John Lund Unleashed Episode 43: I was forced to show you how good the Chiefs really are

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Good morning.

Let me get this thing on. There we go.

Good morning. Thanks for joining us.

It is a Tuesday edition to the show. I’m I’m a little nervous about today’s show. I’ll tell you why in a second. I’m nervous, that’s the wrong word, but

I don’t know. Apprehensive. It’s not that I’m nervous to do the show. It’s not that.

It’s that what I’m gonna present to you. I’m not sure what you’re gonna think of it, but I it’s almost like one of those things where

when you consider you like children kind of in a certain way, even though I’m the most immature one of the bunch.

But sometimes you have to do something which will educate everybody or like your children or something and then the show will actually be better for it. So I I don’t know that if that makes any sense whatsoever.

But uh somebody made me go down a rabbit hole. So I’m gonna I’m gonna first and foremost say that this isn’t my fault. So we’re gonna do that. I got a story I gotta tell you about my kid.

And I know too much, but I’m I’m it’s very proud parent moment. And I gotta tell somebody and I haven’t been able to. So there’s a ton to get to today and the reason I’m late which it’s I haven’t been this late in a long time.

Uh was because I was putting so much into the system and it will be worth your while because beyond the thing that I’m nervous to present to you this morning, I do have a ton, ton, ton of good stuff if this doesn’t work. It’s like one of those things, here’s another analogy that may work or may not.

Where you have like a favorite band and you loved their music and everything and everything’s going great and then they put out like a I don’t know, some sort of a renaissance album or like if they’re rock, they go funk or if they’re funk, they go country. If they and and and it’s not that extreme today. So I’m just gonna try this out and if you hate it, you hate it, but I I have to get through it.

You know what I mean? Like I can’t get distracted. I can’t jump out to the line uh to the text lines and comment lines because then it’ll throw me haywire. So I’ve got to get about I’m gonna try to do this in under 10 minutes.

for about 10 minutes. I think I can. In fact, I think I can do it in less time than that and I think it’s gonna be entertaining. I hope it’s gonna be entertaining. I think it’s gonna be entertaining.

You you may not like the subject matter, but if I explain it, I think it’s gonna work. So you can tell me afterwards, but I can’t get distracted. All right, that’s weird. I’ll go over the chalkboard in just a second, but it is tremendous to have everybody hurly burly was here nice and early. Hey yo!

Uh Skills Report is uh Skills Report which had a he had a great uh donation yesterday and which he said he felt like he he had a dream where he hit a 350 foot home run with an empty uh soda bottle, I think is what you said, something like that. 5950, which is actually New Era 84. I found that out

uh the other day. That’s cuz something weird’s going on in this room. Tacky is here. Hey Zeus is here. Good to see everybody this morning. Uh let’s see who else Pine Needles, Sports Fan, Joey. Always love to see Joey. Jake is here this morning. Good morning to you, Jake. Uh everybody Scott is here today.

Jazz Fan, Diaz. I’ll just call you that, man. I’m trying to go fast. Enrique Luna is here today. Uh anybody, everybody, good to see you. I just a 49ers fan is here. That’s there’s a few of those in here. All right. So uh I will acknowledge everybody as we get going here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for joining me.

A couple of quick things. You already know that you need to subscribe, please to John Lund Unleashed Pod. Have a new website that we’re keeping up to date that I think’s got a couple of good pieces on it right now, plus we archive

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If you don’t, that is no problem either. Chalkboard today, Episode 43 Rabbit Hole, which is the thing I’m talking about. I’ll explain it. It’s you know, it’s kind of giving it away. Kansas City’s just good.

First half plays Snoop uh more Snoop Dogg whether you like it or not. It must be NFL Mock Day. Warriors taking on Utah and people asked yesterday.

You talk any Warriors yesterday? Well, there was just so much football going on that and the Warriors weren’t playing and they’re playing the Jazz tonight. And I do have a good uh Jazz and Warriors story. All-Star vote. I didn’t get to that last week.

And I was going through my things from late last week that I didn’t get to and it’s these are really fascinating. I’ll tell you why. Giants stuff. Larry Baer has spoken. New Orleans. I’m gonna keep that up there probably for the next two weeks because I’ve covered at least two Super Bowls in New Orleans and I covered a national championship game there.

in which I did New Year’s Eve in New Orleans. So there are so many New Orleans stories that it’s unbelievable. By the way, I am trying to get Lorenzo Neal on because I’ve told the story about him getting laryngitis and Alyssa Milano coming on the show on a Saturday which saved us because I was hung over and he had laryngitis and she stayed for an hour and he did low and low.

So I want I’ve told the story and I can tell it to a certain extent in in an above average way, but he can take it way over the top. So hopefully he’s gonna join us this week or in the next couple of weeks. Random things always happen. I do have some caboose stories including a tongue guy.

And for some weird reason and you may be getting these too. I’m getting all these online food. I don’t know cuz I’m doing a ton of social media now and I I’m just getting these weird like recipe people that are doing and and it’s like it’s total like trailer stuff. Like it sorry, but it’s like what it’s not like good stuff where I would I would be like, oh my gosh.

Or like a a booze recipe where it’s like, oh cool, I’d like to do that. It’s just like what in what in the world? And so I just thought I would bring it to you to see if you guys get this these kind of things as well. So we have a ton, ton, ton to get to. All right.

I’m gonna do this. Uh what time is it? 820. So let’s see if I can get this done by like 835 at the latest and then we can move on with the show and you can tell me what you think. And again,

if you would keep it open mind, I would really appreciate it because I’m doing this for all of our own goods and I’m doing this to say, look, I I don’t want to be the same old homer guy. I don’t want to blow smoke up your ars. I just I I want you to be able to come into the show every day and think, you know what, he’s gonna give it to us straight.

He the way he sees it or the way he hears it or the way he knows it or whatever. He’s gonna give it to us straight and I think people appreciate that more than the homerism and blowing smoke and company lines and because I had to do that to a certain extent on the radio. I’ve told you this before, but when you’re the flagship of the Giants, you can’t exactly shoot from the hip. Then you’re the flagship of the Niners, you can’t exactly shoot from the hip. The Warriors, the whatever. I I’ve done this for

27 28 years and been on the flagship station of the Detroit Lions, Detroit Tigers, Detroit Pistons, Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Utah Jazz, uh Portland Trail Blazers. Uh all the teams in the Bay Area. I’ve had all of them on on our station. I can’t remember. Not a lot I guess we had the Sharks on another FM station, but we didn’t talk a ton about the Sharks, but

the Giants, the Niners, the Warriors. You know, so there’s a certain extent to you can go to a certain extent and if you want to go above that line, you’re probably gonna hear from someone within the organization. It doesn’t mean you can’t be truthful. It just means you’ve you’ve got to just stop short of the lines sometimes of of exactly what you want to say.

You can say things, you can have an opinion, but if you go all in sometimes, you’re probably gonna hear from somebody who doesn’t appreciate it and it’s okay. But you know, a lot of times you just you have to tell them, look, I had to I had to do this. I I I have a responsibility to my listeners, my viewers.

And I just have to say that and then you put up with the the grief that comes and some people can deal with that, some people can’t. I was pretty good at it. And as I’ve told you before, it’s one of the reasons I’m not a good, you know, askers or uh ladder climber or all that kind of stuff because sometimes I would uh the the higher ups within the company say, hey, cool it. And I’d say, look, I have a responsibility. I gotta tell the truth and there’s there’s a there’s a truth somewhere

uh in between there. So I hope that makes sense what I just said. So anyway, last night I I made a promo. In fact, I should have put it on the show, but I made a promo yesterday and you listen to the show, so you or watch the show, so you know and I I I praise the Chiefs to a certain extent and I understand why people don’t like that.

And understand why people don’t like that especially here in the Bay Area because I feel your pain. In fact, I’ll pull these up during the show. I had two of the same view last year in Las Vegas and in 2019 or 2020 technically in Miami in which I was doing a post game show in those stadiums.

First in Hard Rock and then in Allegiant last year and it was the exact same scene and I didn’t enjoy it. It was after the game, it was red and gold, not the Niners colors, confetti, Chiefs colors and they’re doing snow angels and they’re partying and they’re getting handed a trophy and meanwhile,

I’m doing a post game show for three hours taking calls and texts and and interactions from pissed off Niner fans and I completely understand it. So when I was I was in Miami, I was the last person

sum out of Hard Rock Stadium at about quarter to four in the morning in Miami and

as the last media bus was rolling and where Miami Gardens is where the stadium is

and where I was staying in South Beach probably an hour and I don’t know how many on Sunday night or Monday morning how many Ubers I’m getting but I ran after the media bus they opened up the door and I was the last one into the media bus

and we drove in silence back to Miami Beach cuz uh we thought you know the you know Niners and just like you I thought they’re gonna win that game and they didn’t

and so that was kind of etched into my mind burned into my mind and then last year the same exact thing happens I’m looking down on the field there’s that confetti again now it was West Coast time so

it wasn’t four in the morning but it was one in the morning and as I walked the short walk from Allegiant Stadium back tomy hotel Mandalay Bay it’s a short little walk and if you’ve ever been to a the Raiders game at the new place it’s they’ve got a little uh walkway that you walk and that whole week I was in Vegas for ten days

and that whole time I was there it was Niner fans Niner fans three to one over Chiefs fans I walked from the stadium at like 11 30 in the morning in all Vegas is it doesn’t matter if it’s Sunday Monday Tuesday Saturday it’s gonna be packed

and I didn’t see any Niner fans I saw a lot of red and gold it wasn’t red and gold for the Niners it was Kansas City and I walked back to the hotel and you try to be objective but you know the guys on the team and the coaches and the fans and you wanna you want them to win

So that that’s the angle I’m coming from I’m not a Chiefs fan I try to be objective as I possibly can

and it sucked watching that exact thing twice sitting in those stadiums watching Kansas City celebrate so by no means am I some kind of closet Chiefs fan but what I try to bring to you every single day is objectivity in the way that I see it or know it or hear it or whatever the case may be because I do think

that there’s value in that that just coming on every single day with red and gold Niners glasses or black and orange Giants glasses or blue and gold or blue and yellow Warriors glasses or whatever the team is is not fair to you all right so is that the has the back draft I’ll try to expla I explain that but I don’t know that I’ll still get away with this but here we go

So last night among many this is just one so from the promo that I wrote that I did saying look the Chiefs are just good deal with it and again you watch the show so you know yesterday what I did

and by the end of it everyone was saying enough on the Chiefs totally get it

So among many and I’m not calling this guy out I’m just saying I got a lot of these yesterday so I just pulled one out and used this as an example and he says in fine English are we watch the same game

So I think I’m taking that as he’s saying are we watching or did we watch the same game are we watch the same game I understand I’m not the greatest uh when it comes to English either so I get it you’re saying did we watch the same game

and what people do in a really short way and here’s another one and this was not sent to me it’s just this was pretty typical and you probably saw the same things on social media

ML Football says the Chiefs were in the neutral zone on the fourth down play no call from the refs the refs then also ruled the Bills short on the play and sets up KC for an easy touchdown this is absurd wild

So it was all about to the low hanging fruit which I’m gonna turn I I love saying that term low hanging fruit which means it’s easy

it’s easy to complain and and complain about officials and blame them

it’s easy to complain about a quarterback because it’s obvious it’s it’s easy to complain about a specific play that’s played over and over and the media tells you that was the play of the game which is

the fourth down play in which Buffalo didn’t get it maybe they should have got it there’s overhead views I completely understand that

but as I tell you in every single sport rarely are the officials to blame and in an NFL game there’s I don’t know 120 130 140 plays

and specifically to point out one is generally and I’m gonna say 95 98 99% of the time inaccurate all right so what I’m gonna do here is

I’m gonna play some first half highlights for you and I’m gonna go through them quickly but I’m not even I’m only gonna go to the last two plays of the second half so we’re not gonna go over the whole game but nobody talks about this because it’s low hanging fruit it’s officials it’s quarterbacks it’s obvious it’s fourth down plays and everybody thinks that the

officials are in the pocket of the Chiefs now just from a logical standpoint before I play this what would be the logic behind being in the Chiefs pocket it’s not LA it’s not New York it’s not Chicago it’s not San Francisco those are the four largest media markets in the country

New York’s one LA’s two Chicago’s three San Francisco’s four so if you really looked at it Kansas City’s not a major market now they do have Patrick Mahomes they do get good numbers when they’re on because they win

but there’s really no financial advantage to the NFL to make Kansas City this juggernaut there’s just not um and if anybody wanted to stop it they would have taken Patrick Mahomes before Kansas City moved up 17 spots to take him the Niners could have had him at number two uh that they Niners could have had him at number three

the Bears took a quarterback at number two the third largest media market in the country

that would have been nice for the NFL if Mitch Trubisky wasn’t the quarterback of the Bears at that point it was actually Patrick Mahomes lots of teams could have taken him they didn’t

and he’s the difference between winning and losing Andy Reid’s a damn good coach like we don’t want to take those things into equation so let’s let’s do this all right now my ten minutes start we’re 15 minutes into the show

so let’s start here this is the Bills first possession of the game there’s no score Bills first possession of the game now let me explain it here you go

