May 14, 2026 • 40 mins
Chris Plank talks about the NFL revealing that the 2026 season will kickoff with a Super Bowl rematch between the Seahawks and the Patriots and if NBC will address the whole Mike Vrabel controversy, Kyler Murray poised to have a big year in Minnesota, and more!
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We had an overtime game You're and Marn talk about
it CAVS one one seventeen one thirteen. They are on
the verge of advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals for
a showdown with the New York Knicks. Again, as I
hate saying this because I know that they're I feel
like kind of a jerk when I say it, because
(01:14):
there's people in Cleveland right now that are on cloud nine.
You know, it's just we are one win away from
the Eastern Conference Finals. We are then, you know, five
wins away from getting back to the NBA Finals, you know,
for the first time the post Lebron era.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It's it's it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But I'm just sitting here saying, can I get to
Spurs thunder? You know, can I can I see the
real NBA Finals take place in the West. It's terrible
to say, but I feel like it's the reality of
where the league is now.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
And that's what we've been waiting for.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Had a great game to wrap up the Avs series
with a while Colorado wanted four to three, they advance,
and a couple of walk offs in Major League Baseball
that we'll get into as the show rolls on. The
Dodge did take the advice of many of our hosts
(02:05):
here on Fox Sports Radio. I don't know if I
don't know if Dave Roberts is a big FSR listener
or not, but I feel like every single time that
I'm listening and there's a conversation about show, Heyotani, there
is then a debate about whether or not he should
be hitting when he pitches, which again I know he's
(02:27):
struggling right now, but there is this part of me
and it's like, hey, it's okay to just focus on
one thing.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, tonight, Otani.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Seven strong, four hits, eight strikeouts, two walks.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
He didn't hit.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
They used Tai Oscar and by the way, tay Oscar
in the DH spot did have a couple hits tonight.
The Lakers do not hit show Aotani when he pitches, and.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's the right move. I feel like before we get back.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
To the phones at eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I feel like I've kind of buried the lead.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Now the schedule leaks we talked about and we're gonna
get the full schedule tomorrow night or later tonight, depending
on where you're listening. I don't know how or why
all these are either allowed to leak or that they
get out. But one of the most I guess you
(03:25):
could say hotly debated slash curious questions is who will
the defending World champions play in the season opener RW.
You always kind of look at it, and when it
was the Chiefs, I remember we've been debating.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It's like, gosh, there's like five teams.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Maybe it could be the Texans or the Texas out
of Shaan Watson ended up being that. And it's a
good game, but the Seahawks had a lot of options.
You want the defending champs open at home. It's usually
a Thursday night game. This year it's a Wednesday night game,
and they raised the banner. It's quite the scene this year.
According to Ari mirav the twenty twenty six NFL season
(04:04):
will begin with a Super Bowl rematch. Now, I want
to make sure I give proper credit here because Jordan
Schultz is a great contributor here on Fox Sports Radio.
You hear Jordan a lot on the Herd with Colin Coward,
and Jordan was actually first on this, so again, good
work to him digging it up, finding it out.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
But it's not like that was a great game.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's not like the Super Bowl was one of these
games that we look back or like, man, give me
that again. And I mean, first of all, you have
the wildest story in the NFL in years in the
offseason with the Mike Rabel stuff. In years, you we've
(04:49):
had a rest We've had guys get in trouble. We've
had big trades, but I don't know that we've had
anything quite like this. And you're gonna put that on
the on the national stage right out of the gate.
There's a part of me that kind of respects it. Guys,
there's a part of me that respects it, because I
(05:12):
don't think that you can go to anyone and say, hey,
don't talk about this, right because they're gonna talk about it. Coop,
let me ask you. Let me ask you this. Lareena,
I want your take on this too before we get
Holler and James. If you're who is an NBC that
has the opener? I believe it's NBC that has the opener.
I mean you're having like the soft light background sit
(05:33):
down with Mike Vrabel, right, I mean, you can't you
can't ignore this. They've I mean there's a party that
kind of respects the NFL says, oh yeah, you're gonna
face this. We're gonna get this out of the open,
and we're gonna try to watch this as quickly as
we can. Right Coop, what do you make of the
Patriots of the Seahawks being the season opener?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I mean I'm intrigued, but i'd be you know, I
love the NFL, so i'd be.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Intrigued, you know, with whomever.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, exactly. Uh going to tune in for a dim
Lintz sit down? Probably not. I'd watch clips online, you know,
because you know, I imagine if anything interesting was said
that it'll be viral. But you know, I'm not going
to tune in early to watch that.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
No, you're not going to tune in early for who's
going to be the concert?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Is it going to be?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I don't fallout boy? Is it going to be a
reunion of Blink one eighty two? I mean we're in Seattle.
