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It's time. Time for the burning river. Sportscast. Training camp has started and the boys are off to the greenbrier once again. Country roads, take me home to the place Avalon, West Virginia.
Thought you guys would join in there. In an off season marked by very little drama, fulfilling impact player contracts and key contributors getting healthy, it has many wondering, is there a shoe left to drop? Or are the Browns, for once, in a position to take on the AFC north as one of the NFL's best teams? We'll break it all down for you next on the very first episode of season three of the Burning river sportscast.
I wonder if the parade of thousands of boats floating down the river two days beforehand might have also contributed to the pollution in the river.
[00:02:13] Speaker A: Not likely.
[00:02:14] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:02:15] Speaker A: Time aboard, bitches.
[00:02:17] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm excited. You kidding me?
[00:02:21] Speaker A: Oh, I'm two time coach of the year. Kevin's the fifth.
Fire fire fire fire.
Mock yeah ing.
[00:02:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:33] Speaker A: Bird.
[00:02:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:02:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:36] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: Mach d bird. Don't worry, everybody have you guys.
[00:02:45] Speaker A: I'm kicking my ass.
I'm always getting rubbed the wrong way.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: Nice. Yeah, I can't. No one's doing a shocker over there.
Whoops.
[00:03:00] Speaker A: We were close.
The hunger game.
What's our treasure hunting company gonna be called?
[00:03:12] Speaker B: Fines for days.
[00:03:14] Speaker A: That's the worst thing I ever heard of. But fines for days at Tappitt Media Company, Croatia.
That needs canceled immediately.
[00:03:23] Speaker C: Why hasn't it been canceled yet?
[00:03:25] Speaker B: That's kind of what I thought. So that's why I put it in facts for days. Bonus fact.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: I don't like the Nazis. Take me home to the place I belong West Virginia mountain mama take my me home country roads. Are you kidding me?
[00:03:57] Speaker B: Welcome into the burning river sports cast presented by the fine folks at tap in media. I'm Kenny Thunder, as always, seated beside grandpa's favorite muggle and Olympic champion tugboat captain, red hot Ronnie Jambs hash. Blessed to have the big bone man back on the board for another season. Was sure bonely all off season. I was so sick at one point I thought I had a femur. Luckily the wife put on some spare ribs that summarily tickled my funny bone, and I merrily escaped with all my limbs intact. And now I'm bone to be wild. So, bone man, with football season about to begin in just around 40 days or so. Can you feel it in your bones?
[00:04:37] Speaker C: I feel it, and it's. It's warming up. I can't wait to.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: So many bone puns.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: I'm just glad you didn't tell us any fibulas.
[00:04:48] Speaker A: On a more serious note, Kenny's a dad now. That's what happened is he's been a dad for a little bit. It's finally catching up. He's like, hey, listen to all these ones I got.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: Those are good bone puns, right?
[00:04:58] Speaker A: I'll give you a bone pun.
[00:05:01] Speaker B: On a more serious note, I want to take a quick second and send our best wishes to camera operator number two here on the burning river. Sportscast, currently fighting through some pretty tough medical circumstances. Big Mike, just know that we're here for you. We're thinking of you, praying for you every day to get better. Love you, and hope to have you back real soon. Come back, Mike, with that, back to red hot. Where can our listeners find the dopest dope they ever heard on a podcast, as well as the only podcast dedicated exclusively to Cleveland Browns backers everywhere?
[00:05:31] Speaker A: We are the unofficial podcast of Cleveland Brown's backers everywhere.
[00:05:34] Speaker B: The unofficial.
[00:05:35] Speaker A: That's officially unofficial.
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[email protected]. backslash shop. Got all kinds of stuff in there. Check it out. But today on the show, this is what you can look forward to. We're catching you up on all the offseason happenings. There's many as we could talk about in our unlimited amount of time that we make up. You know, we don't want to keep here.
[00:06:17] Speaker B: We have arbitrary timelines.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: Yeah. We're also going to take a look at training camp and how things have gone at the greenbrier and discussing the upcoming season. We want to talk about the schedule a little bit, I think.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: Oh, yes.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: So, yeah.
It's fucking football season, y'all.
[00:06:33] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: And we're back. We are back.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: We are back.
[00:06:37] Speaker A: We are back.
That was the three best friends that anyone could have yes, we're the three best friends that anyone could have we're the best three friends that anyone could have and we'll never, ever, ever leave each other.
[00:06:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:56] Speaker A: Let's kick things off like we always do with the burning of our new.
[00:06:59] Speaker B: Story of the week.
[00:07:12] Speaker A: All right, so, the 33rd Olympiad is officially underway for all approximately 11,000 athletes that are gathered in Paris and French Polynesia. If you're a surfer, that's true. That is, except for the triathlon athletes.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: No surf in Paris.
[00:07:26] Speaker A: No. But French Polynesia, yes.
That is, except for the triathlon athletes hoping to practice for their event. Things are not underway for them.
[00:07:37] Speaker B: What happened to them?
[00:07:39] Speaker A: Well, I'll tell you, the river that's used for the event has a problem when heavy rains come rolling in, and heavy rains were rampant during opening ceremonies and the first few days of the games there. So the problem, the river has pollution.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: Which was a known problem.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: Most rivers have pollution problems, but, like, specifically this one.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: Like, they knew that this was an issue heading into the event.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: Yeah. And so, basically, what's happening is due to runoff and other factors. When you get these heavy rains, the river goes from perfectly safe to swim in to something less so, less desirable.
[00:08:16] Speaker C: This perfectly safe river to swim in, I think I read, hasn't been perfectly safe to swim in in the last 100 years.
[00:08:23] Speaker A: Well, so what was it the mayor or whoever jumped in the river to show that it was safe? He may have a third eye growing.
[00:08:32] Speaker B: Right. But they did know because it wasn't safe. They've been taking action to clean it.
[00:08:37] Speaker C: Yeah. $1.5 billion.
[00:08:40] Speaker A: Did it come from the US?
[00:08:41] Speaker C: Well, no, I'm just saying in us dollars is 1.5 billion.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:08:45] Speaker C: I don't know what that is, but.
[00:08:46] Speaker B: A little bit of rain was enough to overthrow a billion dollars.
[00:08:51] Speaker A: And so, as of right now, everybody's kind of left wondering, you know, what? What's going to happen right now? All the practice sessions have been canceled. They're waiting to get word if they're able to clean it up enough in the short time that they have. It's taken 100 years, they haven't been able to do it, but maybe in a couple days they'll be able to cleaning it up so that it's safe enough for everybody to swim in. They might have to cancel the event. And so what do we think, boys? Is this going to go from a triathlon to a biathlon?
[00:09:15] Speaker B: I mean, imagine you're a top tier athlete, right? A triathlete.
[00:09:20] Speaker A: I don't have to imagine that I am a top tier athlete.
[00:09:23] Speaker B: Imagine you're a triathlete and you're the zero. Zero 1% in the world. And maybe swimming is your best discipline. You've been training your entire life for this. And they go, river's dirty.
[00:09:35] Speaker A: Sorry about it.
[00:09:36] Speaker B: I mean, I just don't understand. Like, they knew the.
[00:09:40] Speaker A: Why are they in the French Polynesia?
[00:09:41] Speaker B: The Olympics. Right? They knew the Olympics were coming here for a long time. To bone's point, they spent a billion and a half dollars to clean the river. Nobody thought to clean the river banks?
[00:09:52] Speaker A: Nope.
[00:09:53] Speaker B: Just said, hope it rains, it's over. For them, it's over. I mean, I wonder if the parade of thousands of boats floating down the river two days beforehand might have also contributed to the pollution in the river.
[00:10:07] Speaker A: Not likely.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:11] Speaker B: It was a unique opening ceremony.
[00:10:13] Speaker A: It was pretty cool. I watched it. It was neat.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: There was a lot going on. Just like the athletes on the boats, I thought was pretty interesting.
[00:10:20] Speaker A: Hands down, top moment.
[00:10:22] Speaker B: What was it, the top moment of the opening ceremony?
[00:10:24] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:10:26] Speaker B: Probably Celine Dion.
[00:10:27] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. Celine Dion. Just melting it from the. On top of the Eiffel Tower. I'll tell you, she's gone through so much shit. And then just to be able to get up there and just. Just do what she does.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, she's apparently really sick.
[00:10:40] Speaker A: Yeah, very sick.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: A neuro disease that makes her have weird movements and such and affects her vocals.
[00:10:48] Speaker A: Well, she was.
[00:10:49] Speaker B: She was spot on. She was fantastic.
I was, like, watching her and she's on the Eiffel Tower. I don't know if anybody else really even saw this or cared, but I'm looking at, like, 2ft in front of her. There's no guardrail or anything keeping her. And I'm just thinking, like, if I'm that high in the air, like, what an unnerving spot to be in.
[00:11:06] Speaker A: Oh, you don't gotta tell me twice. It's like, my biggest fear is heights.
[00:11:09] Speaker B: It's like standing on top of a building with no fence or nothing, and she's just belting it from there.
[00:11:15] Speaker A: I would sound like what's her name that sung the national anthem at the all star game? I wouldn't sound like Celine Dion. Cause I wouldn't be able to concentrate on anything.
[00:11:23] Speaker B: That poor girl. She went to rehab. She's doing better now.
[00:11:26] Speaker A: Am I not supposed to? Too soon?
[00:11:27] Speaker B: No.
[00:11:28] Speaker A: Not supposed to joke about that.
[00:11:29] Speaker B: It's fine. It was apparently too soon. The worst national anthem ever.
[00:11:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. It's the planet Fergie.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: Ingrid Andress.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
Yeah, that girl.
[00:11:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Tough day for her, but not for Celine.
[00:11:41] Speaker A: She was powerful, whatever the opposite of that was.
[00:11:44] Speaker B: That brought me back to Titanic, you know, just like.
[00:11:47] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, brought you back to fourth grade, baby.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: We did do that in the talent show.
The vomit and one of our other compadres, we sang our heart will go on in an inflatable raft.
[00:12:02] Speaker A: I know. I know your guys families. I know your guys families from growing up. Did somebody come in and, like, film this? This hat? There has to be.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: We really probably should have had someone film it.
[00:12:14] Speaker C: I don't think so.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: This was before the day that, you know, every had cell phones with cameras in it. No.
[00:12:17] Speaker A: Yeah, but your dad.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: Dad would have had to show up with a VCR.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: We practiced it quite a few times in front of them, but, I mean.
[00:12:24] Speaker A: I like how you call it a VCR instead of a camera.
They did take the big tapes at one point.
[00:12:31] Speaker B: We sunk the boat and everything. It was dramatic.
[00:12:33] Speaker C: It was.
[00:12:34] Speaker B: It was quite the thing.
[00:12:35] Speaker A: Are we doing a reenactment on the show?
[00:12:37] Speaker B: We're probably too big for that now.
[00:12:38] Speaker A: You think?
[00:12:39] Speaker B: I am?
[00:12:39] Speaker A: Oh, you're definitely too big. You're too big for basically most things.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:12:46] Speaker A: I guess that's enough with the new story of the week. Good job, Celine.
That'll take us to the burning river rundown.
All right, so it's been mostly. You alluded to it in your opening monologue that you wanted us to turn into a single jam sesh.
It has been mostly uneventful this offseason for the Browns. Like, nothing's really happened.
[00:13:21] Speaker B: I mean, everything besides the Mario Kuber.
[00:13:24] Speaker A: Kind of holding out for a second, but he didn't really hold out.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: But then the Browns fixed it. They restructured his deal, and it's like. It's like everything that we would have typically thought about as Browns fans or been worried about as Browns fans during an offseason, just. It went away. The Browns did the right thing every step of the way.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: Yeah. And so, I mean, with that, like I said, mostly uneventful. Um, it's making me a little bit uneasy, is what I will say.
[00:13:48] Speaker B: Yeah, we're used to something bad happening.
[00:13:50] Speaker A: But the good news is thinking about.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: Just the years prior, just even the baker drama in the offseason keeping. What was he doing? Was he healthy? Was it. I mean, just even a four years prior, like, since you mentioned him early.
[00:14:00] Speaker A: Since you mentioned him early in the show, I'll go here with this. I like that. This year you actually sent us something not too long ago, it was probably last week or something of one of the radio hosts in Cleveland or Greg.
[00:14:14] Speaker B: Williams former head coach.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: Yeah, but it was during an interview, wasn't it, with radio host, radio show in Cleveland or something?
[00:14:21] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: So Greg Williams tried to poke the bear of the entire fan base and talked about how he definitely could have won a championship with Baker and whatever. Regardless of anybody's feelings on that. That's not the part I'm getting into, is it was nice to see for the first time that that didn't blow up into, like, this big, like, everybody's talking about it now. It kind of just was like Greg Williams said something else and then everybody moved on.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: I mean, just reaffirmed the fact that I knew they should have hired Greg Williams to begin with. But that's fine.
[00:14:50] Speaker A: Here we go.
But I just. My thing is, I'm glad that, like, that stuff is finally blowing over and it's kind of becoming like, nah, not the cool thing to talk about anymore.
[00:15:00] Speaker B: Baker was in the news again today, talking about just how he gave everything he had to Cleveland and, you know, thought they were poised for going back to the AC championship game. And then things just fell apart.
