The Season with Peter Schrager: Super Bowl with Comedian and 49ers Die-Hard, Dan Soder

Standup comedian Dan Soder is a die-hard 49ers fan, dating back to his childhood spent as the lone 49ers fan growing up in Denver in the 1980's and 1990's. Soder and Schrager go deep on 49ers fandom, the emotional roller coaster of the 4 years between San Francisco Super Bowl appearances, and what it's like going to the official team party of the Super Bowl loser. Soder is childhood friends with Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel, and he discusses what it was like being by McDaniel's side throughout the Super Bowl XLIV ride. Lastly, Soder details where and how he will be watching Super Bowl XLVIII, and how he's feeling as a 49ers fan heading into the big game on Sunday. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the
NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's Up, Everybody, Welcome to
the super Bowl edition of the Season with Peter Schrager.

(00:30):
If I sound like I'm in an NPR booth where
I'm like doing the Alec Baldwin shwitty balls voice, it's
because I'm not at the Super Bowl. I'm in Brooklyn,
New York. I'm in my home office. Gotta say, not
upset about it? Fine doing this in controlled setting. And
there was a decision made that the Season with Peter

(00:52):
Schrager and Good Morning Football would not be sent to
Vegas this year. I was upset. We're okay with it.
We've had two really good shows of Good Morning Football
the last couple of days, and I'm excited that we
have a podcast still today. I am joined by mister
Las Vegas. I would say it goes in the order

(01:12):
of this Sinatra, Sammy Davis Junior, and you know in
recent years maybe Doyle Brunson and Carrot Top and then
somewhere in that like list between like five and ten
is Aaron Wang Kaufman. So you're trying to wrap your
head around this yes, the producer of the podcast, Aaron
is in Vegas doing podcasts for I guess other people. Eric,

(01:35):
you're explain it. I don't know. I feel like there's
a big giant game of spinning the bottle and everyone
was invited but me, I've gotten over it and I'm fine.
But like, you're in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
What's it like, dude, Well, I mean, gosh, I'm honored
to just be on a list with Carrot Top.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
You know, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't know too much of the man's work. But yeah, not.
I'm being earnest when I say this. I like Carrott.
Have you seen have you seen his act? And like
he does He's done interviews recently with Bill Maher and
maybe Mark Marin, and like he's already self aware. He's
also making I think twenty million dollars a year from
the luxor wherever the hell he is. So I'm not

(02:12):
hating on the Carrot Top. I think he's a Vegas mixture.
Good for him.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
I also like the last I remember was all the
news that he got, like he started working out real
hard and he got jacked.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, it's huge Florida guy. I want to say from Florida.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, yeah, No, we have an iHeart Live stage here
and so I'm part of the crew that's recording some
shows and setting up mics and taking down mikes and
uh yeah, Vegas is not a place that I go on.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Make me feel better because I'm bummed. I said, I
don't care. I'm upset, but like it's crazy that you know,
or that I'm looking at you and You've got the
Veggas skyline behind you and I'm here with my Brooklyn
background with some corduroy jeans on. I mean, you know,
if I wanted to.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Pay fifty dollars for breakfast and have a bunch of
people running to me as I'm walking around, I would
have just stayed in Manhattan.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
There you go. You know, there's I have some have
you seen anyone? Have you seen anyone cool?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
NFL wise, Yeah, I got to I set up you know,
I was like chatting with DeAndre Swift. I chatted with
Michael Pittman Junior for a little bit yesterday were shot
white and uh, you know, it's cool to like meet
some players and chat with them.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Two years ago, when the Super Bowl was in l A.
I got to very briefly talk to Josh Allen, which
was really cool.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, it was like it was like some rotating thing
of like Josh Allen, Dak and Herbert. I think, of
course Josh was the one I was most excited about.
I saw Dean Dawkins like from AFAR earlier, yes yes, yesterday, yesterday,
and uh yeah, my dad was texting me. He's like, yeah,
see if you could see Josh Allen. I don't know
if he's coming, try dad.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, he actually heard recording this Thursday morning. I heard
from a friend and that he is going to be
there Thursday doing radio row. So you will see him
in a few hours. Be sure to get that selfie.
I've been watching from AFART. It's kind of crazy. It's
like there's it's like I'm like holding a snow globe
watching it because I am watching all the coverage. It's
been good. ESPN's went all out. They've got some good

(04:24):
stuff going on, and I saw McAfee was there. I
don't have a winner though, the first few days of
this thing, media wise, like nothing has broken through. I
thought a couple good interviews were done with Steve Young, ironically,
who's no longer with ESPN, but I saw Kevin Clark
did a really good Steve Young interview with him, and
I think Chris Sims and Florio had on Rock Bowers

(04:46):
the tight End from Georgia, which is such a random guest,
but like, I like seeing these kids before they're put
into the NFL machine, and I thought that was an
interesting interview. But it's the typical, you know, an NFL
car wash deal where there's ten things to do and
you're gonna see DeAndre Swift promote whatever Detergent or you know,
causer or whatever it is with Jim Rome, and then

(05:08):
he'll go on to local radio. Then he'll do something
with Ross Tucker and they'll go through the list and
that's radio row. I think the the interesting part for
me always was in the hotel lobbies and in the
hallways and then they come of the some of the
events and you know, that's that's that's a shame that
I'm not gonna be able to do that this year.
But I would like to think, uh that everything stays

(05:31):
copasetic and we can get to kick off and there's
no negative certainly headlines. That's my hope. Vegas scares me, Uh,
not that I would get in trouble or that anyone
that that we deal with would get in trouble, but
like when you put all of those people there, it
does feel like there's a potential for something and you know,
thank God, knock on wood, we're doing this. On Thursday,
there was a story of a guy who tried to
climb the sphere. That's that's that's the uh, that's the

(05:54):
extent of the troublemakers I've seen.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, that's that's the only thing I've heard about. I mean, like,
traffic is really bad. It's like you can't get out.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
You can't walk because it's so far, so you take
an uber. What do you do?

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
We didlast night some some coworkers from my heart and
I went to dinner and where'd you go?

Speaker 3 (06:11):
We went?

Speaker 1 (06:12):
What's that place called that fancy?

Speaker 3 (06:14):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
It was like there's an incredible either high or Chinese place,
Lotus of some Lotus of Siam. Maybe it's like something up.
Look it up Google that it supposed to be like
the greatest restaurant in the world.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Sam, Yeah, from Mingo Road.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
I assume you did my place.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
No, we went to a place called fine company, which
I had seen some good stuff online. It's outside of
the strip, which was nice. So we got like into
a quieter part of town. Very good meal. They were
super uh amenable to like me calling and being like, hey,
we're sitting in traffic. We'll be fifteen minutes late. Hey
you're really twenty minutes late. Yeah, So it was like,

(06:52):
you know, thirty minutes like sitting doing nothing in the
car West Coast super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
I imagine Niners fans will have an easier trip to
get there. Have you noticed even like that that kind
of thing where like there's more Niners or Chiefs fans.
It's like in the city the week.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Of so from what I've seen walking around by Radio Row,
a lot of Niners fans this morning at breakfast, a couple,
you know, like dads and their kids, like some families
all in Niners gear. Have seen some big groups of
Ksey fans, but they're like it's a group of them,
and there's lots of like just one off Niners fans
or two people. Have seen some surprising amount of Raiders

(07:32):
jerseys and stuff. Yeah it's Vegas, I mean yeah, but yeah,
but so far it seems like more forty nine Ers fans.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Before we get to our guest. I set a little
piece on this on Good Morning Football Thursday morning, and
I want to share it with the listeners because I
think it's both eerie and also beautiful in a lot
of ways. I was no joke. I was going through this.
I'm so pathetic sometimes when I was going through some
uh some old football trading cards that I have, I'm