Josh Allen is here on a second down and he’s gonna throw the ball to the right and Brian Cook number six the safety back there should intercept this ball

right right to him get the ball in Bills territory

so the Bills should take advantage that up dropped interception let’s see what we do let’s take advantage good teams do that scrambles out

throws it third down almost another interception so Buffalo right out of the gate a good team probably takes advantage of the missed interception and they don’t and then he says okay let me throw another one another dropped interception so first and foremost on their first possession of the game

Buffalo gets extremely lucky in that there are two balls that should have been intercepted by probably a nervous Josh Allen in the first possession of the AFC Championship game and neither ball gets intercepted neither ball gets intercepted despite the fact that Cook should have had it that would have been in Buffalo territory

and then down the right sideline there’s two men in coverage and either of those guys should have had the interception and Kansas City really should have the ball in Buffalo territory but they get lucky all right I move on and this is why remember yesterday when I kept saying

fans don’t want to blame their own players because they have their jerseys well the ultimate player that you don’t want to blame ultimate player number one in the NFL number one is who Damar Hamlin love for Damar Damar Hamlin died on the field came back you don’t want to rip Damar Hamlin what are you crazy Damar you’re gonna rip Damar Hamlin

Damar Hamlin had a horrendous game Damar Hamlin’s not a starting safety in the NFL the story is amazing and I’m sorry that I have to be the bad guy here but again and again and again and these are just first half highlights Damar Hamlin the safety number three who we all love

died on the field came back to life and Greg Rousseau their left defensive end uh right defensive end left defensive end gets sucked in constantly by Patrick Mahomes and he has a horrible game so let’s not blame Damar Hamlin because he died on the field and we’ve got to blame officials so remember yesterday I said people

hate blaming their own players cuz they have a jersey well the ultimate guy you don’t want to hate on is Damar Hamlin so let’s look at Kansas City’s first possession no score right

first drive first quarter watch this play third play of their offensive series watch three miss this tackle whoop see ya there’s another 20 yards

so don’t blame Damar Hamlin because people are gonna get mad if you blame Damar Hamlin now watch this next play all right

I’m sorry that I have to do this but I just want to tell you Damar Hamlin whoop see ya another what ten twelve yards can’t blame Damar Hamlin cuz people are gonna get mad so it’s got to be about the officials right it can’t be Damar Hamlin now they go away from Hamlin on this play they’re gonna go left on your screen not right there’s Hamlin right there but Hamlin’s gonna get picked on a lot more

so right there miss tackle miss tackle miss tackle push ups in the end zone so there’s three miss tackles on that play nothing to do with the officials Damar Hamlin misses two tackles they missed three on the way to the end zone so five miss tackles in the last three plays and we have push ups in the end zone and it’s seven nothing Kansas City

Kansas City executed fine on that drive but it’s not like Kansas City went crazy tomorrow they had two linebackers ball goes over the linebacker Hamlin’s got to make that tackle they get an extra 25 yards next play they go right Hamlin misses that tackle then they go left and they miss three tackles

so again not on the officials bad defense by by Buffalo so Buffalo has had in the first two possessions of the game Allen could have thrown two interceptions they have five miss tackles just on the three plays that I showed you and it’s seven nothing Kansas City sorry but I’m just trying to say let’s it’s get a little bit educated and not be so simple okay Buffalo’s second possession they get a first down right here they do that play that they didn’t get on the fourth down late in the game which we’ll go to in a minute

so it’s first down Buffalo remember they lost this game by three by three so they get five yards on first down they’re almost in they’re in Kansas City territory they’re at the 35 yard line right now this is second down after the five yard gain on first down it’s second and five

a fumbled snap up bummer lose four yards so now you’re back at the 39 then it’s third down and you get those yards that you would have needed if you hadn’t dropped the snap so instead of going for a touchdown drive Buffalo has to kick a field goal nothing to do with officials five yards on first down drop the snap on second down get the yardage that you would have needed for the first down but you drop the ball on second down so instead of a touchdown drive that’s a field goal that’s minus four points nothing to do with the officials

nothing to do with the officials, we’re gonna keep going.

I don’t know if you’re getting mad.

10 7 Buffalo, third and four, Kansas City.

Nope.

Can’t stop him on third down.

Third and four, just an in and out route.

Goes in, goes out, worthy, third down,

then you go here.

Next exact play.

Who’s that chasing him?

Hamlin.

Hamlin gets stuck on the inside against worthy, the safety against the receiver.

That’s terrible defensive calling.

You want a uh worthy who’s super fast against Hamlin.

Sorry, Hamlin, we’re picking on you, but

it’s gotta be about the officials, can’t be about you.

So again, you got a third down situation there,

third and four, could have stopped them, worthy goes in and out, the exact next play.

Hamlin and that’s a bad defensive coordinator call.

Gets stuck on and that’s Andy Reid too.

That’s great offense, really is what it is because he puts him in motion,

gets him on the safety which is Hamlin who can’t cover tight ends or running backs, let alone a worthy type of receiver.

And they get a touchdown on the play.

So again, I I’m not picking on Hamlin, it’s just a fact.

He’s not a star starting safety in the league, so you give up a touchdown there and you had an opportunity

to stop them for a field goal and you couldn’t stop them on third down.

This is just the first half.

Now it’s 14 10 Kansas City.

This is a really important possession.

Open, watch 86, cross in the middle, open, open, too late, too soft, bad throw.

Okay, that’s first down.

Josh Allen, bad throw.

Had all the time in the world.

All the time in the world here, all the time,

bad throw, second down.

All the time in the world.

Third down, watch the left tackle get absolutely used.

See ya.

Again, he has to move out of the pocket, bad throw,

and it’s fourth down.

So again, let me just let I want to play this one more time for you because now it’s a punt and this is this is where the game gets really interesting

and everyone gets real mad.

But let me play this one more time and why it’s important.

14 10, 4 13 left.

Allen’s got all the time in the world.

Kincaid’s open, Kincaid’s open.

Now he’s not open, it’s thrown late and behind.

Should have been a first down pass the marker.

Right here, no pressure whatsoever, bad throw.

There’s no one out there.

That’s a first down Buffalo if he just gets the ball up.

Then Dawkins, the left tackle gets used on third down and now three and out.

Why is that important?

Glad you asked.

So you go to the next possession because you see the punter there, so let me move it here.

This is where everybody in Buffalo gets pissed off at the officials because this is gonna be the punt return in which

people say there was a block in the back and this is the possession where Kansas City either did worthy,

did or did not make a catch.

All right, so let’s move this.

Here’s the punt right after that possession that I just showed you that Buffalo should have gotten at least one first down.

Now is are there blocks in the back here?

Questionable.

There’s a push there that’s possible.

There’s another push there that’s possible, not egregious though.

Not egregious.

The officials are not out to get the Bills, not egregious.

Special teams let him down, get the ball at the 34 yard line.

So again, you’re looking here at a third down situation, all right?

Or no, excuse me, this is a I think this is a second down situation.

Second down, Kelce with a rare drop.

So you get a break from the from the Chiefs.

It’s third down.

Third down, you can make a stop, force him for a field goal.

Get a stop, get a stop, get a stop.

Rousseau gets inside.

This is the throw.

Did he catch it or not?

Well, if you’re a conspiracy theorist, they actually went back to the to the to the booth and they said it was a catch.

But watch this.

Now this is your third down, you can keep him out of the end zone.

Rousseau the end, we’ve seen this a million times for the 49ers, gets sucked inside.

Okay, sorry.

Okay, wait a minute.

That’s first down.

This is second down.

Okay, now it’s gonna be third down.

You can hold him to a field goal, you lost by three.

This is a four point swing, third down.

Rousseau the corner gets sucked in, Hamlin the safety is too late.

Watch the end, gets sucked in, gets blocked by running back and then Hamlin decides, I don’t know what I’m gonna do,

and he’s too late to the end zone.

So that’s what happened there and that’s a four point swing.

So you stop him on first down, you stop him on second down, on third down, Rousseau gets sucked in too much, the defensive end,

gets blocked by Hunt the running back which should never happen, and then Hamlin’s indecisive and doesn’t go and get Mahomes and so so instead of a field goal right there that you could hold him to on third down,

a four point swing in a game you lost by three, the Bills give up a touchdown there.

And that’s another four point swing and another third down conversion.

Sorry.

I’m sorry.

All right, so

right before the half.

This is awesome.

Look at this catch by Mac Collins.

Boom, nice.

21 16, you’re happy.

They make the extra point.

21 17, but there’s a penalty on the Chiefs.

So Buffalo decides to go for two with the play they always run

and they don’t get it.

So instead of 21 at least 21 17, they literally took a point off the board.

So instead of 21 17 for sure and possibly 21 18 if they have any kind of an offensive Joe Brady who’s supposed to be up for all these jobs and be brilliant.

Let’s run the play.

We’ve already run twice and they’re gonna run in the fourth quarter and you think Kansas City doesn’t know what’s coming from the one yard line.

So the ball was put at the one because of the penalty on Kansas City.

They took a point off the board, literally, they had just made the extra point.

They took a point off the board and then they run a play that they always stink and run and they’re not that they’re not the Eagles on that run.

It’s not the two push, it doesn’t work every time.

And so they don’t have any innovation offensively, not on the referees, on the Bills,

and they don’t get the two points in a game they lost by three and they certainly don’t get one in a game they lost by three.

So that’s right before the half and it’s 21 16.

Okay, we’re almost done, I promise, only two more videos.

Let’s go to the second half.

So I I really wanted to stop there.

Let’s take a break real quick.

I really wanted to stop there and the reason I did want to stop was to just say, look, I just wanted to I just wanted to go through a bunch of innocuous plays that nobody really is talking about.

Because everybody it’s easy.

Did he catch the ball or not?

Was there a was there a block in the back on the punt return or not?

If so, it would have been minor.

And it happens all the time and you know, you watch the game, so everybody freaks out.

And the fourth down play and the officials are out to get him.

In that first half what I just showed you was a bunch of opportunities for the Bills to make plays.

Which teams who win, as I said yesterday, do.

Steph Curry would make those plays, Joe Montana would make those plays, we jump up and down, we’re really happy, but when Kansas City makes them,

there’s a conspiracy theory.

When Kansas City makes them, the officials are against them.

And as I told you at the beginning of all this who just joined the show,

I’m not a Chiefs fan.

I sat in those booths and watched them celebrate in Miami.

I sat in the booth during post game and watched them celebrate in Vegas last year, less than a year ago.

Not enjoyable.

In fact, quite the opposite of enjoyable.

But what I’m trying to bring to you is more than and this is why I brought it up because the guy says to me yesterday and many did,

are we watched the same game?

Are we watched the same game?

Which again, I’m gonna um I’m gonna say that he meant to say, are we watching the same game?

And I thought to myself, yeah, I’ve watched it quite a bit and I’m kind of a professional at this.

So uh yeah, are we watched the same game?

So okay, so that’s where we are.

Last two, I promise you and then you can rip me to shreds and this whole thing.

But again, I’m trying to educate and I’m also trying to illustrate the fact that I’m gonna bring you

whether we like it or not, I’m gonna bring you what is ultimately happening and not just two or three plays and bitch and moan and say the zebras are costing them even though that’s not really the case.

So then let’s go to this is the final this is the fourth down play.

Now this is all 22 film and I want to show it to you from two different angles.

Now maybe again, you don’t care about the Bills whatsoever, but this is the first angle, we all know this.

Throws it, Kincaid should have caught it.

Kiddle catches it, Kelce catches it.

But this is the important part.

This is the important angle.

Watch from the left side number 10, Shakur, he’s gonna go into your screen, out of your screen and he’s wide open on the left side.

Nobody picks him up.

Nobody picks him up.

So Allen has to go right, Kincaid drops the ball.

I’m gonna play this one more time for you because actually the first angle is the better angle to watch Shakur number 10.

He’s wide stinking open.

See 10, see 10 right there.

Boom, boom, boom, right on the four, he’s wide open.

And if Allen can see him, they convert that and he probably gets 20 yards out on the left side.

Not the not where the ball goes, but the left side.

But the reason why Allen is scrambling because there’s a blitz, they’re not showing it and Spagnuolo brings it and now he’s forced to make a play.

So who is that on?

Okay, throw out that he drops the ball, throw out that he misses Shakur number 10.

Throw it all out.

All right, you’ve seen it enough.

You don’t want to see it again, I understand.

What happens there, let’s throw the players out and let’s look at just play calling.

Let’s look at coordinators.

What is Steve we know this, you know this.

What’s Steve Spagnuolo gonna do on a play like that, the Kansas City defensive coordinator?

What did he do to the 49ers in the Super Bowl?

What does he do?

Pretty much to every team that they play against in key situations, he blitzes.

So Joe Brady, the offensive coordinator of the Buffalo Bills has gotta know a blitz is coming and he he’s got to call a play in which his guy knows and Josh Allen’s got to know that the blitz is coming.

So he goes right even though the two players are open on the play, are Shakur 10 and Johnson the running back running a quick like a like a dart to the sideline.

So those two guys are open, but unfortunately they’re going left.