[00:15:10] Speaker A: Zach, can you punch me in the face, please?
[00:15:12] Speaker C: I'm too far, sir.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: I regret going here now.
[00:15:18] Speaker B: His name is Bone.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: It was completely, completely blown over until Kenny headache you're talking about. So our show is the one that's fucking everybody with Baker talk.
But anyways, we are back now, and we finally have some browns news to talk about.
And just so everybody knows, this is the official start to season three, as you mentioned, of burning river sportscast. So we will be here week in and week out until rest of the season. The end of the Super bowl.
[00:15:48] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:15:49] Speaker A: So you're stuck with us for. What is it? What does that make up? I think it's something. Approximately 32 weeks.
[00:15:53] Speaker B: 32 weeks. Welcome to the hell ride.
[00:15:55] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Climb aboard, bitches.
But yeah. So let's. Let's get things started. We'll. With the burning of a rundown, we're going to start with some injury news here. And first and foremost on everyone's minds, as it should be, is Nick Chubb. When it comes to injuries.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: Batman.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: He is a Nick Chubb. You're not.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: Sorry. I was doing a Batman voice.
[00:16:17] Speaker A: Oh, that was terrible.
But he's so one thing. He's currently on the active pup list. And so, I mean, it's kind of cool to see that instead of just being on like, ir or whatever, you know, he's just, he's starting the season on the pup list, which means he's fairly close to returning.
[00:16:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Andrew Barry, it's on a radio recently. Say he's close.
[00:16:39] Speaker A: Yeah. And so he's played, you know, he's kind of played down his recovery through this whole thing. He's kind of like, ah, you know, I don't really know. I'm working really hard.
I don't want to put a date on it. We're just going to keep, keep, keep working and see where we land.
But if you're reading the writing on the wall, coming from the browns, they haven't come out and said it, and they try and tamper exp expectations every time people start getting ahead of themselves. But momentum is growing here. So far in the last probably two weeks, we've seen video of him squatting around 600 pounds in the gym. Mary Kay Cabot came out and she said she watched him do full sprints at practice and make near full speed cuts in that. He looked fantastic, but no camera crews were allowed to around him for that, clearly.
What do you guys think? Is the dark knight returning?
[00:17:29] Speaker B: I mean, here we go.
The browns suit up on September 8 against the Dallas Cowboys at home in mid prime.
There would be no bigger rush, no bigger wrestling pop than Nick Chubb running out on that field. Week one.
[00:17:47] Speaker C: What if they don't even show him? He just warms up in the locker room. Him, he comes out like, handoff, the place will melt.
[00:17:55] Speaker A: You talk about rush. I know where all my blood's rushing.
I'm gonna be full chub for that, for sure.
[00:18:00] Speaker C: Talking about the bone, man, I mean.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: He'S quarter Chubb right now, and Chubb's not even practicing.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: I would say this. Look, I think it's. It's easy to get caught up in that hype. We have to kind of step back and go, this was a total knee. We can.
[00:18:14] Speaker A: Who are you?
[00:18:15] Speaker B: It was the second time has been done, and he's older this time. So, like, I don't want to get our hopes up for season one, but I also know season one for his.
[00:18:24] Speaker A: Sorry for week one.
[00:18:25] Speaker B: Week one. Okay, but no, like you said, the writing on the wall, I mean, Nick has kind of been saying, like, I've been counted out before and I've been through this before.
[00:18:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: So I think it's absolutely possible that he could come back for week one.
[00:18:44] Speaker A: I think he's coming back week one.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: I just could tell you, like, that place will melt.
[00:18:48] Speaker A: I think I like bones idea. I think that. So we'll be warming up and everything. They're going to be announcing everybody coming out of the tunnel, and then all of a sudden it's, it's. It's the wrestling moment.
[00:18:59] Speaker B: You're going to smell, I mean.
[00:19:02] Speaker A: And out comes Nick Chubb to fuck up the cowboys.
[00:19:06] Speaker B: And even if he gets limited touches in it, getting just the fact that he is on the field will be such a boost to that team.
[00:19:13] Speaker A: Whoo. Guys, I'm getting high and bother.
You have no idea.
[00:19:19] Speaker B: Sweaty in your sweaty places.
[00:19:21] Speaker A: Oh, boy.
[00:19:23] Speaker B: Fingers crossed for week one return.
[00:19:25] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And other injury news, though, for the Browns. Greg Newsom did have to have hamstring surgery. Supposedly it was pretty minor, and they're saying he should possibly be ready for week one, if not the very shortly thereafter he'll be. He'll be ready for.
[00:19:44] Speaker B: So, yeah, I mean, these kinds of things that happen early in camp. I mean, thankfully they happened early in camp, but also a little concerned because you want your guys ready for Greg.
[00:19:53] Speaker A: Newsom, I think, is a lingering issue because I don't think he ever actually practiced during camp. I think it was just. They put him straight. He showed up, he got his physical, and they realized that his hamstring wasn't where it should be and he went straight to surgery. So. But again, supposedly minor. It was enough to hamper him, but it was a pun. I gave a bone hamper on the hamstring. Yeah, but not enough to really concern them too much, apparently, until he showed up for camp and I was still hurt.
But hopefully he'll be back for week one. Dalvin Tomlinson, arthroscopic knee surgery. Same, same deal with him. Hopefully back for week one, if not then shortly thereafter.
[00:20:38] Speaker B: So, yeah, I mean, the Dalvin one worries me more because that, that front is so important and he's a. He's a key component there. Not that Greg isn't. I mean, Greg's a great defensive back, but I just think everything starts with that front four and hopefully he'll be back in. Ready for week one.
[00:20:56] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. Then other guys that have missed time so far, Jerry, Judy, Naheed Hines, Nick Chubb, obviously, Cameron Mitchell, d. Anthony Bell, Wyatt Davis, Mike Hall, Jed Wills, Jack Conklin, Miles Garrett and Zadaria Smith. And I'm not going to get too up in arms about this. There's a lot of guys to miss some time, but it's early in camp. It's all maintenance days, especially guys like Miles Garrett. Like, they're not. He feels anything like, he's like, ah, somebody tickled my knee last night. They're gonna be like, okay, well, you're gonna sit out today.
[00:21:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:29] Speaker A: So not really any news there. Just wanted to put it out there that there's some guys missing sometimes.
Next up here, though, transactional news. Nick Chubb. You know, it's been a minute since we talked. We haven't been on the air in a while, and so some things.
[00:21:45] Speaker B: We're gonna make it for a whole offseason.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Not all of this is new news. It's just news.
[00:21:49] Speaker B: It's just news. We bring you the news.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: Yeah. And so Nick Chubb, obviously, everybody's heard by now, he restructured his deal, lowers the salary cap hit for this year, gives the Browns some more or less, for lack of a better term, insurance, given the fact that he's coming off of a significant knee injury. They basically made it so he has the opportunity to earn at or near the same level he was making before, but with incentives. So he has to hit certain milestones and play a certain amount of time in order to get there.
[00:22:19] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, this was kind of the best of both worlds. Right. It helps the team lower their cap number, and you didn't put Nick Chubb in a situation where he's not able to earn his money. Right.
So, I mean, it's kind of like I mentioned. I mean, they've done all the right things, and this was a big, a big part of that was getting Nick Chubb right, because, remember, the conversation was, are they even going to keep Nick Chubb? I mean, are they going to be looking to deal Nick Chubb or cut Nick Chubb altogether because he's a free agent at the end of the season anyway, so coming off the knee surgery. So the fact that they restructured him is good news for everyone.
[00:22:50] Speaker A: Well, this is one big prediction that I'm glad we were all wrong on this program is the fact that we all thought Nick Chubb was gone just.
[00:23:00] Speaker B: Well, and he still may be at the end of the year.
[00:23:03] Speaker A: Well, to be fair, we all said it most likely he'd be gone in the off season like this offseason, and they were past that. So, I mean, I guess not technically, but we're past that, so that's good. And then Amari Cooper obviously, held out for just a second, but they ended up restructuring his deal pretty quickly.
So we get one more year out of. Out of Amari Cooper, for sure.
[00:23:27] Speaker B: He's an interesting one because he's 30.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: Yeah. And I like what they did with the contract. Right. So they restructured it. They basically gave him all of his money that he was getting and guaranteed it all for this one year.
And then they're letting him be a free agent after next year, which he's earned. Or after this season, which he's earned. Yeah.
[00:23:44] Speaker B: I mean, he has had his most productive years as the Brown.
[00:23:47] Speaker A: Yeah. And they actually gave him the opportunity to earn more than he was going to make this year if he hits certain incentives. Yeah. So, again, a win win for everybody. It doesn't put you in a position where you're paying a 30 year old receiver for three, four years, and it also allows him to say, at 30, hey, I'm still doing big things. You. You should pay me that much.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, we'll see at the end of the season how that pans out. I mean, my guess is this is probably the last year we'll see Amari in a Browns uniform just because his. What he'll want to make is market price. And these contracts for receivers are starting to look like quarterback contracts, so.
[00:24:22] Speaker A: Yeah. And we all know what you think about quarterbacks.
[00:24:25] Speaker B: They gotta stop, especially now. These guys are all getting 50 mil a year. There's not gonna be any money left for the rest of the team.
[00:24:31] Speaker A: Yeah. And then next up here, Dustin Hopkins signed an extension.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: Three years, bones boy.
[00:24:36] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. I just put him up there excited. He's up on the big show.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: Are you excited?
[00:24:40] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm excited. You kidding me?
[00:24:43] Speaker A: He sounds angry with me. Why would I even ask that question?
[00:24:46] Speaker B: Most emotion that's ever come out of the bone, mandy.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: Oh, man. As much, like, for. For all the hate that you had towards Cade York, you've now channeled that he's back on the team. By the way, our win loss, our.
[00:24:57] Speaker C: Win losses just went up. Plus two.
[00:24:59] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:24:59] Speaker C: In the win category.
[00:25:01] Speaker A: Nice. He's going to have two game winners this year, huh?
[00:25:04] Speaker C: Maybe more.
[00:25:05] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Well, he's predicting another career year out of Dustin Hopkins.
[00:25:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:25:11] Speaker B: I mean, he's only. What?
[00:25:12] Speaker A: Dustin Hopkins has unfinished business. The injury stopped him from being the top scorer in Brown's history, so. But anyways, three years, 15.9 million. This deal makes him a top five paid kicker in the league. We got Justin. Justin Tucker over here or whatever. So he's close.
[00:25:29] Speaker B: I mean, Justin Tucker is making just a slightly more per year, making like 6.2 or something per year.
[00:25:33] Speaker A: So Justin Tucker, at this very moment, I know people would probably think I was insane for saying this, but I would take Dustin Hopkins over Justin Tucker at this moment because last year, Justin Tucker finally showed some age.
[00:25:45] Speaker B: So I'll take Dustin over Justin any day, just because.
[00:25:47] Speaker A: Dustin over Justin Hopkins. Let's start the campaign.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: We need a shirt. We need a shirt that says Dustin greater than Justin.
[00:25:56] Speaker A: We'll just put Dustin and then Justin underneath because Dustin over Justin.
[00:26:00] Speaker B: Let's do both.
[00:26:01] Speaker A: Okay, I'm in.
[00:26:02] Speaker B: Put him in the shop anyway. Shop.
Backslash shop.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: The best part about this whole thing, though, is we talked about it being an uneventful offseason. It continued in these three areas here because there was questions with all these guys for the upcoming season as we were coming in.
[00:26:17] Speaker B: All key contributors.
[00:26:18] Speaker A: Yeah, all key contributors. Nobody knew for sure what was going to happen with them, and we locked them all up for this next season so we could try and make a Super bowl run. So.
[00:26:26] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:26:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:28] Speaker B: I mean, look, again, the Browns have done everything right all offseason long. Anything that we would have been bitching about or moaning about, like, they just. They put a stop. They said, look, we'll just resign these guys. We'll restart your contracts. We'll save cap money here and there. They've done a great job.
[00:26:43] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. And so, yeah, I mean, again, I just go back to. It just feels so weird.
[00:26:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:50] Speaker A: Since winter, the Browns well run organization.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: I feel like I should have something to complain about.
[00:26:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:54] Speaker B: I want to complain, and I don't have any.
[00:26:56] Speaker A: I mean, I don't really want to complain, but I just. Because it's in my nature to, at this moment, complain about everything that's happening. I want to complain.
[00:27:03] Speaker B: The one thing. Maybe I could complain about you. Yeah.
[00:27:07] Speaker A: No, no, no. I'm saying that's the one thing I would complain about is you. You.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: Oh, thanks.
The one thing I could complain about if I had to pick something from this offseason.
[00:27:16] Speaker A: What is it?
[00:27:17] Speaker B: Is that it was recently announced that Kevin Stefanski will continue to call plays.
[00:27:21] Speaker A: I give you. I.
[00:27:22] Speaker B: Yes, I'll give him some leeway because he's the two time coach of the year.
[00:27:25] Speaker A: I'm two time coach of the year, Kevin Stefanz.