I mean, come on, Uh, Lorena should should they do
the all out Bear his soul sit down interview with
Mike were able to start the whole broadcast?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I mean, if that's where they want their focus to.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Be, because once it's out, it's out.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah exactly. But you know I kind of that mentality,
nip it in the butt before you get the season
started so the people stop talking about it. So I
think it is a good idea. Do I think I
would tune into it?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
No?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
But like Coop said, I'm sure there will be highlights
online and stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Maybe I think this story is kind of lost a
little steam too.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Not and again, well, if they have anything more that's
good on it, they should have let it out already, right,
I mean, I mean, what's both happened now?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Though Diana's already out, Yeah, she's out.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Rabel hasn't lost his job yet, Like, I feel like
it's too far along now he's not.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Going to And I mean, who knows the way that
Stu Gotts talks. I mean, Diana Rascini might be our
coworker by the end of the week, who knows. But
I don't know, man, I just it seems kind of
ballsy that that would be your first game of the
season with the narrative that's been going on all off season.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It's just hilarious to me.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
According to the different reports that are out there, this
is the first time that the NFL has opened the
season with a Super Bowl rematch since twenty sixteen when
the Broncos in the Panthers.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Wow, ten years that's cool.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Math ride makes it easy, all right?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine ninety six sixty three six nine. I'm just I'm
such a nerd that I'm sitting here refreshing, like we're
gonna get news tonight. It's like, what's the latest league?
You mean we can't wait ten to twelve hours to
get that later on this evening. I mean, come on,
what are we even doing here? But it's NonStop, man.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It's what we live. It's what we live. Uh im.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It checked in by the way, on the X he said,
I don't quite understand the Thanksgiving Eve games in terms
of how it's gonna work. Are they gonna give both
these teams the week off before? Is one of them
gonna play on Thursday and the other half of the
week off. I get the NFL as king and we're
gonna watch. But when did it get too much? Or
(08:30):
when does it get too much? People are complaining about
the Thursday night game quality being down and a lot
of players think they don't get enough rest because of
the short week.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Well, they've they've got it figured out, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I feel like they've got it figured out as far
as the.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Timing is concerned.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
But you're right, it's once we see it, and I'm
still it's like a twelve year Old'm like, wait minutes,
they're playing on Thursday? Then they're gonna play again that
next Monday. You know it's it's ridiculous. But whenever you
are committed to playing now a game on Christmas and
you've added Thanksgiving Eve, and your Wednesday games are becoming
a thing now in the NFL. I mean that opener
(09:11):
that I talked about is on a Wednesday night.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
This year for some reason.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So time schedule release, Man, it always gets the best
of us. Did you say, Holler and James was still
hanging in there tonight or.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Did he already bail on us?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Might be seping.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Holler and James, welcome to the program. What's going on? Man?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Do you think of Sleepy Coop? The only one sleepy
Coop is you?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
What's on your mind tonight? Holler and James, thanks for
checking in.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
I want to see the Viking schedule. I think the
Vikings got some promise, and that's because they don't know
rule's going to be quarterback. They Harry McCartney's not that good.
Tell me about Tennis. Sent me a McCartney jersey sometime back.
She also sent me Timberwolves license plate. That's just hollering
James with my promise and logo on it and that's
(10:07):
interesting excuse, she said, And I was wondering. I love
your show, Chris Blank, you gotta SCHOOLI show as Brian
No and Ben Muller. You're right right up there with
the best then ouncers ever I've ever spoken to. And
that's for you. Coop. You're not a bad guy. He's
along with me sometime. I'm not done hard to get
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along with. I'm easy going. Loreina, you were a doll,
but you get too much credit, and you know that.
One more take, My take is on the Minnesota frost.
They had a good season, they build out the wild,
they had a good season, but they got beat in overtime.
(10:49):
Why doesn't it always happen to Minnesota teams? They can
ever get with the hump when they're going, gets tough.
It seems they're tough, trag get going, and I'm sick
of it. I'm a little sports fan, die hard foreign bred,
Suity of Minnesota, born in Minneapolis General Hospital before beginne
had a big county. And I have one more take
(11:11):
before you let me go, I want to thank you
for not letting me use my golden ticket at Coop.