So they’re outcoached on that play too because they’re out leveraged because Spagnuolo is not showing the blitz, but I don’t care what Spagnuolo is showing because I know he’s gonna blitz in key situations.

So if I’m Joe Brady, I have got to have a blitz beater on that play and Allen goes right, which is his fault because he’s trying to get away from the blitz, he has no other choice.

His beaters are on the left, he goes to the right and then Kincaid drops it.

So they got beaten in a coaching sense.

They didn’t have the right play called.

Allen went to the right, which was a mistake because his beaters are to the left and Kincaid drops the ball.

No officials, nothing to do with officiating.

That was it.

That was the play.

nobody and none of the people that are saying referees and conspiracy theories are saying are breaking down that play saying a lot went wrong and Kansas City did a lot right. Final one and then you can go off on me and call me a Chiefs homer which I am not. But this is the final like can okay, so Buffalo screws that up and they got one chance if their defense can hold and they’re only down a field goal, maybe just maybe they can get the ball back, right?

So here’s Kansas City’s last possession. All right, they get stopped right there. Good, second down, you’re in good shape. But instead of running they get fooled and they get a first down. They had already used a timeout. So now they don’t have enough timeouts left. There’s two. So Kansas City fools them on that play.

Now it’s first down. Stop. Good job. First down, stop, timeout. So now if you this is third down. If you make this play Buffalo, you get one last chance. They overload the left side and then P Ryan 34 goes behind that great play call because it clears that whole area out.

See, first down. I’m gonna show it from the other way. 43 gets stuck in the muck in the middle. Great play design here. Watch 43 in the middle. See in the middle your screen, 43 at linebacker. All those players going to the left and he’s gonna have to try to get through all that traffic to get to 34. He can’t do it.

And that’s not an illegal pick and that’s a first down and the game’s over. So is that on the officials? Because Andy Reid had a great play design where 43 couldn’t get through the muck on the play that they had to had to have to have on third down.

They had to have that play. They had to. And 43 couldn’t get through the muck and it really wasn’t his fault. It was a great play design. They had put in all the they had put all those players out to the right.

So that for they knew that the play was gonna be P Ryan out of the backfield after three guys cleared it out and 43 wasn’t gonna be able to get through the muck. So they get a third down conversion and any chance Buffalo has to win that game is over. So I’m not a Kansas City homer.

It’s just one guy said, well a lot of guys, but one guy said, are we watch the same game. So 405 or 404_pumpkinpatch what I would say is, are we watch the same game? I would ask you back the same thing because basically I’m sure you think officials fourth down punt return blocking backs and that ball wasn’t a catch.

I get it. So you have a problem with I don’t know, three calls, three replays. And I just showed probably 30 that Buffalo had opportunities with whether it was Kansas City drops an interception then you almost throw another one or you miss an extra point or you can’t get a third down stop or you can’t or they get a touchdown when on third down you could have stopped them or

Hamlin gets beat four or five times or Rousseau gets sucked in when all week long because I know this from the from the 49ers perspective when they play Mahomes it is constantly about along the defensive line. Yeah, they wanna get to him but there’s much rush. There are certain situations in which you know he’s gonna run the football.

He’s gonna get outside of the of the uh the ends. You have got to stay wider. You have got to set an edge. You cannot let him get outside of you. All those different things and buff and I didn’t even show you the plays in which Mahomes scrambled two or three times in the field of play especially on a fourth and one in which along the right side they they called the exact play

that they called in the Super Bowl against the 49ers on the fourth and one going right and Mahomes ran it and if the 49ers get that stop they win. They ran the exact plan of fourth and one against Buffalo and Buffalo couldn’t stop it either. And another play that they would have if they would have made the play they could have won the game in a game that they lost 32-29.

So if a lot of those if any third down changes, if maybe they get that one point decide, you know what, 21-17’s fine at the half. If Joe Brady has decides, you know what, we run that Josh Allen fourth down play constantly. They ran it four times in the game.

And the final time it gets stopped and everyone’s complaining. Well maybe if you had done a variation off of it like Philly does sometimes when they do the push but they don’t and they I can think of one off the top of my head where they scored a touchdown where they gave it to Gainwell and everybody dove over the top and Gainwell 14 for the Eagles walked into the end zone along around the left corner.

Like something, something innovative where you could say, you know what, we’re in the AFC Championship game, we never beat these guys, let’s do something different. They ran the play four times. They got stopped on a fourth down and they got stopped on a two-point conversion.

Would you think maybe on that fourth down you might do a variation of that play which you probably have in your playbook? All right, I’m done. That’s it. I know. We went how long did we go? 15 minutes maybe? It’s 34 minutes into the show.

And I’m sorry. I am. I’m truly truly truly sorry that I had to do that. But it’s I think it’s for the long-term good of the show to say we are not gonna just sit here with the sheep and say because of if it’s the officials. It’s the fourth down. We’re, you know, everybody’s against us.

Sure. Everybody’s trying to make Kansas City the the best team in the league because that’s the largest market. Oh no, it’s not. New York is, Chicago is, LA is, San Francisco is. They’re not out to get us. They’re not trying to give Kansas City every Super Bowl.

It just isn’t working that way. There is no conspiracy with with Patrick Mahomes or Kelsey or or any of this kind of stuff or pop singers or it just is it doesn’t work that way. And and having said that, you know me because you watch the show on a regular basis.

And I’m conspiracy theorist. I don’t everything in the world, nothing in the world I should say is on the up and up to me. It some things are maybe. But a lot of things are not. So if politics aren’t if business isn’t then probably sports has some weird element to it. I’ll give you that. 100% I’ll give you that.

But in this case, I don’t believe that to be the case. And this is somebody who is skeptical who’s going, is that really? Is that right? You know, is that on the up and up?

In this case, I just showed you so many plays that tell you or show you that Buffalo had opportunities to win that game just like the Niners had opportunities to win the Super Bowl both times. Uh just like the the Niners if they catch that pass, if Kittle catches a ball in the NFC Championship game against LA,

the Niners wouldn’t even had to play Kansas City that year. They would have played Cincinnati. And to me that was the real miss. I don’t wanna see Kansas City in the Super Bowl. I wanna see Cincinnati in the Super Bowl. We’ve beaten them twice. Give me that team.

Kittle catches that ball, that was the real chance. Okay. I’m moving on. So episode 43 Rabbit Hole, Kansas City’s just good first half plays. That’s what we just got through.

All right. I’m really nervous to do this but I will go out to the lines. I will go out to the lines. All right. I didn’t read because if I would have gone out to you people, I would have gotten I would have been completely not focused and you would have screamed and yelled at me.

So hopefully that worked. If it didn’t, I won’t do it again and I told you right from the beginning of the show I was a little bit nervous to present that to you. But I think it worked out. I think it I think it worked out.

Uh anyone else’s rabbit hole hurt right now? That’s a good comeback. Uh you’re bumming me out. I totally get it. I totally get it. I do. But I just I I think that that was something where and maybe I’m wrong here.

But like there are certain things that I did for my son through the years and I said, look, right now he’s not gonna understand why I’m doing this. But long-term, later in life he will thank me. And I think that what I just tried to illustrate was we are not gonna be homers around here.

We are gonna call it like we see it and you’re gonna tune in and say, you know what, I don’t know if you learned something but you’ll say, you know what, I’m gonna tune in and we’re gonna get the truth around here. That’s all. I don’t like Kansas City. I told you that.

I don’t know why I have to I shouldn’t have to say it over and over again. I sat in booths and watched confetti in Miami in Las Vegas and did not enjoy it. Did not enjoy it for a second. Was angry, bitter. But I knew when Butker kicked that field goal in overtime that that Mahomes was gonna go down the field and score a touchdown and so did you.

I mean and that didn’t have to do with officials. So anyway. All right. I’m done. I’m not gonna do it again. I just I I think long-term that’s gonna help us. Short term you’re angry with me. I completely understand it.

All right, Patrick. Hi Patrick. Uh good and bad plays happen, part of the game. Referees making lopsided calls in crucial situations are not. That being said, Chiefs were better team on Sunday, but don’t act like Chiefs don’t get PT. I I’m not saying that at all, my friend. And thank you. Appreciate it, Patrick.

I’m not saying that that superstars don’t get calls. I’m not saying the superstars don’t get calls. Thank you. There’s a positive. Thank you, Luke 2423. You’re my favorite for a minute. I’m just kidding. Um

I’m not saying superstars don’t get calls. But the irony in this market where we sit right now or where I’m sitting in the San Francisco Bay Area is that we loved it when Montana did. We loved it when Curry did and we’re angry when Mahomes did. We know how it works. We do. We know how it works.

I was also on the other side when I first started my career on the other side of Jordan. And Jordan pushed off on Byron Russell, on Brian Russell, excuse me, I just said Byron. He pushed off on Brian Russell in game six in 1998. I was sitting right there with my equipment with a headset just like this one and a live mic to get ready to go to the Bulls locker room and do post game for the Utah Jazz radio network and Michael

Jordan pushed off Brian Russell to make his iconic shot, his final shot as a Bull and I went, he pushed off! He’s a superstar. He was gonna get that call and everybody in the post game said the same thing. The refs are out to get us. Jordan got away with it. That’s as old as sports are and it’s always gonna happen.

And so do the Chiefs get some calls? I’m not stupid enough to think they don’t. They absolutely do. Does Mahomes get calls? I just did a week ago a whole rant about how stupid

but it was in the Texans game that Mahomes got that sliding call that not the one out of bounds, the one where he slid under the two Texans who got a 15-yard penalty. That was a ridiculous call.

Does it mean that the refs were out to make Kansas City win the game or they were they were showing them favoritism? I don’t think they do it on purpose,

you know. Now now having said that, there is human nature and I do think that officials in an NBA game are sick and tired of Draymond Green’s act, and I think that they’re human and so when Draymond Green lips off to them and then Draymond Green complains about it in his podcast the next day,

bro, you’ve earned that. Just like Mahomes or Jordan or Curry or any superstar has earned their calls, LeBron, as much as we hate it,they’ve earned their calls. But you’ve also earned it in a negative sense. I’m a human man and you berate me constantly, Draymond Green, why the hell would I give you the benefit of the doubt ever?

You’re supposed to be a professional. So are you.

Like he complains after a game like the the the slate should be wiped clean after every game. How’s that possible? That’s not human nature.

You have earned a negative reputation in the league and you’re not going to get anybody’s benefit of the doubt and nor should you because you treat people like you treat officials like garbage.They’re not going to give you the benefit of the doubt.

Nor should they. Now is that should that be right? Is that right? That’s where I go to conspiracy theories is,

yeah, superstars are going to get calls. That’s as old as the game themselves.

But guys who are a pain in the butt to officials and berate people and treat people like garbage, let’s let’s take it out of sports like we often like to do on this show.

Let’s take take it out. Somebody who is a is an ass you constantly is a jerk and you’ve tried to give them the benefit of the doubt time and time and time again and then after a while you’re like that guy’s or that woman or whatever that person is a jerk.

And I’m that’s how I walk into any situation with them. So you got somebody at work. Let’s just use that because it’s the easiest one.

And you just have never gotten along with them.

You don’t walk in there every single day with a clean slate, you know the past.

And so whether it be negative or positive. So certain people you give the benefit of the doubt to because they’ve earned it in your eyes and there are other people who you just you walk in and you go, hey man, you got two strikes against you and strike three’s coming.

Like I I know you have two strikes against you and you know I know.

So I’m going to walk into this meeting thinking I can’t trust you or you have another person who you work with all the time and you’ve had tons of success and you say, you know what?I’m work with that person again because they get it and we work well together. So again you don’t walk into a clean slate with them either.

You in a positive way you look at them. In a negative way you look at another person. Same thing in sports. Draymond Green earned it. LeBron James earned it in another way. Steph Curry earned it in another way. Montana. There there is the star treatment. Nobody’s denying that.

But what I’m simply trying to say here is for people that constantly yesterday and then hit me up and you you know, you said a positive thing about the Chiefs, how dare you. You were a bunch of sheep. We saw the same plays.

They sucked. There’s a conspiracy theory. It’s just not the case.There are conspiracy theories. There is bias in the league both negatively and positively in every sport and in every walk of life.

But to just flat out say that the Chiefs get the calls all the time because the league wants them in is low-hanging fruit and lazy. That’s what it is. It’s just low-hanging fruit and lazy.

That’s all. Okay, I’m done. That took that took a lot longer than I thought it was going to be if to be honest, I knew it was going to take a long time.

So anyway,we can move on from it and I am not going to preach and I am not going to get on a, you know, a soapbox anymore, but I’m just saying.I’m just saying. Yeah, again non-calls, same kind of thing.

Thanks Jacob.

Uh, you know, should there be calls? I mean the one where we can go back. I I didn’t really come back punching. I don’t I don’t know that I would say punching. I just like I said, at the beginning of the show if you just joined us,

I just wanted that part to be a little bit educational. A little bit educational so that maybe and again,

this is the greatness of what we are doing and developing and evolving to on this show which is we can have a conversation and in a lot of walks of life right now we can’t and I’m totally fine with you saying I think you’re crazy or I think this is dumb or I think

that’s totally cool and I’m I’m I’m going to calm down and I’m not yelling.

