make the best of it I guess I was joking about it With the Rye I was like Yeah I mean

You know We didn't have the kids Honestly part of me It was just like Go around the country That's what I'm saying Like let's keep going How many times can we do this

Keep me up here for 50 years Go around the country delay us again see how much I care. I like that attitude, bro. Let's just. Yeah, give me another sprite, I guess. I don't know.

We can just piss all day in this thing, right? Okay, cool. We're good. Take a nap, wake up. Hey, we're still up here? Perfect. Then you don't want to land, you know? You get sad when it's time to land.

You're like, I was having a great time. What are you saying, bro? Had some sour gummy worms up there. Does it get much better than that? Where'd you get? What? They got that? What airline?

No, no, no, no. I got it from the airport. Oh, I was like, they're passing out Halloween candy up there. I wish. Wouldn't that be some shit? Yeah, why aren't we passing out better stuff in airplanes? I'll never understand it. I'm like, throw, give me some, like, reese and stuff like that.

Those cookies are money. Those little Bisk off? I know, but, like, how long are we going to do it? I'm not hating on the cookies, but, like, uh, Oreos? like let's get it's we can take this to a new level at this point checks mix are we serious peanuts like real ones yeah that be uh these guys airline tg airline what are we serving bro what are we serving up there all the flight attendants just wear different jerseys it's just a buffalo wild wings in the air this is your captain speaking you'll know i'm the captain

because I'm wearing a TB12 jersey, Patriots, Super Bowl patch. Captain's meeting, everything's football terms, captain's meeting in the cockpit. Everybody, all the flight attendants, though, they all wear jerseys of point guards because they're auditioned stuff out the whole time. Or are they refs? Walking around in the stripes?

Yeah. It's true. You don't have your trade table up. I just thought about how sick it would be to have like a Steve Nash throwback son's jersey on. God. A little Debbie. The baskets that they bring stuff around it, yeah, it's just like those woven wooden ones

that'd be like on the center of your mom's coffee table that just has all that random shit in it. Just Easter baskets. Yeah. TG Airlines. Every variation of Skiddle. Every variation of Skiddle. Original, tropical, purple, sour.

Oh, you don't know how hype this is. This is, this actually was your dad's idea, though, wasn't it? Like, this is one of those ones. Joe, I've been telling you, people want an airline where they could get that kind of candy, they can get that kind of service. I've been telling you, this is what they want. No, I think my dad actually did come up with it. I swear to God. Steelers Airlines.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. It's amazing. Like how does Notre Dame not have their own one? He came up with, yeah. Oh shit. That's so funny. I got to, we do have to work on that,

but he was like, you start with some of the iconic franchises, right? Everybody's always looking to go see their team, or go travel to see their team play. So you got, you know, the Steelers, the Packers, the Cowboys, the Raiders,

and all their fans go on that airline. It's all decked out with all their team stuff. Yeah. playing NFL films of like old games you know like on the TVs all the entertainment that's available that's what it is just like the America's games for your team there's like a special guest on the plane

like one of the past players is on there and you're like what yeah they're the ones who do the announcement is that Warren Sapp is Warren Sapp sitting in 37A from sitting by Warren's sap in the emergency row I mean, he's so insane. Like, that's part of the perks.

Like, he just flies all the time. Yeah, I'm on Buccaneers Airlines. What's up? Right. Yeah, they're like ambassadors. You know, teams, they have different ambassadors. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're on the Steelers one and like Brett Kiesel's just next to you.

What's up? Big Brett. How's it going? The beard? You get to, like, touch his beard and shit. Looking good. Yeah. Terry Bradshaw is the pilot.

