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Kyle Brandt Loves Our Show? Kyle Brandt Loves Our Show! | Hour 2

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Kyle Brandt Loves Our Show? Kyle Brandt Loves Our Show! | Hour 2

Kyle Brandt reflects on the toxic dynamics in sports media, particularly the normalization of coaches being harsh or dismissive toward reporters, which he traces back to figures like Bill Belichick and Greg Popovich, setting a harmful precedent for younger coaches. He criticizes the online reaction to sideline reporter Holly Rowe’s failure to deliver a scripted moment, arguing it reveals a broader culture of online hostility toward women in sports media. Brandt also shares the personal motivation behind his new book, *Do You? How to Bet on Yourself*, born from frustration over a studio move and a desire to honor his father’s unfulfilled dream of writing. He champions authenticity in media, noting that success comes from being true to oneself rather than imitating others. The discussion also touches on deeper issues like media fairness, the role of sideline reporters, and the absurdity of week-one football predictions. Brandt concludes by emphasizing genuine, self-aware storytelling as a counter to industry-wide inauthenticity, while celebrating underappreciated moments in football, like the dramatic stiff arms and the Chiefs’ resurgence, as evidence of the game’s unpredictability and excitement.

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-This is the "Done Laboratory Show" with this "Tookout" spot cast. ♪ ♪ -Hile Brandt radiates. He radiates likeability. It is a rare thing to have, and he's going to join us now to talk football in a second and to talk about a book, "Do You? How to Bet On Yourself" by Being Yourself. He feels like the closest thing that sports has to Tony Robbins in terms of he's going to make your life better when you just gaze at his face and listen to the words that come out of the hole in his face. I want to play for him some sound, though, of coaches being mean to people, because I think everybody likes coaches being mean to people. And I think, at this point, the media just exists. Any of the questions we ask, the only good sound is coaches being mean to people. So here's James Franklin. What did he have to say? -Hey, Coach. Michael has with the Baltimore Sun. -Hey, Michael. -Hey, Michael. -What do you remember about-- -Hey, Michael. -What do you remember about-- -Hey, Michael, I'm Michael. -Michael, how you doing? -Can you hear me? -Yeah, I'm saying how you doing. -Good, how are you? -Good, good. -Oh, what? -And so, here's Sarkeesian. People seem to enjoy this one, too. There were technical difficulties. Holly Rowe rolled her eyes. Let's play the audio for that. -Look, Coach, different. -I'm going to tell you. -Fighting! I'm going to tell you. [ Cheers and applause ] -He wants to go celebrate. Then you get him to say, "Why, Sarke, fire it up." His team never gave up. -Unreal. -That is Chris Fowler, a professional always jumping in to help out the situation. Kyle, how do you feel? Nice to see you, sir, and we'll talk about your book in a second. Do you agree with my assessment right now that the media has not done its job in its modern age unless a coach gets mad at you? -I agree, Dan. First of all, it's awesome to see you radiate energy. I agree. I think all these people, you know who I blame for that? I blame Belicec. I feel like they all came up under Bill Belicec. It's like, if coaches have a coaching tree, this is not his media tree. And I think Greg Popovich is in there, too. That for years, the stick was be his inhuman and cold and terse as possible and just get through the press conference. Then it became like a dumb stick where people thought it was funny. I don't think it's funny at all. I don't like that stuff. And I-- Listen, I work for the NFL, I'm not supposed to say it. It's like, I've never been a fan of Bill Belicec to a human being. I don't like it. I don't think it's funny. And now you got these younger coaches who think, like, well, he's the standard, right? And him and Popovich, and some others, you know. So it's not only like accepted. It's actually like, I'm a good coach if I do this. And I'm the smartest guy in the room. And I'm going to talk down to these people because I saw my idol do it for 20 years while I was winning Super Bowl. So I blame Belicec. -That was really good sound. I wish we could have heard it. We're going to fix your microphone in just a second here. -No, it was excellent. You were great. And you shouldn't-- -Still likable when you can't hear him. -It's less likable, though. I think we can agree vastly, less likable when he's talking and you can't hear him, especially since he's not wrong when he says that. -Well, this James Franklin doing-- -That was so strange. -Like, the reporter says hello to him. And then he says, "Hi, Michael back." And it's just this, like, awkward-- Like, I'm in the power here. It's just an odd dynamic. -Give me-- James Franklin, give me the ick there. -You got the second hand embarrassment? -Yeah. -So, what he was doing there is he wanted to pretend like that was a normal conversation. And he wanted acknowledgment on a pleasant tree. He wanted him to have a human interaction. -But the reporter started with, "Hey, Coach, how you doing?" Then he said, "Hey, Mike." And now the reporter's supposed to do another pleasant tree. -I'm not defending James Franklin. Here you ask the question. I'm just explaining what I thought