I’m just saying like a bunch of people were hitting me up yesterday just because I did a promo that said essentially and this is where on the chalkboard at third down

it says episode 43 rabbit hole which we’re still rabbit holing and then I just put Kansas City is just good and I think what we have to do is acknowledge the fact

that Kansas City is just good. And so I’ve dealt with this firsthand like I covered the the Bulls dynasty especially over Utah in those two seasons in 97 and 98 and at some point you just realize

Jordan’s just that good.

And he took a lot of championships away from a lot of really good players. Stockton Malone, Shawn Kemp, Gary Payton, Clyde Drexler like he just he beat a lot of great players who would otherwise have multiple championships.

Patrick Mahomes has taken at least two rings away from Kyle Shanahan and the 49ers organization.

It’s overly simplistic for me to say that but that’s how good he is.

So if you look at those kind of players, Steph how many rings did Steph Curry take away? He took a lot away from LeBron James even though LeBron got the one, but he took a lot away from LeBron James.

He took him away from James Harden, he took him away from the Rockets. He he just teams couldn’t beat the Warriors.

And the Warriors kind of laughed at he you know, the Celtics finally got their championship last year but he took at least one away from Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown. He took at least one from those guys.

So that’s that’s why you get frustrated I think as a fan as you look at these things and think my guys should have more championships but then you look at the greatness of and this is this can go back to a Hall of Fame conversation that we had late last week.

I like the great of the great and you can look at this whole thing and say wow,

man, Jordan took him away, uh, Curry took him away, LeBron took a couple away when he was with Miami but that was a whole thing but the whole point of me saying this is

that’s why I think there is a cream of the cream of the people who should be in the Hall of Fame and those are the people that continue where you just go when’s Mahomes leaving?

When’s that guy going to go? That’s why when I look at the the the 49ers opportunities to win Super Bowl. Should they have beaten Mahomes twice?

Maybe, probably. But the one they really lost in my mind is the Dequaski Tark drop.

They play Cincinnati in the Super Bowl. I mean the team that the the 49ers have beaten twice in the Super Bowl. Yeah, that team. Now I know that Joe Burrow wasn’t part of those teams and it was Ken Anderson and Boomer Esiason and it was totally different.

But they’ve beaten the Bengals twice and I think they win that game, the one that the Rams got,

the one that the 49ers should have gotten, the one that if Tark makes that catch, they probably go to the Super Bowl. That’s the one to me where it’s like they wouldn’t even had to played the Chiefs. That one hurt that one hurts me.

And again, maybe it’s me because I was in the booth in LA doing a post-game show for that game with confetti and this thing that was on, you know, their big giant board if you’ve ever been to SoFi Stadium.

That big uh, that big board just kept in a circle saying NFC champs Super Bowl and they got to play it at home. Could you imagine what that Super Bowl would have been like at SoFi? It’s already Levi’s South. We would have been it would have been it’s all red the whole thing.

Anyway, I’m putting a lot of pain forward today. I don’t want to do it.

Are you muting me? Okay. Let’s move on because there are so many other things.

So many other things. Hold on a minute. Here I am popping all sorts of stuff up. I don’t even know what the Colin thing was.

All right, I keep saying I’m done and then I’m not done but I am done this time. Let’s move on.

All right, uh, so we did rabbit hole, we did KC is just good.

We did first half plays and then I added a couple.

Uh, let’s keep this thing moving a little bit today. And I hope that was enjoyable. Let me know. Maybe it wasn’t, maybe it was, maybe you’re mad at me,

but let’s still get along and still come to the show. It is John Lund Unleashed. Thanks for joining us. It is a Tuesday edition of the show. If you missed my whole thing on Kansas City,

they’re just good and the whole thing I just did with those with those plays and everything else you can go back to the beginning of the show. And again, you can hit us up on uh Spotify on Apple anywhere you get your favorite podcast and rather than give you everywhere where I am from a standpoint of social media,

just go to JohnLundUnleashed.com where we have everything archive. Whether it be the um podcast, the show, we have a blog up there, all those kind of things and there’s a lot of positive stuff in the 49ers just in case you’re mad at me right now.

All right, the Snoop thing was and I just saw this this morning and it hit me the wrong way and I don’t want to be negative.

But it’s like is there anything he doesn’t do? Like he’s on all the T-Mobile commercials and I still don’t understand peanut butter on jelly on gold. Like that doesn’t sound good to me at all. Like why would I want to put peanut butter and jelly on my gold. But anyway, I digress. Um,

he will host NFL Honors on Thursday February 6th. Like is this is there no one else to host anything? Like where’s Nikki Glaser?

Like how about Nikki Glaser hosts that? I mean Snoop does everything and I’m not anti-Snoop. I like Snoop. I’ve met him before. He’s a good guy. We’re not friends, we’re not acquaintances, but I have met him before and I have nothing against him. But after a while it’s like my god, he’s everywhere.

So that’s just a short one. I don’t need to go long on that one. Uh, is this mocks? What do I have here? Oh yeah. So it is it an NFL mocks season? It must be because we are approaching February very very quickly.

And um, yet today this is my favorite guy. Jer uh Daniel Jeremiah is the guy but here’s what’s interesting to me and the reason why I’m going to pop a couple of these Mike mocks up for you and maybe you like draft talk, maybe you don’t.

But I’m going to assume for a second that you do because today is January 28th. Today’s January 28th.

So once we get into February, we can officially start talking draft because A,

the Super Bowl would be over and B, the Underwear Olympics in Indianapolis are coming up shortly and so we people start doing this and Tuesday must be mock day because I saw a ton of them today.

But my favorite guy is Daniel Jeremiah who does an amazing job.

And uh, I get nothing out of this plug before I pop that up there. I get nothing out of this plug.

He does a uh a show in Seattle. Brock Huard does a great show up in Seattle with a guy named Mike Salk and they’re on 710 ESPN. And um, I when I was driving into KMB every day I would listen on Wednesdays to Daniel Jeremiah just because Daniel Jeremiah is great and he would give insight mostly in the Seahawks so

I I would I liked it only because the Seahawks were in the division and I kind of wanted to know what they were thinking, but he’s tremendous on draft. Um, so you go to NFL.com but anyway, here’s something that’s interesting.

So this guy, Armand Membou is a guard slash tackle from Missouri, actually a tackle but he’s being projected inside to guard at the 11th overall pick. So that’s Daniel Jeremiah. I’m going to go through these quickly and then there’s a theme here.

Uh, this is from the Athletic, Joshua Simmons, offensive tackle, Ohio State. He’s got tackle guard flexibility as they say. So interior offensive line could play some tackle with Trent Williams maybe or maybe not leaving.

And then Draft Network says Donovan Jackson, guard, Ohio State.

Now again, I’m just going to give you a little insight with the 49ers that you are probably well aware of but I’m just going to give it to you anyway,

which is they don’t draft interior offensive lineman in the first round, let alone with the 11th overall pick.

I just I don’t see it. So even though these are early mocks and really with early mocks, it’s probably not the guy you’re going to pick.

All three of those mocks who are good, Daniel Jeremiah is really good. This kid from Missouri might be good. He can play tackle and guard. The guys the Athletic doing amazing job. They say offensive tackle Ohio State that guy can play in uh inside or outside.

And then where’s the other one? Uh Joshua Donovan Jackson who’s a good offensive lineman in Ohio State is good.

Beyond all the skilled position players that everybody talks about that uh that got them a national championship, their offensive line’s really good. So three offensive lineman in three mock drafts today and I think they’re all for three because the 49ers don’t do that.

Chris Foerster, their offensive uh line coach has a philosophy that the 49ers have uh embraced over the years with John and Kyle which is they don’t take offensive lineman early. They just don’t.

Uh, the real pain and we talk about this all the time where Buckner gets traded to the Colts because he’s making too much money. He’s going to make too much money in his new contract and then they get Kinlaw with not the 13th pick which they got from Indy it was the 14th pick.

And then of course he doesn’t work out so they have to go out and spend a bunch of money at the defensive line position for Hargrave which he’s going to be released as a June 1 cut and that didn’t work out.

One of the major problems there is they moved from 13 to 14 with Tampa Bay. They flipped a spot. Tampa Bay got Tristan Wirfs. Man, Tristan Wirfs would be really nice right now. He can play right tackle and then when Trent leaves,

he’s an all-pro left tackle. So that would have been a great pick but they decided they wanted to go interior defensive line because they wanted to replace Buckner. So I they’re just I don’t think they’re going offensive line at all even if it’s an offensive tackle like Kelvin Banks out of Texas. So we don’t need to go deep into that.

The interesting part to me was all three guys or all three uh draft people or NFL.com and Daniel Jeremiah’s case who know the they should know the 49ers,

you’ve got to look at mock drafts to think what they’re trying to do is put a player in a position where he should go. Like those guys are probably in that range,

but that you’ve got to understand what each team does and each how each team thinks and the 49ers don’t think offensive lineman and especially interior offensive lineman is good value at number 11. So I think that if they’re going to find a defensive tackle and I don’t think they’re locked into anything because they need some things,

but I don’t think they’re taking an offensive lineman.

So that’s what I think and I could be wrong. I could be 100% wrong.

Uh, NFL mocks, uh Golden State Utah I have on my screen there.

That is tonight and the only reason I bring that up and that’s at Chase Center.

The only reason I bring that up is because yesterday I didn’t talk anything about the uh the Lakers and the Warriors over the weekend and it’s hard to talk about the Warriors right now because

with Kuminga out, Podjemsky’s coming back, they’re kind of not going to say starting over, but when you’re out for a while, you know this in any sport, it just takes a minute to get back. Now Podjemsky’s shooting the basketball better, but they’re trying to figure out their rotations now with a bunch of guys back and guys like Poole and actually Moody and Santos have kind of earned some time.

And so I’m very skeptical of Steve Kerr when Steve Kerr will say something like,

you know, couldn’t Poole scores 20 a couple of games ago and Steph Curry loves playing with him because the Warriors need a stretch five really bad and they’ve talked about Looney and all these different kind of guys and people like Miles Turner.

So they’ve needed a stretch five for a long time and all of a sudden this second round pick out of Boston College comes in and hits for 20 and hits a couple of threes in the Lakers game and everybody’s like, well that’s the guy.

But now when people start coming back, Steve Kerr will say, well that guy’s going to be in the rotation. But then when guys start coming back, all of a sudden that guy’s not in the rotation,

so we’ll just have to see. I like the kid but if as you start looking at the Western Conference and I didn’t grab standings today to pop up on the screen but when you start looking at it,

the Lakers are starting to play well and and Phoenix has won seven out of ten and so they’ve got tonight they’ll they’ll beat Utah but they can’t really stumble or anything like that with these team these games coming up

because teams in the West are starting to get better and part of the reason why the Warriors could hang around a little bit is because they had the injuries but nobody else was really going on a run near the bottom. Of course Oklahoma City and the teams at the top and Houston and so forth and Memphis are playing well,

but now you’re starting to see the Lakers actually play well and the Suns actually play well like the old man teams that I’ve talked about a ton.

So it’s critical that the Warriors if they want to stay in this thing to any extent, start playing some better basketball. Utah’s not a very good team so they should win tonight’s game. Now here’s something interesting. I didn’t get to this last week.

Hang on a second. I have blah my gums so much that I needed something to drink. All right, so

I didn’t get to this last week but this is really fascinating to me.

And I’ve we’ve talked about this whether I’m on the radio KMB with Greg Papa and I really we always got we always liked talking about this but this is All-Star voting from last week and you know Steph’s a starter.

But here’s what’s interesting. You see player rank, fan rank, media rank, weighted score. So fan rank is 50%, player rank is 25%, media rank is 25%.

But what I think is interesting more than anything because we get blamed all the time. The fans don’t know what they’re talking about.

Will you just give us one game? I’ve always been a big proponent of this and if you watch the show with any regularity,

I just whether it be a Major League Baseball All-Star game, whether it be the Pro Bowl which is not the Pro Bowl, it’s just a bunch of games down in Orlando that they play around with.

Or whether it’s the NBA All-Star game, I just believe that they should give us one game. Is that too freaking much to ask? We pay all the bills around here. The the ticket prices are outrageous. We have to have 15 different channels to watch the NFL every single year and then they they continue to give us more. I’m not being an old man get off my lawn. I’m just simply saying that we pay a lot of money,

we go to games, it’s outrageous. When you go to a a professional sporting event, it’s like Monopoly money that you’re throwing around everywhere. So can you just give us one game? But we constantly as fans get berated. The fans don’t know what they’re talking about. The fans shouldn’t have a vote. So I’m glad that we are 50% of the vote here.

And I don’t think there’s anything egregious that the fans did. So it’s it’s not so much the fans and I don’t really care what the media think. So fans fan votes in the middle there, media rank is on the right.

But what I care about is player rank. So this is what the rest of the players think of you.

So like if you start at the top there in the front court, Jokic is one across the board and he should be.

Uh LeBron James is two across the board but media thinks he’s four.

Durant across the board is two three five with the media and the reason why he’s five with the media is because he’s surly and I tell you that all the time. It’s human nature. They don’t like him as much. He’s surly.