[00:27:27] Speaker B: But, like, you brought in Ken Dorsey. We, you know, we've heard about this new offense and how revamped it's going to be. I just have, that's my only concern really, I guess, for play calling is like, it's still Kevin calling to play.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: Listen, Stefanski, if you hadn't taken, continued to call plays, you'd had so much leeway for the Stefanski Stefanic meter here. Oh, yeah.
[00:27:47] Speaker B: As soon as you call bad play, you're out again.
[00:27:49] Speaker A: I don't know about that, but I'm giving you, like, you have two weeks in a row to start the season where you're calling bonehead plays. We're doing three reverses a game, and the difficulty level on every play is 9.7. Hopefully when our quarterbacks become Stefanic real.
[00:28:05] Speaker B: Quick, when our quarterbacks aren't PJ Walker and DTRH, we won't have to do so many trick plays.
[00:28:10] Speaker A: That's fair. That's fair. And so now the Browns, of course, are down in West Virginia for the second year in a row, having training camp at the Greenbrier. But this year, this year the Greenbrier hasn't really cooperated with the Browns. Last year was fantastic. Everybody loved it. It was great that a good, good weather, it was warm, all that stuff.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: The guys are still enjoying it, but it sounds like objectives aren't necessarily being met as well.
[00:28:33] Speaker A: I'm saying, like, even that part of it, nothing like everything that they wanted to accomplish last year from what they said coming out of training camp, they were able to do this year. The hills of West Virginia are a cool 70, like right around 70 degrees.
Stefanski talked about players have to, like, as a former player, not nearly at the NFL level.
I hated when, like, you guys remember, like, even go back all the way to high school. You guys remember two days and like 95 degrees. Yeah.
[00:29:02] Speaker C: If it's over 90, you're just miserable.
[00:29:04] Speaker A: Like, you had to weigh in before you started, when you came in, when he went back out and when he came back in, because they're like, we don't want you guys to die.
[00:29:11] Speaker B: There were days guys would lose 18 pounds.
[00:29:13] Speaker A: Like, stupid, so stupid.
But yeah, so it's been, it's been cool over there. Stefanski talked about how specifically he wanted it to be hotter so the guys could start to acclimate for early season expectations in Dallas or against Dallas, I should say, and in Jacksonville.
[00:29:31] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, September and Cleveland. It's still, it's still going to be warm. I mean, that.
[00:29:34] Speaker A: My birthday, which my birthday, we've talked about this before. It always is. My birthday falls typically right between the start of college football and the start of the NFL season, depending on which weekend they throw them on. But it's almost always right in the middle of them.
[00:29:48] Speaker B: But I don't respect you.
[00:29:49] Speaker A: Well, that's true, but I was just saying, my birthday multiple times in the past ten years has been the hottest day of the year.
[00:29:56] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it's still summertime in Cleveland. I mean, it's still there for another month, so. Yeah, just to Fansky's point, I mean, he's looking at guy, he wants those 90 degree days. So those guys are acclimated to playing in the heat in the early season.
[00:30:09] Speaker A: Yeah. And so some of the other issues down there. No. No. Indoor facility, padded practices had to be pushed back in lieu of individual drills. Cause it rained because the rain. Yeah. And then just. Just a couple of different things. Like, it's not quite going as smoothly and it's not a well oiled machine like they would want it to be. So, I mean, are these. Are these big problems? Is this is. What do you guys think? Is it the end of the greenbrier experience?
[00:30:34] Speaker B: Good to not be able to get into, like, your team drills and padded practices? Right. I mean, at this point in the season, like, this is the first time the team's really come together. You've had your otas in minicamp, but there's a lot of guys missing from those events or not participating. You finally have the team together, and you're trying to put together team drills and do padded practices, and you can't. That's not good.
This time is so valuable to install of all those things. And. And we're really. They've been installing all seasons, but it's the execution of the install. Right. They want to be able to see it. The coaches want to see it on the field, and if you can't do it, that's not good. So maybe the Browns will build a dome out there in green Briar Hills.
[00:31:12] Speaker A: I didn't even. I didn't even think about that. But, like, is they should get one.
[00:31:15] Speaker B: Of those big inflatable ones, you know, like the big golf driving ranges, you know? Yeah. Cincinnati did that, didn't they?
[00:31:22] Speaker A: What do you think? You think this hurts their camaraderie and kind of the team building that they're doing down there?
[00:31:29] Speaker C: I mean, they're still down there together. Right. So there one's missing out. They're all missing out on this kind of thing. So.
[00:31:35] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:31:36] Speaker C: I don't know, but getting that time together and as a team is probably vital.
[00:31:41] Speaker B: I just think it'll make.
I just think it'll make them think twice about going back next year.
[00:31:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:31:46] Speaker B: Because you don't want to be missing that time.
[00:31:48] Speaker A: And I'll say this. So this is my, my big thing is, is I don't, I honestly don't know. And I think there's been some other ex players that have talked about this. I don't understand how teams get ready with the way that they treat practices and everything else now. Like, even with the padded practices, even if you had them, like, you can only do so much. You can only do this. You can only do this.
[00:32:08] Speaker B: Yeah. They limited a lot of their ability to.
[00:32:10] Speaker A: I don't know how you're ready to go week one, to be honest with you.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: Frankly, they aren't. Right. That's why the first month of the season is just shit trash.
[00:32:17] Speaker A: Like there's just penalties everywhere, people. The game looks slow. Like it's.
[00:32:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, it's not until you get into the. To the fall that really football starts to become football.
[00:32:26] Speaker A: That's why it's like all this talk of. And I know they're going to it and I actually for it because I love football. But 18 games is going to be happening, right.
And then get rid of a pre, another preseason game and having an extra bye week. The extra bye week is fantastic. That helps a lot.
[00:32:42] Speaker B: Well, to me, it makes those preseason games more valuable to try and get some of your starters out and get up some practice in real, where I.
[00:32:48] Speaker A: Was going with it. I like how they do that. But it's really. The first four games of the season are just gonna be the preseason.
[00:32:53] Speaker B: Well, yeah, and that's how it's been for a while anyway.
[00:32:56] Speaker A: Not the preseason like we're used to. Like it's a meaningful preseason, quote unquote.
[00:33:00] Speaker B: Start a lot of the starters and key players don't even play in the preseason.
[00:33:03] Speaker A: So I don't know, it's just, it makes football a lot more difficult to watch those first few weeks, I would say. I mean, I got the Browns. I watched the Browns, even when they're the shittiest team in America, which they were for a long time, just throws.
[00:33:15] Speaker B: Things awry because bad teams sometimes look good early in the season and then it screws up all your, screws up everything for the rest of the year, you know?
[00:33:24] Speaker A: Yeah, but, yeah, so we'll see if the greenbrier, if they stick around there. I mean, hell, we might be building a dome since they might just move down to Columbus for a little while.
[00:33:34] Speaker B: Are they building the dome in Columbus?
[00:33:35] Speaker A: I don't know.
I was just thinking if they do renovations for the stadium in Cleveland is where I was going with that. We might be building Brook park, too, which would be the better option.
[00:33:46] Speaker B: I mean, I don't know. Look, I get that they want to do, like, team building and camaraderie, but, like, can they take a canoe trip in the off season or something? Like, they go to Deshawn's. Like, they go to Jamaica, and they do the beach vacations, and they run on the beach. Like, do we need to be worried about team camaraderie during the training camp? Like, just stay at. They have a beautiful facility over there across country mortgage campus that they continue to revamp and revitalize. You have indoor outdoor practicing there.
[00:34:11] Speaker A: I can't imagine what the daily price tag on.
[00:34:14] Speaker B: Just do the work.
[00:34:16] Speaker A: Yeah, no frills.
[00:34:18] Speaker B: I could care less. Like, I. All week long on social media, I'm seeing these guys sing country roads. Like, all right, it's fun for a second, but, like, do the work. Come. Come December and January when it's. When it's cold and you're fighting for a playoff spot. Like, I don't care about your camaraderie and your team building at the greenbrier. Like, you guys got to play an extra 18 rounds of golf or 18 holes of golf in the summer. Like, good for you.
[00:34:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:41] Speaker B: Do the work.
[00:34:42] Speaker A: It is. Speaking of social media, isn't it weird that, like, every NFL team. It's not just NFL. It's every sport everywhere. College, pros, everything. They're all realizing that they, too, can make money off of their social medias. And so, like, now, like, a million followers on Facebook, now non stop coming off the field every day from practice. Every single thing, everything that they do, it's like, hey, can you stop and say something real quick? And then people eat it up, which, I mean, I watch all of them, so I can't really say that. I just.
[00:35:13] Speaker B: You're part of the problem.
[00:35:14] Speaker A: I agree. I just find it very interesting because it's so different than what it used to be. It's so different.
[00:35:20] Speaker B: True. You had to catch those sound bites on the weekly news at night.
[00:35:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. But anyways, interview with Andrew Barry this past week, with a lot of interesting things coming out of that. That injury. Berry voiced support for a dome stadium.
[00:35:34] Speaker B: I'll say this real quick, too. Andrew Barry has been very available to the media this week, which I think has been cool that the greenbrier, he's answered a lot of questions.
[00:35:41] Speaker A: Did he do that last year?
[00:35:42] Speaker B: I don't. I don't recall.
It just feels like he's been very, like, open with the media for the last few days. It's been great.
[00:35:49] Speaker A: So, yeah, support for Dome Stadium. He said they're not gladiators, they're athletes. And he prefers to control the elements, but said an open air resolution would be fine, too. And ultimately, it's not his decision, it's the Haslam. So whatever they roll with, whatever.
[00:36:04] Speaker B: Jimmy, do you want to do? He says, I know that they have plans for both. Outdoor would be fine, but thinking about team building and thinking about choosing athletes based on certain criteria, I mean, no brainer to me that he would want to be in a dome.
[00:36:16] Speaker A: Yeah. He also tried to temper everyone's expectations with Nick Chubb. We just talked about this and how they. Every time it seems like people are getting excited for Nick Chubb, somebody comes out and they're like, hang on a second. And so he said that the team. Team is incredibly pleased with Nick Chubb's progress regarding his health and rehab process, but they still has a long ways to go.
[00:36:38] Speaker B: Yeah. So we got, like, the Mary Kay report about his cutting drills. We see the video of him squatting thousands of pounds. I mean, it's hard.
[00:36:45] Speaker A: Not much.
[00:36:46] Speaker B: It's hard not to get excited, but.
[00:36:48] Speaker A: I'm even more excited than you.
[00:36:50] Speaker B: Barry's out there.
[00:36:51] Speaker A: Wow. What's the world record for squats?
[00:36:54] Speaker B: Whatever it is, Nick.
[00:36:55] Speaker A: Whatever. Nick Chubb squad squads today. That's fair. Fair.
Listen, listen. Andrew Barry ain't tricking me. Nick Chubbs back week one, but hell yes.
Oh, man.
[00:37:07] Speaker B: So hard.
Anyways, sounds like the end of you.
[00:37:16] Speaker A: Andrew Barry also gave some insights as to how they're handling the Deshaun Watson coming back from surgery.
That whole situation, you know, he had surgery, obviously, on his throwing shoulder, so they're. They're trying to ease him back into things. He explained that Deshaun Watson will be getting designated rest days throughout training camp, while also adding that Watson is in a great place both mentally and physically right now. I know you heard something about this and just kind of where Deshaun's at, so can you comment on that?
[00:37:42] Speaker B: Yeah. First, I would just say, look, again, I think this is important, that Andrew Barry's been available this week to explain these types of things. Right. Because if all of a sudden we're getting reports from just sideline reporters, you put in tweets out that says Deshawn's not practicing today, that's worrisome. But the fact that Andrew Barry has come out and kind of said, hey, look like he had multiple injuries in this shoulder. It's going to take some time before, before he's totally back to 100%. And we want to make sure that we don't interrupt that process or going to give these restages I think is important.
But, yeah, I have heard from a number of different reporters that they've not seen any deep balls from Deshawn during the opening days of training camp here, which leads us to, like, two questions, which is, is, is DeShawn not able to make those throws or is this just a part of his scheduled rehab? Maybe they're going to work into longer throws as camp goes on and we get closer to preseason game number one. But, you know, it's just, it's, it's becoming a chorus now. It's, it's an echo line of guys saying everything they're doing looks like short stuff, west, west coast stuff. Looks like the last game against, I think it was Baltimore that he got hurt in, that he threw 15 passes, he went 15 or 15 or whatever, but there was all short stuff that he couldn't stretch the field. So my only other take on that is personally, is like, I feel like a deep ball is a luxury. Not that you don't want your quarterback to have the ability to do it, but how many deep balls are completed in any given NFL game?
[00:39:13] Speaker A: Like, one.
[00:39:14] Speaker B: There's a few teams that do it more frequently than others teams. You think about the Dolphins because of the stable or wide receivers that they have, the Chiefs in years past, because, again, the talent that they have on the field.
[00:39:27] Speaker A: But so basically you're saying Tyree kill the.
[00:39:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Guys like Tyree kill right off a defense. But, like, did the Browns have a Tyree Hill on the roster?
[00:39:34] Speaker A: No.
[00:39:34] Speaker B: I mean, it's going to just blow past dbs and you can just chuck it up.
