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Seth and Sean lay out various stereotypes for sports radio hosts and assess for which ones they and their colleagues fit the bill.
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00:00Seth, you called together this list of sports radio talk show host stereotypes.
00:07Yeah, this is going through this.
00:09And I was like, oh, no, am I one of these guys?
00:11I think it's always good.
00:12There's a lot of them.
00:13I think it's good to get feedback from the audience sometimes.
00:15You know, sometimes it's good to take 10 or 15 minutes in a segment
00:19and just be able to get an evaluation here and do like a little self-assessment.
00:23It's like we're doing a focus group.
00:24It's a focus group.
00:25It's what it is.
00:26I need everybody to text in and tell us which one of these lame bastards we are.
00:30Yeah.
00:30I'm the guy that holds in burps while I talk.
00:32We could be more than one.
00:34I don't see that on the list, but we need to add that.
00:37All right.
00:38And I think we can be more than – I think I'm more than one of these, honestly.
00:43Honestly, I'm just going through this list of – like the first one we're going to talk about is the
00:46culture guy.
00:47Yeah, the culture guy.
00:47Every discussion becomes about culture.
00:50Like this is about accountability.
00:51Yeah.
00:52The locker room culture ain't right.
00:53Yeah.
00:54Championship teams have a different DNA.
00:56Right.
00:57And I'm like, maybe I need to be a little bit more like this guy.
00:59Even if the topic is something like run-blocking technique, it needs to be about culture.
01:05But it is.
01:06But it is.
01:07It's about – okay.
01:09All right.
01:09I think we might – I think this might be us.
01:12We might be culture guys.
01:13I think we might be too.
01:14But part of it is that D'Amico himself last year said that they needed to change the culture in
01:20the O-line room.
01:20We were in favor of that.
01:21We did call the offensive tackles the Instagram OTs for a couple of periods.
01:27Yeah.
01:27I don't – we didn't lean into it hardcore or anything, but I felt like there was definitely a missing
01:33– a missing grittiness to the culture in that offensive line room for a long time.
01:37Yeah.
01:37So I will plead guilty to this chart.
01:41Yes.
01:41I'm a culture guy.
01:42Yeah.
01:43I'm a culture guy too.
01:44And I think as I look at this list, I don't think it's which one are we or which one
01:49are you or which one am I.
01:51It's how many of these are we.
01:53How many of these stereotypes do we fulfill?
01:56I think we're in the culture club.
01:57I think we are too.
01:58We're every bit as much of a man as – who is Karma Chameleon?
02:04That would be Boy George.
02:06Boy George, yes.
02:08Sean, Seth, Boy George.
02:11Yeah, Boy George.
02:11Iconic.
02:12Name a more iconic trio.
02:13I dare you.
02:14Of masculinity.
02:14I'll wait.
02:15Yeah.
02:15Yes.
02:16Okay, next one.
02:17All right, next one.
02:18Are we doing a bell or a buzzer?
02:19Give us a ding.
02:20So we're culture guys.
02:21We're both of us.
02:22Yep.
02:22All right.
02:23All right, next one.
02:24The film guy who won't explain film claims deep film study but never gives specifics.
02:31Typical phrase is when you watch the tape, the All-22 tells a different story.
02:36People who really understand the game know, end quote, but they never actually say what
02:40the tape showed.
02:41You watch a lot of tape, you guys, but you explain it.
02:45Yeah, I try to do a good job of explaining it in simple terms.
02:49It's hard.
02:49When people are driving through rush hour, they don't necessarily want to hear hardcore breakdowns
02:53and everything.
02:54You know what I worry about sometimes is where, because I'll consciously say, as many of you
03:00know, I'll say, I don't want to get overly complicated about this.
03:03Every time I say that, I envision somebody who's out there who's like, yeah, because he
03:07doesn't actually know what he's talking about.
03:09I worry that sometimes I just, so I don't want to gloss over some of that stuff, but I
03:13think I do a pretty good job of when I see something on film, explain what I'm seeing.
03:19And you explain it in a very understandable and consumable way, and for that I'm
03:23appreciative of you.