(08:02):
not kidding and going through them with my son and
Derek Thomas card like an old upper deck. Nineteen ninety one,
Derek Thomas card came up and I'm looking at it
and I'm explaining who Derek Thomas was. I'm saying, this was,
you know, it was Lawrence Taylor in the eighties, and
then it was going to be Derek Thomas in the nineties.
He wore number fifty eight. He was a top five

(08:24):
pick of the Chiefs. He was a studd at Alabama,
and he hit the league like an absolute tornado. He
had twenty sacks in his second season in the league
in nineteen ninety when back then it was a lot
more run game in the trenches. It was much harder
to compile sacks back then, and you know, Gastino had

(08:44):
the record, but Derek Thomas came really close. He would
go on to be a multi time All Pro, a
first ballot Hall of Famer, the whole deal. Derek Thomas
tragically passed away on February eighth, two thousand, which, as
we're recording, this is twenty four years to the day.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Now here's the eerie part. I'm looking at this car
and I'm like, oh my god, it's been twenty four
years since we lost Eric Tomas. I remember exactly where
I was. I was in college. I remember it hit
me like a ton of bricks because I love the guy.
Derek Thomas were number fifty eight. Aaron, what Super Bowl
is this? Fifty eight? Fifty eight for fifty eight And

(09:25):
I said this on air today on Good Morning Football,
and I said it probably a couple of hours ago.
And got like a thousand favorites or retweets whatever early
on it or I just chocked my phone. It's got
like one hundred k. Like the Chiefs fans are rallying
around this thing. And I said on the show, the
tragedy is the death obviously of one of the greatest
players of all time, but the second layer of it

(09:47):
is he was such a chief, mister Chief all those
years with the Chiefs. I think he played thirteen years
with Kansas City. The shame of it is that he
didn't even get to see this era of dominance. So
he was on all those Martiney Schottenheimer teams in the
nineties when Lynn Elliott's missing field goals or when they're
making a run, and then the Broncos would come in

(10:08):
with Lway and somehow beat them in a big spot.
Like they did not win playoff games back then. They didn't.
They simply didn't. Nick Lowry was the kicker. I want
to say, you know, Marino got him one time. And
just year after year after year with Derek Thomas and
Neil Smith and Deron Cherry and Albert Lewis and those
great great Chiefs teams, they always fell short and they
almost got this reputation of like a team that couldn't

(10:31):
win the big one. Then you go into the most
recent era before this one, and it was Alex Smith
and it was here we got this home playoff game,
and we somehow lose to the Titans, somehow lose to
the Steelers, somehow lose to the Patriots, and it was
year after year after year of gosh, so good in
the regular season, we just can't win the big one.
And now as we look towards the Super Bowl, this

(10:51):
is not only the greatest team in the sport, it's
the greatest team of their generation. And they're about to
win their third Super Bowl. If they put this this
game to bed, and it's you know, three super Bowl
wins in five years, it's forced there were Bowl appearances
in five years, Mahomes would improve to fifteen and three
in the postseason. And I did a whole thing on

(11:14):
Good Morning Football today. I was like, gosh, like it's
it's such a shame that like Derek Thomas couldn't be
a part of this and couldn't see this and couldn't
be honored and couldn't be fifty eight for fifty eight.
I get choked up on it. I know I'm a
football historian and I love this stuff, but it almost
seemed eerie with the way that those things aligned. And

(11:35):
I've got a good friend, Connor, who's a diehard Chiefs fan,
and we were texting about Derek Thomas last night and
he's like, hell, I'm wearing he's going to the Super Bowl.
He's like, I'm wearing the fifty eight. I'm wearing Derek Thomas,
and I wouldn't be shocked if Sunday, if a lot
of Chiefs fans in attendance are rocking that fifty eight.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
He seems like, just from you telling the story, the
kind of guy who they didn't bring him out as
the honor a captain all he'd be on field, you know,
like they'd break him out in a good way, like
not in a in a you know, a negative way whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
But yeah, I would say this, there is a story
to be told. I feel like we've told every story
in the NFL. We've done every documentary. There's a ten
part series coming out on Apple about the Patriots. We've had,
you know, the Jerry Jones piece is being done by
the guys at sky Dance. Like there's all these different
documentaries that we have already. The nineteen eighty nine NFL

(12:28):
draft was Aikman at one. Okay, Tony Manderich, the Incredible
Bulk is what his nickname was, was two. The third
pick in that draft was Barry Sanders going to the
Detroit Lions. Derek Thomas went number four, and Dion Sanders
went number five. If you want to talk about a
book to be written or another documentary that hasn't been done,

(12:51):
give me the nineteen eighty nine draft and the stories
of what Aikman became, what Tony Manderrich became, eventually having
a cover of Sports Illustrated titled The Incredible Bust. Barry
Sanders retiring early, what could have been the greatest running
back to ever played the game, Derek who tragically passes
away at the age of thirty three, and then Dion Sanders,
who was arguably the greatest defensive back of all time

(13:13):
and maybe the biggest pop culture icon of his era. Guys,
we can do all this from Brooklyn. I can do
it all. We can still talk about the Super Bowl.
It's happening, and another guy who has a connection to
this game is going to be our guest. I'm so
excited to have him because we've been friendly for several
years and we have beat around the bush about whether
we're going to do this pod or not and when

(13:34):
we're going to do it, and we're going to get
to his connection to not only the forty nine Ers,
but also to the Miami Dolphins and Denver Broncos. The
comedian and incredible, incredible podcaster and personality, mister Dan Soder
joins us after this. For my money, he's the best

(14:04):
stand up comedian alive. Loved watching his specials. I love
him on podcasts. I think he's the best podcast guest.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Also, I don't even agree with that.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Now he's got his own Now he's got his own
podcast himself called Soder. Just one name, just Soder. He
is hilarious. You know him from his stand up from
Billions and from just about every social media or comedian
podcast there is. Dan Soder. Welcome to the season with
Peter Shaker super Bowl Audition.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, dude, thanks for having me. Thanks for we finally
made this work.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
I know you've got a Niners hat on. Now this
is We're gonna go down memory lane with you. The
reason I wanted you on this week is that I think,
as far as like fans of the forty nine ers
that I know, I don't know if there's anyone more
hardcore that I follow from Afar or that I know
in my own personal life that I personally know than
you with your Niners. But you're from Colorado, So where

(15:00):
did the Niners deal?

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Come from well. I think I think the best way
to phrase my Niner fai them is that I'm not
the most hardcore forty nine ers fan. I think there's
a lot of people in comedy, maybe Okay may Al Madile.
Al Madirable would be the only person that I would
put above me as far as because he's a generational
season ticket holder, He's he's the man. He got me

(15:24):
involved with the Niners when we did this like sketch
thing in twenty fourteen. He absolutely is the most hardcore
forty nine ers fan.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
I would say, it's funny I used to host that.
I used to m see this event. The state of
the franchise for the forty nine ers before they were
like at this levels is like five years ago. Rdding,
John and Kyle just out there and al would do
comedy every year and like Alice the most plug like
Alice Hugen if you don't know all things comedy, him
and Bill Bird they launched this whole thing, and like
Al's an amazing standard.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
That's amazing. That was one of my favorite human beings.
I would say I am the most emotionally triggered forty
nine Ers fan in comedy. I would say I'm the
one that wears his heart on the sleeve the most
in comedy as far as forty nine Ers fans go. Yeah,
I grew up in Colorado, but I was born I

(16:11):
was born in Connecticut. My parents are both from California.
My mom grew up in Fresno. My dad is from
the Bay and my dad is a huge My dad
was a huge fort Niners man. It wasn't even like
a question of who I was going to like when
I was born. I was put into a forty nine
Ers onesie. I was born in nineteen eighty three, right
at the beginning of the dynasty. You know, they had

(16:33):
only won in eighty one, so I only missed one.
And I was one years old when they beat a
rookie Dan Marino, and in nineteen eighty four, and I
just grew up. I grew up sports wealthy, That's what
I like to say. I grew up very NFL wealthy.
When you grow up a forty Niners fan in the
eighties and nineties, you want for nothing except more rings.