Uh when Bama is there, Anthony Davis is interesting player ranked five.

I think he would be higher but I guess he gets hurt a little bit media likes him.

Uh Sengun who I’ve told you a million times uh they could have had him over Moody even though I like Moody. Nine ranked six fan eight media. Um, the other guys whatever. Let’s get to the bottom.

All right, so Wiggins, eight fan ranked, good. Nine media ranked, good. This is among all front court players.

Players on Andrew Wiggins, 21. 21. The players do not respect or like Andrew Wiggins. It it’s more respect than like. And it’s not like.

It’s just they look at Andrew Wiggins and they go whatever. And it’s based on the fact that he’s been inconsistent in his career. Andrew Wiggins is a nice player and he’s having a hell of a season.

And this should be based on this year only.

So the fans have acknowledged the fact my voice just cracked. The fans have acknowledged the fact that Andrew Wiggins is having a really nice year. They put him eighth. The media has acknowledged the fact that Andrew Wiggins is having a very nice year. They put him ninth. So we didn’t screw up as fans.

Andrew Wiggins is the eighth best front court player in the Western Conference played like it. The media agrees. The players are like 21.

So this is why I like this thing because that you’ve really found out what the players think.

So they don’t they don’t they don’t respect, they don’t like Andrew Wiggins.

And let’s go down to the guards. Shai Gilgeous, he should be one across the board whether you’re a Curry fan or not. One across the board. Now what used to be interesting was Steph Curry early in his career,

Russell Westbrook was was in his heyday, James Harden was was in his prime like some of these players. Steph Curry would be one

one with the fans, one with the media and he’d be like eight with the players.

But he’s gained a ton of respect through the year. So he’s two, two and two.

Uh Dončić has been hurt.

So the and again, Dončić being sixth, that really doesn’t have to do with hurt.

Dončić constantly complains and moans, his bitches and dives on the ground and has that Dončić whiny face.

And so the players don’t like him as much. You can see they respect his game because he’s good, but they put him sixth, the fans put him third, the media puts him fourth.

Uh the players like Anthony Edwards. He’s not even a great year by his standards, third, five and three.

Kyrie, Ja, um same thing. Look at Harden amongst the players.

You know why they don’t like Harden? Because he’s always diving on the ground, hooking his arm around, you’re trying to get like trying to get to the free throw line and it pisses players off.

So the fans give him six, the media gives him five and the players say stop trying to cry and draw fouls and they put him at twelve.

So anyway, I don’t know if you think that is interesting.

It used to be more interesting when they would completely disrespect Steph.

But I didn’t get to this last week and the fact that the games in San Francisco intrigues me even that much more, but I always like to look at the fans, the media, then the players.

And the reason I started this whole conversation with we always get disrespected as fans is we did a pretty good job there with all these players.

And I’m just showing the Western Conference because whatever on the in the East.

But uh we did a pretty good job, I think as fandom in Harden’s case and in Wiggins’ case especially,

they showed you what they think. They don’t like Harden trying to draw fouls and they don’t respect Wiggins year in and year out despite the fact that the media and the fans went, hey, Wiggins is having a pretty good year.

So I don’t know if that helps you at all, but that’s kind of interesting to me where the players ranked ranked the uh ranked the other players.

I’d like to see more of that. I think that’s absolutely great.

All right, so that’s All-Star vote.

Let me go out to the comments because we got a I I have something and you may want to leave the show early today, but you know what?

I have something. Let me look at my videos to make sure I’ve loaded it before I say it.

And I have I have no idea why this happens on my timeline, so don’t leave before I get down to online food at the bottom and I can’t show you Tongue Guy too.

Um we are down to the Giants stuff, but before we move into baseball because some people have actually asked me to talk a little bit about the Giants as we are getting closer to spring training.

So I’m not gonna make that a huge part, but I do have something to discuss. And again, if you’re new to the show, here’s what we do.

We’re not beholden to talk about anything but what we want to talk about are the best things every single day.

So if the Giants aren’t making news or if they suck, I’m not compelled to talk about them.

They’re not a I’m not a flagship of the Giants. I’m not a flagship of the of the Warriors. I’m not a flagship of the Miners.

I’m trying to do the most compelling conversations that are out there whether they be locally, nationally, whatever.

And so yeah, it it see I like Joy so much because she’s intrigued Joy, I’m just telling you and I mean this in the most positive way.

When I saw Tongue Guy, I thought about you and that’s not a dirty thing. It’s just I thought, you know what? I hope Joy is in the show because I’m gonna play I’m gonna I I want her opinion on Tongue Guy.

So we’ll get to that quickly. We’re an hour three into this show. By the way, I should tell you something before I do move on to other things and I I am going to get out to the uh I’m point I’m doing this because it’s in front of me.

I will get out to the comments in just one second. Right after the show today, uh flip over to Krug’s channel. I’m gonna do Larry’s show at ten, so um about or about ten fifteen.

So we got another hour we can do the show. And then let me check my text messages real quick because I gotta do a hit with a friend of mine in Seattle. I told you about KJ about friends of mine in Seattle.

I’m gonna do his show every week from now on. So there you go. Okay, I’m no new text messages. I think I’m doing Larry’s show at ten fifteen. So look, you may have things to do.

You may have a life. You have more of a life than I have, but I am gonna go over and do Larry’s channel at about ten fifteen. All right, before I get to baseball because I so we’ve done football, we’ve done the Chiefs.

I went through all the videos. Uh we did Snoop as uh my god, really, can you host another thing? I mean who didn’t like uh Nikki Glaser? Was did she do the Golden Globes?

She was amazing. Like if I was somebody and I needed a host for a show like that or NFL Honors and she did uh she did the Thursday night stuff after the game on Prime and the first one was a little bit awkward.

But I think right now as far as hosts are going, I know like Ricky Gervais was really hot for a while and everything and hosting those shows. Nikki Glaser’s number one. I mean I think. I could be totally wrong.

No, I didn’t. Wait a minute. I gotta go up to forty niners now. No, I didn’t do anything like that. I didn’t do anything and we don’t want to make anybody feel uncomfortable around here. I didn’t do anything like that.

I simply said that when I show the Tongue Guy as part of the Caboose Pistol later on in the show that I that’s what I thought of and I’m glad that she’s, you know, I don’t want to offend anybody, but I I I thought, you know, I hoped Joy’s in the room because I I wanna ask her.

That she, you know, I just want to ask her about it. Nothing creepy, nothing weird, nothing like that. See now everybody went creepy.

I shouldn’t have started that. I get it. Uh let’s see. Yeah, sports fan. Ten uh about ten fifteen. I think Crew told me about ten fifteen. We’ll do this, so and uh yeah.

See there you go. Another Nikki Glaser fan. I just Nikki Nikki Glaser’s good. Was I blushing?

Was I blushing when I said that about Tongue Guy? Uh maybe that’s just my face today. And um oh my gosh, no doubt about it. Uh hi Nathan, good to see you, man.

Um Nikki Glaser roasting Tom Brady. In fact, it’s it she roasted him so well and there was a bunch of other people on that day on um Comedy Network or what is it?

Comedy Central, whatever it is. Um that he he was already divorced and all that kind of stuff, but that definitely was like the final, final, final if they he thought he was getting back with Gisele.

The final, final, final like she was like I did not like that. And you know, he got paid a ton. In fact, I think this is crazy and I could be wrong, but I think I remember hearing that Brady got like a million bucks for that.

Can you imagine? Like I don’t want to get roasted. I I I think I could probably handle it, but I don’t want to get roasted. But when I mean just sitting there for an hour and have everyone roast you, but if you knew you were getting a million dollars, I wouldn’t care.

I’d suck down a million drinks and I’d just be like a million dollars. I think he got a million. He might have gotten more. He might he might have gotten more than a million dollars to do that. To just sit there and just absolutely eviscerated. Uh

See now everybody just everybody wants to talk about Tongue Guy. Never should have brought that up. I never should have brought that up. Uh Nathan, good to see you my friend. Um you know I Nathan I think was the first one to join the London Loyalists Club and so

Nathan, if you want to send me your information because we I don’t know if you were here yesterday. I don’t remember if you were, but um we did come to a conclusion. I think Stephen Leonard was the one who came up with the idea and then a lot of people jumped on it and were absolutely great.

I talked to my wife yesterday who’s in charge of merchandise and they’re gonna order a bunch of more of these trucker hats if people want them. And um somebody suggested that hey, for, you know, the five bucks a month you’re getting us for not only can you do the you know, the videos coming out early and the and the um and the chats and all the different things that everybody does, but they but a lot of people were suggesting we do merchandise.

So we’re gonna order more merchandise, but Nathan, I know for a fact that you were number one on the list and joined, so this hat is gonna be yours. I think I got three or four other ones. So let me make sure I have those before I give them out, but I gotta give one to Nathan because um I think you were first in that group.

I saw that there was another star up here, so let me make sure that I hit these. Uh the Skillz Report for five I Skillz, what’s great about you is yesterday you donated seven dollars and seventeen cents and I think I asked you if that had any significance and I don’t remember what you said.

And then you said passed out at my desk. Dreams, dreams I was dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Bad” and got tired in in and sat. Michael then put some newspapers over me and left. Are these things true or not? Because yesterday you said you fell asleep at your desk and you hit a home run with an empty Coke bottle or no because that would have been too easy because that would have been like at Oracle, but like a soda bottle or something like that.

Is this true? And does five dollars and seventy four cents have any kind of um significance to you. So anyway, uh dancing to Michael Jackson’s Bad. I’m not a huge Michael Jackson guy, but Bad probably wouldn’t be my favorite. Maybe Dirty Diana, something like that, but I can’t, you know, gotta think.

Anyway, uh Michael Jackson putting newspaper over you and left. All right, thank you for the donation. Much appreciated. All right, let me make sure I’m not missing anything before I go to one quick thing on baseball and then we’ll go to uh I don’t know if I have a New Orleans story today, but I’ll think about it.

I’m sure I do. And then uh random stuff we do throughout the show. Caboose Pistol has to do with Tongue Guy and online food today. Uh but we got plenty of time before uh before Crew too. Um let’s see here. Uh

Gotta have the John Lund Unleashed Members Only jacket. Can I can you still get members only jackets anywhere? And I had one of those. I had a dark blue one and dark blue is not really my color. Nothing’s really my color to be honest with you.

I think I had my colors done at one point. These are your colors. And um maybe blue was definitely not one of them, but um I don’t know if you can even get members only jackets. Can you? Can you go to Amazon and get a members only jacket? No idea.

I don’t think you can. I I really don’t. Um you know, I know better and I just get going and I start talking and then I shouldn’t have brought up Tongue Guy and it was just sitting there at the bottom kind of just chilling and there was no reason to bring it up and then I did and uh

and then it’s just dominating the conversation. Did Brady forty niners did uh did Brady get twenty five million? I thought Brady got a million. Is that true? Did Brady get twenty five million?

God, you could probably cut off my limbs for that like in Monty Python. Oh, Brady got twenty five million? You could probably cut off my limbs for that like in Monty Python.

I’m not dead yet.

I mean my twenty-five million?

Somebody’d ought to check that.

Is that true? I thought he got like a million, maybe it’s somewhere in between, but me if you’re right.

Yeah, uh Gisele’s personal trainer, that’s right. I think she’s having a uh

a child or did have a child with that guy, did he?

Hang on a second.

I get I’m gonna be I’m not gonna be able to think straight unless I find out what Brady got paid for that thing.

Somebody’s probably faster than this at this than me.

Tom Brady roast paid.

My spelling is so bad.

Kevin Hart says Tom Brady did not regret the Netflix roast.

Uh Tom Brady regrets doing the Netflix roast.

I don’t care. I just how there it is.

How much did Tom Brady make for his Netflix roast?

Uh the the the Nikki Glaser joke he lost thirty million. Well that was just based on the jokes and everything because she took him for more money. I wanna know what he made.

Two million viewers, six hours, Kevin Hart, you know blah blah.

All right. I don’t have time. Come on. Let’s go.

Uh why did Tom Brady agree to be roasted? Come on.

Uh yo Drew Brees did a nice job roasting him as well.

Let me see here.

I I don’t wanna I don’t wanna bore you. I thought I could do this fast and clearly I cannot.

So uh I don’t know. I’ll find it. We’ll find it. Somebody will find it. How much did he get paid for that?

Uh somebody’s saying uh Nathan’s saying twenty-five million. I’m oh no forty-nine’s faithful saying twenty-five million.

I thought it was like a million, but I could I I

don’t know. I could be 100% wrong. There are certain things I think I know and there are other things I have no idea.

Um Bye Antonio.

See I don’t know anything about these things.

Uh it was on Netflix. Yeah you’re right it was on Netflix cuz they just went bananas. You’re right.

Most of them were on Comedy Central. Wasn’t it Jeff Ross was the one who’s like the king of that whole thing.

Yeah Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. That’s what he was. He was a he was a brilliant he was a

Brazilian Jiu-jitsu guy. Uh yeah I don’t know twenty maybe you could be right with twenty-five million. I don’t think so.

But like I said I’m I’m I’ll admit 100%. All right fine.