[00:39:38] Speaker A: Yeah. So I think, I agree 100%, and I think this is layered, right? So it's like my first, my very first thing when I saw that and heard that was a dude's literally coming off a shoulder surgery. Like, you really just want him out here in training camp throwing bombs. Like, what is wrong with you?
Like, what, what does that prove to anybody, honestly? Like, if he completes a 50 yard pass in training camp, what does that do for anybody? Nothing. So, like, why?
[00:40:05] Speaker B: Means somebody got beat.
[00:40:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. But I'm just saying, like, it doesn't really do anything for, for anybody right now.
[00:40:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:13] Speaker A: And you've got several weeks before the season starts to. To ramp those up and start throwing them if you really want to.
[00:40:18] Speaker B: And I just think my take on it is like, is Deshaun's arm as strong as PJ Walker's arm last year? Is Deshawn's arm as strong as DTR's arm was last year? Year, like, we went through some awful quarterback play and were able to steal games. So if Deshawn is healthy enough to at least be at their level, but has better decision making, better athleticism in the pocket, better accuracy on those short.
[00:40:38] Speaker A: Throws, I feel fine.
[00:40:40] Speaker B: Should, should be okay. And I don't, I don't hate the idea of, like, running more of a west coast offense. You have a lot of playmakers get, get the ball. These guys in space. I mean, I'm fine with underneath routes and things, crossers and I.
There's a time and a place where, like, you want to make sure that you don't run away from the common sense of, like, are we running to the sticks? Like, I hate when it's third and eight and you throw the 1 yd out, it's like, okay, worst playing football. Could we get a little closer than that? But, but I don't mind it.
[00:41:08] Speaker A: On first down, the double reverse.
[00:41:12] Speaker B: Play football on your own 15.
[00:41:14] Speaker A: Yeah, worst player football.
[00:41:16] Speaker B: So, yeah, look, I just think we're going to wait and see through us, the camp. Do we start to see that develop or not? But potential cause concern early in camp.
[00:41:26] Speaker A: Yeah, the other thing, and you kind of hit on it was just the receivers. Like, we don't have that Tyree kill and Amari Cooper.
[00:41:35] Speaker B: People will argue athletes and people argue.
[00:41:38] Speaker A: Amare Cooper is like top three in the league and deep balls over the last however many years. But at the same time, it's like he's also 30 now. So let's be realistic. I still think he's a phenomenal receiver. I'm very glad that they resigned him, but you can't just expect him to keep doing that year after year as he hits that 30 mark. You, you can, I guess.
[00:41:58] Speaker B: What an idiot.
[00:42:00] Speaker A: Yeah. And so one other thing that Andrew Barry talked about was Jerome Ford's absence from camp. I know some people were concerned about that because he missed, was it three days?
And so Andrew Barry did confirm that the absence was due to the birth of his child and that he has now rejoined the team as of the morning of the interview that he gave. So he's back with them. Good for him having a baby. I wish he just didn't have a baby. His wife had a baby.
[00:42:25] Speaker B: I wish he just would have went away wow.
[00:42:30] Speaker A: I mean, me too. I'm not gonna lie. Jerome Ford. Listen, look, we've said this before. The Jerome Ford experiment is over.
[00:42:37] Speaker B: He's. He's a brown. I'm gonna root for him. I just think there's better options.
[00:42:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Like anybody.
[00:42:43] Speaker B: And maybe we're not giving Jerome Ford, like, his due credit. Like, he had a number of big plays last year. It just seemed like he would have one big play a game and then they didn't do anything.
[00:42:51] Speaker A: It wasn't even one. One big play a game. It was like three big plays the whole season. If you take those on way, he averaged like 2.4 yards of carry.
[00:42:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Maybe he'll be better this year. Maybe he'll grow on us.
[00:43:00] Speaker A: Maybe you know when he'll be better. Jerome Fungus is when Nick Chubb comes back.
[00:43:07] Speaker B: That's he'll be the best then. Because probably the biggest Jerome Ford fan when he can just spell Nick Chubb.
[00:43:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Cause all he has to do is make one big play a game and they're like, oh, now there's somebody else you gotta watch out for.
[00:43:17] Speaker B: The thing is, I think, like, naheem Hines probably is a better spell for Nick Chubb.
[00:43:20] Speaker C: That's exactly what I was just thinking. I feel like he's gonna to be getting the extra touches if he's healthy.
[00:43:24] Speaker B: I mean, Naheed's just so much more polished to the back than Jerome is. I like our rookie, Aiden Robinson. Yeah, the big man. I mean, we'll see if he makes a team. He's got a lot of running backs out there right now.
[00:43:35] Speaker A: He's gonna make the team.
[00:43:36] Speaker B: Cut days coming. Was it like August 27 or something?
[00:43:39] Speaker A: He's gonna make the team. I think Jerome Ford gets cut.
[00:43:43] Speaker B: That would feel bad if you just had a baby and they're like, see ya. Thanks.
[00:43:47] Speaker A: Oh, mandy. Yeah. I'm out of a job, honey.
[00:43:50] Speaker B: He'd probably find a job somewhere else pretty quickly, though. Cause probably he's young.
[00:43:53] Speaker A: Probably.
One thing that was addressed but not actually answered is something that I know we're all wondering here. We've talked about it off air several times. Obviously off air because we're back.
[00:44:03] Speaker B: We're back.
[00:44:04] Speaker A: But will the browns keep three quarterbacks this year?
And, you know, Andrew Barry? Basically what he said. I'm not going to read you the whole quote.
[00:44:14] Speaker B: Well, I think it's important. First off to note, I just. That Andrew Barry historically has kept two.
[00:44:18] Speaker A: Yeah, right. That's why the reason for the question. But he kind of came out and said more or less, you know, in years past, I've. I've kept to. He said I. He did say he actually prefers to keep three, even though he usually has kept two.
And he said it really just shakes down to how everything plays out with everybody and what's best for the team is what they're going to do. So basically, a no answer is what he gave.
[00:44:44] Speaker B: I mean, I know he alluded, like, last year, he's like, we had Josh Dobbs on the roster, but then we had a chance to move him, so.
[00:44:51] Speaker A: Yeah, and so, but the thing is.
[00:44:52] Speaker B: That they have, outside of Deshawn, you have three really interesting guys. I mean, between, like, I think.
[00:44:57] Speaker A: I think Deshawn and Jamis is your number two.
[00:45:01] Speaker B: They paid him a decent chunk of money to come here, but DTR is a buried guy because he was drafted in by this organization and Tyler got.
[00:45:08] Speaker A: Thrown to the Wolves because he was our only option last year.
[00:45:10] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, you expect a guy like that to be able to grow and let's be honest, like, the skillset of DTR was. He was picked because his skillset kind of mimics DeShawn's or at least what they hoped Deshawns would be. But then you have Tyler Huntley just hanging out there that, like, his probably been the most, maybe valued backup quarterback, valuable backup quarterback in the last like three years across the NFL.
[00:45:37] Speaker A: Well, and it's going to sound really mean towards Tyler Huntley, but it's not because the Pro bowl is a complete joke. He made the Pro bowl last year.
[00:45:45] Speaker B: We played a lot of time with Lamar going down and the thing is, he wasn't bad. I mean, he's made us, he's beat us.
[00:45:51] Speaker C: That's what I was going to say. I feel like he's beat us a couple times. Lamar was out.
[00:45:54] Speaker B: I mean, we just have conversations. When we were back in the baker, you're like, people were like, we should just trade for Tyler Huntley. Like, they were like, let's just make this guy the starter. So even to pair this thing down to three is going to be a really tough decision. Like, when Madden comes out and I got to cut it down to three, I don't know who I'm going.
[00:46:12] Speaker A: True.
[00:46:12] Speaker B: Let's be honest, I'm gonna trade for Baker on day one.
[00:46:15] Speaker A: So I fucking hate you.
You're my least favorite and I do everything with you. It's ridiculous. I hate it. I'm rethinking life decisions.
Anyways. I think they go, I mean, this is. Nobody really asked for an opinion yet. I guess but I'm gonna say they're gonna go with Deshaun Watson, Jamis Winston and I think they keep DTR well. And I think Tyler Huntley, assuming he doesn't get picked up by somebody else, I think, I think what they're going to try and do is make him the guy in the practice squad. And then obviously the new rule with the emergency quarterback so and so I don't.
[00:46:50] Speaker B: Because at some point you're ineligible for practice squad after a certain number of years, I believe, too. So I don't know if he's eligible to replace. So I would think it would. It's almost more likely that if he carries three that they keep Tyler Huntley, put DTR in the practice squad, hope he doesn't get picked up. But because the new quarterback, the emergency quarterback rule that they put in place last year has a new caveat. For 2024, the teams can promote an emergency quarterback from their practice squad like the day of the game. So whereas before they had to be on the 53 man roster the day of the game.
So to me that almost seems like the best case scenario. It's just you wind up in a position where you might lose a piece of talent that you drafted. Yeah, but Tyler Helling is just a.
[00:47:35] Speaker C: Veteran guy that like here is something quick about the eligibility for practice squad. Yeah, I just googled it. Just a quick, but it says players who do not have an accrued season of NFL experience. So if Tyler Huntley was on an active roster for a whole NFL season, I think you're right, he's not eligible.
[00:47:51] Speaker B: Yeah, that makes sense.
[00:47:56] Speaker A: Well, yeah, and I don't know what they're going to do. My gut just tells me that they, they still value DTR.
[00:48:04] Speaker B: I agree. I mean we know that Andrew Barry likes to keep his guys around like his guys.
[00:48:09] Speaker A: Here's what I will say. I don't think they're keeping four.
[00:48:11] Speaker B: No, that that'd be a complete waste.
[00:48:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
But anyways, somebody will be out of.
[00:48:18] Speaker B: A job August 27.
[00:48:20] Speaker A: Yeah. Next up here, AFC North News never really again, not new news but happened since we talked talked to all of you last. The entire AFC north has been chosen to participate in hard knocks in season.
[00:48:34] Speaker B: At the end of the season.
[00:48:35] Speaker A: At the end of the season. Did they release the dates for it and everything?
[00:48:38] Speaker B: Well, it's like the last. I think it's. I think it started in like November or something, right? This is like November through the end of the season.
It's like during the playoff push I.
[00:48:47] Speaker C: Don'T have to get HBO till December.
[00:48:51] Speaker B: Yeah, just use my login.
We'll netflix this bitch.
[00:48:54] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:48:55] Speaker A: No idea what it is. But anyways, yeah. Interesting, though, that they're doing an entire division, and I actually, the funny thing is, I do think that hard knocks can be a distraction, especially if things aren't going great for you at that particular moment. Right. So, like, say the browns are going through a rough patch where they're having some injuries, whatever, and they're trying to right the ship, and then here comes fucking hard knocks. Just like, how about a camera in your face every day? Yeah.
So that's not good. But what I think this does, it really levels the playing field as far as doing it to the whole division.
[00:49:30] Speaker B: True.
[00:49:30] Speaker A: So it's like, now everybody's going through it. So it's just another thing that, like, all of you guys are going through. So may the. May the best team win.
[00:49:37] Speaker B: What I think is really interesting is I think this is going to show which teams have the best leadership. Because if your locker room is tight and people are listening, doing what's going.
[00:49:49] Speaker A: To show up on camera.
[00:49:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it's going to. It was going to show up when you win loss record. I mean, this has the potential to break it team. Like you mentioned, if you're going through adversity and then all of a sudden you have all this publicity and people are in your face every day shooting everything you're doing when things are going wrong, I mean, that can absolutely spiral out of control quickly. I mean, hell, it spiraled out of control for the Browns when they did it to Jackson. Look how they played.
So I think this is going to be. I think it'll be really cool. A, it's going to give us a ton of content.
[00:50:20] Speaker A: I was going to say we got a crazy year ahead for us.
[00:50:24] Speaker B: Yeah. But b, just because I think this is the most interesting division in football, and c, just because I think being able to see what your opponents are doing at the same time, like, I just think it's not really been done before in hard knocks. Really. You're always following one club.
I'm also excited because, like, the last time around, it was browns during training camp. Right. So you have all these silly stories about, like, is this guy gonna make the roster? Like, this is gonna be legitimate football every day, in and out. Like, we're trying to win games. You have your best 53 against our 53, and it's like, there's no holds barred. Like, this is. This is a street match now.
[00:51:03] Speaker A: Yeah. No, I do have mixed feelings just because the distractions that it can cause. I. But I think, for the most part, I'm. I'm pretty pumped about this because, like, some of the things I look back on is, like, last year, right? Even though we were good, we had a lot of, like, trials and tribulations after Deshawn went down and. And DTR had those games where he was somehow winning, but he was getting destroyed. Like, I would have loved to just be a fly on the wall and hear what he would say behind the scenes, like, after a game, like, goddess. Like, what the fuck?
[00:51:37] Speaker B: Not only that, but just the things in the locker room. Again, you'd be able to see that leadership that kept that team together because they did keep together.
[00:51:46] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. That's the flip side of it.
[00:51:47] Speaker B: Who are the voices in that room? Like, I mean, you expect it to be guys like Kevin, smiles and Kevin, but, like, were there other guys that stepped up that were holding that team? I mean, we don't. Well, no, we weren't there, but you.