I still had a golden ticket, but I wanted to
go to the Tanny and Montana.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Thanks for the call.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Okay, first of all, I did have to look up
with the Montreal or the Minnesota Frost tour, and there
was a game. The Minnesota Frost, by the way, just
for those that aren't aware, is a team in the PWHL,
the Professional Women's Hockey League. And in my very in
(11:45):
depth research to find all the information I can for
Holler and James phone call, I have learned that the
Minnesota Frost had one of their playoff games that was
postponed by the league three hours before the game started
due to players safety concerns related to illness. I've never
(12:06):
heard of that before. I mean post COVID, I mean,
I guess what we have? Like, uh, what's the hand
of iris that we're all supposed to be freaking out
about that?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Oh, I'm so excited about that.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
They let the idiots get off the boat. What are
we doing?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Who decided that? Who decided that? Keep them on there?
I don't care if you have to send shipments to
them or you know, wait till it runs through the
whole boat, leave it on the boat.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Take him back to see you know.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
That's why would you why would you even let it
come to land.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Because we're stupid. Because we're stupid, Loraina. That's why that.
I mean, I just answered the question. Now, you guys
sometimes you know again, I don't get to listen as
much as I did back in the day, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I just I'm older now I do a morning show.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Golden ticket that Holler and James got refers to Coop.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
What when did he get it?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I don't know. He always says he has a golden
and I pretty much ignored everything he said.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh oh, okay, okay, that's fair enough. Then, sorry, Holler
and James. I was trying to get more learned up
on everything there, but I have failed you. I will
say it's funny because he brings up the vikings. Now
I'm gonna I'm on a tiptoe and it's some dangerous
territory here involving one of the foundational takes of the
(13:23):
Ben Mallor Show, because I mean bid Ben likes to
use very derogatory terms when it comes to the height
of one Kyler Murray. I think Kyler Murray's gonna be
the comeback player of the Year in the NFL. I
don't think there's any question who's going to be the
starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
It's going to be Kyler Murray.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And I think in Kevin O'Connell's offense, I think he's
gonna be awesome. Now again there's the there's the disclosures.
I need to fully disclose that I covered Kyler in college.
I think he's he's a good dude. He gets a
bad rap, but he's got to go play, he's got
(14:03):
to go perform. I mean, we're in an era now
where the second chance quarterback is the way to go, Right,
Sam Darnald second chance quarterback wins.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
The Super Bowl. It's well, look at that.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Baker Mayfield, second chance quarterback taking the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
By it makes the playoffs this year.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But he's now established himself as the guy in Tampa
Bay after bouncing around from Cleveland to Carolina to even
a stint with the Rams. At one point, second chance
guys or kind of you start looking around the league
and it's like, hey, you know, maybe I can have
another opportunity to rescue X, Y and Z guy. I mean,
(14:44):
if you would have told me from that draft class,
after the way things went through, his first couple of
stops that Sam Darnald would be the guy getting.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
A Super Bowl first.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Tell you're crazy, But again, that's the era we live
in and we do have coaches. Side note to this,
I love the Twitter feeds, X feeds and the Facebook
feeds of the mugshots.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Don't know why. I just can't get enough of them.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And inevitably there's going to be some smoke show and
underneath it, when she might have got arrested for possession
or DUI, there's going to be eight thousand thirsty dudes
tweeting or posting things like I can fix her, let
me fix her, I'm here for you know, just white
knighting like crazy. NFL coaches are a lot the same way,
(15:33):
especially offensive coaches, when it comes to talented, physically talented quarterbacks,
and that's what I think Minnesota saw with Kyler Murray.
He's not the tallest, he hasn't proven to be the
most durable, but he might just be the most explosive.
And I don't think there's a question as to who's
going to be the starting quarterback in Minnesota. I think
(15:54):
it's gonna be Kyler Murray, and I think if he
stays healthy, I think he's going to be really good.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I mean, did we not just see a report.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
That the the Vikings were trying to trade Kevin Kevin.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I'm trying to trade their coach already.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
That they were trying to trade JJ McCarthy before the
season started, but this past season, so, I mean, it
seems like they're bailing out pretty quick. And you know,
Kevin O'Connell might still be there, but the general manager
who was in charge of the draft that allowed them
to draft JJ McCarthy already out of a job.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
So that's a lot on Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
But thanks for the call, Holler and James all right
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine ninety six six three sixty nine. When we come back,
we'll start to patch together some of the leaks that
we've seen so far. And I do want to talk
some college football. Lane Kiffin has been very outspoken. Well
that's typical, but Lane Kiffin has been very outspoken about
(16:55):
the whys behind he left Ole, miss and he took
quite the pot shot at the Raps and more specifically Oxford, Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
He backtracked the bit. Today we'll get to a net.