You're like, this thing's going down not a sports podcast not sports podcast that's actually hey that's actually not a bad idea I kind of don't think it is either because you would

you would go on the Steelers playing for sure if I was if the Steelers are playing anyway the Steelers are playing in Tampa next year you'd tell me if I could hop on a Steelers themed plane with other Steelers fans and go down to Tampa for a weekend

Hey, everybody were taking off waving their terrible towels The convos on that plane Can you imagine? Dude, I'm so fired up right now Shit, pops might have had one Ravens fan Misses his flight

Has to get on the Steelers playing Can you imagine that? I just Are you talking shit to him For two hours? Hey, the Ravens one is painted like a raven. So many raven noises when it's in the air.

Red eyes on the sides. That's what I'm excited about is like seeing the plane like from the runway, you know? Like the tail end, the wing would have like the NFL logo on it. It would be so like customized. The Steelers one would have like the steel print. Yeah. Yeah, sick. Yeah, the seats inside would be like super premiere

because you're like, bro, you're on the Steelers flight. Like everything's kind of first-classy. Yeah. You're getting the Rothless burger to eat. All that. Jay Peasies to drink. Jerome Bettis is the one who's always on it. You're like, but you're the bus.

I know, but the bus ain't afraid to fly. Like, oh! Just everything's so exciting. Hey, the Jets? Oh, get out, dude. I mean, it's already, come on. The Jets. Let's go all that.

Fireman Ed is the one who gives the announcements every flight. J-E-T-S, Jets, J-E-T-S, Jets, J-S, J-S. You know, that, that, like, boarding zone would be insane if they were doing that. cheer before it. What airline is that? You're flying Southwest, like, damn, I need to be a NFL planes member.

That little, that lounge in the airport, the NFL lounge? Might be on to something. I think we're on to something here. The food in that lounge? Just hot dogs and Coke. Nachos. Soft pretzels on the plane.

Come on. Right. God. Individual pizza boxes. Individual pizza boxes. Hey, they can picture you, picture you mid-flight. So, just so happy. A Pizza Hot Stuff Crest mini personal pan pizza on the flight.

You're sitting by Joey Porter. Face so red, bro. kind of drunk another hey another sponsor partnership idea they sell the official NFL pizzas on the NFL planes oh god

you couldn't get me off that thing come on it'd be sad when that lands you're like it's like at the end of the draft you're like damn I'm kind of right I'm kind of emotional for sure oh shit the buccaneers

won all the captains and the flight and it's just dressed like pirates, dude. I don't know how they fly a plane, but in the Buccaneers one, there's like that wooden wheel like on a pirate ship when they're flying. That is the best, dude. Man.

I can't get over that. Jaguars plane? Just think of these. This whole cheetah, or like the print on the plane, all like... Oh, yeah. The, uh,

Jaguars in the back of the plane. Jungle. jungle in the inside. They have a little pool, a little jacuzzi pool in the back of their plane because they got one of those pools at their stadium.

What's up? Yeah. Boarding group A, so we got here pretty quick. You go ahead. Hey, hey. No, the boarding groups are, they're not by like letters

or they are by letters, but it's like a player that has. that's name starts with that letter. Or just by numbers, you know what I mean? Instead of like one through eight or nine, it's the legendary players who are in the Hall of Honor. Oh, yeah.

Now, what did you get? I'm boarding group 75. I got Joe Green. Oh, we got Franco Harris. We're on the Jags playing. We're in boarding group Brunel. So we were right. We were right up front.

Yeah. Everybody's just talking. ball the whole time. Come on, man. Now boarding group Brunel. It's us, that's us, that's us. That's us. I'm wearing his jersey. Group Antoine Randallel L.

Please make your way forward. What if he's on the plane, mom? What if he's on the plane? Crying and stuff. Dude, you mean to tell me that Bachelor parties wouldn't just sell all those out? God, dang. Hey, what are you doing for your bachelor party?

Yeah, me and all the boys are going down on the Colts plane. Going down to see them in Houston. Two stripes. Dude, on the way to the Bachelor party, you'll never, you'll never believe this. I sat by Dominic Rhodes. And yes, he was spatted even in the plane. Oh my God! Just the whole time.

