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The Rock 108 Morning Show with Brian Marshall · Tue Apr 30, 2024
It's Top 5 Tuesday on The Rock 108 Morning Show.
I feel like it's probably hard for him to find someone in his dating pool.
He's looking for a foreseamer.
Number four, trying desperately to sleep with both eyes always open.
She looks strung out.
He looks like he's taking an Adderall or something
like that.
Number three, clearly having unchecked mental illness, but not being able to ask for help.
How can you ask for help if you're not allowed to talk?
I don't know.
Number two, only having one stupid smile reaction, no matter the gravity of the
situation.
You're losing the game by 10 runs.
I was just in a car accident.
Oh, that was fun.
I'm excited.
Thanks for hitting me.
And the number one pet peeve of Mr. Shucks is being homeless six months out of the year in the snow just because there's no baseball.
You
from the top.
It's top five Tuesday on the Rock 108 morning show.
702.
And yes, it is a top five Tuesday.
Friend of the show, Tom Garland returns and you had a hell of a busy weekend.
Did you not?
I did.
I went and got to see Brian Marshall do stand up
for the
first time,
man.
Stand up comedian Brian
Marshall here with.
That's
awesome.
Is that how
that works?
That is.
Actually, you know, what's funny is that every time I see it, like I've done stand up for years for 14 years and
Almost everybody that's a new comic, I was probably guilty of this.
14 years ago is they do stand up once and look comedian now.
I'm definitely a comedian They'll change their Facebook name.
It'll be like comedian Brian Marshall.
Usually it's a little bit more ghetto than that.
It'd be like comedian.
Duh, Brian Marshall You know change their Facebook picture to them up at the laugh factory or something like
that.
I'll tell you this I did learn finally what the line in Nirvana song smells like Teen Spirit.
Here we are now entertain us
I get that now.
I get that.
Yeah, because I'm behind this microphone and it's the screens and then now you got the people looking at you and if they're not laughing you're like What do I do now?
I don't actually think that the the time on stage is that bad.
That's when I'm actually having fun
It's the
other 23 hours that
I
have to sit and think about it leading up to the show Yeah, and the 23 after sometimes that's what drives me nuts, but you
Could you feel like when you're on stage, you can hear the like you can hear your own thoughts in your head.
Oh, you're
like
speaking, but at the same time, you're two jokes ahead.
Yeah, I asked you, have you ever called an audible during the middle of a joke?
Oh, definitely.
And yeah, you know, you get to a point where you're like, yeah, this one's kind of.
Is this right?
Am I doing this?
You're all doing that while you're trying to do that on stage.
Yeah.
Cause you can see the faces and stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was awesome.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Thanks for coming.
Thanks for doing it, dude.
It was fun.
It was sold out.
That was, that's as good as it gets.
Wait till you do another one with me and there's like six people there with the TVs on.
I'll just say that you won't be thinking.
It'll be awesome.
How about this?
On Sunday, then you go and you're on the other side of things and you're
premiering Arcade Gamer in Dubuque.
Yeah,
we went and did the Julian Dubuque Film Festival.
I think that's what's called International Film Festival, maybe.
It was fun.
We went there on Sunday and I've, although I've done stand-up for years, you know I made a film called Arcade Gamer, The True Story.
It's out right now on Amazon.
It's out on Tubi.
On Tubi, you can watch it for free.
But you could have also watched it this Sunday at the
uh julian film festival and we were at the five flag center actually which is really nice in there it's
like
the paramount basically of debuque uh which was cool and so we they showed the film and and we got to talk with people afterwards and it was very similar maybe to your comedy experience in that i have
Obviously watch the film a hundred times because I edited it myself But I hadn't seen live theater reactions yet because
it's not
it's been a straight to streaming movie Yeah, so I got to see what parts had pops and what's parts didn't
So then you're working for the next time.
Arcade Gamer, the
director's gut.
Yeah, Redux.
Now, it was cool, man.
It was really fun.
We had some good questions and stuff.
And Jordan Dorenton, the subject of the documentary who had the world record in Gallagher and pursues Donkey Kong, the original arcade Donkey Kong in the film.
Jordan came with me and was like signing autographs
and stuff.
So he got to
play Celebrity for the Day, which was cool.
Yeah.
So we got a top five Tuesday and your dad said that he was hoping for a top five during your comedy show.
Yeah.
My dad was like, shout out dad.
My
dad, my dad was like, I thought you were going to do the top five.