Look at see everybody’s just like tongue guy food. Tongue guy food. But that means the end of the show.

I mean I mean that’s it. That’s all I got after that.

And then I gotta go be on Larry’s show which I’m looking forward to. Don’t get me wrong, but it what is it? 9:25 right now.

So I’d have I’d I mean I’d get a half hour to drink some water and take some aspirin. I got a raging headache today for some reason.

Oh let me tell you one quick story.

I got I I’m sorry. I said this right at the beginning of the show and then I went into all the Kansas City stuff and um

let’s see Pine Needle says any of the credible Google Places estimates it twenty-five million. All right.

Um I do know this as a former newspaper writer and reporter myself that you just need two sources. You need two credible sources and everybody is that is in this room I consider to be a credible source.

So that is now two people, forty-nine’s faithful and Pine Needle who have said that uh it was twenty-five million for Brady. So I stand corrected.

Uh it’s twenty-five million.

All right that’s my two sources.

Well we’ll call it twenty-five million. You guys are right. I’m wrong. You’re smart. I’m stupid.

Um there you go.

Uh Steve you know how the show works man. You Steve you have to go back to the beginning cuz I did this whole thing

about the Chiefs and I put all this video together and it was a controversy and I can’t believe you weren’t here.

I cannot believe you weren’t here.

And yep Steve it’s a tangent.

We’ve done so much hardcore stuff today.

Rabbit hole, Casey’s just good, first half plays, Snoop over exposed by a mile, NFL mocks, Warriors taking on Utah, but I really wanted to talk about the All-Star vote which I did and we are random. We’re always through Giants stuff. I still have New Orleans story, caboose, tongue guy online food. That’s what we have left.

Um so if you missed the stuff, especially you Steve cuz you’re here every single day, I would love your opinion. Go back to the beginning of the show and not right now but later and watch my Kansas City stuff because I put a lot of work into it and I think it was pretty good.

But I could again uh majority rules in this place, so maybe it was horrible. So go back to rabbit hole Steve later, just later.

But uh I appreciate you coming in and you don’t have to be on time. You have stuff to do. You have a life. It’s like hey dude like I have a life, remember? So I understand that.

All right before we get to a New Orleans story. Oh Giants stuff, New Orleans story, caboose featuring tongue guy and online food before we get to that.

If I could just share with you a proud moment. Now I’m very uh I don’t let this information out a ton just because a little bit of information about your child or your family is fine with me.

But when you go too far on the child on to talk about your child and how great your child is, then I think you lose people. Like you can give me a little bit, but like on Facebook or something. Like I don’t need to see a hundred pictures of your child, right? I just don’t. And and and I do care, don’t get me wrong. I I do care what’s going on in your life each one of you.

And I do care that your child is well off and doing great things. So if they do something that’s that is fairly spectacular, I would like to hear about it, but I don’t need to hear every single detail. I think I’m most people in that regard, right?

I’m not trying to be a jerk about it, but I think that’s that’s fair, right? And when Facebook or social media first came out, all we all did was like tons of stuff about our kid, right? Like uh you know he ate a grape. It’s like come on man. Like we don’t need it all.

But just really quick. So uh he’s been the beat writer for ASU basketball this year. He got the ASU baseball gig as a beat writer and he’s he’s a really he’s just baseball, baseball, baseball everything. He did an internship with the Giants in Camelback last summer.

And so um the Cape Cod League which you probably know of which is the first wood bat league and you get a lot of great players uh playing in that league and guys who are going to be going to the pros, but it’s a big element in the Major League Baseball draft and then yeah you ping ping ping. You got these eastern bats and the balls flying, you know six hundred miles and it’s the first wood bat league and it’s in it’s the Cape Cod League and it’s over the summertime. So

I’ve helped him get internships. I’ve helped him get in front of certain people, but this thing he did all on his own and

he didn’t get any help from me and he’s been working really hard and and there’s a bunch of teams up there and he came in second place for one and everything. So he would live on the Cape for the summer and he would be a beat writer slash social media guy slash all these different hats that you gotta wear for this league.

And later on like Buster Posey played for this team. It’s called the Brewster Whitecaps is the team that he’s gonna work for in the Cape Cod League next summer and like Buster Posey all these different great players played for this team and all for all the different teams up there. It’s not just that team, but he uh so he got this gig on his own. He’s gonna work for a team called the Brewster Whitecaps in the Cape Cod League which is the first wood bat league. It’s a big time league

for Major League Baseball draft and it happens to be the team that Posey played for and all these different guys and he’s all stoked about it. So he called me yesterday and he was like hyperventilating. He was so happy.

So there even though I’m not gonna sit there and just bombard you with everything that he does when there are seminal moments in your kid’s life, you’re like damn.

And I told him like five times, I didn’t do this for you. You did this for you and that is awesome. So he’s gonna live in the Cape.

Which is gonna be the it’s like usually I see him in the summer. So he’s gone at ASU doing whatever he’s doing and working and doing well and I’m not gonna tell you he’s on the team’s list, but he’s on the team’s list and he’s doing really good. Okay that’s enough.

And um so I’m proud of him and then but he gets that Cape Cod gig on his own and he’s not coming home for the summer which you know he’s kinda messy so we’re not that upset about, but anyway.

So you can tell me about your child too and that’s all I’m gonna do it, but I’m pretty stoked about it.

Okay so that’s that.

All right um baseball wise speaking of baseball. Let me get to baseball for just one second.

I don’t know if this is gonna make you mad. It just struck me the wrong way today maybe a little bit.

Uh Larry Baer comes out. I don’t know where he said this. Might have said it on a local radio station or but anyway NBC Sports Baer

about the Dodgers. Larry Baer says quote, we can’t focus on them. We’ve got to focus on ourselves. Larry Baer doesn’t believe comparing the Giants to the Dodgers is productive.

Um I guess the problem I have with that is let’s okay let’s do a comp and comparing sport to sport is not

always the right thing or and it’s not always accurate I should say, not the right thing, not always accurate.

So the NFC West and the NFC in general when I talk about this all the time, the NFC in general

looked at the forty-niners a few years ago and said but they are dominant. What do we do? Because a lot of times what happens in sports is you just you imitate the people who are successful.

We do this in life. We do it in sports. We do it in sports a lot. So they looked at the forty-niners as you and I have discussed many many times and they said okay they’re physically beating us.

They’re beating us in the offensive and defensive lines. We we get beat up when we play them. So let’s do this. Let’s beef up our offensive and defensive lines.

Rams did it, Eagles did it, Lions did it and all of a sudden the Niners went oh yeah we forgot what we did. So you you look at the teams you have to beat and you say how do we combat said team?

Unless you wanna be a wild card team forever and never try to win the division and so Larry Baer to me is essentially saying we’re not competing with the Dodgers. Now maybe I’m reading that completely wrong. Maybe I’m um I’m not anti-Giant at all.

I like the Giants. I want them to do well. We have an entire summer of them. So it would be great if they were compelling and could win games. So I’m actually the other way about it. I’d really like them to do well.

But when you say that the team who is beating your brains in the division year after year after year outside of twenty twenty-one that comparing yourself to the Dodgers is not productive. I understand that,

but you’ve gotta look at what they’re doing. That’s what we do in life. How is that person successful? Can I emulate what they’re doing?

Now the Dodgers are spending a ton of money. That’s where it kinda falls off. But they’re doing a lot of things behind the scenes.

They they know how to develop talent.

I don’t know if I put this up there today.

Uh, I should have, but I forgot. Um, Keith Law, who’s not he’s not judge jury executioner as far as guys who do the lists for the prospects in baseball. But Keith Law did a list today which I’ll put up on the board tomorrow. It’s in the Athletic so you can check it out if you’ve got a subscription there.

But he did his top 100 going into to the Major League Baseball season and as you could imagine Bryce Eldridge, I think he’s like 29 or something like that or maybe he’s 19, maybe he’s in the top 20, whatever case case or point is.

Is that’s the only giant in the top 100. It’s Bryce Eldridge. That’s it. That’s it. So the Dodgers year in and year out, I think I saw seven or eight Dodgers in the top 100. You can hate the Dodgers all you want, boy I’m gonna roll today. I went from the Chiefs to the Dodgers.

Well my point is is that you’ve got eight Dodgers in the top 100. So they didn’t buy those guys, that was good scouting. That’s what they did. I’m not a Dodgers fan. But you’ve got to try to emulate. So we heard that Farhan was gonna come in having worked for the Dodgers and I know Buster’s got his job now, but stay with me for just one second.

And he was gonna help the farm system. Well now I’ve seen that the the Giants farm system is 30th and they have one player in the top 100.

So you’ve got to try to emulate something that they do. Okay, you can’t spend the money and you don’t have their revenue. I completely understand that. But can you get scouts that are similar? Can you steal people from them that are key?

Can you do those kind of things? Can you can you emulate them in a lot of ways? They’ve found a pipeline to Japanese players, not only Otani but Yamamoto and now they get uh Suzaki and I I don’t believe Suzaki for a minute when he says it had no influence that he had two other Japanese players on that team.

I don’t buy it for a minute because now he’s in the biggest market and he’s in a big fishbowl or the second biggest market and he’s in a big fishbowl, but he’s third behind those two guys and he doesn’t have to really worry about being the center of attention like he would have maybe on the Giants. And the Giants in reading Andrew Baggarly’s piece a few weeks ago,

they’re trying to decide if they ever if they even want to be in the Japanese market where it is a huge market to make your team better. Are you insane? So the Dodgers have done well in the international market, they do well in scouting, they develop their players. Now do they spend a boatload? They get Mookie Betts and they spend on Otani and they defer money and

by the way, the Giants could defer money, they choose not to. They could put these players on a credit card if they wanted to, they decide not to. And the rest of the league is doing the same kind of thing. So when Larry Baer says we’re not gonna we’re not gonna watch the Dodgers and what they do, why?

Because in in business, any business, you look at what the successful businesses are doing. So even though you can’t spend the money that they are spending, you could do a lot of the things that they’re doing, you could steal people from them in their front office who understands what they’re trying to do. Now Farhan didn’t work. I know you’re screaming right now.

Farhan didn’t try to get I understand. Farhan was more A’s than Dodgers. He loved shopping at Marshalls and TJ Maxx. Hey everyone, look who I got on a discount. You know like when your significant other goes to one of those places and spends $300 and says I saved. No, you spent.

You didn’t save, you spent $300 on stuff we don’t need. You didn’t save anything. So he seemed to be for me, he seemed to be more A’s than Dodgers. So I would try again down that road, but I I just I don’t like hearing that because what you’re essentially saying is we can’t compete with them.

And right now you can’t. But at some point, Larry Baer and Giants, you have to. It can’t be every single year we’re going for the wild card. We’re going for the wild card because if you think about the division which you’re in fourth place of, it goes Dodgers, Padres, Diamondbacks, Giants.

Now not only you so okay, we can’t touch the Dodgers. That’s essentially what he’s saying in that quote. We can’t touch the Dodgers. Okay, so now what you’ve done is you’ve expanded the field that you have to compete against. So now for the wild card burst, you’re not just competing with a Dodgers who are gonna win the division. You’ve just said that you can’t do that.

In a major market like this. But now it’s it’s the Padres and the Diamondbacks and then go over to the NL what now it’s the Mets you’re dealing with and the Phillies you’re dealing with and the Braves you’re dealing with and now let’s go over to the Central and it’s the Cubs and the Brewers and the so you’ve just expanded this field because the only way now that you can get into the playoffs because you just said you can’t compete with the Dodgers

is to get a wild card, which means you do you’ll have to play an extra round of baseball anyway. I I just I don’t understand that mentality. I understand it from an A’s perspective because that’s a smaller market or a Milwaukee or a Minnesota and they look and they look up and they say we can’t spend that. We can’t do that.

How are we gonna compete? I understand baseball is not fair from a financial standpoint. It is the most unfair of all the sports. But I don’t want but the Giants to me act like the A’s. They act like they don’t have the money when as I’ve said many many times before and you’re probably sick of me saying it,

the way the markets go as far as size are concerned is the New York is one, LA is two, Chicago is three, San Francisco Bay Area is four. We are the largest single baseball team market in the sport. New York has two, LA has two, Chicago has two, Bay Area has one. That’s it.

And the A’s haven’t been competitive financially for years. So don’t give me this it’s gonna take a while because I thought that and then I thought to myself that’s not right. Because it it’s gonna take a while for the Giants to take over the market. I got news for you, they took over the market a long time ago and if they didn’t have it, they got it in 10, 12 and 14 and we’d like to continue to dominate that way

if I was a Giants fan, but they don’t because they feel like well we just can’t spend and yes you can. You can put players on credit card if you want. You can. Your $35 million dollars at least according to the reports I read the latest under the tax number.

That’s a pretty good player or two or three depending on how you put the contract. And if you want to defer something, boy you could get a few guys right now. But Larry Baer is saying they’re not gonna compete. And that’s what I read. Am I wrong? Did you read that differently? We can’t focus on them, we gotta focus on ourselves. Doesn’t believe comparing the Giants to the Dodgers is productive.