Remember that time you returned that kick? It was like the only Colts kickoff return. I've ever seen my life, dude. Hey, you lean over. 20 minutes later. Remember that time we returned that kick? It was like the only

just keeps saying the same shit because you're nervous. You lean over to them after you got a few drinks in you. You really should have been MVP of Super Bowl 41, not paid. Hey, give him a little fit. We know that, right?

We know that. That's funny, actually. Speaking of Colts, Reggie Wayne was on my flight to Arizona. Really? Swear to God. Such a baller, dude. Had, had cane stuff on, huge sunglasses.

Oh. I went to check my bag. You know, they were like, anybody, you know, if you want a free, check your bag. You come to it. I was like, yeah, sure, don't got to worry about it. Whatever. Went did it. As I checked my bag, I just, like, look up and over there in the seats, I'm like, pretty sure that's Reggie.

I was like, for sure, Reggie. It was so early. We had like a 7 a.m. flight. So at that point, he was like 6 a.m. We're there. And he had his sunglasses on, headphones on. I was like, this dude did not want to be bothered and I'm going to respect that. 87 flying commercial?

Come on. Yeah. Let's get him in a PJ. Saw Reggie Wayne at a Pacers game one time. He had two iPhones. And this is when iPhones first came out. I was like, wow. Okay.

Let's get you in a cult's PJ. Yeah. All right. Let's go to the collection. uphouse team these guys at gmail dot com i thought they're going to i thought they're going to talk about airplanes forever from jonathan sports themed radio soundboard happy new year benny and joy joy is 2026 already over anyways i know you're both from the radio world so you'd be perfectly qualified to answer this i just set up my hotkey page last year my soundboard of hotkeys is to

inside baseball and i'm wondering what iconic sports quotes and sound bites you have have on your page. For example, I have Randy Moss saying straight cash, homie for when I give away money on air. Kirk Cousins, you like that? The Quia Leonard laugh. Damn, that was really good. And some NASCAR related stuff as well. We'd love a few more suggestions to use on the show. Hope we can get you up to Canada for some live shows sooner at the very least. Let's get the Buffalo date so I can hop over and see you. Smack my ass while the best of Kevin Harlan on Westwood One plays from the touch tunes of the clubhouse bar. sent from my LG NV2.

That might be the phone. We've had a few envies and that's... Classic phone. Pretty freaking nice right there. The flip with the full keyboard, actual buttons. Those are some good ones. Those are some classic ones. I mean, me and Ben from the espresso days when we were doing it together, it wasn't just Benny.

I mean, we always had... Yep. we always had just a whole bunch of the linebacker sound effect a lot of whistles mm-hmm because that's like the

rejoiner on every like NFL segment on ESPN radio ever and I was always like God that's crazy they really make those sounds I know and like on old video games

it'd be like really right when they snap it? I probably have the guy from NFL Blitz 2000. Is that legal? I love that guy. A lot of NBA Street, that guy, too. Hello, operator.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. We had... Bonafide got mad handles, yo. Just randomly. I'd recommend a little John Madden. He looks like Jerry Rice out there. Yeah, there's a file out there on YouTube somewhere.

I got to find it again. It's just like a lot of sound bites from like Madden 97. And there's just every. That looks like Jerry Wright's out there. A lot of Pat some are all drae. We would have, I've been wanting to do this for our show for like 10 years. But I'm like, would it be it be too annoying? I don't know.

When we level up, we'll get it. We'll get it together. we would have you are watching a master at work yeah all those all those get them up

all that and the origins would be in there daddies daddies daddies daddies daddies daddies daddy's daddy's daddies daddies daddies daddies daddy's daddy's daddy's daddy's daddies on air you guys would kill me if I had control that thing that to dad the dad the dad to that daddy's on air air Our listenership, viewers subscribe, just in the tank. Besides like four people, like Jimmy, Will, and my mom.