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Speaker 2 (17:48):
It's Ben Malor's show here on Fox Sports Radio. Was
it something cool, Lorena or not? Is this something we
can talk about.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Or was this regular talk about it? I actually am
a little irritated.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Uh oh, welcome back if Lorraine is irritated.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
So I get packages all the time, right, it's not new,
But this package got delivered two days ago and I've
been on a hunt for it and I cannot find it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Well, okay, let's start. Who do we point the finger
at first?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Well, it is a signed package, so they it has
to be signed to be accepted. Usually lovely Adrian Revs
always does it, shout out, Adrian, what up guy? How
you doing? But this time, some guy I've never heard
of got the package. So I'm going to ask Adrian
in the morning and see if he knows who this
other is.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Okay, two quick questions before you talk about it. Number one.
Number one, how did you know that it was there?
I mean, it's let's see, it's oh, it's midnight, it's
twelve twenty six am.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Like did someone reach out or yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
The listeners always let me know when they send me.
Oh okay, I know when they're coming, when they're supposed
to be here. I always get the shipping details, gotcha?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Okay, all right, fair enough.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
So, and it's this specific listener is probably sends me
the most packages, and only two. This would be the
second if it does get lost. He also sent me
a big box of socks one time, and those we
never found them. Those those know, those were gone. And
he sent me a picture. He's like, I ordered you
all these socks. Where are they? I'm like, I don't know.
(19:19):
Someone someone got a lot of socks today.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Wow, So yeah, it is it cool? What you get?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
I don't know. I tell him not to tell me.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I like.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I like surprises. This one was a Mother's Day gift.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Happy Mother's Day shout out to King.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Thank you for thinking about me and get me gifts.
Very sweet.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Do we unbox on the air? Do you unbox and
see if you like and then we talk about it later.
I don't know, they will sattle.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I usually will unbox them on my Instagram if okay,
if I unbox them at all. Sometimes I'll just take
a picture of what's inside and post those on Instagram
and do a little shout out. But people like the
unboxing videos.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
They're very popular.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Little Gwinny Plank, who is twelve years old, love is
the unboxing. In fact, she'll ask me if she if
I can videotape her opening her box, and I'm like,
when you have a box, it has nothing in it?
And oh but by the way, I got to speaking
of like Instagram stuff. I took my daughter shopping tonight.
We had to because we can't find anything. We had
(20:18):
to buy toilet trees, so she had to get her
shampoo and with every little thing that she would grab,
she goes, oh, I like this, and she would go,
I don't know if you get like she tap it
with her three fingers. That everyone does, you know, whenever
they're this is my blush and they'll grab and they'll
they'll tap on it a little bit. I'm like, when
you don't, it's all yes, yes, I'm like, you don't, babe.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I love that part.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
You're not on YouTube right now. You don't have to
tap everything that you get. Yeah, exactly, Dad, I really
like this box a lot.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Tap tap tap, I stop it.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Well, congrat I'm glad you finally found it.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I did not find it. Oh wait, you didn't find it,
did not find it?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It is Oh I thought you've Oh my god, no
I was.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Looking for it. Yeah, no, I cannot find it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Do the Are the offices locked up? Can we start
digging through his office or anything? Or is that frowned upon?
Around here?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
You know, there's just one big mail room and I
know where it like the back of my head, I
know exactly where.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You get you get enough stuff where you know? Yeah,
all right, I listen.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I'm very envious quite to be quite honest, So kudos
to you.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And when you find the box from King, we'll have
an official on boxing. Heck yas and what'd you say?
The guy's name is.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Who signs for the boxes, It's usually Adrian Reevos, but
today me today it was I'm gonna I'm gonna call
him out on the air. Where is my package? Rango?
Rango E rango?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
What are we doing? Rango?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Where is my package?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine ninety six six three six nine. Now, I Gunner
and I have tried a few times when I used
to do the Friday night show, and we never had
a good phone connection. But let's see how it works
here on a Thursday Wednesday night. Wait, Thursday morning here
(22:04):
on Fox Sports Radio. What's going on Gunner in Minnesota?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
How are you, man? O?