the behavior was. Tristed, do you have any theories on that? -Yeah, I thought it was weird to-- I really did. -He wants to do clunky radio with him. It's basically-- that's what you would do back in the day when you're talking to someone on the radio. Like, "Hey, how's it going, Collar?" -Did he realize that it was a Zoom? -If you had heard him, it was a press conference. Was the guy-- was the guy on Zoom? -It may have been on Zoom, yeah. -So, the Kyle Brandt answer, though, if you did not hear it, he is saying this is a bunch of people learning from Bella Check on the press conference. You're not there to be a voice and face for a team. You're there to protect your information and make sure that they don't know anything by the time you're done talking, right? And so, he did raise a generation of coaches. I thought that was a really good response. -I've never heard someone respond so unkindly to being said hello to. Like, you're going to demand a response. Like, if I say, "How are you doing, Dan?" And you don't say anything, because it's a benign comment by me, "What am I going to go?" I said, "How are you doing, Dan?" I mean, why are you demanding a response to a question that doesn't need a response? -Maybe there was existing beef. -It could be. You know, where she was making him respond based on some sort of history. -How about my larger point, though, because as we get Kyle Brandt's audio fixed, I was really surprised and bothered that a whole lot of people, and I've been surprised in general by the manosphere and how strong and toxic it has gotten so much so that when Holly Rowe rolls her eyes at not being able to do the five seconds of television that she's there to do, because that happened, and that's probably pretty frustrating to her. The entire internet had felt like turned on Holly Rowe there as if it wasn't sort of, you know, Sarkeesian and technical difficulties. Like, they found a reason to go after the woman. -I think part of what happened there with Holly Rowe is Laura Rutledge went through the same thing in the first half and the way she handled it was vastly different from the way Holly Rowe handled it. Like, Laura came on the microphone, she gave a whole little spiel while Holly Rowe rolled her eyes and ran off camera. -But I understand, for those of you who do not understand what that job is, those people have flown in and over-prepared by 99% to get their seven seconds for that moment. She's there in order to get Sarkeesian's emotional sound at the end of the game, and so she failed to do her job, and I can imagine she was frustrated. -Every game. When you, the first thing I wanted to do when I got into media, is that was the only thing that you thought as a woman you could do with sideline reporting. And so I watched a lot of games, and every game, there's right at the beginning of the game, you have a sideline reporter hit, half-time, you have a hit with the winning coach that's ahead, then you off-camera have some sort of information that you deliver right after half-time, and then every single time there's a post-game hit with the winning coach. Every single time that's the formula, so for fans to be like, she doesn't know what she's doing or she's in the wrong, no, no, no. This is how it goes every single time. -Yeah, and it should be said that it's contractual. The head coach is sort of obligated to do the quick hit with Holly Rowe. Now, he can be as orner as he wants or as quick as he wants, but he contractually is supposed to give an interview. -Not where I expected to start with Kyle, but we will start there with him, because I do want to see if he's got any opinions on the atmosphere and what is happening in terms of the internet exists in some ways to hate women. I understand why Holly Rowe would meet that moment, a pretty big one on television, the failure of it with frustration. Kyle, what did you make of sort of the internet reaction to let's devour Holly Rowe, isn't it funny that Sarkeesian blew her off? -I don't think it's funny at all. I hate it. And I think it's bigger than Holly Rowe too. Side-line reporters are a group that is very strong, very united, almost feels like a union. And I know a lot of them, and I work with a lot of them, and they take a lot of crap. And not only is it coaches occasionally blowing them off, it's people online being like, why do we need these wrote questions about adjustments? It's part of the flavor of the game. Don't mess with side-line reporters. Like they will mess with you back. And I think this was really like the apex of this. I think this is the moment that we were remembered by. I hated the moment. I know he had to wait, and it wasn't. There was a way longer. It's so easy to point out hypocrisy for coaches too, because they're always like extra catches after practice, extra weightlifting, do the right thing, be it professional. You talk to the two questions, you give your best answer, and then you go, if you have to wait longer, save her the moment. It wasn't like a terrible loss, where you're like, I gotta get off the hill off the field, and I'm angry. So give the moments. Wait for those questions. I just thought it was a bad moment, and anybody attacking Holly Rowe for, I don't know Holly Rowe, I've never met her, but I've watched her all my life. Side-line reporters are a very, very strong group, but they don't take crap. For all of the things that happened this weekend, if I say you've got to choose the one thing that stood out after the Chicago Bears, because I feel like