Now your mom would be the first one out. Too many noises, too many noises. Dude, do you remember that when the Kauai Leonard laugh just took over everybody's life for like two months? Mm-hmm. Still does. It sounded like he was laughing in reverse. Like when you play something backwards.

Yeah. when you play a little Wayne song backwards and you feel like you're going to hell after I feel like dying I feel like dying there's a message in there bro there's a message in there I've watched that YouTube video like 32 times for no reason I'm like is there what I love about that too is the laugh's great but the lead up to it when he answers the question and you can feel like the buildup.

Oh. What was the question? I mean, I can't really just, I mean, I'm a fun guy. You know, I can't really just answer your question like that.

What a crazy, dude. What a, what, like an alien. The question was like, yeah, like,

what do you do in your, what do you like to, do or something. Like, what's some things about you that people don't know? And he, yeah, I'm a phone guy. I can't just list off thing. The answer for you. And then went into it.

So good. Quil liner, dude. From John. Does he play anymore? Who knows? Yeah. Best logo, though. Latex gloves.

and stadium food. Boys, following up in the conversation recently about latex medical gloves helping keep your hands worn can confirm the only way to keep your hands warm while holding a metal lacrosseek during a preseason practice in early February is to in fact wear latex gloves under your lacrosseilles. As a nursing student in college, I was tasked with stealing boxes of gloves from the hospital to keep the team's hands warm. Also curious, do you like to keep an original with sport event food? chicken fingers, burgers, hot dog or branch off into some of the new offerings that stadiums try to break out yearly. I personally like to keep it simple

with chicken and fries, souvenir-sized beer that I refilled the soda fountain midway through the game. Who's buying another cup of soda? But the Mariners did break out some new sushi roll and dumpling options last year that almost had me try something new. Would most deaf check out a show

if you ever make it to Seattle? Really enjoy the pod. John from Seattle. Thanks, John. That's like, That's like what Ben was with Chipotle and Kduba forks and knives. That's so true still. I'm like, I got to take like 14 of these.

Sorry. And they know, they know it's part of the deal now. That's why Chipotle's so much money. I'm like, yeah, because I'm going to steal all your forks. They are high quality.

They're great. They're great. It's quality stuff. And they're the right size. They're the right like finish. Yep. You don't find black utensils a lot, that quality. A little bit of an origin story here.

But when me and Ben used to do shit together all the time, the station, there was a Qdoba that was right there next to it. So in our random times, it would be chopping up a video or brainstormer or whatever. We, you know, grab some food or coffee. Yeah, we go down there. We go to Kudoba and get some food. And, you know, I'd be getting my stuff together in my bag or I'd be coming over to get my stuff together in the bag. you know, get a drink or whatever, and I look over and then we're just like,

yeah, open up his hand. There's just like 16 forks and sputes in there. I'd be like, dude, you just shove them in there. I was like, all right.

Just my job, dude. Just doing my job. Guess it's happening. Yeah, John, I'm with you. I like to, I'm straight up. I don't need any of the, because I don't know,

I feel like, of the new crazy stuff. It's just to cause a buzz on social media and Instagram and get like an article written about it. I'm like, who knows where it's even coming from? Nah, just give me, you know, if I'm at a football game,

yeah, probably chicken tenders or fries, maybe a pizza, then a beer or soda, baseball game, hot dog, popcorn, peanuts, beer,

that's it. Bag of peanuts at a ball game and a beer, smack my ass. Throw me off the balcony. But, uh, yeah, that's like you can't really beat peanuts at a game

like they'd have all the crazy stuff and it looks cool on Twitter but like or X or whatever what are we calling it? But I really just want to every time I go to a game it's just the basics for sure. I'm like nachos maybe that's kind of crazy yeah right for sure peanuts soft pretzel and just like a drink god dang doesn't get any better than that

You don't feel too insane about it. I would go, I would go insane if they had like a new wild baseball stadium dessert, though, I might. Dessert's a whole different category because it's like, you know, you're not straying. There's some ice cream.