Speaker 8 (22:10):
What's going on? Playing cowege?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
It going?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Man, It's great to hear your voice. You sound clear
as a bell in Minnesota tonight.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Yeah, it's Goodnestion, Now I got jo going, I got here, Budgeons.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I have no idea what you just said, but take
me through how you're feeling about Game five, our game
six tomorrow night?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Are your tea.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Wolves gonna bounce back. How's your Minnesota fandom going?
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Are you gonna they're gonna boat back? Yes? After that
ridiculousness in Minnesota, that's gonna be just crowds that get loud.
Make sure we be here of it, and we're gonna
We're gonna make him feel like he is. He's have
off things. That's all I want to He's out on sing.
(22:55):
It's gonna be he's a bad night. He had Game
one against us.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Let me ask you this, Gunner.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
A big story developed earlier in this hour whenever Holler
and James called in and did not know who he
thinks the quarterback of the Viking should be. I proudly
proclaimed that I think Kyler Murray is your guy, and
I think he's gonna be good. Where do you stand
on JJ McCarthy versus Kyler Murray versus I think Carson
Wentz might still be there? Heck, I don't know. Maybe
(23:22):
that dude I'd never heard of before is there either.
Where do you stand?
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Well, I'm not a Viking pan How can you.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Not be a Viking fan in the heart of Minnesota?
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
You don't know?
Speaker 8 (23:36):
I'm a Panther fan.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That's right. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Listen, I drink during the show. I forget things. You're fine,
But what is what is the vibe around Minnesota?
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Though?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You feel it? You know it? Are they do?
Speaker 9 (23:49):
They?
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Boy? They liked McCarthy plan.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I know that.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
I'm Viking fans I work with. It's like, how do
you like a guy that played what ten games? I
think he has more receptions and touchdowns or more turnovers
in touchdowns he has? I went on, am my teammester. Sure,
I think he's gonna be a league for you know it.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I hope to accept my apology Gunner for mistaking you
for a Vikings fan, knowing your.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Die hard to your line of Panther fan nature.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
All right, buddy, but everything good? Are you doing good?
You're staying out of trouble?
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm doing good. I'm just ready
for nights for Friday's game and winning that game and
believe in San Antonio back in Texas. That's all I'm
hoping you do.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Hey, gotta thanks for the phone call. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
JJ McCarthy, in his career in the National Football League,
has started ten games.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
He's six and four in those starts. Not bad.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Eleven touchdowns, twelve interceptions. He's also fumbled it six times
while being sacked twenty seven times. So na, I mean,
you got Justin Jefferson. You got one of the best
wide receivers in the game. But yeah, I don't really
know if he had to help around him. Sorry about that, Gunner.
You know that that's on me, all right. I just
(25:13):
my mind got absolutely spaced, and I forgot. You're the
only Carolina Panthers fan that I know in the world.
You know, Jeff Schwartz lives in Carolina, but he's kind
of a cheap.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
He's not kind of he's a Chiefs guy.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
So I mean, I Darry Noka, Darry Noka ESPN, whom
I work with locally, he's a Carolina fan.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
That's about it.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Big Mike Lingard is a Panthers fan.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
How is that possible?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
My old co worker at Red Robin is a Panthers fan.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Lady, unlimited fries.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Okay, it's called bottomless. They're bottomless. Bottomless, Oh yes, and
their campfire and their honey poppy is so good.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Topless fries.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
For a lot of things is topless. But I mean,
I thought bottomless was only for drinks. Is it for
apps and food too?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Just the French fries in the sodas and the freckled
lemonades will be bottomless yeahed lemonades?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, bottomless fries dangerous, dangerous dangers.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
They're so good that seasoning on there? Oh? Stop?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
And what was your coworkers at Lindsay Lacey? Lazy lazy
go Panthers Lacey.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
I think she's now managing the one that I used
to work at. So we used to be those coworkers
servers and now.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, we need discounts.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
And Big Mike is Mike from Carolina or something that
makes no sense whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I don't remember the logic behind it. I just I
just know for sure he's a Panthers fan boy.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
This is an all star lineup on the on the
phones right now? Is it not Jed who fled?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Welcome? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I figured that would be all right. Well, speaking of that,
he fled? Jed who fled? I don't think you know,
just a side. I don't think I've ever talked to
jet who's who fled? I don't think I'm not even kidding.
I've filled in, you know, a handful of times over
the last decade, and I think every single time I
see Jed who fled is on hold.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I'm pretty sure he never makes it to the air. Never.
I don't think I've ever talked.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
He warned me when I screened his phone call. He said,
just so you know, I could get distracted by drugs,
women or something else, but I might not make it
till he goes to me.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
At least he's honest. You know, you got to respect
the honesty.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Well, speaking of stars, Michaeh Leprechaun, Welcome to Fox Sports Radio.