everyone is selecting the Chicago Bears there. What second place for you? The Giants beating the Cobb was like they did. I live in a Giants country. I take my son to these games, and I don't mean like a fancy, pretentious media member. We go and sit in the stands. It's been one of the worst experiences in sports. You go to MetLife Stadium. It is a cold, gray, concrete, New Jersey latrine of a stadium. And that's because then you get in there, the Jets suck, the Giants suck. They suck for a decade. It's terrible. And all these like so-fi and hard rock, and then you go to MetLife. You're like, what are we doing here? The traffic suck, the team sucks, it's just bad. There's never any juice. And they almost always lose at home. It's talking about the Giants just take a pick. They almost always lose in prime time. For them to go and like, it's like they stay down like the football was good. The vibes were great. And they had some weird stuff in the offseason. Some polarizing stuff with their quarterbacks, some dumb stuff with their running back. But then the second the season started, juice, energy, excitement. I actually want to go to a Giants game now because like, you know, if they get to 2-0, 2-0 here is like 5-0. The 2-0 is the new Nixon 5. If you're the Giants or the Jets, I couldn't believe how it happened. I loved it. I crazy in thinking that at some point, we should probably have a conversation about Derek Henry being the greatest running back of all time. Oh, I love that you say this. I love this because I was talking about this this morning too. So he is what happens when perfect work ethic meets perfect genetics. It's so rare. He has Lebron's body in a running back and he's maybe the hardest working player in history is like rice or patent or something like that. So I saw I saw a Levitard show pole and quick aside guys, I haven't seen you in a while. I love this show pole so much. I love them because when I'm not watching you or when I'm not listening to you, I feel like I'm still hanging out with you because I look down and I see our bagpipes the worst instruments is Cinderella, just the local mop girl. And I always vote. I rock the vote. It is Jalen Brown, the broccoli lady at the end yet. I feel like I'm hanging with you guys. So I love the poles and back to the Derek Henry, you had the pole, should he be on the rush more? I think it's time to have the conversation and I will add to it. Has Derek Henry been tackled, physically tackled more than any human being in history? Like never mind football players, but I'm talking about wrestlers, rodeo clowns, medieval surfs, or pages, or I just don't know if anyone's ever been tackled more times to him. If you add up all the times he's carried or caught the ball in high school, college in NFL, I think he has been physically tackled 5,000 times in his life. And I think that's the record for humanity and he's still messing up defenses. I think we're ready for the conversation. Greatest ever we'll see, but it's rush more time and I love it. But how about this one, Kyle, because I remember there were a number of times where somebody would get great pleasure from hitting Ray Lewis and pancake him. You give me all the time, somebody's hit Derek Henry well, give me all the times you guys remember of Derek Henry getting leveled as the most tackled human being in the history of tackled. I think a couple times maybe somebody got him at the goal line, but it's so different with him because all we do, Dan, is like, when we look at the old guys, we look at the quarterbacks and we're looking at Rogers now and we're looking at Brady, like nuclear difference between what you do and what I do 95% of the time I have the ball on my hand. Another human being is tackling me and he's paid to do it. That's the difference. So you have to look at Derek Henry, not as a football player right now, but as a wrestler or maybe like an old boxer who's taken a lot of punches, but that's the only comparison. It's outrageous. And people are like, well, he takes good care of himself. I get it. I can't. I change through all every 3,000 miles and get two nubs. The thing still breaks down. It's still not supposed to be running like it is now. It's so fun to watch. Can you tell me somebody that based on week one, a team or a person where you're like, this is going to be a lot better than anybody knows right now. This is going to, if this stays healthy, it's going to be at the end of the season something that surprises everybody. Well, Dan, I can tell you're sick of talking about it already, but I don't care. It's the bears and the reason it, here's, here's why because Ben Johnson and we started talking this conversation about coaches being jerks to the media members and kind of sending and all that. Ben's not that. The Ben is a total jerk, a full alpha hotel in the football sense. I guarantee you after that game that they scored 59 points and he's like 12 penalty, should have been 70. Should have, you know what? I should have gone for two at the end of the game to get 60. And if it was against the Packers, I would have gone for two. They just did what they did. Six Russian touchdowns and week one hasn't happened in over a hundred years. I think their best player, Colston Lovelin on offense, didn't have a catch. And I think it's like, there was a hope that I was one year in Caleb this and Ben Johnson that I think if anyone's going to be the next read in my homes, I think it's in Chicago. I do. Kyle, why did Caleb Williams after the game tell