03:24Yeah.
03:24And I don't think I fall into that category of like, oh, they're not, we both say every
03:28now and then they're not watching the games, but that's almost when somebody says something
03:31where, you know, they're not even watching on TV, right?
03:34Like, all right, you're not, you're not watching the game.
03:36You're not even watching.
03:36All right.
03:37So we are not that.
03:38Unless one of our listeners says, I'll, I'll listen to arguments as to why I am that guy.
03:42Yeah.
03:42Yeah.
03:44Someone said, LOL.
03:45Are y'all nervous about these stereotypes you're about to read?
03:48A little bit, a little bit, little, little, just a little.
03:50That's actually one of the categories nervous about stereotypes.
03:53Yeah.
03:54Next one.
03:55The hot take thermostat.
03:57Everything is either historic or disastrous examples.
04:01Best Texans move ever.
04:03This could set the franchise back a decade.
04:05Okay.
04:05No, no middle gear exists.
04:07I don't think we are that.
04:08I don't think we're that.
04:08If anything, that's one of the things I feel like maybe we should be more like.
04:12Yeah, probably.
04:13Yeah.
04:13Probably a little bit more, uh, you know, just as cut through, get people really agitated
04:18before they go to work in the morning.
04:20You know, who's that on our, on our team here at six, 10 Lopez, Lopez.
04:23I think he's the closest to that.
04:25I think, I think, I think Lopez lives on the extreme end of takes the word.
04:30And I'm not throwing shade at him at all.
04:32Look, you and I just said, maybe we should be a little bit more like that.
04:35Yeah.
04:35The, the reason I could never be like that is because the one defensive coordinator I
04:39had who every single film session would be saying, that's the worst I've ever seen.
04:44I've never seen anything that bad.
04:45You're getting to the point where it's like, we just, we seem to be getting worse every
04:48single day.
04:49Yeah.
04:49You get desensitized.
04:51Wait a second.
04:51He broke yesterday's record.
04:53Yeah.
04:55I've never seen tackling that bad ever.
04:58Not in my day.
04:58And he would say he would lean into it.
04:59He wasn't just exaggerating.
05:01He would try to convince you.
05:02He's never seen tackling that bad.
05:04I've just said this.
05:05He would say it three times a week.
05:06Right.
05:06Like we can't, it's mathematically impossible for us to be getting this much worse every
05:12single, every single day.
05:13We're going to get relegated to high school pretty soon here.
05:16Yeah.
05:16So I don't think, yeah, I don't think either of us are hot.
05:19I mean, we have our occasional, I admittedly, I have my occasional take, but I kind of, but
05:24yeah, like, I don't think that's either of us.
05:26And maybe we should be more like that.
05:27But, um, the contract math guy obsessed with cap numbers, but not roster construction.
05:34Every segment becomes the cap hit in 2027 is the real issue.
05:38Even when discussing a backup guard, uh, that's, I take guilty of that guilty.
05:42Absolutely guilty as charged on that.
05:44I, that's a, yeah, and it does, especially, I mean, there's times there's a place for it,
05:48obviously, and you got to address it, but sometimes we get too much into the, we get
05:51too much into the weeds.
05:52And I know there's a lot of people out there that wish we would get more into the weeds,
05:55but again, people are driving during rush hour and it just, it gets dry real quick.
06:00We're pretty good at one of us checking the other.
06:03If we're going too far in that direction, I think, you know, so I, but we are that guy.
06:07So we'll, we'll, we'll own that.
06:09What saves us sometimes is that I just can't, I've got no feel or taste for just talking about
06:14how lucrative somebody's contract is because I'm always just like, all right, all right,
06:19great.
06:19Yeah.
06:19He just, it's, and it'll be more next year.
06:21All right.
06:22Yeah.
06:22It's all, it's a lot of money.
06:23It's all in a big, it's a big bucket of money.
06:26Yep.
06:26Big bucket of money.
06:27Um, someone just texted in, Hmm, this one doesn't really fit y'all.
06:30This is what I would ask.
06:31As I read that text, we don't know which stereotype you're talking about on the text page.