So let me get this straight. You you you don’t wanna compare yourself to a team that wins the division every single year. You don’t wanna learn anything from that team? Are they too far ahead? They’re that far ahead of you. Well they are. But I’m saying that you look at the team that in again I go back to business, look at the companies that are beating you.

And do that. Okay, the finances you can’t do, do everything else. And they’re not. They have one player in the top 100, Bryce Eldridge. That’s it. They have one of the worst farm systems in the sport. How did that happen? You know, financially they have money they won’t spend.

One of the big things in sports right now in baseball is we’re gonna defer these payments. I understand if you’re like me, like I don’t put a lot of things on credit cards because I’ve gotten in credit card debt before and it’s not a whole lot of fun. But they but you’re going to continue to have revenue in a large market and if you want to look into the future, you’re a single market team.

And although the A’s weren’t financially competitive and you should have been spending like this anyway, if you had any question about it, they’re gone now. They’re in Sacramento. And I’m not saying A’s fans are gonna become Giants fans because they’re not. But five, 10 years from now, kind of like when the Raiders left and then the Raiders came back and they said where the hell are all our fans?

Where where’d everybody go? You left the market. And so those young people grew up Niners fans and young people who would be A’s fans are gonna grow up Giants fans. You’re going to have more revenue, you’re gonna have more money, spend it. They’re not gonna do it.

Because we can’t compete with the Dodgers. That’s frustrating. And if you’re thinking about buying a ticket, I I’ve said this to everybody I know, I love going out to baseball games.

The sun, the air, it’s just it’s it’s amazing. I don’t you know, if the team’s competitive on the field, that would be absolutely nice, but there’s a difference to me between going to a major league baseball game and an NBA game. And I’m not anti-NBA, I covered the NBA for years. It’s just going into an arena where most of them are the same.

And there’s t-shirt guns and there’s all sorts and there’s music and there’s this that and the other and it’s it’s generally the same. Now the fan bases are, you know, might be a little wilder or whatever the case may be, but the arena is generally the same versus going to a ballpark and outside. I wanna go to games.

Give me a reason to go to the game. Tell me you’re going to compete. Tell me that you’re not gonna just hand the Dodgers the division, which is what he just said to me. That’s how I interpreted it. I could be wrong. You know what? The Dodgers are gonna win the division.

We hope to play for a wild card. Woo! Make that your slogan next year. Giants baseball. We hope to get a wild card. No thanks. Who says that? Sorry. I mean, God, I didn’t even know I was gonna do that. I didn’t think I was gonna do that.

I’m not hating on the Giants. I like the Giants. I want them to do well. I love going to ball I love going to the game, but it’s not exactly a a boost of confidence when they essentially say the Dodgers are winning the division and we can’t compete. You’re not the A’s man. You’re not the Twins.

You’re not the Brewers. You’re not. You’re a top market team. Act like it. Saying that you can’t compete with the Dodgers, which is essentially what you just said. That’s not a whole lot of confidence in your fan base. Yeah, let me go out to the game. Can’t wait. Sorry. I didn’t mean to do that.

All right, you’ve waited long enough. What time is it? 9:42. I gotta I’m on a cruise show in a half hour and I probably need a break. Um, you sound as frustrated as me. If I hear one more Tony Bennett story from Larry Baer, I’m done. Larry look, Larry Baer’s been nice to me and I it’s not it’s nothing personal. I tell you this all the time. It’s another philosophy of the show.

I don’t take personal shots at people. I don’t. Look at me. I’m unattractive. I do not wanna take pur people take personal shots at me. I’m not gonna take personal shots at anyone else. I don’t really care about anything but between the lines, but when I see something like that, I say to myself if I was a fan and I was gonna buy season tickets, that would not exactly

that would not exactly inspire confidence. Okay, okay.

Okay.

Fine.

I don’t have a story behind this.

I do have a picture which is wild.

And I’m gonna go to Tongue Guy now.

And the weird part about Tongue Guy is Joy’s still here.

Uh the weird thing about Tongue Guy is is this real?

This is what I wanted to ask you, alright?

So here’s here’s Tongue Guy.

Hold on, let me take that off the screen.

I don’t want Joy to be made to feel weird here.

Oh though look at, there she is.

Does he have dimples?

Uh let’s see.

Come on.

Who is Tongue Guy?

Thanks for asking Steve.

Steve, this will all make sense if you go back to the beginning of the show.

I promise you.

Alright, let me go to this.

So do you think this is is real?

And do you or do you think this is this is somehow um altered?

And is is and the first thing I thought is and again thank you

um thank you for hanging out and I don’t want women to feel weird or anything about this but

I do wonder if women would find this to be attractive.

So here’s Tongue Guy.

Byron Schlenker,

Byron Schlenker 47 has a tongue 9 centimeters wide.

Is considered the man with the world’s widest tongue and is now featured on Guinness World Records.

So I guess that’s not a fake.

But look at the smile on his wife’s face.

My god.

She’s smiling from ear to ear.

Could she smile any wider?

Next to him, his proud wife with the biggest smile in the world.

I didn’t get to that part so obviously she is.

Byron Schlenker 47.

Look at that tongue.

Is that real?

Is that tongue real or is that Photoshop?

My god man, like how does he even fit that thing in his mouth?

I mean my god.

Like can you imagine him like eating with that big giant thing?

I mean it looks like a cow tongue or something.

You ever seen a cow like you know they’ll they’ll be able to cause

my uh I have family in Wisconsin and they’re dairy farmers.

And so I’ve actually I have milked a cow and I’ve seen cows obviously as you have like eat food and then just they get their big giant tongue out of like blah and just like oh my god I just put my tongue on my like uh on my microphone.

That was nasty.

But uh yeah Byron Schlenker 47, 9 centimeters wide is considered the man with the widest tongue and is now featured on Guinness World Records.

That tongue is so gigantic and wide that it just doesn’t even look real and I don’t even know how he fits it in his mouth.

I gotta go find the news story on this or I gotta find and see him talk.

I gotta see him talk.

I’ll bring that I’ll do that tomorrow.

I should have gotten a video of it because I I I don’t even think that that could fit in his mouth.

Like how could that tongue fit in his mouth?

That’s honestly that like Gene Simmons has this long thin weird tongue like Gene Simmons a kiss.

And I remember growing up me like and he would flick it you know what he would sing?

What’s that what’s the one song that Gene sings?

Whatever it is.

But uh and he would like flick his tongue on stage and everything but like that dude that’s a wide tongue.

That’s not like a you know it’s not like this long slithering snake tongue.

That thing is like ridiculous.

Doesn’t look real.

Okay, let me go out to the people now that I’ve had my say on Tongue Guy.

Did I come through on Tongue Guy?

I mean come on.

You gotta admit.

That’s pretty that’s

putting his tongue away is like packing a parachute.

I agree with you there.

That was perfectly said right there.

That is unbelievable.

Yeah cow tongue.

That’s exactly what it is.

He could sell that thing.

You ever seen that in the butcher block?

Does it has anybody ever had tongue before?

I’ve never had tongue.

Like you know the big cow tongue and you can get it in like a supermarket and it’s just like why would I ever buy that?

Has anyone had uh has anyone ever had tongue?

I’ve never had tongue.

See, I did come through on this.

People are like what in the what?

Yeah that’s a great point Victor.

What does he do when he goes to the doctor?

Dude needs three tongue depressors.

Like can you imagine going to the doc for the first time and he pulls out a one of those measly little tongue depressors?

Uh open up and say why Byron.

Oh my god, what is that?

That is unbelievable.

Isn’t that?

I mean that’s I didn’t lie to you on that.

That’s why I knew I had to bring Tongue Guy.

Tongue Guy.

Yeah the the uh the doctor thing that’s a good point right there.

How does he use this?

I know look at see look at the look at the smile on her face.

She’s bursting.

My goodness.

That’s unbelievable.

Alright, have we put that thing up?

Do you want me to put that thing away so to speak?

I mean my goodness man.

It’s unbelievable.

Are people is that done?

I mean maybe you’re having breakfast and you’re like could we stop?

Yeah that’s what I’m saying like I don’t know how he puts that thing away.

How does he how does he put that away?

Like uh who said it was a parachute?

Like that’s what he would

Look at his wife.

I can’t get over the wife’s smile.

Like look at her.

She’s like for the love of god man.

Like I’m sure that like the first time they went on a date and she saw the tongue, she was like that’s my guy.

Like we’re getting married.

Yeah right.

Gene Simmons be like Gene.

Sorry bro.

I mean you think you have a tongue?

You have like the thin long tongue.

That dude has like I don’t even know what that thing is.

It’s like a monster four by four in his mouth.

It’s ridiculous.

See there you go Steve.

Who is Tongue Guy?

Byron Schlenker 47.

9 centimeter tongue.

Wife couldn’t smile any wider.

Look at her.

She’s just like get away from my man.

Get away from my man.

Oh man.

Yeah the doctors gonna have to have a tongue depressor like just for him.

Like four like four tongue depressors like glued super glued together or something like that.

Hang on.

Oh Byron’s coming in today.

Oh damn.

We gotta do that special tongue depressor.

Oh the nurses get all hot and bothered when he comes in.

Alright, is that enough on Tongue Guy?

Uh AJ.

Uh this guy needs a shovel for a tongue depressor.

Exactly.

My goodness man.

Oh that’s a great call right there.

I bet his dental work is a mess.

Yeah how could okay open up and say ah the dentist is just like what in the hell?

I can’t get to your teeth.

They’d have seriously they’d have to get some like they’d have to get like three dental assistants to like hold his tongue down.

Is that the worst when you’re getting dental work done and your tongue is like moving around?

Like what am I do with my tongue here?

What am I supposed to do?

Yeah that’s a cow tongue.

That’s exactly right.

Looks like a giant cow tongue.

Ever seen a like a a cow just going after going after the grass or whatever.

That’s what he’s got.

Like somebody got confused when they were giving out tongues.

Who gave Byron Schlenker the cow tongue?

Sorry I screwed that one up god.

I was supposed to go to a cow.

What are you doing?

Anyway, alright that’s about it.

Done with that one?

Everybody seeing it enough?

My goodness man.

I put that into the system this morning.

I was still shocked and I’ve I saw the thing already.

My god.

Hi Smiley Dan.

Imagine if he got a tongue piercing.

He got his tongue pierced with a Louisville Slugger.

My god.

Alright, that’s enough on Tongue Guy.

Byron Schlenker.

I’ll see if I can find a video.

That’s some girth.

Elevated Minds.

Come on the Kansas City segment was good man.

I worked hard on that.

That was a good segment.

Go back to the beginning of the show.

It was very good.

Uh best segment all morning.

Alright, hey to each their own.

I’m gonna have to put that thing away though.

Put that thing away Byron.

Put that thing away.

Yeah by the way 950 Krug must be nervous.

I know I’m not good at leaving the show.

You know that like five different times like okay we’re wrapping everything up.

Okay, this time I really mean it.

This time we’re really really I really really mean it.

That’s not my fault.

You guys keep me going.

You guys know how to do it.

Uh let’s see wasn’t a frog that said wise in the Budweiser commercial?

Good call.

Yeah Tolbert update?

Sorry, pushed on the wrong one.

Uh gonna do it again.

Look at me on this stuff.

Alright, I just wanted Joy’s reaction.

That’s all I wanted.

Alright, Byron we’ve seen enough.

Have we seen enough on Byron or do I need to continue to uh do we have more comments on Byron?

About the uh 9 centimeter tongue are we done?

Anything else?

Going once, going twice.

Bye Byron.

We’ll see Byron tomorrow because I’m gonna find out there’s gotta be a news story around that.

And because it’s it was written there and that’s where I saw it.

And usually what I’ll try to do is I’ll try to get a video around it because that’s even funnier.

Because you know the news people are making some kind of wise cracks so I’ll make sure that I go back to that.

So there’s Tongue Guy.

Worth it.

Because everybody the whole show was like look the Kansas City thing, the baseball thing, the All-Star thing, the Warriors thing, the mock thing, the this thing, the Snoop thing.

Get to Tongue Guy.

Like all morning on Tongue Guy, Tongue Guy, Tongue Guy.

Alright, one more.

One more.

Okay, so let me explain this and this is part of the we’ll make this part of the best special too.

So I don’t know why this has happened but um

ever since I started the show, we’re probably two months into the show and thank you very much John Lund Unleashed.

John Lund Unleashed pod on YouTube.

You’re watching on X and you’re watching on Instagram and you’re like what the hell have I just stumbled into?

Um we did a lot of sports and a lot of Kansas City early so go to the YouTube channel from the beginning of the show because if you’re just joining now and you’re going Tongue Guy, what am I watching?

Just go to the beginning of the show.

Fine show today.

far above average.

So if you just go to John Lund Unleashed Pod, you join us on YouTube, you can watch the shows, go to JohnLundUnleashed.com. We will make sure and we have everything archived, so from the beginning you can go, oh, okay, Tongue Guy was the end of the show.

They actually do this really competent, barely well thought out show and and you know, it it’s not all about Tongue Guy and weird stuff. So uh I would suggest you go to the YouTube page,

John Lund Unleashed, John Lund Unleashed Pod and you can archive and watch and listen and we have a podcast as well, Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. All right, now that we’ve established that.