Dave Canalis? He has a great defense. That's a really funny bite. Like I saw it and then I saw it canals, but that's about it. If I don't know if Caleb has that gear and by the way, if you did have it to say something to be a jerk when this Dave Canalis selling the Bears and Panthers at this rivalry, if you would have said it to Matt LaFour or to Dan Campbell, that would have been funnier. I think Caleb's adrenaline was still really, really high and I think he was kind of speaking in tongues. I've sat with him a few times. He gets excited. He's young, man. He starts going and I think he was just trying to say something nice and he said the worst, worst possible thing after 59 or the funniest possible thing. Dan Levittar. Hello. This is not Greg Cody. Greg Cody. That kind of thing and you know it. This is Dan Levittar, show. When you look at the Rams Niners game, how much stock do you put in? How good the Niners can be and what they did in the off season and how much stock do you put in? Oh man. Maybe the Rams aren't just going to walk to the Super Bowl. Well, I like to say every year this week that week one is a liar. It's a prolific liar and I could go up and down for decades in examples of week one teams that looked terrible and then go and they get to the deep in the playoffs of the Super Bowl and the opposite too. I remember five or six years ago, the Jacksonville Jaguars won in week one and they didn't win a game the rest of the season. Week one is a prolific liar is pertaining to the Niners. I think it's lying about the Rams. It was the strangest dumbest game with the strangest dumbest game plan of all time in which the Rams got too cute and too smart and did what they did with travel. I'm a full believer that everything to do with it, even McVay looked gasped on the sideline and the Niners, as it turns out, who had been there for Harborland, they'd been there, meet the crap out of them and were fresh and refreshed. I just think it's like, it's the strangest mistake that McVay has ever made. I don't know how many of you guys have been to Australia. I have, I land, I didn't know my name for three days. It's an absolutely astonishing thing that they still did that. So I don't think we've seen the real Niners yet because they didn't play a real team. Put it on the poll at Levitard show is week one, a prolific liar. What is the jawline in television, sports television that you envy? Then it always comes back to jawline. Well, listen, it's like asking me, you know, who is the basketball player that I look up to? It's, it's the Michael Jordan of jawlines, it's how long, it is how long who's still right? Those guys that Fox, I think they're Supreme Court just as they just keep doing it year after year. I still think it's how the chin, the flat top, the jawline, is there a better one in human history? I don't know. Put it on the poll, does Kyle Brand have any chance looking like how he long does later in life? I'm looking at you. Sometimes dad, I run into Kyle and Chris Long and they see me and they give me the compliment and saying, I, I look like their dad and Chris will be like, sometimes when I see you on TV, I'm nervous. I haven't done all my chores and I haven't finished my milk and I have to take the garbage out. So I was how he long for Halloween once and it was a lot of fun because I got double takes night, the neck roll on everything. Can you send us that photo, please? Can you send us the photo of you? I'll text it to you the second way we hang it up. Yeah, I got it. It looks good. Speaking of looking good, I'm looking at your cover of your book. You've got the pads on, no shirt on, the book in the hand. Did, do you think Sydney Sweeney stole your look in her new ad that she did for this company? Because it's very reminiscent. Thank you. I just hope my wife saw it and she liked it and I've already been asked like, so dude, is that, is that AI? Is that fun? No, no, no, no. I didn't drink water for like 72 hours before that photo shoot. I was on body builder reddit threads about how to tighten your skin before the photo shoot. Right after the photo shoot, I had like three beers and a burrito. It was, I'm suck at it and I'm flexing. I decided in my mid 40s that I should try to embody the greatest athlete to ever live Bo Jackson who was photographed in his mid 20s. So I went all in. But I don't know if the books good or not, the cover I nailed. Kyle, do you keep in touch with anyone from the real world? Yeah. Yeah. I'm a great fan of the show. but imagine breeze getting in there and then imagine breeze went in the Super Bowl. That's the movie. So my reaction down was without even clicking on the story. I was already annoyed that it didn't happen because he should have done it. Dan has been slandering bonics all day, saying that he doesn't want bonics to be his quarterback at the end of games and the end of seasons and in the end of the season. And I said, hey, look at what he did against the bills. What is your take on on bonics in big moments at the end of seasons? I'm not talking about big moments here. I'm just talking about. I'm talking about his skill level. He needs a great defense in order to be great. I'm not I'm not talking about his skill level. We're getting the Kyle. Not Dan's. I'm fire. I don't want to be misrepresented deep into bonics. The skill level in his passing tree and you you sound like Dan or Lovsky. Now I love it. And listen, when you guys when these guys get drafted, someone like Dan, and I respect what your opinion on that