[00:51:58] Speaker A: Want to be interested, like, what was Joe Flacco's thoughts through this whole thing? Like, did he just come in and be like, I'm not really gonna say. I don't have a place on this team, right?
[00:52:06] Speaker B: Like, I'm just happy to be here.
[00:52:08] Speaker A: Or did he come in? He's like, let's fucking go.
[00:52:10] Speaker B: Like, I'm gonna just launch it, so I'm gonna go grab it. We're gonna win this game.
[00:52:13] Speaker A: Like, just so you guys know, I'm out there throwing bombs. Like, that's what I would've done. But, you know, I'm not an NFL quarterback, so I would throw lots of picks, but, yeah, I mean, I would have loved to see what. What did Stefanski actually say to these guys at halftime at the end of game?
[00:52:29] Speaker B: The good news is you're gonna get to see it this year.
[00:52:31] Speaker A: We get to see it.
[00:52:32] Speaker B: We get to see it. We get to see it.
[00:52:34] Speaker A: Oh, boy.
[00:52:35] Speaker B: I'm hard for hard knocks.
[00:52:37] Speaker A: Whoa.
[00:52:39] Speaker C: Hell, yes.
[00:52:40] Speaker B: It's good thing I'm sitting in front of a table.
[00:52:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Nobody wants to see that. Don't worry. It won't reach the table anyways. Next up here, we got the hot three.
[00:52:49] Speaker B: The hot three, hot three. What is the hot three?
[00:52:52] Speaker A: I'm gonna let a sounder play first.
[00:52:54] Speaker B: The hot three, hot three.
[00:52:56] Speaker A: Gonna turn it up, turn it up hot I'm hot to the touch burning down I'm hot hot to the touch I'm hot to the touch burning up I'm hot, I'm hot. Like fire.
[00:53:06] Speaker B: Fire.
[00:53:06] Speaker A: Fire.
All right, so the hot three. This is a new segment this year where we pick a category, any category, and we can rotate who doesn't. We'll just throw it out there the day of the show. Right.
[00:53:18] Speaker B: I would say, if you have suggestions for your hot take. Yeah. If anybody wants to tell us, comment on social media.
[00:53:23] Speaker A: Comment on social media. Or you could call the hot take outline, but just to give us a.
[00:53:27] Speaker B: Quick break from football every now and then.
[00:53:29] Speaker A: Yeah. So it's just a category, and we all have to give our hot three, or basically our top three in that category. So from there, you could tell us, you know, again on social media, we'll post these on social media every week. You could tell us who's right, who's wrong, what we missed, all that stuff. Tell us what your hot three would be.
Just want to get involved with you guys and see what you think. So this week, Jim Carrey movies.
[00:53:51] Speaker C: I like it.
[00:53:52] Speaker B: I love Jim Carrey, by the way.
[00:53:55] Speaker A: We all do. Who doesn't? He's national treasure.
[00:53:57] Speaker B: He is a national treasure.
[00:53:58] Speaker A: Bone.
[00:53:59] Speaker B: Protect Jim Carrey at all costs.
[00:54:00] Speaker A: Bone. Top three. Three. Jim Carrey moves. We'll start with your. We're going. It's descending. So number one is your favorite.
[00:54:07] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:54:07] Speaker A: Start with three.
[00:54:08] Speaker C: Okay. All right, so I think this is gonna be a wild card for you guys. I don't know if anybody's gonna say this, so I got the Truman show coming at number three. And, man, do I love the Truman show.
[00:54:17] Speaker A: I love the Truman show.
[00:54:19] Speaker C: Yeah. Picturesque little town. You know, I actually drove through it down on the panhandle. You can. You can do that down.
[00:54:24] Speaker A: You got in a dome and drive.
[00:54:25] Speaker C: Down on 30 a. Oh, yeah. No dome. I was able to just drive right through. It was a, like, picturesque, perfect little town.
[00:54:31] Speaker B: There's like, the actual town they fill is.
[00:54:33] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:54:34] Speaker B: Really?
[00:54:34] Speaker C: Yeah, it's right up the street from Rosemary beach in the panhandle.
I think it's called seaside. I'm pretty sure I'll have to make.
[00:54:40] Speaker B: A trip out of that sometimes. That sounds interesting.
[00:54:42] Speaker C: It was cool.
[00:54:43] Speaker B: Truman show is definitely up. I'm not gonna bring on my top three, but, I mean, I think it's one of the most interesting Jim Carrey movies ever made.
[00:54:51] Speaker A: Number two.
[00:54:52] Speaker C: Number two. Ace Ventura. I love Ace Ventura.
Just hilarious. All the noises, you know? You know. NFL ties with Dan, Maria, Reno.
[00:55:03] Speaker A: Let's hear that one in repair.
[00:55:04] Speaker C: Finkel and Einhorn. Einhorn and Finkel.
[00:55:07] Speaker B: Invasion you couldn't make today.
[00:55:09] Speaker A: Oh, no. Absolutely.
[00:55:11] Speaker B: There's something about those types of comedies.
[00:55:13] Speaker C: The bulge in the captain's pants.
[00:55:15] Speaker A: Oh, man. The birthing out of the rhino. That's when nature calls. But that's.
[00:55:22] Speaker C: Wow. All right. And then obviously, dumb. And dumber is number one. There's no doubt about that.
[00:55:27] Speaker A: Mark.
[00:55:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:55:29] Speaker A: Ing.
[00:55:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:55:31] Speaker A: Bird.
[00:55:32] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:55:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:55:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:55:35] Speaker B: My kid bird. Don't everybody.
[00:55:42] Speaker A: I love it. I love it. I love it. I'll go next. I'll go next. I actually do know that Kenny is probably one of the biggest Jim Carrey fans around. Jim Carrey, I'm gonna save you for last. I'm gonna go number three. Liar. Liar.
[00:55:56] Speaker B: Good one, Fletcher.
So good.
[00:56:01] Speaker A: The goddamn pen is blue.
That's one of my favorite. I particularly love the chase scene at the end when he's on the thing at the airport chasing down the plane.
[00:56:14] Speaker B: Yeah. When he's able to drive stairs 200 miles an hour to catch up to the airplane.
[00:56:19] Speaker A: Yeah. And he just flies over. They show up when he crashes through all the suitcases and the thing's just around his nose. Classic Jim Carrey. And then my favorite line in the whole movie, I'm kicking my ass. Do you mind?
Five foot ten, kind of gangly.
And then the mask at number two.
[00:56:43] Speaker B: That's an interesting choice.
[00:56:44] Speaker C: Great choice.
[00:56:46] Speaker A: I think that's another one that you probably can't make today. There's a lot of racy jokes in that one.
[00:56:51] Speaker B: True.
[00:56:53] Speaker A: That's just, to me, that was one of the first ones that I ever saw with Jim Carrey was the mask.
[00:56:58] Speaker B: I could see how that.
[00:56:59] Speaker A: Which I'm surprised. Shame on my mom for letting me watch that. Looking back now, again, lots of racy jokes in that. So I was 1994. I was four years old. So thank you, mother.
[00:57:08] Speaker C: Did you have a crush on Cameron Diaz at that point?
[00:57:10] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:57:11] Speaker B: It's probably one of your first crushes.
[00:57:13] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And she wasn't just in that. She was in multiple great movies around that time.
[00:57:18] Speaker B: So we might have to do Cameron Diaz.
[00:57:20] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. She's on. Yeah, definitely. And then number one and dumber mark.
[00:57:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:57:28] Speaker A: So there you have it. Kenny, what do you got?
[00:57:31] Speaker B: Well done. Well done. I'm probably gonna throw you for a loop here on this first one because I think this is a very underrated Jim Carrey movie.
[00:57:40] Speaker A: Truman show was. I almost put that my top three Truman show.
[00:57:43] Speaker B: It was. It was really hard for me because that was. Yeah. Truman show is just so classic. But I'm gonna start my list off number three. Three with yes, man. Oh, really? Yes, man. I just Zoey Deschanel. Like, when you think about Joey, Zoey and Jim Carrey. Like, freaking Joey, Joey and Zoe, Jim and Zoe. Like, the age difference is so noticeable, but their chemistry was so fire in that movie that I just, like. I love.
[00:58:10] Speaker A: No cap, bro. No cap.
[00:58:11] Speaker B: I would watch that movie every day when it's on tv.
So love. Yes, man. Number two.
Liar.
[00:58:19] Speaker A: Liar.
[00:58:20] Speaker B: It's gotta be on the list.
[00:58:21] Speaker A: What's your favorite line?
[00:58:25] Speaker B: My favorite line from. Look, I actually thought of another one.
[00:58:29] Speaker A: And this probably is your favorite line. Remember, we've been friends for a long time. I know you better than most people. Probably more than you know yourself. Sometime. I think your favorite line of liar. Liar is. Yeah. In your bra.
[00:58:39] Speaker B: That is my favorite. That is my. Yes. And I use that on a daily basis. And no one knows what I'm talking about. Every time somebody's doing.
[00:58:46] Speaker A: I use it on a daily basis.
[00:58:47] Speaker B: A unit of measure in your bra.
So fun. Beginning to end. Also super underrated. Babe. Maura. Tyranny. The chick from er that. His wife in the show.
[00:59:02] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:59:03] Speaker B: I've always had a thing for her. Just. I did grow up watching er.
[00:59:06] Speaker A: Let's be. Let's be honest. Who don't you have a thing for?
[00:59:09] Speaker B: I'm just saying. I'm just saying, like, you don't like when you take in, like, a top, like, five babes. Put more tyranny on the list. Like, I would.
[00:59:15] Speaker C: I think that's an excellent point.
[00:59:17] Speaker B: She's very understood.
[00:59:18] Speaker A: That's fair.
[00:59:19] Speaker B: It's not like she's, like, racy or wears, like, anything provocative in him. She's just got a classic, like, wholesome beauty, pretty lady, and then everyone. Yeah. Dumb and dumb, right? It's the single most quotable movie in the history of cinema.
[00:59:33] Speaker C: Are you ready, Harry?
[00:59:34] Speaker B: Period. So you're telling me there's a chance, like, there's no better.
[00:59:38] Speaker A: We landed on the move.
[00:59:40] Speaker B: Every. Every line of that is so perfect.
[00:59:43] Speaker A: Big gulp, son.
[00:59:44] Speaker B: To the point where, like, growing up.
[00:59:46] Speaker A: I just used it today, so we'll get to this more later. But all the. You guys know all the stuff that went wrong in my house today? AC went out, tree fell down. All that good stuff. I texted my wife, I said, the AC is out. A tree fell down. Our pet's heads are falling off.
[01:00:02] Speaker B: I just. I. Like. I went through an actual obsession with this movie in my, like, early teen years where I watched it every day before bed. It would be on my back when I had a VCR.
[01:00:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:00:12] Speaker B: I would put that tape into VCR to go to sleep every night.
[01:00:14] Speaker A: I went straight from this to a.
[01:00:15] Speaker B: Knight'S tale, just osmosis into my brain. Like, all those lines to, like, where I could recite them all, just the entire movie without seeing it.
Like, to the point where I actually made a website one time. This is weird. I made a website one time that I was about my love for dumb and dumber. And, like, this was back in, like, the MySpace and, like, not even what was before MySpace, like, the Zanga journals and stuff where, like, we were, like, secretly learning how to code without knowing how to code.
[01:00:42] Speaker A: MySpace, you can really get into coding.
[01:00:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And. But I made this website, and basically, like, the objective was, like, I wanted to take a pilgrimage to Aspen to, like, relive the experience, like, in my ten year old brain. I thought that was a cool thing to do.
But you get a lot of traffic. I don't think so. But there's probably a webpage out there somewhere about my love for.
[01:01:03] Speaker A: Still there, huh?
[01:01:04] Speaker B: What a great.
[01:01:04] Speaker A: You probably let that domain expire out. Yes.
[01:01:07] Speaker B: Probably feels bad. I don't even think, like, that.
[01:01:10] Speaker A: Gone to oblivion.
[01:01:11] Speaker B: I don't even think that was, like, in a point where they were, like, charging for domains. Like, this was, like, early.
[01:01:15] Speaker A: You're like, this is my domain now.
[01:01:16] Speaker B: Like, I had an AOL screen name.
[01:01:17] Speaker A: And I was like, this is for cyber squatters. Got the idea of, like, I'm gonna take this domain and nobody can have it.
[01:01:22] Speaker B: Right? Yeah, you can just, like, open target.com.
[01:01:25] Speaker A: That'S mine until target pays me.
[01:01:26] Speaker B: That's right. That's right.
[01:01:29] Speaker A: Fair.
[01:01:29] Speaker B: So that's our top three.
[01:01:32] Speaker A: That's the hot three for the week.
[01:01:33] Speaker B: Let us know whether you agree. Disagree.
[01:01:35] Speaker C: I like that. I like the hot three.
[01:01:36] Speaker A: You like it?
[01:01:37] Speaker C: Yeah, it's fun.
[01:01:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:01:38] Speaker A: This is new stage.
[01:01:39] Speaker B: Something to give us a little levity to the show sometimes. Cause sometimes talking to the Browns can be hard.
[01:01:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
But, yeah, real quick here. Wanna remind everybody about the Nick Chubb football giveaway. It's right here. It's a little hard to see in the camera with all the lights and everything, because the ball is white and.