06:36So it's a little like using pronouns guys that ask for specificity when you're saying
06:39this pronouns, pronouns, pronouns, you got to be specific.
06:44You don't use, no, this or it or that.
06:46Right.
06:47Right.
06:47It's gotta be, Oh no, you guys are not hot take thermostats.
06:50Uh, okay.
06:52The God, Oh, Oh, Oh, here's where the rubber meets the road.
06:55Former player authority.
06:58So technically there's only two of us in this full-time sports radio, six, 10 lineup.
07:05Yeah.
07:06By the way, I think Reggie is a contract math guy, but I think he knows that he's, I think
07:10Reggie's into the, the, you know, the, the business intellectual stuff as far as the previous
07:15one goes.
07:15I'm going to tamp it down a little bit.
07:16Maybe.
07:16Yeah.
07:17The former player authority, sometimes insightful, but sometimes this move happens quote, you
07:23wouldn't understand unless you played the game, which conveniently ends the discussion.
07:27I, you will never, ever catch me saying that.
07:30I hate that.
07:31I despise it whenever I see any former athlete using that.
07:34So, um, I, but I don't know.
07:37Is there a, do I, do I lean into it too much?
07:39The former player thing?
07:40No, no, I think you do it.
07:42I feel like sometimes there's times I need to steer you into it actually, you know, so
07:46I, I don't think you, I don't think you do it all.
07:49I think of the two of you, you and Clint, I think Clint, I think Clint is the persona,
07:56his persona is more of a former player authority.
07:58And then it's not a bad thing necessarily.
08:00I just think he, he leans into the former player stuff a little bit more than you do.
08:04I would say it was like what he, and I always, I thought Ted Johnson always did an awesome
08:08job of that is he does, uh, he does a better job of kind of taking into the locker room,
08:12which I need to do more.
08:13I need to, uh, you know, I need to bring you guys into the locker room, you know, keep
08:18your eyes up.
08:19Don't be spying and everything, you know, just, we're not a bunch of zoo animals, a
08:23bunch of lawyers going in.
08:25But, but, you know, just let you know what it's like.
08:28All right.
08:29So, so I'm definitely not a former player authority and I don't think you, I, you're a former
08:34player, but you're definitely not the guy that's being definitely no authority is what
08:38you're saying.
08:38No, you're just not that you wouldn't understand unless you played guy.
08:41All right.
08:42This is me.
08:42This next one's me.
08:43The concern dad.
08:45Yep.
08:45Again, Seth and I are doing stereotypes of sports radio hosts and asking you so far of
08:49the ones that we so far, you and I are both are the culture guy and we are both contract
08:56math guy.
08:57Yeah.
08:58Yeah.
08:58Yeah.
08:59The, the former player authority sort of said the concern dad, this guy worries about
09:03everything, the offensive line, the locker room, the quarterback's confidence,
09:07whether the team is too comfortable.
09:09Tone permanently concerned.
09:11Right.
09:11Right.
09:12A hundred percent.
09:13Yes.
09:14Yeah.
09:14No, it's at this point.
09:15And I will defend myself in this.
09:17I try to take on the attitude of what the coach himself is thinking.
09:21If he's a good coach and coaches, uh, they're never more concerned dad than when you're on
09:26a 10 game win streak.
09:27Right.
09:27And sometimes I'll just, because I'll point out things that definitely D'Amico is worried
09:32about and people will get upset that I'm crushing the team.
09:36Even though I'm saying like, okay, they need to work on this.
09:38They need to get better at this.
09:39Yeah.
09:40Come on, bro.
09:41They won nine games in a row.
09:42What are you?
09:43Yeah.
09:43You're damn right.
09:44I'm a concerned dad.
09:45Have you seen your grades?
09:47You think I'm going to be happy with a B plus?
09:49You know, the people you're going to be competing with in the real world.
09:52We've been trying to get you into these schools for your entire life.
09:56Right.
09:56We got you an SAT tutor and let me tell you something.
10:00No, that is not your room.
10:02Right.
10:02That is my room that you live in.