There's brownies. You're not going like super exotic with it. But like, for sure. And I've got it. Ice cream at a baseball game hits, like near the end of the game. Like, oh shit.

I'm looking around for ice cream places. I remember doing that at victory field, like hard. It's tough in the summertime of the heat of baseball because of the heat, you know? You got to time that outright. You got to get in. You got to be able to sit and eat. You can't be distracted because all of a sudden, boom, it's gone, just melting all over your hands and shit. I saw so many kids with ice cream at a baseball game.

I was like, I have to get some. That's what I was going to say. All the new stuff on the menu is for kids or for like the mommy bloggers who are going to the game. It's like, come with me to Great American Ballpark and they trial a different shit. Like, ah, give me two dogs and a beer. Real, real. Two dogs.

Relish? Never wanted relish more than when I'm in a like ballpark. Regular hot dog, I'm like, no, thanks. Ballpark, I'm like, actually put as much relish as you can on there. Put it all on there. Onions, I like them on there now, yep. I just turn into a different person. onions, beppers.

Come on. This is from Aaron. It says, Brock, Pretty Lady. Thought about that over the weekend. Fellas, I'm sitting here watching Niners Eagles.

And every time they say, Pretty, I can't help but hear Ben's huntie boys. Not a reminiscent pod, but I had a random question about your fashion choices when you were younger. What were your sock choices

in middle school or high school? Were Nike elites, all the rage, or did your parents think it was crazy for one pair of socks to be 20? So you had the Haynes Plain 3 pack. Did you have ankle socks with your oversized cargo shorts? Are we folding over your mid-caf socks to ankle socks? White socks, AFC, black socks, NFC? I remember wanting Huff socks for a while, but they had a weed leaf on them, so I wasn't allowed since I wasn't a weed kid.

I got a pink breast cancer elite socks. I thought I was the shit. Keep up the amazing work with the Shah. You guys are truly great duo, and the world loves you. hearing you every week. Slap my ass with that Nintendo Wii controller you whipped too hard playing we baseball while not wearing the safety strap so it shot across the room

and broke something. God. Sent from my AIM username Swagkilla 92. Okay. So definitely born in 1992. Okay. Swag killer. Wow. I would have gotten in trouble for talking to you.

What an email. Yeah, that is funny. I was thinking about that too. I kept hearing it. Brock Purdy, Purdy, pretty. Hi, pretty lady. Hi, lady, you pretty. That's what you say to Brock Purdy's wife the first time you met her. Oh my God.

Hi, pretty. Pretty lady. Can you imagine this close to her face? Hi, pretty lady. Oh, what's going on? And then he gets... He's a Brockia. He'd be like, dude, what?

It's a cool, a best thing. You wouldn't understand. Right. Brock looks to me. I'm just like, uh, it's just, he's being hunting. He got to hunty.

Hi, lady. How crazy would that be in real life? Like, can someone just please do that? Go up to, actually, you'll get hit, but it'll probably be worth it. Hi.

Oh, how you doing, bro? Nice game the other day. Hi, lady. Just complete every time you talk to her, you snap into that. Oh. Oh my God, my dream. That would be some serious acting right there.

That's a really talented thing. Be able to flip in and out of character that much? That's good stuff. What socks were we wearing in high school? It's a good question. I think I was still rocking ankle. No show king. No show sluts over here.

Dude, we went through a big black. Nike mid they weren't the elites because you could still get it was just it was just a black mid pull-up sock that had a white suit on both sides so miles a lot dude

so miles a lot he put those on I was like he committed he is just wearing those oh man wow yeah that was a big phase like with that's what's so funny

looking back of those days and I see posts about that on TikTok and Instagram now where it would be like these had MFs in a stranglehold in 2013 and you look and it's like sparries with pulled up Nike socks and shit you're like wow yeah that's messed up well it's kind of a move I was I was on that not sparries but I had like some low top like Nike whatever's and I'd wear I lead socks with them just on some like I don't know there's a big collie Like when you're playing a sport in college, it was just like, we're the most relaxed thing you own to class.