[01:01:56] Speaker B: There is an autograph.
[01:01:56] Speaker A: And there's an autograph on it. You might be able to see it, but there's an autograph on there. So, for the second offseason in a row, the Browns offseason. Well, it was our offseason.
[01:02:05] Speaker B: We have pictures of it online.
[01:02:06] Speaker A: Yeah, we got pictures.
[01:02:07] Speaker B: Yeah, check it out.
[01:02:08] Speaker A: But anyways, second offseason in a row, we're giving away some autographed Browns memorabilia. And it just so happens that for the second year in a row, we're giving away some nick showed memorabilia, autographed memorabilia. And it's again the Nick Chubb autograph football. This year, the winner will be chosen from our YouTube subscribers. There's a link on all our social medias that you can go to to get signed up and make sure you're earning any of the bonus entries as well.
I will say this, even if you don't go through that link, I am picking from our YouTube subscribers, so you are already entered. If you are subscribed, there are other ways that you can earn the bonus entries. Like I just mentioned, head to our social media pages to keep an eye out for all that. Multiple ways. But the big thing is you gotta be subscribed. Have to be subscribed on YouTube. It is particularly a competition for our YouTube subscribers.
[01:02:56] Speaker B: And why wouldn't it be on YouTube, since that's the only place you can find full episodes, correct. Of the Burning river sportscast.
[01:03:03] Speaker A: Right? Our video podcast. The only place you find our video.
[01:03:05] Speaker B: Podcast, along with tons of reels and other fun things.
[01:03:07] Speaker A: Hell yes. And so the link for that again for the, for the giveaway is in our show notes. Or just use the handle at burning riversportscast if you're on YouTube to find us.
And with that, let's take a quick revenue break and then we'll get back here and we'll talk more browns.
[01:03:23] Speaker B: I'm in.
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[01:04:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
Interesting timing for topath advertisement.
[01:04:21] Speaker A: Why?
[01:04:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, because we're gonna talk about next in the show.
[01:04:25] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, are we just, are we rolling now? Is that what you're going?
[01:04:30] Speaker B: Yeah, we're gonna keep doing the show till it's over.
[01:04:33] Speaker A: Okay.
Say that again.
[01:04:37] Speaker B: Interesting timing for a towpath advertisement.
[01:04:40] Speaker A: It actually is interesting timing for a towpath advertisement. You know why?
[01:04:44] Speaker B: Leaving the whole thing in.
[01:04:47] Speaker A: I fucking hate you. Anyways, brever sports guest. Upcoming events here. So we have a pretty big event coming up at the end of August, right?
[01:04:55] Speaker B: Hell yes.
[01:04:55] Speaker A: Hell yes. Our first of what we hope to be many more season preview parties. It will be at topath distillery that's located inside the merchant tavern, Akron, Ohio. So tickets to this thing that you do have to buy tickets, they're $35 and what that includes is party admission, front row seats to watch us record our season preview episode. Meet and greets with former Browns players. We've got John Hughes and Frank stams for you. Meet and greet with Brown's on field Mc Bridget Linton.
Autograph sessions with the Browns players.
Distillery tour. Distillery tastings, and then there's also additional food and drink available for purchase. So, basically, what I'm trying to say is, come have a kick ass time as we kick off brown season again. Link in the show notes there. Make sure you get signed up, get a ticket. It's going to be fun.
[01:05:43] Speaker B: So much good here. I mean, it's going to be fun, right? We're going to be rearing to go, getting ready for the brown season. It's going to be a week away, basically.
And look, I don't know, like, if you haven't had the chance to meet John Hughes, one of the most genuine dudes, bone peed back to back with John Hughes on the Browns fan cruise.
[01:06:03] Speaker A: You should clarify what that means.
[01:06:06] Speaker B: They were in urinals. Back to back.
[01:06:08] Speaker A: There you go.
[01:06:08] Speaker B: Is cruise cruises have limited space for bathrooms. Yeah. Yeah. They're made weird.
[01:06:13] Speaker A: John Hughes is a big man.
[01:06:14] Speaker B: I'm surprised a big man.
And Frank Stams is just probably one of the most hilarious, stature wise.
[01:06:21] Speaker A: That's what I'm saying.
[01:06:21] Speaker B: Anyways, he's a big man. And Frank Stams is just one of the most hilarious. Just like fun loving human beings you've ever met.
[01:06:29] Speaker A: Dude's a party. He's a walking party.
[01:06:31] Speaker B: And for anybody that hasn't met Bridget, you've maybe heard her or seen her at Brown's games.
[01:06:36] Speaker A: If you haven't heard her or seen her in general lately, what are. Do you live under a rack? She's literally, she's doing off events, she's on commercials. She's like. She's everywhere. She's at the freaking car wash. When I go to the car wash, she's everywhere.
[01:06:50] Speaker B: Tons of fun. And the killer irish dancer.
[01:06:55] Speaker A: World class, actually.
[01:06:56] Speaker B: World class. Yeah, we learned it about her. Yeah. Actual world class.
[01:07:00] Speaker A: It's gonna be a lot of fun. We'll be doing.
[01:07:01] Speaker B: On top of that, you're.
[01:07:03] Speaker A: There's more? Yeah.
[01:07:04] Speaker B: You're at one of the best dining establishments, probably in all of greater Akron at the merchant. Great food, great drinks, and I suggest.
[01:07:12] Speaker A: Everybody buys a hot chicken sandwich if you're into that sort of thing.
[01:07:15] Speaker B: I like everything on the menu. I can't discriminate. And you get the distillery tour. I mean, you get to see where these amazing spirits are made. You get to taste them.
It's going to be a hell of a time.
[01:07:25] Speaker A: Yeah. And while you're there, I mean, you mentioned the tastings. After the tasting, I guarantee you're going to want a bottle of something because all of their spirits are fantastic.
[01:07:34] Speaker B: You won't want to leave empty handed.
[01:07:36] Speaker A: They are available at the distillery. Another event we have coming up, the New Orleans true fan travel trip.
[01:07:42] Speaker B: True fan travel.
[01:07:43] Speaker A: So you heard that right. Burning river sportscast will be joining true fan travel as they take over New Orleans in the Superdome. And so that trip is from November 15 to November 18, I believe are the dates.
It's a Friday through. Through a Monday morning flyback on Monday. The event includes optional round trip, private charter flight, three night stay at Renaissance New Orleans.
What is this? I don't know how to say french words. Pet Marquette. French Quarter.
We also get the welcome party. That's an all inclusive cruise down the.
[01:08:22] Speaker B: Mississippi river with another Browns fan cruise.
[01:08:25] Speaker A: What can we say? We basically are the face of the Browns fan cruise.
[01:08:28] Speaker B: We are the face of cruises for the Browns.
[01:08:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:08:32] Speaker B: Unofficially.
[01:08:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Unofficially, obviously. Q and a with Kevin Mack, Kevin the maxer. There's gonna be a pep rally, there's gonna be an all inclusive tailgate, tickets to the game at the Superdome, and then on site trip coordinators to handle any questions or issues that may arise while you're there. So not only are they sending you, they're also taking care of you the whole time you're there.
[01:08:50] Speaker B: I'm gonna get so many beads.
[01:08:53] Speaker A: You got big boobs.
People are gonna like you. Yeah.
[01:08:58] Speaker B: Look, I am so excited about this trip. True fan has been great to work with, and we're gonna get to see firsthand the type of party that they put on.
Can't, cannot wait for this, especially the. The river cruise. And then the game itself is gonna be an awesome time. Hell, yeah.
[01:09:16] Speaker A: Super bowl is at the Superdome this year.
[01:09:18] Speaker B: Yeah. So we might have to go back.
[01:09:20] Speaker A: Yeah, we might have to see the Superdome twice in one year, and I.
[01:09:22] Speaker B: Just never been New Orleans.
[01:09:24] Speaker A: Me neither. I'm looking forward to all the Cajun food and gumbo.
[01:09:28] Speaker B: Like, the whole package. But, like, the whole idea is, like, this is an all inclusive away game, right. It's kind of like you're going to a home game but in another city. So you get to go out and explore this new, cool city, but you're getting all the stuff that you might be able to. You were. You were planning to do it like a normal browns game. You're getting your tailgate, all this, but it's all included.
[01:09:47] Speaker A: Your food, drinks. It's like we're groupies, but it's taken to a whole nother level. Whole another level. Yeah.
[01:09:52] Speaker B: Yeah. It's gonna be fun.
[01:09:53] Speaker A: Hell, yes. This is gonna be lit.
Yeah, man. New Orleans gonna be the shit.
[01:10:11] Speaker B: It's gonna be lit. And I'm gonna get so many beats.
[01:10:13] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[01:10:14] Speaker B: Also, I'm excited to have some actual New Orleans beignets.
[01:10:19] Speaker A: Ooh, beignets. Yeah.
[01:10:21] Speaker B: And, I mean, I'm gonna eat this shit out of beignets, like, every day. I'm gonna be like, where's the beignet?
[01:10:26] Speaker A: You're gonna be like, where'd Kenny go? He's getting more beignets.
[01:10:29] Speaker C: I can't wait for all the food.
[01:10:31] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Cajun food is some of my favorites.
[01:10:33] Speaker B: You ever see the impractical jokers where Joe was a human beignet and it covered in flour and sugar? People sucked on him in the street?
That'll be me.
[01:10:44] Speaker A: That sounds great. Hey, speaking of punishments, me and. Me and. Me and Zach have. Me and Bone have been thinking.
And what have you been thinking? We've been thinking. We don't. Don't worry about it. Let me just tell you. We've been thinking. That's all I'm going to tell you.
[01:11:00] Speaker B: Let me just say this before we start king of the north this year, we're going to name the punishment beforehand so the loser knows and can look forward to this because I've just been living in fear as to what this surprise punishment is going to be.
[01:11:12] Speaker A: So we've got some ideas right now, right?
[01:11:15] Speaker C: Put out a lot of ideas.
[01:11:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess I'll find out.
[01:11:17] Speaker A: I'll give you one clue. It is one of the. The ideas that we've set on air at one point or another.
[01:11:22] Speaker B: Well, we've mentioned about 8000, so I.
[01:11:24] Speaker A: Gave you a clue, so appreciate that. Yeah, you're welcome. Jake, speaking of punishments and how angry you're gonna be, let's talk about gassed up.
[01:11:36] Speaker B: Talk about gassed up.
[01:11:38] Speaker A: Let's get gassed up. Let's get gassed up.
[01:11:41] Speaker B: Let's get gassed up.
So let's remind everybody. Gassed up.
[01:11:51] Speaker A: This is just a segment. I don't even know how to lead into it. I'm so excited.
[01:11:56] Speaker B: This is basically free for all segment, generally, about something that maybe is pissing us off or just rubbing us the wrong way or it couldn't. It's just be something we're overly excited about.
[01:12:06] Speaker A: Even I'm always getting rubbed the wrong way.
[01:12:12] Speaker B: You gotta rub me the right way.
[01:12:15] Speaker A: Let's start with you.
[01:12:16] Speaker B: So, yeah, will start.
I was just thinking. I mean, yeah, we talked about watching the Olympics, the opening ceremonies.
Bros.
The Olympics are just insane.
[01:12:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:12:31] Speaker B: Countries are literally just, like, every day, just bombing each other, just war, just taking over, just killing each other, doing the most unthinkable of human atrocities.
And then we're like, let's just play some sports real quick and take the edge off.
[01:12:48] Speaker A: Every four years. All's forgiven.
[01:12:50] Speaker B: Why don't we just settle this as a soccer match?
[01:12:52] Speaker A: Like, seriously, it does beg the question. Like, for example, the one I. Probably the most well known of recent memory is Ukraine and Russia. Right, but. Well, Russia's been banned, but aren't they still competing?
[01:13:04] Speaker B: Ukraine is. I don't think the Russian had any continued there at all. They didn't send any, but, like, the Palestinians and the Israelis. Dude.
[01:13:10] Speaker A: Well, there you go. So that's, like, probably the most well known combat in history, so.
[01:13:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, especially right now. Like, it's in the middle of, like, I mean, like, buildings burning every day. Like, it's a big deal, but, like, literally, we all just stop. We're just like, let's forget all that. Let's just, like, play some table tennis.
[01:13:27] Speaker A: You guys.
[01:13:28] Speaker B: You guys hang out just thinking about that. I'm just like, what is this world?
[01:13:32] Speaker A: Yeah. What do you think about some of the new events? Like, parkour?
[01:13:38] Speaker B: Um, it seems like every year, they add. I was just telling Christine, my wife, about that. Like. Like, break dancing and stuff. Like, it was like, an Olympic sport now. Like, yeah, I don't know. I kind of long for the olden days of, like, actual sports, but I'd like to see something like bowling added.
[01:13:52] Speaker A: Yeah, that'd be cool. I'd like.
[01:13:54] Speaker B: I felt like it was a long time coming for golf to be added, which they finally did, which is good. So, like, some inclusion is good, but some of these things I don't. Like. I don't know how you parkour. Like, I don't know how you, like, score that, like, very carefully. I like, I don't even understand, really, how you score, like, surfing, because I was thinking about this the other day, is like, every wave kind of has to be like a snowflake, right? Like, not every wave is the same. They're different heights. They move at different speeds depending on what the winds are.