10:04And when I say it needs to be cleaned, that's what's going to happen.
10:08Oh, Seth is channeling it right now, man.
10:11Um, so concerned dad, I would say, dang, or we're getting some funny texts.
10:16Hughley's on the other end of the cap stereotype.
10:18He thinks you can wave a magic wand and make the cap constraints disappear.
10:22That is true.
10:23And that's not a bad thing to not be contract math guy.
10:26Ron just chooses not to be contract math guy.
10:28That's okay.
10:29Is he, uh, Hughley's more on the, uh, the cap is a myth guy.
10:32Uh, yes, I think definitely he does.
10:34I think, I think maybe less.
10:36So the, the seat, the one, two years ago, the, the off season, two years ago, where the
10:40Texans wound up with Daniel Hunter, Joe Mixon and a few other guys.
10:43He's I think came in that year.
10:45Autry.
10:46Um, I know Ron was Ron really was portraying the cap as some sort of just unicorn myth.
10:52Well, he's had to watch, he's had to watch the city he's grown up and trade away some
10:57of their best players, you know, like Joe Tooney for, uh, you know, on a team that's
11:01had offensive line issues for years, you got to trade away some of your best players on
11:05the offensive line.
11:06Okay.
11:06This one, I think you and I are already getting accused on the text page of being
11:10pain and Pendergast already pain and Pendergast are kind of like singers and dancers and CJ
11:16apologists.
11:16So, yeah.
11:18So we sing and dance and we apologize for CJ.
11:21Um, the stereotype is the optimism merchant.
11:23Every move is secretly brilliant.
11:25Nick Casario is playing.
11:26Okay.
11:27Now some of this is extreme.
11:28I don't think we say this.
11:29Nick Casario is playing chess.
11:31People don't realize how smart this move was.
11:33There's a plan.
11:34Even when the move clearly confused everyone.
11:36I do think our show skews more optimistic than the other, than the other shows.
11:42A hundred percent.
11:42Yeah.
11:42Which, which annoys a lot of people a lot of times.
11:45Um, I think there's some people that like it.
11:47Like you said, people don't like being stressed out in their cars in the morning.
11:50No, no, no.
11:50Some people like it.
11:51Some people hate it, which is good.
11:52Uh, but the, yeah, there's a plan.
11:54That's the one that resonates there.
11:56I feel like I would say there's a plan.
11:58I'm not always convinced that they're going to be able to execute the plan, but I would,
12:01I would skew more towards the optimism merchant.
12:04Okay.
12:04So far, Seth and I are a couple of culture guys who focus a little too much on the salary
12:10cap and we are a beacon of optimism for Houston sports.
12:13We sound like happy accountants.
12:16We do.
12:18Which are the people.
12:19Everybody wants to be around a happy accountant.
12:21Yeah, yeah, yeah.
12:23Um, all right.
12:23We got a couple more here.
12:25The outrage generator.
12:27I think I, I think I can do this sometimes.
12:30Yeah.
12:30Knows exactly what the fan base will react to.
12:32Typical format.
12:33Ask an extreme question.
12:35Let callers argue, sit back and watch chaos.
12:38Would you trade CJ Stroud for two firsts?
12:40I think you and I have done that topic before.
12:42Yeah.
12:43Yeah.
12:43No, we've done that.
12:44Uh, I think, I think if you're not at least somewhat of an outrage generator, that might
12:48be one of the things that's most tied to being a successful host.
12:51I used to, yeah, this, uh, I've said this before and I'm not even being sarcastic.
12:55I think one of my weaknesses has been that my mental health has improved, uh, over the
12:59past, like five or six years.
13:00You don't get outraged as much.
13:01It's hurt me.
13:01Like, I worry that it's going to destroy my career, which will not be good for my mental
13:05health.
13:05No.
13:06But, uh, ironically.
13:07Yeah.
13:07I just don't get angry.
13:08Uh, I, I just, uh, I don't get angry as much anymore.
13:11Someone said, I worked you up earlier in the show when somebody accused me of not being
13:16angry, which made me very angry.