So ever since I started the show, how how long do I have here? Because I need like five minutes to go get a couple of Tylenol and get some water. Okay, so I got time. Make this five minutes.

Um, I may not have time to play this entire video, but you’ll get the idea. So ever since I started the show about two months ago,

um, I’ve been getting all this weird stuff on social media, but especially Facebook. And I it’s not like I click on any of this stuff, so I because obviously, you know, you click on something and then that starts to become part of your feed and and AI is smarter and all of a sudden you’re getting all this stuff based on what you watch.

That’s why like when you’re on your computer or you’re on an iPad or your phone or whatever and all these weird things start popping up about things that you looked at late at night, your wife’s like or significant other’s like, why is that popping up? I have no idea. Come on, you know.

Because what you look at is what you will get.

So I don’t I I’m I think I’m a pretty good cook. I’m I’m I’m pretty darn good on the barbecue, but I don’t click on food. I don’t watch food uh food videos. I don’t care about food videos, but it’s not only the food video. Like if it was high-end stuff, I would stop and watch. If it was barbecue, I would stop and watch.

If it was cocktail making high-end kind of cocktails and so forth, I would watch. So if I got bombarded with stuff like that, I would completely understand it. But I get bombarded with for the lack of a better term, like trailer trash kind of food, and if you live in a trailer, no offense, it’s just that I I don’t know, I’m terming it that way for the lack of a better term.

Maybe there’s a better term out there that I should be using, but it’s it’s just it’s food I would never in a million years stop to watch. And so I’m I’m getting bombarded with all this stuff and I’m thinking, why am I getting this?

And finally uh this morning, what’s the worst of the worst. And I got to believe this is a joke. Maybe it’s not, but let me play just a little bit of this and you can watch this and maybe you get these too, but I I promise you, I don’t watch this kind of stuff.

This is not my food of choice.

Like I said, barbecue, steaks, you know, fine dining. And I’m not I’m not some kind of a snob or anything. It’s just this is there’s just no way. I can’t believe that she’s that this is being made, let alone something that my feed thinks I would be into.

So with that, here’s what popped up on Facebook today, online food. Watch this.

This is for the whole family, so you’ll want to use two boxes. And then once you have your macaroni and cheese.

This is kind of like my take on a lasagna. Just get the whole front kind of covered like that. And that’s a big block of Velveeta which you feed to cheese. And what’s fun is like

your family has different preferences on cheese. And that’s a big block of Velveeta which you feed to cheese. And what’s fun is like your family has different preferences on cheese. Okay, I’m sorry, I’ve got to go to the beginning of this. Sorry.

Then you add in so she starts with macaroni and cheese. There’s a block of Velveeta, a sausage like an arch. And blue box macaroni and cheese, okay? She does two boxes for the whole family, so you’ll want to use two boxes.

And then once you have your macaroni and cheese sausage. This is kind of like my take on a lasagna. What’s a lasagna? Just take a whole front kind of covered like that.

And what’s fun is if your family has different preferences on cheese. Again, this is in my feed. You have to use the whole and she puts more cheese.

All the same cheese. So in the back, we’re going to use this Colby Jack because some people just prefer it.

I mean, this would kill you if you were lactose intolerant.

So then they take the back of the lasagna and the lasagna. The others can take the front. And then some people like different cheese lasagna. That’s a Tapatio. Tapatio is a nice sauce.

So just take this and a little bit of garlic. Just wait till you see how this turns out in the oven. It’s great.

No, it’s not. I saw it. A little bit of garlic.

Taking some tortillas. And what is this? And this is where the fun lasagna part comes in. It smells delicious right now.

No, it doesn’t. It smells Okay, can we stop for a second? Can we put me back on the stage?

Look at that.

So she’s got she’s got blue box macaroni and cheese. She puts processed cheese slices on top of that. Oh, she’s got the arch of a German sausage. Then she puts a little Tapatio sauce on it. Oh, cheese uh regular slices. Then she puts tortillas and she’s calling this a lasagna.

Which is fine. You can call it whatever you want. Lasagna, lasagna, tomato, tomato, potato, potatado. I I really don’t care how you speak.

I make I screw up all the time every single day, but let’s just look at this right now.

Okay? It’s a process. It’s first of all, it’s started with a big piece of Velveeta in the middle, which should be fed to fish.

Then she puts uh the arched sausage there and she thinks this is some sort of artwork. Processed cheese, regular cheese, Tapatio, and now she’s putting tortillas. Tortillas. Now she’s putting tortillas on this thing, all right? So that’s where we are.

Lasagna. Really good. See, just take it. I know the garlic. Ooh, you want to keep your sausage intact. Now this comes out of the oven.

Uh, it’s going to be really spectacular. Right? Yeah. So we just completely cover it like that. And then the final coating of cheese because we want the cheese on top.

So I’m taking some shredded and just putting it like that. See how it’s kind of like this arch? It’s a sausage arch. Oh, that’s going to be so cool when it melts. Okay, hold on. We got to stop again.

I mean, I I don’t need to I was going to make myself big and tall. So again, if you’re lactose intolerant, this is going to kill you.

And I I don’t understand like the guy keeps saying how good it smells and she put garlic on top of it too, like minced garlic.

So she’s got Velveeta, processed cheese, regular cheese, uh that she’s Colby Jack thing that she’s got over the sausage art. She has that layered in there. And then she puts I think like some pepper jack over the top. So I mean, I like cheese and all. I do. I like cheese.

But for the love of God, man, that amount and I’m not lactose intolerant, um that amount of cheese will kill you. There’s no question.

And then she’s got this arch. Now basically, and she’s got macaroni uh blue box macaroni, which, you know, sometimes that’s not so bad. You generally feed it to your kids, but it’s not terrible. Like you take a spoonful of mac and cheese every once in a while out of the pan when you make it for your kid and you’re like, wow, that’s really good.

But you’re not making it as a regular. So anyway, there’s a gobs of cheese. Thank God she didn’t put the powdered cheese in there. I don’t think she put the powdered cheese in there. But anyway,

back to it. Back to it. Very cool. Ooh, I like this dripping effect. I’m going to do a little bit of pepper. Yeah, a little bit of pepper.

So you see how we have these tortillas? They can get a bit dry, but if you just add a little bit of milk. Just a little bit. Two percent just around your. Just a little bit.

If you’re having a little trouble with your sausage uh arch, you just take a skewer. This can’t be real. Just put it all the way through. And that holds it upright. And this will hold it upright so we don’t have that issue.

Oh, it’s beautiful. Beautiful. Okay, now let me get a look at that. Spin that around. Look at how cool that looks. Oh, yeah. So cool.A sausage arch of mac and cheese. Let’s do it. Okay, here we go. Let’s do it. Sausage mac and cheese with a rainbow. Beautiful. Okay, here we go. See this?

I’m Look at Oh my God. Oh darn it. Hold on. Now I got because you got to see the end of this thing.

I’m going to stop it here at the end when it comes out. Hang on.

Come on, come out. Where is it? Oh, for the love of God. Look at that. I mean, look at that.

What What Oh, beautiful. Look how good it’s I mean, that will kill you. It’s just cheese and cheese and cheese with macaroni and what looks like to be like a rotten arch of a sausage on the top of it.

Is that cannot be real, right? So there’s a few things that are at play. First of all, how did that get in my feed, which is more what I’m worried about because I’m telling you,

and I know you don’t believe me because you got to think to yourself, Lund is complete trash and and he’s been watching videos like that and I haven’t. I I’m not that I mean cheese is okay. Somebody just talked about the Packers or whatever.

Yeah, she put dry pasta in there. 13 layers of cheese, processed cheese, regular cheese, uh the Velveeta, which is I I think the stuff that is all over the top there. And then she puts it in sausage. Like for example, it’s I know that’s my feed and I don’t look at stuff like that.

I’m not I’m not a snob, but come on, man. Crunchy mac and cheese.

I mean, I didn’t That’s not me. That’s not me, man. I didn’t do it.

That is not what I watch. I’ve never watched anything like that. I would never eat anything like that. And I think I don’t think that’s real. Is that like did somebody actually because you know, they’re going on and on. Oh, it smells so good. Oh, it looks so delicious.

What I at the very max as I watched that and see what it looks like coming out of the oven, which is garbage.

I might do like blue box macaroni and cheese for my kids and then cut up some of that uh German sausage there and put it in there in lieu of like hot dogs. Like when you’re a kid, hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, you cut them up in there and the kids will eat them.

You could do that, I guess, with German sausage if you wanted to make it a little bit fancy and German sausage is actually low fat, uh low sugar. It’s not a bad item if you’re trying to lose weight, but my God, what did she do?

You just do the macaroni and cheese like normal and then you cut up the sausage a little bit, fried up, throw it in the mac and cheese. I mean, that’s that’s not something I would do.

But I mean, what is that? Is that real? Like is that a joke? That’s got to be a joke, right? That can’t be real.

And why is it in my feed? Oh God. You can see right there 5:08 in the morning is when I saw that. I’m like, oh my God, why is this in my feed?

My Life. Give them a follow. One pan cheesy sausage. God. Is that that is not real. Like they had to have made a joke of that, right?

Like they were like, watch, we’ll get people to watch this and it’s horrible. Yeah, and then she put Tapatio in it or something as well.

Lord. Yeah, one point, there you go. 2,000 people were like, I’m trying that. I am trying the cheesy sausage mac and whatever it’s called.

God. See, even even people were like cheeseheads. That’s too much cheese.

That is going to kill you. I don’t know, man. I I I just I can’t I’m more worried that that’s in my feed. And there’s supposed to be some AI element to it like, well, that’s what we think you would like.

We think you would like German sausage, blue box, lots of cheese, casserole, lasagna. No. No. I’m just not doing it, man.

This page is called My Life. I think it’s fake. You tell me. I that can’t be real. That can’t be real. That was just somebody screwing around. I mean, there’s like three

I was going to say three pounds of cheese. It was like that was that cheese. It was like five pounds of cheese in that. And then just like a little bit of sausage and some dry macaroni and cheese on the bottom.

Yeah, maybe I maybe I should have done that. Here you go, teenagers. They would have never come back to our house. That’s what I should have done. Anyway.

Is that Nightmare’s mom? @59Fifty (IRNE84) That’s not real. I just can’t believe that’s real. All right, enough of that.

All right, so uh let’s see what we got. Oh, I got to be on the show in 10 minutes.

All right, episode 43, Rabbit Hole. If you didn’t like the Rabbit Hole, let me know. I’d love your thoughts on it after we end the show. If you can hit me up or at John Lund Radio mostly on Twitter, but Instagram as well. Thank you for watching on Instagram and Twitter.

Let me just check real quick because I haven’t checked in a little bit. Uh, what’s going on? See, even people on the uh even people on the uh Instagram feed are like, what in the what is that? I’m telling you, man.

It’s brutal. All right, I think we’re done. Hang on a minute. Let me get back to the page here. All right.

Uh Rabbit Hole which I think was great on the Chiefs. So go back and tell me what you think of that. First half plays, so I proved basically that the zebras and there is no reason and there is no conspiracy theory.

So you’re much smarter for that. NFL Mock Day, uh Warriors and Jazz tonight. All-Star vote. I showed you Giants stuff. New Orleans. I didn’t tell you a New Orleans story today, but we’ll have them uh for the next couple of weeks. I have so many New Orleans stories.

Uh the caboose pistol which was Tongue Guy and online food. Online food I just got you uh finished with. Did you want to see Tongue Guy before we left or just we just get out of here and just try to uh lick our wounds after today. Um,

where is it? I don’t even know where it is anymore. Maybe I maybe I deleted Tongue Guy. Maybe I was like had enough.

Uh Rabbit Hole was this by the way. This is it’s this guy’s fault. 404_pumpkinpatch. Are we watch the same game? Are we watch the same game?

Uh I got many of those yesterday because they wanted me to be a conspiracy theorist. Are we watch the same game? So it’s his fault if you want to get uh technical about everything. The whole reason I went off on that today was that.

Uh here’s Tongue Guy one last time if you’re new around here. Byron Schlenker, nine and a oh, nine centimeters wide. Look at his wife’s smile. I love Byron. All right, that’s it. We’ve played that and talked about it enough. Weird food.

Talked about that enough. Look at that thing. You love a God.

All right, that’ll do it. I said five times as I often do because I do have to go somewhere because uh Larry, I got Larry in seven minutes and I got to get my head back on straight. He’s not going to be talking about

sausages, macaroni and cheese and tongues. So I got to get I got to be a professional Schlenker. Damn near killed her.

Well played. So we could do Tongue Guy all day. We could probably sit here for another hour and just go back and forth on uh on Tongue Guy, but I think we’re done with that.

All right, good time had by all. Thank you so much. Kyle, good to see you in here as well. Uh everybody, thanks for hanging out today. Uh I think we did a fine mix today of lots of sports plus lots of Tongue Guy and food and random stuff and all that kind of stuff. So

good time had by all. Hope you enjoyed the Tuesday, yeah, because the trash guys came today. Tuesday uh edition of the show. Now make sure that you subscribe John Lund Unleashed, John Lund Unleashed Pod, please on

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