00:02yeah whatever all right so let me let no recall like it's this is a weird way to open a
00:10show
00:10because i i know there's an expectation from the audience like i i'm expected to like verbally
00:17assault you and make fun of you because i called the lions game basically i was miss cleo i gave
00:22you everything that was going to happen and it happened i can't not not because that's not fun
00:27but i want to be very sincere with my audience the jack campbell injury really messed me up
00:33yesterday and frankly i i didn't care then and i don't care now and the combination of that and
00:41then watching a plane crash and then hearing the audio into jack campbell and now i still don't
00:47have an update a day later that he has movement in his extremities that made me sick to my stomach
00:52and i just it's very difficult like i i'm only half joking when i say this because i feel like
00:59you have to to couch things but like here here's your psa i like jim costa i think jim has
01:06a massive
01:06career ahead of him in radio but i think jim sounded like a massive jo this morning first word is
01:12jerk
01:13you could figure off the second okay bottom line i i can't dance about a win because i can't get
01:21it out
01:21of my head jack campbell lying motionless on the field and yes it's a big win and no you're not
01:26a
01:26bad person if privately you're celebrating it and you should but man i mean correct me if i'm wrong
01:33doesn't doesn't he have a baby at home campbell yes a new dad yeah and and and you're watching that
01:40and i'm watching players cry you don't see that and when he was getting carted off i can't lie to
01:46you
01:46man it choked me up it messed me up and at 46 years old yeah i'm different than i used
01:52to be i
01:52just i can't get it out of my head so i'm not gonna lie to the audience you didn't hear
01:57me using drops on
01:58jeremy you're not hearing me laugh at rico because he was wrong again against me i can't i just that's
02:04not where my head space is and until i hear dan campbell at three o'clock tell me that jack
02:08campbell's
02:08regained movement the thought of that guy not walking again with a wife and a baby it's just
02:16that's very difficult to watch and to see and i don't know man i maybe i'm not finding the right
02:23words but like i can't do what jim did this morning with that whole no chimpanzee with a symbol routine
02:28i can't do that let me help you for for jim and the other lions fans the other side of
02:34the coin
02:35i think they separated the two things i can't and they said okay this was a viking team that
02:43everybody said was going to be our real test i did and they went out there and they passed that
02:48test
02:48so they're walking around they got a gold star on their forehead and they want to put it up on
02:54the
02:54refrigerator i understand that and they take the the campbell incident separate where you can't but
03:02after after i saw that let me be very clear with you i didn't give a rat's ass about the
03:06rest of
03:07the game sports is not real rico right but when that guy i i sincerely hope we get a good
03:13update
03:13at three o'clock because the fact that the team released a statement that they didn't say he
03:18regained or had movement in his extremities that's the first thing they tell you i understand i'm
03:23horrified but it's when aiden and those guys said hey we have to it was a fourth down they had
03:27to
03:28rally on that fourth down and stop them and at that point they were like we're gonna do this for
03:33jack that's fine they can do whatever they want i can't go on the radio and pretend i knew that
03:38it was
03:38bad when we hit the third commercial break and he was still down on the field because at first i
03:44was
03:45just like okay that's uh uh jimmy rolder and there was no thumbs up and then it was like no
03:50no no
03:51something else rieger sent this text like guys there's two people on the field and then they come back
03:55and then they say that and we go to the commercial and then they still come back and i'm like
03:58they show
03:59the replay you see the arm go limp and i'm like this is a lot serious more serious than what
04:04i
04:04initially thought i thought maybe you're just going through the whole concussion protocol but i'm like
04:10this may be you know i i'm hoping it doesn't reach the mike utley type level but it's like this
04:17is
04:19serious and but you and that's where you know i heard tj this morning that's where i i don't envy
04:25those guys no because you you have to set all of that aside because they're not going to stop the
04:31game you got to finish that out so i i applauded both teams because you could tell minnesota was just
04:37as they wanted to come over there but they were like look that's your guy but hey much respect to
04:43him he's a player that everybody likes it it did take away from some of it but i think there
04:50are
04:51people who still said but we beat the vikings good well that means you have no soul and that's fine