13:18And I said, and I said, I said, Seth, I think it's not the optimism side that they're talking
13:22about with you.
13:23They're, they're mad that you haven't flipped out about something.
13:26Yeah.
13:27It's not that you're too, it was about the offensive line.
13:29Yeah.
13:29It's not that you're too optimistic about the offensive line.
13:31It's not that we haven't heard extreme pessimism from you.
13:34Yeah.
13:35I'm sorry.
13:35There's nothing I can do.
13:36And then you proceeded to get outraged about that.
13:37I went to a Buddhist retreat and told them I needed to find anger in my life.
13:42Right.
13:42And they just kind of looked at me, uh, like with that, that placid look on their eyes made
13:47me very angry.
13:48So I said, thank you.
13:49Yeah, you're welcome.
13:50Yeah.
13:50And I went home.
13:51Um, so I, I would say, um, I would say a dang on that.
13:54We, we generate the appropriate amount of outrage.
13:57Um, last one, old school football guy, everything comes back to the same points, run the ball,
14:03stop the run, toughness, discipline, analytics are treated like a suspicious new vegetable.
14:10All right.
14:10I, I, I feel like I'm on the, I feel like I'm, I'm, I, I try not to go overboard
14:16with
14:16it, but there are elements of that to me that, uh, yeah, I would say I'm only, I'm only
14:20partly guilty.
14:21I found, I've, I've, I've been found liable in a civil court old school.
14:25Who's the most old school football guy at sports radio, six, 10 probably Clint, probably
14:30Clint.
14:30I think so.
14:31Yeah.
14:31Yeah.
14:32Probably Clint.
14:32The problem is sometimes people act like using the phrase establish the run is almost just,
14:38Oh, you're a caveman or whatever.
14:39Yeah.
14:40And, uh, and I feel like those are people who try really hard to be smarter than they
14:44actually are because like Kyle Shanahan's only goal in life is to embarrass you with
14:49the rushing attack.
14:50Yeah.
14:50And people routinely talk about how he's the smartest play caller and everything.
14:54Um, and yet somehow they'll also say, yeah, but establishing a run is a myth.
14:58They want to, so, uh, yeah, but I'll, but I'll, if I had to be guilty of it, I'll be
15:02guilty
15:02of old school football.
15:03I think D'Amico is an old school football guy.
15:05I think D'Amico D'Amico on one level just really thinks it all boils down to play with
15:12good technique and being more physical than the other team.
15:14Yeah.
15:15Yeah.
15:15He's very old school that way.
15:16No question.
15:18Um, I don't care.
15:18Number one, I don't count Seth as a former player, as someone who can't stand former
15:22player talk.
15:23I guess a lot of people, cause you're, you're one, you're funny.
15:27And two, you can do any number of topics outside of football.
15:30I'm not saying Clint's not funny.
15:31He can't do topics outside of football.
15:33I just think Clint's, I think Clint is more the former player than persona wise.
15:37The biggest thing is like where some guys were, some former athletes fall short is that they
15:41don't understand like that, that that's not anything at all.
15:45The experiences and knowledge you have from having been a player needs to be something
15:50that forms your opinions and is a part of an explanation for your opinions, but it can't
15:54be the, the way you end the argument.
15:56Yeah.
15:56It's like, that's just like a dad saying, that's just the way it is.
16:00That's just the way it is.
16:00I said so.
16:01Yeah.
16:01Yeah.
16:02Uh, Oh, okay.
16:03I guess there's nothing to discuss here.
16:04People are sending in the, their other stereotypes, the nerd that considers comp picks to be the
16:10Holy grail.
16:11Yeah.
16:12That's Gladstone.
16:13That's the magnificent Gladstone.
16:14A couple more here.
16:15And then we'll hit the break.
16:16You're, you guys are optimistic and truthful.
16:19And that's how I feel we are too.
16:20I don't feel we're like blinders on the optimism in the morning is nice.
16:24Save the gloom and doom for later in the day.
16:26That's what someone just texted.
16:27After the world has beat you down a bit.
16:29That's right.
16:29That's right.
16:30We're here for the sunshine.
16:31Yeah.
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