(16:56):
The question was always who are we going to play
into the Super Bowl? And who might stop us in
the NFC Championship game. That was always the question, because that's.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
That's the way to Artilou kind of ran that you
like if you're not if you're not familiar, Like in
the eighties and nineties, like teams would still take commercial flights,
yet Eddie the Bartelow would have a private jet. They
would take the players to Hawaii after the season, all
expenses paid. It was like northern California. I think about
it from being a Giants fan, I'm like Parcels and
Belichick and like this pretty team with LT and then

(17:27):
here are the Niners with their beautiful sun setting over Candlestick,
just tend and out beating the beating the La Rams
you know out of Anaheim, and the terrible the Cardinals
teams and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
No, no, no, we played. You got to remember the old FC.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
With the NFC East. You're right, so let's go through it.
NFC West was Rams, Saints and Falcons. Is that what? Yes?

Speaker 3 (17:47):
And then later on Carolina Panthers when when they went
to the Panthers were at when they got brought in.
We basically were the NFC South thinking about Austin the Rams,
that's what it was. But my dad, my dad made
me a Niners fan and it just was like everything.
It was like uh, And we moved to Colorado and
then I go to school and all these people are like, no,

(18:08):
the Broncos, and You're like forty nine ers, dude, always
forty nine ers. So and it became kind of like
a part of my personality where I was like no, no, no,
If I like what I like, it's how I can
defend loving professional wrestling. Yeah, how I defended loving stand
up comedy.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Action figures, action figures.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
Because I'm telling you right now, stand up comedy now
is like seen as being acceptable on a like basically
generic way.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Totally.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Back in the day, people were like, what you like
night club?

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Do you tell someone you're a stand up comedian? I
think they would probably think you're a leper.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yeah, exactly. But when I was little, when I was
like young, when I was like eleven and twelve, I
was like super into stand up and people were like
that's weird, like you should be into like, you.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Know, your guys like the amazing Jonathan, Like who are
you watching as a kid.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
And when I was a kid, I was really into
Dana Carvey's nineteen ninety five special Critics Choice. My dad
also did this thing where like people from the Bay
are very proud about who else is also from the Bay. Yes, data,
I mean this is what everybody does.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Robin will you stand a Carvey exactly San Francisco scenes.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Uh, well, you also had Ellen DeGeneres, yeah, Keaven and Spacey.
I mean not Kivin Spacey, that's Kevin Pollack Ven Kevin Pollack.
But it was like anybody from the Bay. My dad
would be like, oh, he's from the Bay. Oh he's
he's from Marin like he knew where everyone was from. Yeah.
But uh but I loved I loved Robin Williams and
Dana Carvey were very special, be and Rodney Dangerfield and

(19:33):
of course Eddie Murphy and then later on Chappelle that
was my guy.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Chapelle was like, do you remember how older you were
you were when you found your band, like not a
band that was like, like, I remember the first time
I saw Chappelle, I was like, oh, this is just
my favorite comedian. This is just my guy.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Like and I think for bands, knowing you Queens of
the Stone Age is probably like your band.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Right, yeah, yeah, you got you for me.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
It's it's kind of a pop but you might roll
your eyes. But like I love the Killers, do you
think the Killers in Vegas?

Speaker 3 (20:06):
I'm out of Vegas.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Just I've seen him fifty times. I know there are
Mormon guys out of Vegas and they've and they've been around,
and we know mister Brightside. But like I've seen I
have seen the Killers fifty times in person, absolutely love them,
and I don't care on a bashly that's my bad.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, I think there's something to be said about like
repping what you love and standing ten toes down for it,
you become like a bigger fan of it. It's why
I love wrestling as much as I do. It's why
I love comedy as much as I do. It's why
I love the Niners as much as I do, because
there's this feeling of like, no, I live in die
with this, So when it does go well, it means

(20:43):
the world, and when it does go bad, it means
I'm in hell last last time, last year. At this point,
there's a zero chance I would have jumped on a
podcast with you because I was miserable. I was miserable.
I was miserable. Rock Kerry's elbow was busted. The Niners
had lost to the to the Eagles in the NFC
Championship Game. All hope was lost. I was just a

(21:04):
I was a puddle of tears.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
And consolable, all right. So early nineties is when you
really pick it up, and that's the Ricky Waters, Steve Young.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
I mean, the early eighties was really like that was
the magical time. Montana, Rice, Roger, Craig, Tom Rathman. You
had like, you know, my favorite player of all time,
Ronnie Lott Lot, you know. But then on the defense
you had guys like Bill Romanowski, Dana Stubblefield, Brant Young,
and with Bride Young.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
On Friday, I did an event where I MC this
thing for the Senior Bowl, and I tell you how
cool it was at this event and seeing it there
was sixteen different NFL legends Hall of Famers, and in
a little circle, I was in a conversation with Brant Young.
Patrick Willis, the man who was.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Match Humble Quiet get into the Hall of Fame this year.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Covinced he will from talking to all the voters. You know,
as we're recording this, they're going to be able tonight.
And I haven't gotten any tips, but like I've been
posting on social media, about it like if taken on
a life of its own, Like he was the best
of his generations.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
I mean him and Navarro Bowman were.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Like together by those two and Luke Keikley best linebackers
of their generation.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
Said Luke Keikley was unbelievable. So it's unbelievable. So there, yeah, man.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
And the third guy was t O, who obviously you've
heard horror stories of, like t is a t O
was amazing in this in this event that I was
at for the Senior Ball, and I'm talking to right
Young nineteen ninety three, Notre Dame, like this high like
you know, proceipit comes in just an amazing NFL career,
maybe the most underrated defensive linement of his time.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
He was incredible. What I loved about Brian Young is
we had Brian Young and then we had Junior Bryant.
We had like two guys with Brian both ad tackle.
So they loved Brian Young. And I mean Patrick Willis.
Yeah I get giddy talking about old old Niners teams,
but but Patrick Willis is, I think he's in my
top five nin ers of guys I loved because I

(22:56):
think Patrick Willis just let me.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Guess some of the others because I feel like you're
my age, and like there's.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
I'm already giving you two of the five.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
So Ronnie Lott and Patrick Willis, I'm going to say
you were a huge Frank Gore fan.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Love Frank Gorber. Not my top five, top ten, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Okay, I think you probably knowing what you're all about
and all this stuff, you love big Justin Smith, the
cowboy on the defensive line of our nineties.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Listen, he came in and immediately changed stuff we had. Well,
we had Smith and Smith at the end. Then Super
Bowl forty seven we had Alden Smith and Justin Smith
just absolutely terrorizing quarterbacks. Loved that d line, that Super
Bowl forty seven defense to this day. You know, Vic
Fangio a decordinator, just calling all the shots. I'm Brooks God,