And I was like, no, dad, I was just going to talk about sex.
But instead he was like, I thought you were going to do what you do on the radio.
And I was like, that's what I brought Brian to do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah, let's do the top five.
ready I'm ready let's do okay baseball is back even Cedar Rapids baseball so this is the top ten mr. Shucks pet peeves all right so we got top five pet peeves of
Mr.
Shucks.
We'll be here a while
Brian.
Shucks doesn't deserve ten top top five mr. Shucks pet peeves number five
There aren't enough women with baseball heads on Tinder.
Oh no!
I feel like it's probably hard for him to find someone in his dating pool.
He's looking for a foreseamer.
Number four, trying desperately to sleep with both eyes always open.
That's the craziest thing.
Does he have
eyelids?
I don't know if he has big eyes.
I don't know if Shucks ever sleeps.
He looks strung out.
He looks like he's taking an Adderall or something
like that.
He's grinding his teeth, his tongue's hanging out, kids want to be around him and stuff.
He's in perfect game feel, just tweaking in the clubhouse.
He's the plug, dude.
Number three, clearly having unchecked mental illness, but not being able to ask for help.
Oh, no.
How can you ask for help if you're not allowed to talk?
I don't know.
He's suffering in silence.
Number two, only having one stupid smile reaction, no matter the gravity of the situation.
You're losing the game by 10 runs.
Here I
am.
I was just in a car accident.
Oh, that was fun.
I'm excited.
Thanks for hitting me.
Thanks for re-ending me.
That was great.
And the number one pet peeve of Mr. Shucks is being homeless six months out of the year in the snow just because there's no baseball.
You can't put them together with the rough rider at
all?
No, and I'm sure he's jealous of the rough rider.
Like the rough rider gets a little bit more hype.
Herky gets more hype too.
I'm
sure Shucks is
sitting there freezing, looking at Herky and the rough rider and being like, wow, maybe not so much the rough rider, but Herky definitely like, wow, he's making more money.
He's got college girls all around him and he's on national TV and I'm freezing at the homeless shelter.
Poor Mr. Shucks.
Go out, give them a couple of bucks.
Tom Garland, again, where can they find about your next upcoming show if you've got one lined up here shortly?
Yeah, you
can get tickets to my shows at tomgarlandstandup.com.
You can read all about me on there, and you can hear me on here with stand-up comedian Brian Marshall on Tuesday mornings.
And you can check out my film.
It's called Arcade Gamer, The True Story.
That's, right now, it's free on Tubi.
Go check that out.
You just reminded me.
my LinkedIn profile.
It's
got to have stand-up
comedian on it.
That'll hurt any LinkedIn opportunities.
If you were looking to jump ship at some point, that won't be good.
Every time I've ever applied for a job, they're like, you're a comedian.
Tell me about that.
I'm like, oh, I'm not
getting this gig.
Here's Kid Rock.
case.
It's on rock.
1831.
I had mentioned here on the show, we've talked about the NFL draft as it relates to the Iowa Hawkeyes.
But what if you're on the other side of the fence?
What if you're actually on the team that's trying to make themselves better?
One of those teams happens to be the Minnesota Vikings and joining me, friend of the show, old classmate, Justin Ekstrom from the purple positivity podcast.
Welcome back.
Thank you very much, sir.
Thanks for having me.
Always glad to be on.
So I'm excited to have you on here because as I'm looking at the, the draft that the Minnesota Vikings had, I'm seeing a lot of A's and B's.
What do you think?
And on the purple positivity side, where, where do you think the Vikings landed for themselves this year?
So the first round to me, you had the two picks.
Everyone thought they were going to be trading up to get JJ McCarthy or one of those quarterbacks.
Well, they didn't really trade up except for the one pick.
Well, that's neither here nor there.
get a little panicky.
You still got you got changing McCarthy.
And then in my opinion, the best defender in the draft, you got to be the best defensive player in the draft in Dallas Turner, who happens to fall.
And all you need to see for a certain take of positivity from your coach when he turned to Quasi Adolfo Menzo, who's the GM.
And when Quasi said,
We're getting Turner our Kevin Lee father turns to him and goes Really like he couldn't believe it like he had this admiration for his GM like I can't believe you pulled that
Did it cost a little bit?
Yes, but I think as far as the first round goes that's an A and then you have all these needs am I a fan of drafting a kicker?
No, but if you're drafting the most prolific Kicker in all of Alabama history, that's just fine
I mean, that's, you, you had five or six needs and you got five or six players that fulfill those needs or at least give you some depth.