[01:14:21] Speaker A: Well, that's what you supposedly. You could read that. So it's like, that's part of your score, is you got to be able to catch the right wave.
[01:14:27] Speaker B: And maybe you're right. Like, I don't have any idea.
[01:14:29] Speaker A: I have no idea how surfing works.
[01:14:31] Speaker B: But I'm just like, how can you score an event where, like, if you run the 400, everybody runs the 400. If you throw a discus, everybody throws the same weighted disc. Like, how do you measure somebody? Like, what if their wave just sucked? They're like, this is the one I took.
[01:14:47] Speaker A: Should have picked a different one.
[01:14:50] Speaker B: But, like, I don't understand how you even score some. So, like, I, like, parkour kind of, like, falls into that to me, too, where it's like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't understand how you.
[01:14:58] Speaker A: My wife and I also had a similar conversation, and we were just talking about it. I said, you know, I get why they bring these in and why they're almost like experimental sports, and sometimes they're only in one or two times.
[01:15:08] Speaker B: Eyes on it.
[01:15:09] Speaker A: Try and get more eyes on it. And I think the biggest goal, you kind of mentioned it, and you're in. You questioned it, but you also mentioned it was the whole reason for the Olympics is to bring the world together. The world together and have, like, a thing where, like, that's the whole point of it, is just to bring everybody together. And so breakdancing, for example, is one where breakdancing has been very popular across the globe. And so, like, do they bring it into, say, like, I think it sounds like a trial run now, more or less. And they say, how many. How many countries sent a team to compete? How many? Like, does this bring everybody together, or was this just, like, a. Yeah, we did this once, and it didn't really do anything.
[01:15:46] Speaker B: You probably pop the intrigue of people like me that are like, I don't. I've never watched break dancing, like, in a competition in my life, but, like, that's in the Olympics, and it came on primetime tv. I. Maybe I'll watch this and maybe I'll like it.
[01:15:57] Speaker A: Is it, like, glorified America's next best.
[01:16:00] Speaker B: Dance crew, or, like, just, what's the other one? Dancing with the stars kind of, like, just dance competition. Like. Yeah. I don't know.
The other thing I just think you were talking about, like, bringing the world together, I always think is interesting.
[01:16:12] Speaker A: We are the world.
[01:16:13] Speaker B: Some of these countries ascend contingents of.
[01:16:15] Speaker A: Like, nobody wanted that one.
[01:16:17] Speaker C: I don't know that song.
[01:16:18] Speaker B: They'll sing. No one doesn't know that song. Wow.
Wow.
[01:16:23] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. That's one of my favorite video, like, meme things or whatever you call those, like, where Michael's getting pissed off at everybody not being able to sing.
[01:16:32] Speaker B: Yeah, that's good.
But anyway, speaking of bringing the world together, I always find it funny that some of these countries. Some countries that don't have a ton of athletes, they'll send, like, a contingent of four, and they'll have, like, one guy that's, like, a super archer, and, like, he'll win the silver medal on archery and go be, like, a national hero for, like, Slovenia. But, like, he got beat by an american that drives through Uber. Like, just cause he happened to be good at archery.
[01:17:00] Speaker A: I thought I'd try this when I was 17 years old. Turns out I was pretty good.
[01:17:04] Speaker B: I'm pretty good at it. Like, there was that guy, but, like, in Slovenia, that guy, he's a freaking dope ass hero.
[01:17:10] Speaker A: Yeah, it is wild.
Yeah. Okay. Okay. Bone, you gassed up about anything, man. I don't know how to follow that up.
[01:17:20] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I was getting into something that I have a little guess up about it. At my work workplace, we have an ongoing issue. Just kind of, like, you know, PC culture workplace where you. You can't, like, yell at people anymore because you'll get in trouble by HR. You can't just fight people anymore because.
[01:17:38] Speaker B: You'Ll get fired in the workplace. We used to sell things with fists in this country.
[01:17:43] Speaker C: We just have grown men constantly telling on each other. At my workplace, that's just the most pathetic thing I've ever witnessed in my life. Like, even, like, on one side or the other.
[01:17:54] Speaker A: Like, how many of them listen to the podcast?
[01:17:56] Speaker C: I don't know if any of them do, but it's.
[01:17:58] Speaker A: Damn it. You're supposed to say all of them.
[01:18:00] Speaker C: It's. It. It just blows my mind that there's so many grown men telling on each other. And I think it spawns from this culture that just our workplaces have created, where everything you do, you can get in trouble for, you know? And it's just. That's all. That's your only outlet to solve an issue, right? Just grown men telling on each other so it's just. It's just pathetic.
[01:18:20] Speaker B: I just can't fathom a world in which I would tell on another adult.
[01:18:25] Speaker A: Like, you know how you saw that?
[01:18:26] Speaker B: Like. Like, unless, like, you were committing, like, you were stealing money from the company, right. If you're, like, extorting thousands of dollars.
[01:18:34] Speaker A: Like, you kind of have an obligation there.
[01:18:36] Speaker B: If you extorted, like, $150, I probably wouldn't care. But if I found out, like, it was affecting my paycheck or my ability to work here in a future.
[01:18:41] Speaker A: Oh, here's a question. What if he's extorting thousands of dollars, but he's giving you, like, a quarter of it?
[01:18:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I probably still not telling on that guy. Like, there's a lot of reasons why I wouldn't tell on that guy.
[01:18:51] Speaker C: We have an ongoing issue right now about air conditioning, and a lot of us work outside in the heat, and there's one individual who works in an office, and his office doesn't get cold enough, so he opens the door to the lunchroom where the thermostat is letting all the heat in to keep it running constantly throughout the day.
[01:19:10] Speaker B: Smart guy.
[01:19:11] Speaker C: Yeah, but it's like nudity. It gets under people's skins, you know, so they're, you know, because they don't want the doors open.
[01:19:17] Speaker B: Right.
[01:19:17] Speaker C: So there's this ongoing issue with the air conditioner.
[01:19:20] Speaker A: It's just like, he's like, make my office colder. I won't open the door.
[01:19:23] Speaker C: It's insane. It is crazy.
[01:19:26] Speaker B: Grown men tattletailing on it feels bad. That is. That is worthy of being gassed up about.
[01:19:33] Speaker A: You guys want to know? Gets me guessed up.
[01:19:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:19:35] Speaker A: Homeowners, there's a lot of cons, and right now, I'm going through all of them. So about, I don't know, three weeks ago, we had a leak in the dishwasher, and it was a slow leak, but three weeks ago was when it all came to a head. Like, we didn't know it was leaking. It had been leaking for months, we're pretty sure, but we just found out three weeks ago.
[01:20:01] Speaker B: But the entire problems. Right?
[01:20:04] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All of a sudden, we walk in, and, like, we noticed, like, you know how, like, when something happens gradually, you don't really know what's going on. Like, you're like, you don't notice it, right? So you're like. So the flooring on our. In our kitchens was, like, discoloring over time, and. But, like, it's, like, very minimal amount each day, so you're like, I don't know.
[01:20:24] Speaker B: Your eyes don't really see it.
[01:20:25] Speaker A: Then all of a sudden, you go on vacation, and you come home, and you're like, what the. Why is my floor black?
It's a, like, reddish, like a honey ish, reddish colored oak floor. Why is it black?
Well, it's because there's lots and lots of water damage underneath.
[01:20:41] Speaker B: I would say if it's black, that's noticeable.
[01:20:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. So it was. And I'm talking, like, it wasn't to the point where there was, like, mold and stuff yet, but it was like, it was black because just when wood gets wet.
[01:20:53] Speaker B: Right.
[01:20:53] Speaker A: So I had to tear up the entire floor in my kitchen all the way around and replace the floor in my kitchen. Luckily, there was. Was a bright side to this. You know, everybody gets mad when people leave stuff at their house when we move in, right. In December, left all this random flooring down in the basement. I was like, damn it. There's just all this shit laying around.
[01:21:15] Speaker B: I knew you're gonna need it.
[01:21:15] Speaker A: Came in handy.
Literally, I had the exact amount to the board of what I needed.
[01:21:22] Speaker B: Did you fix the leak first?
[01:21:24] Speaker A: I did fix the leak first, yes, I did. I fixed the leak. I dried everything out. I did all that. So I did that, and I was like, okay. I felt pretty proud of myself. Right? I'm like, okay, I fixed.
[01:21:34] Speaker B: That's one of the pros of homeownership.
[01:21:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:21:36] Speaker B: Right? You get the disassociation. Like, this happened something.
[01:21:40] Speaker A: I was like, this happened. Didn't panic. I was just like, you know what? This is what I gotta do. I know what I'm doing. It was kind of difficult.
Whatever. Yeah.
[01:21:49] Speaker C: Ronnie the toolman jams.
[01:21:51] Speaker A: See? See, now you're getting it. I actually taught my daughter, who's 20 months old, I taught my daughter to. I asked her, what do we say? And she goes, so anyways. And then I say, what else do we say? And she says, more power.
[01:22:06] Speaker B: But everybody needs more power.
[01:22:07] Speaker A: Yeah. But anyway, so, like, I fixed that. I'm pretty proud of myself. So, again, a positive.
[01:22:13] Speaker B: Sure.
[01:22:15] Speaker A: This is about what I'm gassed up into.
[01:22:17] Speaker B: A positive.
[01:22:18] Speaker A: This is about what I'm gassed up about. So that happened. And then a couple weeks later, we decide we're gonna paint. I don't know, every room in our house. Okay, we didn't paint every room, but we painted three rooms. And I hate painting. And it was terrible. Terrible. And then right after that, what happens yesterday, our AC. In the middle of 95 degree weather, our AC decides there's going to be a power surge in our area and our AC is going to get just fried. We have no air conditioning. It's 85 degrees in my house.
I'm trying to put a baby to sleep in 85 degree weather. You guys ever had that experience where it's 85 degrees in your house?
[01:22:59] Speaker B: Would lose it?
[01:23:00] Speaker A: It was awful. She was not having it. She was upset. She was hot. She was sweaty. She was sticky. She finally got to bed in literally the entire night, she's just tossing and turning. My wife can't take her eyes off the monitor because it's like, oh, gosh, it's so hot in her room. We don't know what to do. We didn't really have any time because we were away all day. We came home, we found out about it at like 930 at night. So I'm just like.
[01:23:22] Speaker B: Little people are more sensitive to, like, temperature changes.
[01:23:25] Speaker A: Yeah, it was awful. So my daughter slept terribly. Whatever. It was just awful. Wake up today, giant tree fell in our backyard.
So I'm like. Like, this tree. And we knew it was going down. Like, California is going down. We've been telling people for months, like, this tree is not looking good. But everybody told us there was nothing to worry about. The roots had reestablished themselves. Even though it looked like it was coming out of the ground, it actually wasn't.
[01:23:52] Speaker B: You should call that guy and have him cut.
[01:23:53] Speaker A: Yeah, well, he's a shithead.
But the tree did fall. The only good news out of this whole thing is insurance will cover my air conditioning unit solid. And the tree did not hit anything.
[01:24:09] Speaker B: This is your yearly reminder to make sure you're up on your insurance policy and your homeownership.
[01:24:14] Speaker A: Yeah. So make sure you do that. I will be spending the next month and a half cutting up a giant tree, so thank you for that. My wife suggested a post Olympics party where we invite teams of two over and get the long saws and have them saw up sections of it and see who wins.
[01:24:30] Speaker C: So the lumberjack competition.
[01:24:32] Speaker A: Anyways, I'm pissed off at my house right now.
[01:24:34] Speaker B: Is there a lumberjack competition? No, no, they're still just for lumberjacks.
[01:24:38] Speaker A: You remember they used to have those on tv all the time. Yeah, those were awesome.
[01:24:41] Speaker B: They don't do it in the olympics.
[01:24:41] Speaker A: I liked when they ran up the trees.
[01:24:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:24:43] Speaker A: Yeah, it's impressive. It was.
[01:24:45] Speaker B: The only person that could do it better was catinous Everdeen. Yeah, she could climb trees.
Nice. Yeah, I can't bowls. Doing a shocker over there.
[01:24:58] Speaker A: We were close.
But anyways, light on Brown's news today. Obviously, it's the offseason. We're getting back into things. We're full swing. We're ready to go.
[01:25:08] Speaker B: We're also in training camp.
[01:25:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Training. We'll have more for you next week. We'll be back next week.
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[01:25:57] Speaker B: Soon to be the dustin greater than Justin shirts.
[01:26:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Hell yes. If you're wondering where you can find all these links, is what I was trying to say. Just check our show notes. They're all in there, but that'll do it for us. Kenny, what can we expect next week?
[01:26:10] Speaker B: Next week we'll be back with another show silly off season, so probably still be a little bit late on Brown Zoos, but we'll play hot three. We'll play gassed up. We will also bring you some facts for days and obviously follow up any important Browns news. I mean, we want to start the season with training camp so that we could follow along with anything that happens. There's already been a couple injuries and things here and there, things we talked about today. So we want to make sure that we're up to date bringing you all the best browns covered I we can all season long.