(23:43):
everybody on that team.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
I love that team. I So that year I was
like with Foxsports dot Com and Fox Sports Wanted, they
were like, you're gonna follow a team through the playoffs.
We're going to give you the Niners. So I was
there every step of the way, and you.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Saw, you saw the other great NFC championship come back
and we were down seventeen to the Falcons. Come on.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Unbelievable was in the building. It was unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
And then that was when no one could stop Colin Kaepernick.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
That was like that game against the Packers. I was
at that one in the playoffs. Who was in Candlestick
and Kaepernick and ran for I think one hundred and
ninety yards on Vic Fan on Dom Capers's defense, just
up and down the field on a Saturday night. It
was unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
He had the two sixty eight total. He had something
like insane. He had a crazy I think like rushing
yards he had.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Overtly, he single handedly put dom Capers, who's considered one
of the greatest defensive minds, like he put him out
the past year Like that was it. You can't coach
anymore after this, what Kaepernick did to him. Yeah, all right,
I'm trying to think of the other the final three
given to me.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
One of them is very easy. Who I named my
golden retriever after when I was ten years old, Montana
Joe anton Fair. I go crazy with Joe Antenna, and
then Jerry Rice obviously yep, and then randomly, but I guess,
let me guess.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Let me guess Brent Jones. Well host, Okay, so we're
back worred about Bresta Jones is Randy Cross, Dude, I'm like,
I'll give you.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Can I give you his college?

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (25:12):
I hate the college because I grew up in Colorado
a Buffs fan. He went to.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Nebraska, Nebraska a Nebraska forty niner.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Around that time. He was a little, I think a
little before Brent Jones. Okay, they might have crossed over
us offense. Offense, not William barnon On Floyd. He was
in Florida State. Yeah, would just he would always have
turfiness in his face. Mask bar down the middle, number
forty four.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Tommy Rathman, Oh yeah, the fullback, come on the best.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Bob Rathman was the main I met, uh so when
growing up in Colorado and obviously growing up with Mike
McDaniel is my middle school best friend.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
We're going to get into this in a second.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
I love this. Go on. His stepdad Gary worked for
the Broncos, and they no matter how much free gear
they threw at me, they knew they could never change
the fact that I was a forty nine er fan.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Here's an Ed McCaffrey Jersey, get it out of my face.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Oh I loved dude. I still got a box of
Eddio's somewhere in my house. I didn't Here's the thing,
I don't hate the Broncos. It was like, I would
cheer for the Broncos, but.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
It was a different conference, not a threat.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
But I could always I would always hit them with
we did one, Yeah, there you go. I would always
just go fifty five to ten. Which was the year
my parents got divorced and my dad was a Niners
fan of my mom was like, I got to be
a Broncos fan. I can't be a forty nine Ers fan.
Reminds me too much of Gary. And then just be
it out, just an absolutely blowout.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
And then this past couple of years, I don't think
people understand the heartbreak it's been for the Niners. So
you guys are up, not to get all sad here,
but you're ten points in the fourth quarter after the
questionable offensive pass interference on Kittle at the end of
the first half.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
And I don't need to go on talk about it.
I don't even want to. I don't even want to.
I was there. I was in Miami at the hard
Rock by the way it let me hear the whole deal. Well,
that was because.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
McDaniel was coaching for them. Then that's your best friend
from childhood.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yeah, he was the run game coordinator the twenty nineteen season,
and in October that of twenty nineteen is when I
started dating my current fiance. One of the greatest human
beings to ever walk a planet, Katie Nolan. Mutual fans
mutually Katie Nolan. She just rules the admirer love sen
her almost wins Celebrity Jeopardy recently. Amazing, very proud of her.

(27:33):
But she so I went to every I got to
go to both the Divisional and the NFC Championship game
that year because of McDaniel.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
So we've run who who they played? They beat the Packers.
Packers both both had us in Santa.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Claricep Yeah, both at Levis.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
They they start just scored another touchdown on the Packers
for the records.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
And I bet he'd be cool. I bet he'd be
okay with me telling this story. Okay, I would fly
in a day before the games just to hang with McDaniel,
and then McDaniel would help me what they were going
to to the teams and then they would do it.
It was first fifteen plays. Here's the script, dude, not
even that trigger. I'm telling you right now. McDaniel would

(28:16):
go like, we'd be sitting at his kitchen table and
he'd be like, Yeah, the Viking's got a week four technique,
so we're just gonna bang on them all day. Just
watch him bang on them all day. And then they'd
do that, and he'd be like, and then we'll go
all over the top. He would like to tell me
what they're gonna do. I remember specifically the NFC Championship
game against the Packers. McDaniel went, Yeah, they spent a
lot of money on those edge rushers. Well, it's gonna

(28:37):
be a real it's gonna be a real problem for
them if they have to stop the run. So we're
just gonna give it the moster and.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
They pass attempts for Garoppolo that game.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
I'm telling you, he hold it. And what he told
me and my friend Chad, who go to every game,
is he said death by a thousand cuts. That's what
he said through a wall.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
Here.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
McDaniel goes, I'm gonna give him death by a thousand cuts,
and he did. Mostert went for like two.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
You have like two sixteen five touchdowns something crazy.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
It was not one of my favorite moments I've ever
seen as a human, and as a sports fan was uh.
I mean, it was unbelievable. As a fan of the
forty nine ers when they won the NFC championship game,
McDaniel's wife, Katie McDaniel, got Chad and I and she said, listen,
there's a chance I'm gonna be able to get you
guys on the field. And we're and I'm like for

(29:22):
the Niners when an NFC championship came down?

Speaker 1 (29:25):
What at all?

Speaker 3 (29:26):
So so we get down there, so we like we
walked through because you know, it's like Katie's leading the
pack and it's we're there with his his mom, with
McDaniel's mom and his his his in laws, and so
we get on the field or whatever, and I got
to watch McDaniel and Moster have this like in depth
conversation that looked so important while I was watching it,

(29:50):
and it was just one of the coolest moments I've
ever seen in my life. And that's so cool.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
And you know, he was on like ten teams before
he just hung with them. And of course, but what's
the let me hear the finish to it.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
What was the I just asked McDaniel, I said, like,
what did you say to him? He said, I just
told him, you know, you deserve everything you get and
that you worked your ass off to get here and
that this is all this is all you, this is
everything you've worked for or whatever, and it was just
a great moment. It was just the moment where I
was like, dude, this is so cool. But yeah, and
then so I was, you know, Katie and I had

(30:20):
just started dating, and she was still at ESPN and
she was covering the Pro Bowl, and then she had
to go down to Miami for the Super Bowl and
she said like, hey, there's a chance I can get
you a ticket to this game. And I was like, oh,
I'll go down there immediately. And she did you know
the Super Bowl parties, there's always like, yeah, a weird party.

(30:40):
I don't know what you guys do at your illuminati parties,
but there's something NFL illuminati for sure where they hand
you tickets. So she immediately texted me, She's like, I
got his tickets and I got it. I got a
flight down there. And what we didn't know was the
tickets were in the chief section, so I, me and
three other forty nine Ers fans were the only fans

(31:03):
in this entire block of the hard Rock Stadium in Miami.
Which now every time I go to my point, exactly
where my sheet was, and I go like, I was
right there when the Niners lost. I was sitting right there,
and when he sat there and watched, and when we
were when I think Fred Warner might have given Patrick

(31:25):
Mahomes his first interception of the postseason. See you probably
have to look that up, but Fred Warner in that
Super Bowl kicked off Patrick Mahomes for the first time
in his career in the postseason.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
It was and it gave. It was in the red zone,
and it was a Niners up ten with eleven minutes
left to go.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
Well, guess who stood up and yelled, how the do
you like that? Let's go forty nine Ers. I mean,
I was like, I had my red Niners. What you're doing?