Dan is always going to be like, well, you know, Josh Shown doesn't ever number one receiver yet. This guy doesn't have a defense. This guy plays for a tip. There's always that they have to have this yet. So bonics was supposed to have his moment last year. It was supposed to be in the snow in the title game and his dumb ankle broke at the end of the game. So we didn't get to see it. So he's a big TBD guy. And everyone said, well, this is the year's going to make a jump because bonics was not a passenger last year. And he's good. And then last night he was terrible. Like just really, really bad in this opportunity. So now when's the next time we're going to have in fresh opinion about bonics December, January, that game was so bad and so watched that that's the bonics reputation for months. Sometimes guys never shed it. So end of the season, I'd like to see him play just decent in week two. After last night, there's a huge bonics hangover. Kyle, we love cam board down here. But does he stink? All right. So now you guys are going for it. I don't know if you heard or not. I imagine you did. I'm Kyle. And I'm the only guy in the United States of America, if not the planet who picked the Titans to make the playoffs. I did it. I stand by it. Weak one is alive. I did it. And if you should, if you want to laugh, do it. It was really rough. I don't know if anybody even watched Titans jets. It was not something that was around. I did. I'm in the Jets market. I had the whole game on. There's one play that it was so bad that it was like something that one of my nine-year-olds would do on my flag team, where he goes the wrong way and goes and gets a Capri Sun in the middle of the play. I don't know what cam board was doing. I don't know what the coaches were doing. And then Robert Salda gets asked afterwards like, how do you explain the lack of juice? It was rough. I still believe in my Titans. I'm the guy who remembers the Titans, but that was really, really, really bad. And it's going to be tough to get to nine and eight. He is the host of the Emmy winning Good Morning football. But I wanted to talk to him about his book. Do you how to bet on yourself by being yourself? It's coming out on January 5th. Why did you do it? A couple reasons, Dan. One of the reasons I think you would understand one of the reasons was I was really mad. And our show Good Morning Football, which had gone on for years when I started writing it and won the Emmy, and was a modest hit. It worked. People liked it. We did it for years. I loved it. And they moved our show from New York City to Los Angeles. And they said, we have to move it to the West Coast. And we're going to be in this fancy L.A. studio that we paid for. And it's a money move. Now I was really upset by it. And they said, we're going to give you three months off. And you're going to have this sabbatical. And then we'll see in three months. And if you'd like to move to California with your family, we'd love to have you. And I was really mad. And for like the first couple of weeks, I was just stewing about it. And I didn't think it was the right idea. I didn't think it was a good decision. Wasn't mine. And then my wife said you should put that someplace. You should put that anger into some kind of project. And I always wanted to write a book. And I started writing stories about my very strange career, my very strange life, football, marriage, kids, all of that. And the other reason was fathers. My dad is another name guy who was in the Navy and was in Mad Men, Leo Bernat in the 80s advertising guy. His life dream was to write a book. It's all he wanted to do. And he's in his 80s now. And he's never going to do it. And part of me was proving to my dad that I can do it too. So little anger about work stuff. And then classic father, some stuff that I really want to prove it to him. And I think I had a pretty good story to tell. And the do you part of it? Because you have been relentlessly yourself for those of you who do not know his show, it has an unusual amount of fun in the cathedral of football. It's strange that it stands out because they're having fun. And it was something that is different. And it's rare in this industry. Somehow that you get different. So the do you, the title of the book, what were the rejected titles? Why did you select what you selected? One of the rejected titles was my resume is weirder than yours, which is true. Do you, Dan, is a when I first started working for the NFL, I remember a vivid moment where we have the corporate retreat where everybody goes to one fancy hotel and you have the lanyards and you have the break to eat and everything. And they said, we want all the analysts to go in this room. And the host to go in this room, whatever it was. And I walked into the analyst room. And I'm very new at this point, just joining the NFL and the people in the analyst room where I was sitting next to were Deon Sanders, the day in Tomlinson, Kurt Warner, Reggie Wayne. And I walk in there and I'm like, I had a hundred yards against Yale in the 90s. Like, why am I sitting with these people? And I got kind of freaked out. And you have this imposter syndrome and all that. And then eventually I started talking about football with these guys. And I started talking and things that I feel I can talk pretty well about. And I was just like, I'm just going to be myself. It's the most tried advice anyone can ever give you, but it's also the best. And any time I've ever tried to be someone else, I write in the book