And I thought overall to good solid B.
So Justin extra from the purple positivity podcast joining us here on rock, one, Oh, eight J.J.
McCarthy.
Does he start year one or, or what's the deal with him?
What do you think?
Before the Sam Darnold experience, I said he's.
the, the guys that are doing this, quasi-doflamenta and Kevin O'Connell, they want a guy that's going to start year one so they can prolong their career as GM and head coach, right?
But then you pay 10 million to Sam Darnold and you're going to have him come compete.
JJ McCarthy, um, first year, I don't think he's starting right away.
I think he's going to be, say things start, um, the S hits the fan a little bit, so to speak.
Then he comes in week five or six.
Depends on where the buy lands, you know something like that.
You always look at that.
I'm kind of the old school guy where Leave it as a lies like let it play let it play out see how See how he's developing.
and I wouldn't start a week one Unless you really want to convince the wills Ziggy and Mark will fit, you know, this is our guy Let's do it and then they'll get one more year leeway where they'll have a hundred ninety million to play with next year
I honestly don't think he'll start week one.
So help me with this.
When was the last time that Minnesota had a farm fed system quarterback, one that grew up within the system itself?
Was it Dante Culpepper?
Yeah, Culpepper.
And then I mean, they had, you know, Christian Ponder.
I'm sorry.
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit when I think about him.
But it was first round quarterback.
I think Cole Pepper had it all, man.
Like he had one of the best offensive lines in all of football.
He had two of the best receivers in all of football.
He had a good defense that could back them and they still only just got to the NFC championship game.
So you've heard some of my takes on this too.
The Vikings have never won a Super Bowl,
is told to us from every single
Packer fan that we ever meet.
We've never won a Super Bowl.
We get them.
So we've never, we've never drafted a way in which we did this year.
Well, I mean, maybe, maybe now this is what's going to be.
Maybe this draft doing something just a little bit different.
Calculative going on a limb, getting a 21 year old quarterback, getting one of the best outside linebackers I've seen at the college level in, you know,
five, six years, like you go back to like miles Garrett and those guys, that's what this guy looks like.
Interesting.
So I'm not saying they're going to win a Super Bowl, but they're different train of thought.
Makes me believe they looked at all the things on paper that the Minnesota Vikings have done up to this point and said, Hey, let's do something a little different.
And I'm game for that.
Justin Ekstrom from the purple positivity podcast.
We'll find out here in just a second where you can find that.
where Justin will be talking about Minnesota Vikings football off season and leading into the season itself.
Last thing that I got to chuckle out of Kirk Cousins, he lands that deal, no trade clause.
And then they draft a quarterback in the draft.
Why, why am I laughing so hard at
this?
So you just, you just look at, at face value, right?
They have one healthy knee between the two quarterbacks between Kirk Cousins and 10 X junior and
When Kirk Cousins quarterback is off of the Atlanta Falcons books, Michael Pennix Jr.
turns 29 years old.
Oh my gosh.
Like that.
That just seems odd to me.
And that's like the main thing.
If Michael Pennix Jr.
is your starter, um, week one, why in the world did you pay Kirk Cousins, how much they did?
We've seen this type of thing work.
Not on this magnitude.
We've seen this type of thing work.
You remember Flynn had one good year.
for the Packers, goes out to Seattle.
Seattle pays them a boatload of money at the time, of course.
You know, at the boatload of money was eight million a year, whatever it was.
They give them that money and then they draft a guy out of Wisconsin named Russell Wilson.
And they go Russell Wilson week one.
And, you know, for five years there, they were Super Bowl contenders and actually won a Super Bowl with that.
So things like that work.
But this is just weird to me.
Like, I don't know what they're thinking to be honest.
The good thing is you do have a good idea of what the Vikings are doing and the purple positivity podcast on the beer bellies sports network.
Where can P one nation find it?
Justin.
So P one nation can find me personally on Twitter at the sports group 21.
I'll post all of my shows, but otherwise you just go to beer belly sports, ring that bell.
You can get an eye tunes.
You can get on.
You know, I'm not one of those technologically advanced guys, but I'm, I'm a Spotify guy.
So you can find on Spotify.
It's really easy.
You just subscribe to your belly sports and anytime I have a new episode, boom, there it is.
We will link that up on my Facebook page here shortly.
Justin, thanks again for the time.
Go Vikes.
Thank you very much.
Has kicked school.
Indeed.
Love
it.