Speaker 1 (31:52):
I was like, well, Fred Warter, Fred Ward.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
And then and then they came back. And I'm gonna
tell you right now, when when a team comes back
and you're in their section, you sure as hell feel
that you feel the best way I could say it
is it felt like I was being swallowed in quicksand
like they just kept like the right. There was one guy,
there was one kid that just had these nets.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
I killed Jersey.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
He had Seltzer's. He was drinking hard Seltzers and he
was running up and down the stairs and I was
like watching him go from being completely quiet to being
very loud and aggressive, and I was like, I was
just getting mad. And I always will give Katie credit
for this. When the forty nine ers turned the ball
over and we knew the Chiefs are going to run
out of the clock, which they were. They were running

(32:42):
out of the clock.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Frank Frank Clarke is that Garoppolo just kind of coughs
the ball and it's fourth.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
Down and then they do the they get a joke touchdown,
They got one like kind.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Of Kelsey scores, and then Damian Williams puts the game away.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah. That when they put the game away, we were
going to the after party.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
And I don't think everyone listening at home knows there
is a after party regardless if you win or lose
at the super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
So at the super Bowl, the owners have to pay
for the party. Before the game.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
No matter what entertain there's a rapper. It's everything. Well
they're just they will hold on to that because this
is this was wild. So Katie, you know, she's a
Pats fan, she's diehard Pats. She's in like a jeans
in a leather jacket. She's just chilling and I'm like
nine or out that not a gig, always always rapping.

(33:31):
And she just, like I've always said, like a point
man in a war zone. She just like leans over
to me and she goes, we're gonna want to leave.
They're gonna fire the cannons and the Confederiti's gonna come down. Yep,
you don't want to be here for that.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
You're gonna say something or see something you don't need
to have in your life memories exactly.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
And she was like it really was that thing. I
was like, look at me, look at me. We're getting
out of here.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
And at that moment I knew she was the one.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Oh absolutely, I mean I knew before that, but I
was like, what a what an absolute queen? What my
soldier queen? And so she got me out of there,
and then you have to take a bus. So we
go to the buses or whatever. First, get a wristband,
you got a riskband. We get on the bus and
we're sitting behind Matt Lafleur because at the time there
Mike is the cossing game coordinators exactly. Mike Lafleur was

(34:21):
the passing game coordinator at the time. So we're sitting
behind the Lafloors and I had just gotten the.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Job at Green Bay. His wife, Beria is sitting with them.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
I'm sure, yeah, well they lost, they had lost. I
think he was the head coach when they uh that season. Okay,
all right, they lost because he had just lost the
NFC championship game to the Niners the week before, because
it was Lafleur versus Lafleur. It was Mike versus Matt
in then this championship game the week before or two
weeks before. So we're sitting on the bus and I
keep telling Katie I'm such an NFL fan that I'm like, dude,

(34:49):
we're sitting behind the head coach of the Green Bay Packers,
and she's like, I know, you know, She's like yeah, yeah.
And then we go to American Airlines Arena where the
party is.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Think about this. They rent out the Miami Heat Arena.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
It's crazy, dude. This was shregor. This is one of
the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. To
this day is one of one of these things in
a sad way, not in a happy way.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Everyone's depressed.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
The forty nine ers get there, the bus shows up,
players are their coaches are there. We're talking to the
McDaniel and Sala, that's who we're hanging out with. We're
having like tacos with Sala and McDaniel, and it's like,
I'm believable for you. I'm just like I'm telling Mike, like, dude,
I'm so proud of you. Took my favorite team to
the super Bowl. I can't believe this. If we were
in seventh gradon you would have told me this, this

(35:31):
would have blown my mind. I say, what's up to, Kyle,
I'm like talking to a couple of people, dude. The
Jabberwockies come out, Oh here we go and dance and
they start dancing while all of while the forty nine
ers are just like sadly eating tacos. It's one of
these moments where I was like, this is so funny,

(35:53):
and then I was so here's how much of a
fan I am. I love McDaniel. I could only I
was so sad. I could only be there for like
maybe an hour before I was like, we gotta go.
Frinch had stayed and got a whack out drunk, and
I wake up the videos of Little Wayne performing.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
It, because you know that loves Little Wayne. His son
his name is Carter.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
I love it, dude. I was like, dude, they see
he's so crazy. But it just sitting the nuts, sitting
there talking to a very sad Roberts follow who was
very sweet. Him and his wife were very sweet.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
So now wonderful people.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
He's sitting there talking about the wheel Route, the Tyreek
hil Ran that got that third and twelve that basically
wanted to me Chris wass yeah, and he's like telling
us about this, and I'm looking at him and then
just behind him like dudes in the white masks being
like all I'm like, this is so dude. Katie and
I kept making fun of the DJ because he kept

(36:56):
being like, all right, you guys, he had a great
season and they don't want to hear that. They're like, dude,
we just we hot it and we just lost it.
And it was like one of those things where I
was like, man, that experience. I was like, how could
this was so crazy? And then Covid it was like, oh.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Damn, it was j Loo and Shakira. The halftime show
was great, like it was Miami. The week was great,
and then Covid hits and the whole roadbosted.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
But I shut it down. But now we're back. But
now we're back up, baby, back up four years later.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
The The funny one is that I remember I don't
know if it was the when they lost to the
Giants the second time or the Eagles, but there's video
of Gronk just going nuts at a Patriots Super Bowl
party after they lost, Like Gronk just just cutting a rug,
like did not give it, Like let's just party, like
let's go. And it's like I love that there's a

(37:52):
party for the losing tea.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Every year and you don't realize that every year the
team you watch lose has to go take a bus.
I mean, those guys have to be like you just
let me go back to my family. There was like,
so can Ebsen salt like I'm hurting. We hired flow Rida,
He's got a prefer Yeah, dude, that jude, that would
be the worst gig if they were like and they're

(38:14):
bummed and you're like you gotta go do your songs.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
You're like, yeah, all right, we're gonna get back to
the nine ers. But off of that, have I mean,
obviously you're a man of great credibility. But I listened
to Mark Norman and Joe list on their podcast.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
And yeah, Norman always Tuesdays of Stories.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Tuesdays of Story has been a listener for many times.
I won't say what that that listenership is called, because
it's very appropriate.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Cobby, Cobby.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
I would say this though, like Mark always talks about
these like terrible corporate gigs, but he takes the money
and does it. Have you done a terrible corporate gig
where you're like, oh, I'm a crowd where they did
not want to hear you?

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Dude? The best one was, I want to say it
was like two thousand and twenty one, maybe twenty twenty two.
I was still on the Bonfire and I got hired
for this gig. That's like in New York. I won't
do corporates. I just hate him because they suck. Yeah,
they're not fun. You're really at a work event. It

(39:09):
is basically, if you're doing a corporate event, you're doing
it for the money. YEP. Very rarely can the show
actually be good. But they're like, listen, it's in New York.
It's like ten blocks away from some hour. You got
to do forty minutes. And I was like done. The
money was great. I was like, awesome, this is unbelievable.
And I remember, before I'm leaving my house, I'm like,
you know what, I'm gonna bring a button down shirt.