that I auditioned for a Fox Sports 1 TV show once with a couple hosts that I won't name here. And I put on a show and I was trying to be a provocateur and I was saying things that were vulgar and that were just not me. And I embarrassed myself. And I obviously didn't get on the show. And I don't think they ever invited me back to Fox Sports 1. You can't do someone else. The only things I've ever had success with it when I'm just completely being who I am. And I think now, with the way the media is, there's a lot of people who are being things that they're not. Some of those people have really nice swimming pools in their house. That doesn't work for me though. And I don't think it works for most people. Dan Levittar. I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public. Great Cody. Don't do it. This is the Dan Levittar show. So quite the opposite album, this record album is over your shoulder and Michael Jackson and let that one give us Kyle Brandt's Mount Rushmore of musical acts. Oh man, musical acts. Well, yeah, see, I'm like, I'm like 90s grunge dudes. So I mean, Pearl Jam is really important to me. That's what I'm talking about. I'm good for you. There you go. I see these are my friends and brothers. So Pearl Jam, Metallica, pool, tools in my favorite band of all time, the mystery, the intricacy, the musicianship, the darkness. And then I will put Michael Jackson on there. I introduced the music into my kids and my wife and I watched the movie. I love the song, "Human Nature." It's not this biggest hit, but I love it. And I'll put on Michael Jackson all the time. It gets a little weird sometimes explaining what his life and career was like when your son asks, but the music is the music. Before we let you go, you mentioned your father and Notre Dame. Everyone is already getting ready for Notre Dame Miami. And here are Notre Dame fans getting ready for Miami. So is your 80-year-old father chanting "Bleep Miami"? Listen, Dan, I remember being a fourth grader for Catholics versus Convex. That was a very, very important rivalry for me in Rocket Ismail return to kick from Carlos Cuerta in South and Indiana to beat the Jimmy Johnson Hurricanes when it was Steve Walsh against Tony Rice. My dad is saying it. I'm saying it. I love it. I feel like Lou Holt's pacing here in my basement talking to you. Notre Dame football is back. They haven't won a national title since 1988. They haven't had a Heisman Winter since Tim Brown. It feels like. I'll be back when they won a national title, I'll not perform them. Kyle always plays around with our show. Can I get you to say any of Greg Cody's catchphrases on your show? You have flexed for us on your show. Oh, yeah, I love this. As a secret little nod to our audience, we're going to give you some examples here. You choose whatever it is that you want from some of these examples. All right, we got you're going to go to Buffalo with Bernie Palmali. That's going to be hard. That's one. We got a very good, you got to say like that. It's very good, but it's got to be said very good, like a pair out of the side of your mouth. Then like an old like grandma would say, who won? And then we have, yeah, never, whenever you're unsure about something, who's going to win this week? Yeah, never know. You got to say it's sing song. You like that. Whenever there's a big hit, I know you're the big stick guy. Rappi cack. Ooh, that guy was Rappi cack. We got a catches catch can. Those are some of the best ones. Greg, do you have any you'd like to nominate for him if he wants to go and choose off of the board? Is there anything that you would like Kyle Brandt to say on his show for our audience? Driver comfort is paramount. That one's perfect. All right, just send him the 70 up. Okay, let him let him choose and send me the picture of you as how we long Halloween here so that I could put it up on the screen here before the end of the hour. I'll send it to you. I'll send you the picture. It's a little complicated Dan because tomorrow morning I'm doing half good morning football and NFL network and then half get up on ESPN. So I'm very new to ESPN. So if I go in there talking like a parent mentioning Bernie Parley that might be a little strange. I'd like it better there. I'd like it better on get up. Driver comfort is to hear something just send him that we'll see what he does. He's he's very adept. He's very good. You know I'm gonna make it work Dan. I feel like you are. Yes I do. So Kyle thank you for being on with us. Check out his book. We appreciate the time. Do you is the name of the book January 5th. Thank you sir. Love the show. Love you guys. Thanks for having me. Cody I wanted to get back for a second to your catchphrases because I have a number of different questions here. The burp suite. I'd like you to explain that to the audience and Trista the burp suite. You have four different words in one category in your top 10 correct. What number is the burp suite? That's is strong top 10. That's number eight. Why is it a suite? Well because all four words are said in the context of one of my burps. Brad, S-Wipe, Sack and Yike. Trista this is him. He will dismount burps and this is genuine. There's no acting here. Brad, S-Wipe. Right. So the four of them go together. Oh so you have Tourette. He'll be like, Sack. Right. And Yike. Yike. Generally elongates to two syllables. Yike is the rare one that that usually is the burp. The other ones are dismounts for the burp where it's like usually it's like burp. Yike. Yeah the point is they