Kyle Brandt
American television host
26
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Sep 9, 2026
Kyle BrandtGUEST
For my entire life, Taco Bell, God bless them, has been taking the same five ingredients and repurposing them into a new product.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
[laughs] And they'd be like, "No, this isn't the Spicy Chalupa, it's the Cheesy Gordita." [laughs] And you're like, "It's the same thing in there than the last time." Same ingredients.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
In this year, 1986, a young quarterback transferred from Oklahoma under Barry Switzer to Terry Donahue's UCLA Bruins.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Because of the transfer rule, that quarterback, Troy Aikman, had to sit out for a year.
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Kyle BrandtGUEST
Matt Damon was on an actual old Norse boat in the movie, just like Kyler's going to be.
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Mike GreenbergHOST
Does he have a maturity issue? Does he want to run through a brick wall? Does he not know how to get out of bounds and get down and all that stuff? Do those things add up to concerns if you're a fan of the
Kyle BrandtGUEST
To that point, though, like, when I watched it now as an adult, what freaks me out is, like, I, I'm not afraid of Freddy Krueger.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
I'm terrified of systems that I can't navigate, and that the teeth of bureaucracy sink in, whether it's HOA, IRS, whatever it is, getting its teeth into me, and I can't protect my family.
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Kyle BrandtGUEST
I, my appetite was whet to do this movie with you, Bill, because I was listening to the Something About Mary pod, and you guys were talking a lot about your experience in the theater.
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Kyle BrandtGUEST
We are so used to you being this positive, go-get-em football SOB, and that guy wasn't there.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Makai Lemon, Kenyon Sadique, Cooper, all on the board, and then there you are at the 13th pick taking quarterback.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Uh, your thoughts on, on the way it all went down and selecting him there at that point in the first round of the draft.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
And it's like you're, you're enjoying Arnold and whatever, the kids and all that, but then you're also like, "What is with all this?" Child abuse, and then heavy-handed divorce lectures, and then, like, some weird thing with sexual identity.
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Like, everything is in this movie, and it always cracks me up that, like, if you brought your kids to this movie, "Oh, great.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Kindergarten, it's gonna be awesome." And you sit down, like, your eight-year-old or maybe your actual kindergartner.
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Kyle BrandtGUEST
It's not only that there's not a scene I don't love, I don't think there's a moment I don't love.
speaker_4HOST
Was that the vibe you got?
speaker_4HOST
[laughing]
Kyle BrandtGUEST
I remember during Sam Darnold's rookie year, uh, I went into the Jets' locker room, and I did a piece, like a man on the street type piece.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
I did it only 'cause they're the local team, and I think they wanted a little goodwill.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Todd Bowles had just been fired, and I saw Sam, and I was like, "Oh, I gotta get Sam Darnold, the cool new quarterback." And then he was just like, he was catatonic.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
I remember during Sam Darnold's rookie year, uh, I went into the Jets' locker room, and I did a piece, like a man-on-the-street type piece.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
I did it only 'cause they're the local team, and I think they wanted a little goodwill.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Todd Bowles had just been fired, and I saw Sam, and I was like, "Oh, I gotta get Sam Darnold, the cool new quarterback." And then he was just like...
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Uh, having an older sibling whose friends come over is just one of the all-time adolescent things.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Whether it's your older sister's friends, or, um, you go to a friend's house, and he has an older sister, and you're 14, and there's three 16-year-old girls watching TV.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Like, you can't imagine how sexy and how hot that is when you're a teenager, and this is what Billy goes through for the whole movie, Billy Jacoby.
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Kyle BrandtGUEST
Last week against Minnesota, they got called up to Double-A on the road against a good coach and a good roster.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
This week, they are playing the Steelers, maybe their old friend Aaron Rodgers.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
And then on Black Friday, they go to Philadelphia in the same defense that just really embarrassed Jared Goff.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
So th- that's that game, if they get there, and they've won these next couple of weeks, and they get to Philadelphia, that's the kumite.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
I have my own list that really, in the, the diagram with yours, is perfect for Weird Science.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Like, you mentioned the Linda Fiorentino character, A Vision Quest, right? So, in the '80s, right now at this point, there is a run on......