(39:31):
I'm gonna bring a button down shirt. And this is
just in case. This is like, dude, this was.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
A gala, black tie gala.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Black tie gala or doctors who fight cancer, and I
had to follow the three of the world's best cancer
doctors shredding on guitar shredding. The three of them were
just like me. And then they go like and now

(39:59):
here's dance oder and I'm wearing a button I'm wearing
an open button down with a Denver Nuggets. Dude, I'm
just wearing the old school, uh, the old school minor
logo of the Nuggets. I have that under this. And
I went up there and for forty minutes.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
So bad ah, did my usual set or you like curtailed,
you like, try to do it for the cancer doctor community.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
I broke at one point and I go, so what
you guys just gonna have cancer doctors that can that
can play the guitar. Then my dumb ass and then dude,
I just I took that. I remember the flop sweat
even describing this to you. I remember what the back
of my neck, in the back of my head, how
sweaty I was. And I just remember taking that check
and being like, this is the last corporate event I
ever do, and I haven't done one since.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
No, totally, I get it. It's funny. I like they
used to have us do like in house at the draft,
like hype guy like and they would ask us like,
you know, good morning footballs in the morning, you guys
are in town, would you mind it? I did it
one time and it's like ballast, can you hear me?
Like shut up? Who do we take?

Speaker 3 (41:02):
I'm like, all right, what dude, where You're like, oh man,
this sucks. It sucks because it's trying to do comedy
for people that don't want it is the silliest in
the world because you're just like silly you guys ever
go out of like it seems no, they don't want it.
And by the way, while you're doing it, you can
feel how lame it is. You're like, yeah. So then

(41:24):
I got the kitchen and my wife fans with me,
what are you blah blah blah, And they're like sitting
there like what mean while they're gonna bring a kid
out that like beat stage seventeen brain cancer, And I.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Got to like, that's not enough, Like I gotta do
like that. Yeah, but you ever noticed the subway this happens.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Yeah, I suck I suck it. Oh yeah, it's brutal.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
I'm watching the Niners. There're no coverage this week, and
it's a lot about this season and it's great, but like,
I don't think people realize. So they lose that game
in heartbreaking fashion. The next year, in Week two during
the COVID year, which is such a blur now where
there is no fans, they come to MetLife and Bosa
tears up his knee. It's a lost season.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
Actually, high ankle spring. Yeah, it was everyone got injured.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
I talked to and New talk to McDaniel, sure, but
I talked to Solid a lot about that season and
he's like, that's one of my proudest seasons. We won
eight games and everyone was hurt. We had like eighty
four guys hurt, and like we got through it. But
they went eight and eight, they missed, they missed the playoffs. Season.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
You really with that season, though, because I always kind
of think of for in my mind, Saul is gone
that season, but I forget that he came back and
we really was the mentality of forty nine Ers fans
was like, Okay, we'll run it back. We have the
same team. We're just going to run it back. I
think the only people we were missing was a couple
receivers and a couple like dbs. But I think for

(42:47):
the most part we brought back the same crew, and
I think.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Like Tart and Ward and all those guys are back back,
and they drafted kin Law I want to say, in
the draft, and it was like we got this big
beast in the middle, like they were ready.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
Yeah, I think we got it. Was it was one
of those things where it was like, Okay, we're going
to be back, and then new you go eight and
eight and it's kind of disappointing.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
So that year's gone. And then the following year, you're
up in the NFC Champion game to the hated team
that you've just beaten for years, and they come back
and win the Rams. And that's Veay and Stafford and.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
That was that was the all in year. That was
l a going, Like they got von Miller, they like
went out and did a bunch of stuff. They were
like and again, the Ram their whole their whole thing
was we're all in, We're all in, We're all in.
And we were like, okay, well we beat him bad
twice because that season people forget that we were we

(43:36):
were losing, and then we beat the out of the Rams.
We were like, people didn't think we were good again
in that season. And then there was a Monday night
football game.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
The Rams crazy, but I think it was right after
they got Odell. Also, the just acquired O'Dell and everyone
was like, oh, they got him instead of the Niners,
and the Niners kicked the crab at him.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
And then and then that that's that set off our run.
And then we beat him again later in the season
and we were like, Okay, we go to the playoffs
and beat the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
We beat the Packers in the Green Bag game, just
running a play in motion, one of the coolest plays ever.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
And yeah, that might have been I don't know if
that was Kyle or McDaniel, but that was one of
those too crazy. Loved it. And then you get up
and we're like tended the fourth It was crazy. And
then and then lose and then lose to the Rams, which,
by the way, I don't want to I don't want
to completely blame the forty nine ers for this, but
I think it was part of the cause. Was the

(44:30):
first time I ever was constipated after that game.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
You couldn't concipate it afterwards.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Yeah, for two weeks I could dig I was in
Rochester and I was like, why can't I It was
because my body was so intense from that NFC Championship
game that I couldn't force a duke out for two weeks.
Oh my god did last year?

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Yeah already the whole thing and the Eagles thing and
then like you know.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
Well, yeah, it starts with I was Katie and I
were at Week two when Trey Lance gets injured on
that run We're at the Seahawks at Niners.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Week two that he had ran like eleven times in
the first first corps or something, and then again.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
And then yeah, and then he goes down and I
was like, that's bad. That looks real bad, and Katie
was like, probably nothing bad. And then that was the
season ending injury.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Jimmy comes in gets hurt and then obviously Perty goes
on his run. But then you lose, and it's like
there's this tension all off season between Eagles and Niners,
and it was real. The Niners felt, like John Lynch
said it publicly like that doesn't count, like that that
you dismissing it, like that wasn't the real, Like you
beat us?

Speaker 3 (45:29):
Ye did? Do you know what the most badass quote
of that No one ever brings up this quote, but
it was the most bad ass in the world, and
it really it really fired me up about brock Perdy is.
I think it was months after the game someone asked him,
They said on that when when Reddick hit you, Yeah,
what were you seeing? And he said, I saw are

(45:51):
you wide open for a seventy yard touchdown? And he
said that, and I was like the whole I was
good so far. I was getting so fired up. I
was like that Bertie, he just it was and by
the way he didn't say it like a talking away. Yeah,
he doesn't happen to He's like, I'll tell you what
I saw. I saw. I saw Brandon Ayuk wide open
for a seventy yard touchdown. Good.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
And then now it takes all that and then these
two major comebacks, and it's like, I'm talking to you
on Thursday, Super Bowl Sunday. Is it anxiety? Is it excitement?
Because I feel like there's so much baggage and of course,
you guys haven't won since you were a teenager in.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Ninety two eleven. There was ninety four, Yeah, the ninety
four seas, the ninety four season.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Seventy fifth anniversary with the retro jerseys, which.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Yeah, I'll tell you what, man, I think after that
NFC Championship game, there is there is a creepy level
of calmness because I think like the forty nine Ers
have responded in both of their playoff games in a
way that I think makes forty nine Ers fans comfortable

(46:57):
on a deep level. I think, you know, the defense
stepped up when they were giving up. We were just
giving up all the run, all the rushing yards in
the Nfcampionship game. And then to watch Kyle and Steve
Wilkes and all these guys make these halftime adjustments and
come out and you're like, oh, this is watching the

(47:18):
Patriots as we all did for twenty years, be a dynasty.
The thing that you noticed was that Belichick was untouchable
after his halftime adjustment. Was it when he would come in,
he would just figure out what the problem was and
there was a solution to it. And I think that's
where I was the most nervous this entire season was
halftime of the NFC Championship game, because I'm going, can