And it was always just elite socks and like sandals or just like some low pressure shoes. I was all about the elites in college, though. And working at like a shoe store too didn't help. But in high school, I was strictly ankle socks. See, we didn't. Yeah, for me, it was all like the higher,

the sock, you know, not the higher, but everybody had the mid-socks that would wear no other either white pair or black pair. And then it wasn't for me until like college, a little bit later in college where the ankle sock kind of came back. When joggers started getting introduced and not the super, super long shorts, then it was like, oh yeah, you could go back to the ankle sock. Yeah. Oh, shit. It's a good luck, dude. That was my, that was our whole lives. Like mid-socks didn't really make a comeback until like 07 or 8 or something like that. Was it or is it a little later? I'd say, yeah, I'd say like 08 to 12 was big mid mid sock.

Uh-huh. Because beforehand, I remember when I was in grade school and even middle school, yeah, it was like, I wanted. Yeah, roll. I wanted nothing, nothing to do with any socks showing at all. It looked good. A lot of leg. That was the days, yeah, that was the days when like Vince Young. would have no-show socks with low-top cleats.

And basketball players in the NBA and that Duke were wearing no-show socks. JJ Reddick had no-show socks at Duke. You're like... That's so crazy. We're at basketball practice with no-shows on. Can you even imagine that? High-top shoes, no-show socks.

It was cool. It was somehow cool. Would look so weird now. I know. but those breast cancer elite socks were the most elite of elite socks that was wild the white ones with the pink on them oh my god those were like 50 bucks sometimes

nothing would beat a fresh pair of those no chance I was getting them all good uh from Daniel McGrady and Vince Carter actual cousins or industry plants. God dang, that's so funny. It's a good question.

I'm always like, are they actually cousins or were they people just saying that? Hey, Mike Vic and Aaron Brooks. Is that the same thing? Or is that? Were they cousins too? There's no way. Can we check the bloodline, bro? That's too close.

Two same guy to be cousins. Yeah, think about that one. From Daniel, gentlemen, first time, long time. You make Tuesdays tolerable. Glad we could help. I just moved to New Mexico for work. Water White know about this.

And found out they filmed a lot of shows and movies out here, including reality or game shows sometimes. I know Benny had some experience in the TV world, but I was curious. What game show or reality show would you be the best at or would you want to be on? Better yet, what athletes would you want to see on those shows? Give me a full season of James Harrison and Terrell Suggs on Survivor

or James Winston on Deal or No Deal. Personally, I'd go on the prices right so I can spin that big ass wheel and then hug Drew Carey afterwards out when I win nothing. Most famous Browns fan? Thanks, fellas. Keup up the good work with DeShall. Slop my ass with the PS2 controller. My brother broke. So whenever there's a hit stick, the rumble feature buzzes so hard, it feels like a taser.

Sent via the note, I stuck in my fourth grade crushes locker. But turns out there was more than one Michaela in my grade. So it was the wrong one. Dan. Oh, that's top tier. embarrassing. Well, not embarrassing. But, like, that's top tier, like,

missus, man. Yeah, that's real tough. Sorry. And, of course, that Michaela probably was like, you know. I know. I'm not the best Michaela, you know? Then all of a sudden,

she's thinking, like, wow, this dude, like, what is going on? You have to be a bad guy and break it to her. Sorry, I'm just a dumbass. Oh, my God. I'm sorry. Dude, I would full. and be like, you know what, I just like you, I guess.

I'm just going to commit to the, yeah, I love you, I guess. I do. I'm sorry. I love you, honey. I love you, lady. Oh, God, I forget the question. Oh, you know how they put everybody on dancing with the stars? And I feel like, I'm just not drawn to that at all.