all go together. They're a four son. They're like a family. Those four. The family. The idea that those are one they should be four in the top 75. Should they not? You have what? It's the only category that has more than one in it. Right. Yeah. That's the beauty of it. There's also dummy up, save up. So are you Trista? Do you understand what's being explained here? Because they're not recreating the burps. But what happens is his burp, depending on how it sounds and feels to him at the end, can end with the word Brad, the word ass-white. Sack. The word Sack, which I don't understand and I've never heard him do. And Yike. Yike is the actual burp. He'll just like uncontrolled. Yike. Yike. But yeah it's crazy. And I wanted. Why is it Sack? Sack. You know it's a sound. It's not that I'm really saying the word Sack. It sounds like Sack. I get what Dan's asking now. Dan's asking, why is this one of the catchphrases where it could be? It should be four. It should be a top 79. Not a top 75. Tony. Tony is ready. And Tony is, is got a top five here. Tony's top five. We haven't done it yet. This season he's been doing it now for a couple of seasons. We've got to get Tony's thoughts on football. Tony, where are you? Hello, Dano. I am here at the beautiful Tony's top five. Cafe la ventanita. Number one, el re de la seba. Tony here to give you the top five NFL observations from week one. Before all that, Dano, I'd like to present Tony's top five is also presented by season two of the hit Paramount Plus TV show Mobland. From the underworld, the guy Richie Mobland starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirin returned September 18th only on Paramount Plus, let chaos rain day. I've seen Mobland. I would make the argument that it's the best show on television. It's great. Season one was as good as anything I've seen on television. What's going to happen to the arrogance? I don't want to spoil it, but you know what happened in that last episode. In the last scene, it's like, what are we going to do here? How are you going to get out of this one? Excellent show. Season two premiering September 18th. I'm hard. He's no longer a part of it, right? Oh, no, he's back. I thought he was shooting with everybody on set. It's season three that he's ruining. Okay, season two is already in the can. We're ready to go with season two premiering on September 18th. Paramount Plus go find it. Go get it. We're going to turn the top five on a 10. We used to do the top five as normal five four three two one. We're going to do something different. Obviously, we're here at la ventanita and we're replacing the numbers with treats from the ventanita. So you're going to hear me say a treat and that's the number. All right, Dan, are we ready? I don't know. All right, number five El Patelito. This is going to be a quick hitter. We had proper chaos this Sunday, Darnell Washington, Chris Godwin with two stiff arms. Did you see those stiff arms, Dan? Yes. Oh, my God. First, first off, we got the Chris Godwin one where he through the defender about six yards into the out of bounds. Defender jumped on top of him, God over on him, but that was a crazy stiff arm. And then obviously the stiff arm heard around the world. Darnell Washington, I felt some sort of seismic like shifting happening under my feet at my house. I was like, what is that? And then obviously my stream was a little bit delayed. And then I saw the stiff arm go all the way down. And I was like, oh, that's what it was. Like shaky ground. Darnell Washington looks like he's 610. Yeah, 400. He looks like he's lost weight. Greg, do you know what a pastelito is? Yes. A pastry. Very good. Number four. Number four at Baguano, Latota. This is my flag plant of the year. And I want to give a very special shout out to a couple of guys, Dan. I'm going to give this award the first time it's ever been given the TS CS WSA. That is awarded to the pass catcher who did absolutely nothing. It's the Tony Snell cross sport wind sprint award. This is you played 28 minutes or you played 60 and you have nothing to show for it. As we can see here, Tony Snell against the jazz in 2017 0.0 rebounds 0 everything. And I want to give this award to two special players. One Kyle Pits. My fantasy team who played an absurd amount of minutes in this game against the Pittsburgh Steelers 0 catches 0 yards, 0 fantasy points and what Kyle Branson was the best player on the offense for the Chicago Bears. Colston Loveland. Congratulations, the Tony Snell cross sport wind sprint award. You're just running up and down. Just running up and down. We're very close. Jalen Waddle. Jalen Waddle. All real close. Very close. I feel like he should get honorary for those two bull yards to be fair. I was really hoping that he didn't get a catch so I could have a third for the inaugural TSCS WSA. So that's going to be updated throughout the year. Very excited for Tony Snell number three. Lampana the deeper dive. This one's got a little bit more meat to it. All of a sudden you take a bite into it. It's whoa. There's chicken in here. Whoa, there's beef. What's going on here? Dan. The chiefs downfall has been greatly exaggerated. People thought, oh, I give my homes as hurt. Kelsey's old and kind of looking big. Can walk or all I've heard is how he's not able to take a full workload as a running back number one of Rishi Rice rehab this knee in prison. Like they've got nothing. It's over. The dynasties done. And then they go out and beat the best defense with the best offensive