04:56dude i like if a guy blows his knee out i can live with it the guy gets to walk
05:00again until i hear that
05:02that that guy's going to be able to get out of bed i'm sorry and the longer this goes it
05:06i'm really
05:07hoping they move the campbell press conference back to three but yeah like that's why you didn't hear
05:12drops on jeremy and you're not going to me tell me telling rico you know f you i just it's
05:18i mean
05:18i don't know there's life and then there's sports you you're growing up i just can't you are you are
05:23growing up my friend i it's it's more dude you you start to treat mortality different and you look
05:30at it and it's like yeah i think going on the air and having these inane conversations it's it's
05:35it's stupid that's what i think it is and i think this idea that you can somehow separate what
05:40you watched to then go back and be paint your face guy or blue kool-aid guy i think you're
05:45a
05:45jackass i don't care i have no reason to care oh people's feelings will be hurt f you i don't
05:51care
05:52i got the whole i got the whole damn game right you don't give me any credit so you know
05:56what f you
05:56i don't care right there there's there's there's still another layer mike that you haven't hit yet
06:02what's that when you get a little bit older how you can how you you see things for how they
06:08are and
06:08yeah sometimes they're bad but you just learn that there are things in life that you have no
06:13control over and it just happens and you can't i know that you can't let it affect you look at
06:17yesterday i mean the double dip i i mean do you listen to that audio the plane crash in florida
06:21yes
06:22i mean i just between that and the campbell thing i'm going how the hell am i getting on the
06:27air
06:27yelling about stupid sports i can't i can't it'd be totally performative be totally fake
06:33i could all right we could talk about the football if you want but there's just
06:37it there's not going to be what you think it's going to be today
06:41oh contender pretend who cares okay i don't know ask me at christmas because then the playoffs start
06:48like i don't know what to say i can't get the image of it out of my head i can't
06:54unsee a man not
06:56moving on the field i know some of you old heads man you were here for mike utley i know
07:01you were here
07:01for utley i pray to god that's not what we're dealing with but i i'm being very sincere i'm
07:07very scared because the first thing you do is you say yes the player's in the hospital he has
07:14movement of his extremities you say it on the field you say it in the post game and then you
07:20you you certainly say it when you yeah you'll see the thumbs up as they're riding off on the
07:25card or waving to the crowd and you're like okay they're just going to get this guy checked up
07:30he's going to be all right but the entire time you're just seeing people around you're seeing
07:37his teammates and you're seeing players and tears and just like getting all misty-eyed is when it
07:44really got real yeah and it makes whatever takes place afterwards meaningless to me yes yes you want
07:54to win and you did win and i respect the hell out of it i thought you'd win but i'm
07:58just saying
07:59i can't give you the whiz bang pal david go ahead and to your point yes you want to win
08:05you want to
08:06do those things but something that i don't think i've i've seen really was what kevin o'connell did
08:13after that game every coach they all go into the middle of the field hey good game whatever and then
08:19they go about their way but they still he stood there with campbell for a while and they were talking
08:25and i can tell he was kind of saying you need to let me know call me let me know
08:30i can you can just
08:31tell they kept whispering to each other it was different than something i've ever really seen
08:35because it's a fraternity and they know that you know what it could have easily have been one of my
08:41guys instead of your guy but i'm here for you and we can set aside to hey congratulations on the
08:49game
08:49but this is life this is bigger and that's where that's where he was and that's the point riko like
08:54there's a threshold it crosses and i i'm not being insensitive when i say like oh so and so broke
08:59his
09:00thumb i don't care it's an occupational hazard i understand the nfl's had someone die on the field
09:06before and i understand we have had a several um players not walk off that field the point i'm making
09:12is until or unless you know this guy is going to be okay it just it is it's a line
09:18of delineation for
09:19me that i i i can't like i i really do like i i texted with jim last night and
09:26i had no idea what
09:26he was going to do on the air but like you know he was talking about like oh people want
09:30to know are
09:30you going to validate the way you know what i'd like to validate is that you're a loser people