But if they did put a lot of like former players and people that are well known on like Survivor, I think I'd, you know, I'd watch a clip from that. Watch a clip. You know? Not the real show, obviously. Because what time is that on? What channel? Who knows? But like, I'm not watching a Dancing with the Stars clip on my phone.

Because like, okay. But I am like, is Jerry Rice can move like that still? All right. Could still probably catch a fade. But yeah, if Trell Suggs and Joey Porter were trying to figure out how to get across a canyon, I'd be like, I'm doing what I'm watching this, bro. Sure. I don't think I'd want to be on a reality show.

I've talked about it with Ben and his experiences. That's why he, one of the reasons why he was so good on those shows is because his personality type is more driven towards that. I would be like the guy in the background who I just, I wouldn't do well for me. I want to do well in reality. show. But I think who wants to be a millionaire I think I could get pretty far.

Dang. Oh, yeah. Why don't they, wait, that's not a thing anymore, I don't know if I have it anymore, but I remember we watched it all the time when I was a kid and you know me, I'm really good with the most random trivia knowing shit. And then having

the options it's multiple choice. So I've always been like, that's how, that's, that's like 70% of how I got through school is I was pretty solid of being able to deduce through multiple choice. Like, yeah, I've got to get it. That one's not it. That one's not it. It's between these two. You know what I mean? Yeah. Then you get three lifelines or what have you. So I could call up somebody. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. God, the most baller moment of all time when that guy was on the last question had the lifeline left and called his dad. Hey, I'm about. to win a million dollars. I was like, oh, he called. He's cold. I don't need your help. I just wanted you to know that I'm going to be, I'm going to win who wants to be a millionaire.

Sickest moment in history in TV. That did go really hard. I forget that guy's name, but Regis Philbin losing it. I would cry. That theme, that theme music too. Don, don't, don't do. Don, don't. When they pick one, it's like, D-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l. What a great host. Yeah, man.

That's a shell right there. Athletes on there. What athletes are I want to see to do a show like that? Just anybody on there, man. Johnny Manzo. The greatest race is a big one. I know they do athlete pairing sometimes So yeah, you put like two

Rivals together like this guy said Like Daniel said, Tarell Suggs and James Harrison You know Make Big Ben and Terrell Suggs have to work together Dang That would be so fun to watch Yeah You know I always found myself watching

Was Bar Rescue Dude you and Clint You and Clint both I'm always just like, what is this dude talking about, man? I got to see what's going on. Always yelling and shit. Dude, bar rescue, but it's for like your house, you know? Just somebody pops in your house randomly and they just roast you for everything.

Yeah. Someone pops in your house. It's just the Fox NFL crew. You'll never guess who just walked in. Howie long. And he is not. happy with how our pantry is looking. That'd be some shit.

That would happen in one of my dreams, dude. Like you busts in my room and say that. I'd be like, oh my God. We got to figure this out. Only these guys dream about Howie Long. These guys dreams. All right. Team these guys at gmail.com.

Keep sending them. So people got some mantel. last minute. We'll get to them next week. These guys, LOL on Instagram, these guys LOL and YouTube, subscribe, leave a review for the show. Leave what you would want on your plane, your team playing. What team playing and what you would want

is like your special thing on your team plane for your NFL squad. Other than that, yeah, 2026, next week will either be, well, I guess next time we talk, either the Steelers will be moving on to the AFC championship game where they will be

eliminated. So fingers crossed, fingers crossed. But it's a big one as we record here about six hours before Monday night football in Pittsburgh. So all right, good deal. We'll talk to you guys next week. Larry Foote. Dang. Cool linebackers, cool linebackers.

Nah, I'm going to pivot. Todd Beckman. How to stay quarterback before trail prior. Feel bad for him still. Whoa. Wow. Tough.