And that's it. And. And that's it. So we'll continue to keep, you know, ramping up throughout the rest of the year, and soon enough, it'll be brown season.
[01:26:48] Speaker A: The big thing here is we're weekly now, so get excited.
[01:26:51] Speaker B: We're.
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[01:27:25] Speaker B: Ah, so facts for days.
[01:27:28] Speaker A: This is the first one back in a while, so you better hit us with some knowledge.
[01:27:31] Speaker B: I'm bringing you. You know, I'm sticking with the season. It's Olympic season. We're gonna talk about some olympic facts for. Okay, so hope you're ready.
[01:27:40] Speaker A: The Hunger games.
[01:27:41] Speaker B: The Hunger games. That's another good quote I use a lot that no one understands. No, they're just like Hunger games.
[01:27:48] Speaker A: At least you were saying the movie that you're quoting the Hunger games. Yeah.
[01:27:52] Speaker B: Anyway, number one, contrary to popular belief, gold medals are not made from solid gold.
[01:28:00] Speaker A: Are you kidding me?
[01:28:01] Speaker B: Modern Olympic gold medals are gold plated and primarily comprised of silver and other metals.
[01:28:07] Speaker A: What the hell?
[01:28:07] Speaker B: Solid gold medals stopped being produced in 1912. In fact, the average cost of metals to produce a gold medal is approximately $950.
[01:28:20] Speaker A: Wait, an actual gold medal or a new gold medal?
[01:28:22] Speaker B: The actual gold medals for the Paris Olympics. The gold medals cost about $950.
[01:28:27] Speaker A: I was going to say a solid chunk of gold would be way more. So that makes sense that it's only $950.
[01:28:31] Speaker B: Silver metal costs around $500.
[01:28:35] Speaker A: That's way cheaper than I would have thought, though.
[01:28:37] Speaker B: And $15 for bronze.
[01:28:40] Speaker C: That's it.
[01:28:40] Speaker B: Now, that's the cost for the precious metals, right? So that goes to, in this case, this year's Paris Olympics, the company that is making it. Think about, like, if. Like, if Tiffany were making, like, the medals, right? Like, Tiffany's a big jewelry name. Like, the company that has fancied the medals and, you know, designed them and all that and produced them is the company that does all of the, like, royal jewelry for France. So it's, like, a big name. So there's more intrinsic value that gets added based on the fact that, like, they put these together. Also, I don't know if you guys noticed this year's medals.
[01:29:12] Speaker A: I was gonna say it if you didn't.
[01:29:13] Speaker B: Includes literal pieces of the Eiffel Tower. So there's iron in these metals as well. And even in the bands, there's lattice work, I guess, in the actual straps that they wear. So, pretty interesting metals this year.
[01:29:26] Speaker A: Is that, like, a shaved piece from the. From the Eiffel tower is what.
[01:29:29] Speaker B: They did some renovations, I guess, to, like, elevator shaft, and they just saved all the iron from it, and they cut. They're, like, literally the one side has, like, a placard that says, like, eiffel Tower or whatever.
[01:29:41] Speaker A: I just saw, like, the quick picture they look dope as hell.
[01:29:45] Speaker B: But to your point, a solid gold medal, if they were to produce one today, would cost around $40,000.
[01:29:51] Speaker A: Whoa.
[01:29:53] Speaker B: Also note, shaw, we're talking about price. It is estimated that even though, like, a gold medal may only be $1,000 to produce a gold medal, it's estimated by a PR firm or auction firm that a gold medal that would be sold by a low level athlete coming out of the pair of schemes would sell for around $15 to $30,000 on secondary.
[01:30:16] Speaker A: Whoa.
[01:30:17] Speaker B: So that's a lot money out there. Even though the metals themselves aren't solid and aren't that expensive.
[01:30:26] Speaker A: That's wild. Um, should we revisit the whole, uh, from episodes past, uh, treasure hunter thing? Like, should we. Should we do that? Is that something we should look into?
[01:30:37] Speaker B: Treasure hunter?
[01:30:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Cause you find, like, one. One box of gold, you win.
[01:30:42] Speaker B: Oh, yes, I agree. We should definitely hunt for treasure.
[01:30:46] Speaker A: If we ever make it big, uh, we're. We're gonna bring you, uh. Uh, what's our treasure hunting, uh, company.
[01:30:53] Speaker B: Going to be called fines for days.
[01:30:57] Speaker A: That's the worst thing I ever heard of. But fines for days at Tappitt media company.
[01:31:02] Speaker B: Number two.
Despite over 200 countries participating in today's Olympics, only five countries have competed in every Olympic summer games. Can you name any of them?
[01:31:15] Speaker A: Greece.
[01:31:16] Speaker B: Greece. Winner.
[01:31:17] Speaker C: Spain.
[01:31:18] Speaker A: Italy.
[01:31:19] Speaker B: Nope.
[01:31:20] Speaker A: Um, Sicily.
[01:31:25] Speaker B: Nope.
[01:31:27] Speaker C: Russia?
[01:31:28] Speaker B: Odd guess. No, they're not in this Olympics.
[01:31:32] Speaker A: That's an odd guess.
Wait, let me keep guessing.
Croatia. No, I got one of them, so I don't care.
[01:31:43] Speaker B: You did get one.
[01:31:44] Speaker C: Hungry.
[01:31:45] Speaker B: I do. You're wrong again.
[01:31:47] Speaker A: Egypt.
[01:31:47] Speaker B: I'll give you the rest. Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, Australia, and France have competed in every Olympic Summer games.
[01:31:57] Speaker A: She probably should have got Great Britain.
[01:31:59] Speaker B: Guess in France, like, the original european countries. Yeah. I would have thought you guys would have went there, but Greece was good. Number three.
[01:32:08] Speaker A: If any question has even a hint of geography, I just get confused. We didn't have geography at our high school.
[01:32:13] Speaker B: That's fair. I had to take it in college.
[01:32:15] Speaker A: Yeah, so, like. Like, even though that was more of a history question, there was some geography in there, and I just. I get overloaded. Cause I'm like, I don't know where to even think about.
[01:32:24] Speaker B: That's. That's fair. Number three, also very relevant, because we just watched the opening ceremonies of the Olympics here. So the tradition that seems like a long held tradition of moving the Olympic flame from country to country.
[01:32:40] Speaker A: Parkour guy did it this year.
[01:32:41] Speaker B: Until it reaches the host nation. Seems like just an eons gone by tradition.
[01:32:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Obviously.
[01:32:49] Speaker B: However, this was conceived by german Olympian Carl Diem for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Yes, that's right. The Nazis used the torch relay in subsequent games as propaganda, with filmmaker Leni Reichstagstahl creating the film Olympia. After filming the events, we run the torch marathon in honor of the Nazis.
[01:33:20] Speaker A: That needs canceled immediately.
[01:33:22] Speaker C: Why hasn't it been canceled yet?
[01:33:23] Speaker B: That's kind of what I thought. So that's why I put it in facts for days. Bonus fact.
[01:33:27] Speaker A: I don't like the Nazis.
[01:33:28] Speaker B: Bonus fact. This one was really interesting. I had no idea. I just thought this was the thing. Just no thing. The five rings.
[01:33:35] Speaker A: Bone is fact.
[01:33:37] Speaker B: Yeah, bone. Yeah. Good. Yeah. No fibulas here.
[01:33:40] Speaker A: Brought that back.
[01:33:41] Speaker B: The five rings on the Olympic flag actually stand for something. They're not just rings.
[01:33:47] Speaker A: Hope.
[01:33:48] Speaker C: Audi.
[01:33:49] Speaker A: No Audi.
[01:33:53] Speaker B: Audi is not a sponsor.
No. They actually represent the world integrity. Five inhabited continents, with north and South America being considered one. The Americas.
But the rings colors are the most common colors on the country's flags around the world.
[01:34:12] Speaker A: Oh, incredible.
[01:34:14] Speaker B: Yeah. That was interesting, because I just thought it was, like, the older Greek. I was like, I don't know. It's probably some greek thing, but that's what it is, so that's facts for days that blow your mind.
[01:34:23] Speaker A: That last one there. That one, that was incredible.
[01:34:27] Speaker B: That was really good. Yeah. I mean, we are. We are back we are. The burning river sports guest is back. We're back with facts for days we're back with lots of fun we're back with all the advertisements bone, are you tired yet?
[01:34:42] Speaker C: I. I'm tired. I'm happy to be back, but I'm ready to go home and go to sleep. Is that all right?
[01:34:49] Speaker A: I accept. You.
[01:34:50] Speaker C: You guys are all right. Well, bon appetit, then.
[01:34:51] Speaker B: Bon appetit. Don't be a part of the problem. Be the whole damn problem.
[01:34:54] Speaker A: And only you can prevent river fires burning rivers burning river river burning river rivers born it river hey, what were we using to sing out today?
[01:35:09] Speaker B: Country road, take me home to the.
[01:35:15] Speaker A: Place I belong West Virginia.
Mount Mama take me home country roads.
[01:35:30] Speaker B: Burning river burning river wow, I'm gonna have to muffle that one.
[01:35:35] Speaker C: That was the loudest one ever.
[01:35:36] Speaker B: Wow.
We are back, baby.
[01:35:39] Speaker A: I was excited. I'm sorry.
[01:35:40] Speaker B: We are.
[01:35:41] Speaker A: I lost my voice. We are back.
[01:35:43] Speaker B: We're getting dug back.
[01:35:45] Speaker A: We are the best friends that anyone?
[01:35:48] Speaker B: Good night, Cleveland.
[01:35:49] Speaker A: Three best motorboat. You play the motorboat, you motorboat son of a bitch. You old sailor, you.
[01:35:57] Speaker B: You know, I was thinking during that interview.
[01:35:58] Speaker A: What? What were you think? Nothing. Cause you don't have thoughts. Cause you're a brainless idiot.
[01:36:03] Speaker B: Wow.
[01:36:04] Speaker A: My name is Uhtred, son of Uhtred. By the way, I want my foreskin back. It doesn't matter what you think.
[01:36:10] Speaker B: Women's guide to anal sex. And it was the second edition. Who makes the second edition?
[01:36:16] Speaker C: The weather. Outside is weather.
[01:36:18] Speaker A: The other one. The finger. The finger eating food fingers. Oh, my God. My ass is full of shit. He's shit everywhere.
[01:36:27] Speaker C: Yes.
[01:36:27] Speaker B: Ejaculate all over my body and my genitals.
[01:36:30] Speaker C: Yes.
[01:36:30] Speaker A: Oh, no. We suck again.
[01:36:33] Speaker C: You don't need fundamentals when you got heart.
[01:36:36] Speaker B: And Jesus.
[01:36:37] Speaker C: Jesus.
[01:36:38] Speaker A: Touchdown. Anyway.
[01:36:40] Speaker B: What do you mean, funny? Funny?
[01:36:41] Speaker A: How am I funny? It's going down. I'm yelling timber.
Goddamn jets. Are we gonna.
[01:36:49] Speaker B: You're only in this.
[01:36:49] Speaker A: Did we start a meat podcast? Like. Like the meat pod, slow roasted?
[01:36:58] Speaker B: The leads are weak. The leads are weak.
[01:37:01] Speaker A: Fucking leads a week.
All I do is win, win, win no matter what. Erroneous. Erroneous on both counts.
[01:37:09] Speaker B: Oh, lord.
[01:37:09] Speaker A: I mean, when I. Last year, when I won and went home, you know, my wife's pants hit the ground.
[01:37:14] Speaker B: Wow.
[01:37:15] Speaker A: But damn.
[01:37:15] Speaker B: I'm sorry. I hijacked your segment for a second to do some good podcasting.
You know why, mister? Cause you drove a Hyundai to get.
[01:37:24] Speaker A: Here tonight, I drove an $80,000 BMW.
[01:37:27] Speaker B: That's my name.
[01:37:29] Speaker A: I think we've officially lost all of our more conservative viewers.
I don't think they want to listen any longer.
[01:37:36] Speaker C: It's Mother Nature.
[01:37:38] Speaker A: I live my life a quarter mile at a time.
[01:37:40] Speaker B: Where's logo girl when you need her?
[01:37:41] Speaker A: I desperately want to make love to.
[01:37:43] Speaker B: We need cheese girl now.
[01:37:45] Speaker A: Down Joe Sanderson. Down Joe Sanderson.
[01:37:49] Speaker B: Who's canceled now? Who's canceled now?
[01:37:52] Speaker A: Probably me.
[01:37:52] Speaker B: You making a photo, fat people.
[01:37:55] Speaker A: I'm not just you.
[01:37:57] Speaker B: We're a whole race, basically.
[01:38:00] Speaker A: No way. She's just straight. Just finger banging their salad wax savior.
[01:38:06] Speaker C: You first get shocked, and then you get the shocker.
[01:38:11] Speaker B: Hey, you like to see almost naked?
[01:38:13] Speaker A: That's cool, man.
[01:38:13] Speaker B: Whatever.
[01:38:14] Speaker A: No, no, no. Most people, like, they're driving along, and they're like, in between meals, they're like, I'm a little hungry. I'm gonna have a granola bar. And it's like, I need a cheeseburger.
[01:38:23] Speaker B: Are you not entertained?
[01:38:25] Speaker A: Are you not entertained?
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