line, create complete proper chaos and havoc all over the field for bone nicks. Ken Walker looks like the second coming of Herschel Walker. Like the chiefs are back, baby, in a massive way. Number two, La Criveta. This is the hot take of the week Dan Lamar Jackson is going to be the offensive player of the year under the suit retro super futuristic offense of Declan Doyle. Dan, did you see how many different looks different fronts, different packages they put together in that offense? It was like I was watching and I was like, oh my god Lamar Jackson is going to throw for 5,000 yards and run for a thousand yards. He looks great in this new system. Put it on the pole, please. That Levitard show. Ken Lamar Jackson, be the league's best offensive player when he's not the best player offensively in his own backfield. Two share. Didn't take it out. Number one, and Cafecito, this is the definitive take of the week. This is the jet fuel. This is what's going to get you throughout the entire week of football, getting into week two. Dan, the bills. I'm going to say it right now. The bills are my super bowl favorites. What? The bills are my. Yes, if you can do that, Dan. Josh Allen just had the best I'm going to read it here because I have the stat. He had the best game ever on an EPA basis. That's expected expected points basis against the number one defense in league history. All right, so just to recap here on that limb, the chiefs and the bills are good in your top five. Yes, the chief downforce has been greatly exaggerated. They're good. Okay, and the bills are also good. The super bowl. And Lamar Jackson's going to win offensive play of the year. All right, and obviously thanks to Coulson Loveland and Kyle Pitz for the Tony Snell cross your top story. Basically, something we could have said every year for the last 10 years. Yeah. Okay, very good. Yeah, very good. Thank you. Very good. See you later, Tony.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Kyle Brandt critiques the culture of coaches being harsh or dismissive to media, blaming Bill Belichick and Greg Popovich for setting a precedent that younger coaches now emulate, despite the negativity being seen as unkind and unprofessional.
  2. The incident involving Holly Rowe, who rolled her eyes during a sideline report, sparked online backlash, which Brandt argues reflects a broader toxic climate online toward women in sports media, especially when they fail to deliver a scripted moment.
  3. Brandt emphasizes the power of authenticity in media, drawing from his book *Do You? How to Bet on Yourself* by Being Yourself, which stems from personal frustration over being moved from New York to Los Angeles, and a desire to prove to his father—a lifelong dreamer of writing—that one can be genuine and successful despite industry pressures.

Summary:

Kyle Brandt reflects on the toxic dynamics in sports media, particularly the normalization of coaches being harsh or dismissive toward reporters, which he traces back to figures like Bill Belichick and Greg Popovich, setting a harmful precedent for younger coaches. He criticizes the online reaction to sideline reporter Holly Rowe’s failure to deliver a scripted moment, arguing it reveals a broader culture of online hostility toward women in sports media. Brandt also shares the personal motivation behind his new book, *Do You?

How to Bet on Yourself*, born from frustration over a studio move and a desire to honor his father’s unfulfilled dream of writing. He champions authenticity in media, noting that success comes from being true to oneself rather than imitating others. The discussion also touches on deeper issues like media fairness, the role of sideline reporters, and the absurdity of week-one football predictions.

Brandt concludes by emphasizing genuine, self-aware storytelling as a counter to industry-wide inauthenticity, while celebrating underappreciated moments in football, like the dramatic stiff arms and the Chiefs’ resurgence, as evidence of the game’s unpredictability and excitement.

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The book is a personal reflection on staying true to oneself, drawing from Kyle's career and life experiences. It emphasizes authenticity and self-confidence, inspired by his father's unfulfilled dream of writing a book.

He wrote it after feeling upset when his show was moved from New York to Los Angeles, and to honor his father's lifelong dream of writing a book. The book channels his personal frustration and journey into a story about self-acceptance and authenticity.

He believes that success comes from being genuinely yourself, not trying to imitate others. He shares that when he tried to be someone else on a TV show, he embarrassed himself, proving that authenticity leads to better results.

He believes such behavior is harmful and unprofessional, especially when it's modeled by long-standing figures like Bill Belichick. He argues that it creates a toxic culture and harms media professionals, especially women sideline reporters.

He believes the criticism is rooted in a toxic internet culture that targets women in media. He notes that sideline reporters are a strong, united group who endure constant disrespect, and such reactions are often disproportionate and unfair.

He finds their early season performance unexpectedly exciting despite poor home records and a cold, underwhelming stadium, and believes the team has shown a sudden surge in energy and potential.

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