Kyle BrandtGUEST
And women were getting glamorized so differently then, 'cause of MTV and all of the media right now.
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Kyle BrandtGUEST
Like, it's the game's over in the first quarter, it's shock and awe, it's just bombs going off everywhere.
Brock HewardHOST
So what, uh, what do you think is the biggest strength? What is the biggest strength of this team?
Kyle BrandtGUEST
There's another thing about that, that like, the Smith-Njigba story right now is, people are like, "Oh yeah, I, I have him in fantasy," or, "I went against him in fantasy and he's, he's like...
Kyle BrandtGUEST
He's, he's really good." That is, that is selling it so short, what is going on right here.
Brock HewardHOST
But when you're in your production meetings now, and you're around town, and you're making the case, are people warming up to it around you?
Kyle BrandtGUEST
He is doing this in a room that is 98.6 degrees, and the shotguns are coming for him if he goes three inches per second instead of two.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Everything he did is physical and can be trained with some balls over enough time.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
When I was a kid and I watched this movie, I used to try to walk across my room holding like a, a Slaughter CD and trying to do this, and after like 20 seconds, I'd just get bored with it and stop.
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Kyle BrandtGUEST
(laughs) And then now Baker Mayfield is just, y- you can't take your eyes off him.
John MiddlecoffHOST
Like, are, are they gonna splinter on him? Well, if they like him enough, they will give him a little bit of extra runway, even if it's as rocky (laughs) as it's been.
Dan PatrickHOST
(laughs) Are there more teams you think can reach the Super Bowl or more teams who can't make the playoffs?
Kyle BrandtGUEST
You have the normal headliners that you think of, of course, this team, that team, and then you have these teams that aren't the, in the neon lights, like teams that are built for a Super Bowl, like, like Tampa Bay, for example, who have the coach, who have the quarterback.
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I, like, the only thing people can say against the Chargers is they lost a lineman.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
I sat with Mike Tomlin as someone who spent the entire off season saying that he should be replaced, and so I respected that he still sat down.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
But I, I've been the guy saying, "Mike Tomlin is at the point that Andy Reid was with the Eagles." There's nothing wrong with it.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
Mm-hmm.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
I, I, I know, Bill, you already claimed Predator, but it's just, like, so many, so many just huge giant expensive, violent weapons with no ability to defend themselves.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
They, they just sit there like a sitting fucking duck, and the predator goes in and steals Jesse the body's body.
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Craig HorlbeckPANELIST
(laughs) He's never seen it.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
"Yeah, I directed, uh, RoboCock and he says, uh, come quietly or there'll be trouble, but the coming is the reaching the orgasm.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
he would have directed the porno parody of his own fucking movie if they asked him to.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Um, all right, no, my real flex category is, uh, I'm actually gonna go with the Fortune Three Clap Award for most gif-able moments.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Um, when Robo's brand new and he's in that chair in the factory and he starts having those dreams, he starts going like... (gasps) And if you go to Twitter right now and type in the gif search RoboCop, it is that moment of RoboCop, like, with his mouth open.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
And it's all tweets of, like, I'm not gonna say them, like, "When she stops, when, but you're still..." and it's, like, the person's draft pick is terrible.
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Kyle BrandtGUEST
And I'm like, after Teen Wolf, I'm like, "Now that we've done that, how about Out for Justice?" And five years later, we're still doing it because it's my favorite Seagal movie because it's the most Seagal of the Seagal movies.
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So we've done Hard to Kill, which we love, but it's idiotic and we make fun of it.
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Rich EisenHOST
... is gonna be desperate enough to give them a draft choice they can't refuse for next year.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
I'm- I've been really moved by this, more so than I even expected to be over the last 48 hours.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
I've been on, you know, our show, Good Morning Football, talking about it as much as the NFL will allow me to just talk about an actor and not, uh, you know, Cam Ward or Shedeur Sanders.
Kyle BrandtGUEST
Um, and I think I'm a little surprised how upsetting it was because this is not Tom Cruise or Harrison Ford or Tom Hanks.
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