(47:39):
Kyle make the adjustments? And they make the changes, and
then you see him come out. We get that field
goal on the first drive and you're like, that's not enough.
We're down a lot more than that. And then you
just see Wilkes makes the adjustments. We start stopping their run.
We start, you know, and.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Then they start dropping some passes that that was big.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
You get that off the face mask play. And I
saw someone online say, finally Kyle gets his own version
of the catch. Said, Kyle gets his version because the
EDLM catch called the.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
Lady bub catch because afterwards an Aaron Andrews interviewed Ayuki.
I saw a lady bug this morning.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
I love dude. I love Ayuk. And you know, for
people that don't realize Kyle was the offensive coordinator of
the Falcons when they lost to the Patriots with that
Edelman catch, He's kind of always had things like that
go against him. So to have something like that go
with him was like this kind of like, hey, let's go.
Let's go, guys.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Look I gave I gave the stat this morning on
Good Morning Football. If they come back from a seven
point deficit in the Super Bowl, Kyle Shanahan will be
the first coach in NFL history to come back from
a seven point second half despicit in a divisional round game,
a Championship round game, and a Super Bowl. Could you
imagine the narrative suddenly being Kyle Shanahan clutch second half quarterback.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
What has been the knock on him the whole time?
So I think, honestly, with this Super Bowl, just as
a forty nine understand letting go, I'm just letting go
and I'm just going to enjoy it. I just I
love this team. I love the way they've been built.
I love the way that Kyle went and got Steve Wilkes, who,
in my opinion, should have been the head coach of

(49:20):
the Carolina Panthers. Sure, so he gets he gets passed
over for that job. Great, Now you got a guy
that's fired up. You got a guy that wants to
prove something. He was up in the booth. Then we
hit those three game losing skid before the bye week,
and now he's down on the field. And now he
even admits like, I love having those guys fired up.
I love seeing him. I love we lose Halfonga. Who's

(49:43):
my guy, He's our, he's our, he's our new Ronnie
lot Yep, you lose him, and you have people step up.
All these guys step up and just play their ass off.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
Travarious Ward is a corner, but he was maybe the
best corner in football this.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Year, Travarius Ward. And now he's playing his old team. Yeah,
you know. Now he's playing the Chiefs, and and I'm
just I'm very excited for this game. I'm very excited
for this game. I hope it's a great game, but
I just, man, I don't want to do that thing
where I'm like.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
A measured approach to this and it's okay, so questions
when when do you arrive to Vegas?

Speaker 3 (50:24):
Get in on Saturday. So for those of you that
don't know, UH going to a super Bowl, you have
to know people that have hotel rooms. Because I don't
make enough money to afford a hotel room in Las
Vegas for the super Bowl. I don't make enough money
to buy a super Bowl ticket. So this is all friendship,

(50:47):
and this is all like Lee's hook it up, Lee's So.
About a month ago, Shane Shane Gillis texted me and
he was like, you all got a super Bowl and
that is during the divisional round. During the divisional round. Now,
I don't drink. I quit drinking about eleven years ago.

(51:08):
I am vibed in other ways, so I don't drink alcohol.
Shane obviously drinks alcohol so much so that he's the
new face of bud Light.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
It's a bud Light of his last thing.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
I love it. I love it. Good for him. I
love that guy. So Shane Shane texts me you are
to super Bowl, and I said.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Because of your Niners fandom or because just football.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
Just football. He just wants to hang. He just wants
to He just wants to brow to hang. You know,
we don't see each other a lot anymore because he
lives in Austin, and so I was like, yeah, dude,
But he texted me and he's like, do you want
to go to the Super Bowl? I said, listen, Shane,
if it's the forty nine ers, one thousand percent, of course,
no brainer. If it's not the forty nine ers, I
appreciate the offer, but no, I don't want to go. Yeah,

(51:49):
because if you don't drink alcohol, Las Vegas is useless, useless.
It's a useless town if you do not drink alcohol.
If you've been there before, if you've been there and
drank and now you don't drink, it especially sucks. So
I'm like, dude, I'm trying to go to Vegas and
watch everyone get blacked out and watch what the Lions

(52:11):
and the Ravens like. I'm not I'm kind of not
down for that. Shane being Shane being like After I
say that, he's like, it's pretty weird you turned down
super Bowl ticket. You just keep saying that to me.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Turned it turned it down, You turned it down.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
That's what he saying. He keeps going, pretty crave, pretty
weird you turned out super Bowl ticket so he gave
his tickets away. I think I think he's bringing his
dad in a couple buddies he might bring. I think
McCusker and they just were on Rogan by the way, excellent. Yeah,
they're the best mssp uh sot of tone to everybody.
And so I said this to Shane. I go, listen,

(52:46):
I did turn down Super Bowl tickets, but will you
let me crash on your hotel floor if the forty
nine Ers go? All I need to do is I
just needed a floor in a pillow. Yeah, and I'm
gold school, old school dude. I'll pull my arms inside
my t shirt totally like that.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
I've done the bat Like.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
Actually, you know what, dude, I wish I would show
you the text I call bathtub. I go, dude, if
anyone else coming, I'm sleeping bathtub. And Chane's such a
big sports fan and he's such a sweety pie on
the inside that when the forty nine Ers won, he
texted me and was like, dude, you're coming, You're coming, right,
And yes, I'm like, I'm coming and kai crash at

(53:27):
your hotel. He's like, it is pretty crazy. You turnnuts.
It is always with it and then finally he was like, yeah, dude,
if you want to crash, you can crash at my hotel.
And then Michael Chay, a lot of people don't know
big forty nine Ers fan.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
Is he really?

Speaker 3 (53:43):
Yeah? So he grew up in New York City.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
He's a one day Michael Chay.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Sure, he's a forty nine Er fan and the best
forty nine in the most Michael Chay way possible. He's
a forty nine Ers fan because his older brother was
a Giants fan and it tasted him off to cheer
for the forty nine Ers. He's just an antagonist.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
So he's he's a lifelong forty nine Er fan. So
we text about games all the time, and we've talked
about going in to a playoff game, but blah blah
blah blah. But you know, he said, Hey, I'm gonna
ask SNL and NBC if they can get me some tickets.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Sports is a huge partnership with the NFL.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
And I was like, dude, I was like, if you can,
please get me one, and he's like, dude, you got it.
And then and then so I bought a plane ticket
I bought you know, I got Shane to say I
could stay and he's.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Got to tell room tickets and I'll tell you if
you go with Jay, and it's with the NBC thing,
like you're gonna get to go to the tailgate, You're
gonna get to all the cool stuff that comes.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
See that, because Chay this week was like we got him,
and I was like, I'm very excited and I have
very good friends. I'm a very lucky man who has
good friends that are gonna do.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
Too quick ones be for we wrap Which jersey will
you wear or do you not wear jerseys?

Speaker 3 (54:53):
I don't wear I have jerseys at home.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
I kind of think like an Armstead jersey would be
pretty bad ass for this.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
I mean, he's the best. I hope he wear wins
Walter Payton May of the Year. But I as every
as every as every true fan nodes, I already know
what I'm wearing game day. It's the exact outfit I
warder in the NFC Championship Games.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
The persitions were the same as I think, underwear, socks, everything.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
It has not been washed, Yeah, it has been folded,
it to the side, yeah, and it will be put
into a backpack and taken to Las Vegas. And I
will wear exactly what I wore when the forty nine
ers came back on the Lions Elliot. That's a I
will be if you if if they if they cut
to Michael ch during the Super Bowl and you see
my big dumb head next to him, and you go, oh,

(55:41):
it's so to wearing. It's the same thing I ordered
in the NFC Championship game. So you and during the
Backers game and it just doesn't change. It just doesn't chang.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
My last thing, I was in CVS. I live in Brooklyn.
I was in CVS on Henry Street and I'm there
and I'm buying like laundry detergent or something, and I
hear this very familiar voice behind me, being very kind
to the attendant talking about how to do the service,
you know, check out thing. And I'm like, I know
that voice sit home from TV. I'm like, who is