09:35seeking a radio host validation after a player was carted off the field and may never walk again
09:43what you know what seek therapy figure it out talk to your wife if you have one try to get
09:50laid
09:50see what happens oh what are you gonna say what are you gonna say i picked them to win
09:55you mouth-breathing losers yeah but vaki one guy like six carries in three years
10:03oh my god and again all of this after jack campbell that i cannot figure out the headspace of that
10:11person because this is a little different it reminded me of a few years ago when you beat the cowboys
10:17but
10:18aiden got his leg crushed and broken and he goes off you knew he'd walk again but you did know
10:23that
10:23he would be he would walk again he's probably going to be gone for the rest of the year but
10:28wow
10:28it took away from the joy that you felt of going out and beating the cowboys because it's like
10:34yeah but we just lost one of our guys but this is different because you didn't get the thumbs up
10:40you
10:40didn't get the wave to the crowd you didn't get the you know tom brady with the announcement a few
10:45minutes later hey we've heard from the lions pr staff and they said that he's he's he's got feeling in
10:51all his extremities rico we're 24 hours later we don't have that update right i have no other
10:56reaction but to be very scared on a human level i don't know jack campbell i'll never know jack
11:02campbell i know i've liked some of the things he said i liked his approach to his contract i like
11:06him
11:07as a player albeit he hadn't had the best year the point is that this is a this is somebody's
11:13son
11:13it's somebody's husband it's a young father dude i'm terrified and it is it's the one thing left in
11:21sports that can shake you i don't get shaken by even even jalen williams last week in the nba with
11:26that grizzly leg injury jalen williams is going to walk again jalen williams is going to play
11:31basketball again jalen williams he's gonna be fine life moves on yeah those basketball injuries still
11:36gets me like the louisville player whose leg just snapped you're thinking of kevin ware yeah yeah you
11:41can't unsee that the point is you get to walk again i just man i i don't know they moved
11:47the
11:47press conference to three they haven't you would think if the am i wrong to think if there was good
11:53news they would have put it out the second they had it no my good news gets out quickly fast
12:00all the
12:01places instagram twitter can we carry dan campbell at three is that a move we could i don't know what
12:09to i don't know what's right to do i'll just tell you this here's the thing let me let me
12:14let me right
12:14no no let me say this i want to be very fair okay i'm not telling you not to talk
12:19football it's not
12:20what i'm doing but this whole dancing around childlike exuberance or wanting to do first of
12:29all you don't get to do receipts on me i told you we're winning a week ago i told you
12:34how you were
12:34going to do it i told you you'd pound them right in the face don't don't come at me with
12:38that no no
12:38you can come to me you can come at me no no no no i i i owe you the
12:43flat brim no no they can i i'll
12:45take the receipts because it's just it went down to the final thing and you made the place and they
12:50did not it just you could talk football just don't don't don't ask me to dance until or unless i
12:58hear
12:58that that guy's okay i i just won't i'm not over that one yet and it'll just be something eventually
13:04yes we do have to separate it we do it's not a trade and it's not an injury you get
13:10up from
13:10injuries this is something totally different potentially and i've got to hear some good news
13:16here if listen my mood will flip real quick if dan campbell comes on at three and gives us a
13:22very
13:22positive update and hey then there's the football conversation but until i hear that that kid can get
13:29out of bed i'm sorry i'm not going to be that guy to you i i won't lie to you
13:33i don't need to
13:36like i i i won't do it i don't do it with the teams i don't do it with this
13:39company i'm just not doing it
13:42so that's where i'm at and yes we'll talk football and we'll do can we say that and try to
13:46talk about
13:47some stuff but i i just needed you to understand why it may sound a little different even though it
13:52should be this triumphant you know punch rico in the face that i i can't do it oh huh oh
13:59just
13:59because i beat you in another bed punching in the well i meant verbal not in a physical sense don't
14:05get full of yourself no i did not you won the best chose the wrong words it's gonna be like
14:11you're
14:11gonna walk over you're gonna limp back i take it easy we'll get to your phone call and again don't
14:18be shy you can talk football just don't be all pissed at me because i can't be a you know
14:23a chimp
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