(56:11):
that of a grand Paul Giamatti.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
The man, He's the man, He's the man. Yeah, there's
no one, there's there's like that Billion's cast. Every single
one of them just absolutely ruled. But Paul was a
guy I only had, I think in seven seasons, I
have seen one scene with him uh No, I had
to see like two scenes where he walks by me

(56:35):
and like looks or whatever. But dude, I'm gonna tell
you right now. At table reads, I would always find
a time to go talk to Paul and try to
make him laugh because he's got an unbelievable sense of humor.
He is so down to earth, he is just the man.
And then they yell action and you're like, oh, you're
one of the greatest of all time. It's not even
I don't know how to act. I'm a comic. That's

(56:55):
just bullshitting show. But I was just learning how to
act when I was on Billions. When you watch Damian Lewis,
when you watch Paul Giamatti, when you watch Maggie Sift
or David Costable act like, Oh, that's how it's done.
I feel like one of those. I feel like one
of those. I feel like one of those college basketball
players that started playing tight end my sis. You know

(57:16):
what I mean. Oh, I don't have football Allie.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Cooks play on the football, but I'll figure it out.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
Yeah, dude. I was like Jimmy Graham. I was like, dude,
I don't know. I can jelled for it. If you
want to jump with the football I can, And that
was that's how I felt. I just felt like a
like a basketball player that was trying to learn football
knowledge from these guys that are lifers. But there. Yeah,
he's Paul Giamatti is the man. So good.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
All right, well, app so appreciate you coming on. You've
got a busy day, real quick for the listeners your
podcast and where your tour dates are in the upcoming months.
Because I'll say it again, I said, after I saw you,
Burt Kreisher had his big tour and there were you
guys were in Queen's at Forest Hills and you and
with the sun out still you and Shane Gillis absolutely

(57:59):
stole the show. And I'm like, I will follow Shane
and Soda to any stand up back that they do.
You guys both crushed it so hard that night.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Yeah, that will fun. Man going back to back like that.
He's the man. I'm so happy for him. I'm so
excited for SNL on thes Yeah, we were tecching about it.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
So because I'm like mister like NFL Network and I've
been on this Chiefs ride, I've become very friendly with
like Paul Rudd and Eric stone Street and those guys.
And I've gotten introduced to Heidi Gardner, who's unbelievable and
she's a huge KC fan and she has the open invite.
She's like, anytime you want to come to us, and
now I'm sure it's one time only. I hit her up.

(58:35):
She's like, I got you, so I think I'm gonna go.
And you love what I'm taking. I think I'm taking
Cliff Kingsbury because he's a huge Shane Gillis fan.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
Tool Here's what people don't know. Shane Gillis is, I
mean number one. He's the best comedian in the world
right now. Him and Nate Bargetsia at the two best comedians.
They're also my two best friends, best friends. Yeah, yeah,
that's pretty sick. That's my dog on a chee toy
f y. That's why the crinkling sound is. Shane's friends

(59:01):
with so many NFL players.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
He says. Gabe Davis is one of his best friends.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
Uh CMC. He texts with CMC all the time. They're like,
He's like, yeah, CMC's fired up for this game. He'll
text me and I'll be like, oh, yeah, that's awesome. Yeah,
Gabe to hit the celly, gave hit the selly that
he wanted.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
It's so funny, like you know, if you don't know
what how It's like Shane Gillis was like, I'm going
to give you a crazy meme that I saw on
the internet and if you score a touchdown, you've got
to reenact it. And Gabe Davis did it in a game.

Speaker 3 (59:29):
It's Game's demand. Yeah, that's so good. That's awesome. Yeah,
I'm very excited. I'm gonna get there.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
You can be on tour that weekend.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
I'm in Cleveland, so I'm gonna miss it, but I'm
gonna absolutely watch it. I'm gonna I mean, I love
Chaine and I'm going to be seeing him obviously this
weekend in Vegas. I'm going to go down to Austin.
I'm doing Rogan's Club in March. But everyone was like,
we gotta see S and L and You're like, yeah,
but I also have to pay my rent. So I
have five shows in Cleveland, so that I'm definitely very excited,

(59:58):
and I think he's going to do incredible.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
I think it's podcast is Soda Your last Midst episode
great with Chad Daniels, who is one of my favorites.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
FA Comedian out There a new episode with Carmen Lynch
about her parents meeting. It's just basically, man, I learned
when I left the bonfire and need a place to
go to plug my dates, but also I just want
to place to hang out, so I got to have
you on there. I'd love to hear about NFL stories.
I got real stuff that I you know, I don't
want to get you fired, but I do want to

(01:00:25):
know I got good.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Yeah, you do it there, I'll do it. I'll do it.
I did barstool last week and I was kind of
tight left a little bit, and then I maybe regret that.
Should have tried just opened the bag because that was
a bad audience.

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
Let it, dude, let it loose. But dude, I appreciate
you having me on man and obviously Bang Bang Niner
Gang get that revenge baby, Good luck, dude.

Speaker 5 (01:00:49):
Thanks dude.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
That's a true fan. That's Dan Soder. I'm telling you,
I wasn't just blowing his tires up. I think his
stand up. Have you watched his stand up?

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Are I haven't. I've heard about him a lot, but yeah, no,
I haven't. I feel like working with you on the show.
I am finding so many more stand up comedians.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
I mean this guys, he's amazing. His podcast amazing and
if you just could tell, he's just got a great
voice and he is hilarious. But he also is diehard
Niners fan. I know him because I became really friendly
with Mike McDaniel. And the first thing McDaniel said to
me when we became friends, probably like seven years ago,
like my best friend lives in New York and I'm
like who He's like Dan Soder. I'm like, I don't

(01:01:45):
know who. That is great and he's like, he's a
stand up comedian. I'm like, your best friend's a stand
up comedian. Now it's like seven years ago. Now McDaniel's
the head coach of the Miami Dolphins. They are legitimately
best friends, and Soda is one of the top stand
up comics. It's pretty cool story. I feel for him,
I feel for the Niners fans. It's been a wild ride.
They're back at the precipice and you could tell he

(01:02:07):
says he's feeling very zen, but like he come up
short again. That's like a tough pell to swallow.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Dude, and he had he had some quiet intensity when
he was like doing the Bang Bang Iron Gang. But yeah,
he led us slip a few times. He's excited. Gosh,
I mean that I had no idea that the losing
team gets a party still, and like that's gotta be
that's got It's weird.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
Oh jeez, it's weird. They book and they have to
spend the money. So like I remember when the Rams
were booking, there is I remember talking with Kevin Demoff,
who's we've had on the podcast The President, and he
was like going to the list of artists and he's like,
here's how much it costs to have Whody the Blowfish.
Here's how much it costs to have little Weight, Like
there is a number in a rate, and it's like,
you know, they've got a book it regardless winter lose.

(01:02:54):
That group is laying that event. I think they had
I'm gonna sound Yg is that a? Is that a rapper?
They had Yg perform it theres which is which is
very cool and he's a big la so I know
mcveigh's a fan of his. Two all right, so this
is a super Bowl podcast. We're gonna wrap it here.
Everyone enjoy it. Soda is amazing. We're gonna have another

(01:03:16):
one that's gonna go up Friday night into the weekend
for all of the weekend commuters. That's gonna not only
have a great interview, but it's gonna have my official
pick for Super Bowl fifty eight. All right, guys, for
everybody at home, Peter from Brooklyn, Aaron from Vegas, and
everyone else listening, we so appreciate you enjoy the weekend.

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