Mike Little, I'm impressed a little early. What's going on, man?
Speaker 9 (27:38):
How are you No I get up at a cop
these days.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Congulations? All right, man, how are you doing?
Speaker 9 (27:44):
Harry Chris? I missed you. Brian nog in for you
and he did.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Let me just put this in real fast. Leprechaun. Make
sure you tread lightly where you be talking about other hosts,
or you might not get back on the air when
those hosts call.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
You know what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
So you need to be respectful to the people who
put you on the air if you want to get
on the air.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
And Brian and I are filling in forbid, just so
you know.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
So It's not like he's it's just yeah, I follow
you advice.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
It was a good he was a good substitute teacher.
Let's put it on here. Ben is having fun in
New York. Lorena was actually Lorena giveslove a bad name,
a stake through the heart. I have the top thing.
Ten things I learned about Lorena this weekend. Ten would
you like to get the kid had cut it down?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, how about this? How about give me give me three?
How's that? Because I mean we only got like four
minutes left in the segment.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I hate to I hate to ruin the bid, but
I do have I do have the constraints to the
broadcast clock.
Speaker 9 (28:43):
Mike, Okay, I'll go quick. She wore a tiara, she
wore she got a clean heart thing. She pulled the
rug from under me. She pulled a chair down when
I was sitting.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It was not even.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Standing next to you when that when you were I
was putting. I was putting the girl with the camera
in her hand on the chair and you fell. Everyone
was like, I have it on camera, bro, I have
me running towards you on camera, trying to pick you
up next time you fall. I'm not picking you up.
You stay on the ground.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
Next time, I won't kick you up either.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
You didn't fall.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
You missed the chair because you were hammering because you
were so drunk.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
I wasn't that you were. I had about three drinks
song Lives. It was so busy. Anyway, Lorena was awesome
on stage, singing Sweet Caroline Hotel, California. She was awesome,
and she told my jokes with me. She had fun
to hang out with. She wrote me a lovely text
from the airport said, Mike, thanks to the great weekends.
(29:42):
Blah blah blah. My favorite part was Salem. And then
she said, but Mike, don't worry. I'm going to always
be sappy with you and I'm courting her and Lorena,
I can hold that over your head. I could leave
that phone number on Instagram at anytime.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
You totally could, and I'm perfectly fine with it.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
And I won't.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Of course I wouldn't. But now I know why she's
jealous of Sydney Sweeney, because you should see her with Michaelos.
She was so envious of the wannabe model. There was
lots of people hitting on Lorena at the bars. One
of my friends, you've done it.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Again, leprechaun, you have accused me of being jealous of
my as soon to be sister. Like, stop, we're twins.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
We are.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
We have the same smile, the same eyeballs. Like I
told her the other day, I was like, girl, I'm
pretty sure you are my long lost sister. She's like,
I completely agree. So shout out to my girl model
over in Worcester shirt.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Thanks for the call. Appreciate it was that enough? I mean,
I think I like Mike. It's just he's a lot,
you know.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
It's noticed.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Have you uh, Have you guys had a chance to
talk since the meet and greet with Mike or was
that the first time?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Did he call in the other day yet?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I guess, well, yeah, yeah, no, he called in when
Brian was filling in. He was on hold for like
an hour and a half. Brian goes to him and
the very first thing he says is I like Chris
playing better.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Oh my gosh, Mike, and then Mike gets upset when
Brian doesn't go to him that way.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Listen, hold on a second. It's my guy, all right,
that's that's my butt. Brian No has come to Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
We watched the thunder playoff game together way back in
the day. Don't don't be that's my guy. Stop.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I'm not better than number one. I'm not better and
number two. Like you said, LORAINI this.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Is why Michael Lepreton.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
It's kind of funny though, for those that you know
don't have to work on the weekends. I last summer
did the Friday night show before Adam and Kfig took over.
And well, well, actually I was. I was fired from
the Friday night show. And I was fired because who
(32:01):
was it that fired me?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Who was who was producing? She just left Fox Sports
Radio and.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
They pre yeah, bre fired me. And then after she
fired me, you know, there was a little depression, but
the Friday night show was It's this is an old reference.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
There was a show called Star Search with Ed McMahon.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Maybe you could call it now the modern day American Idol,
and it was where people would try out acts and
they would say if they would move on.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
My Friday night show was kind of like Star Search.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
It was like American Idol for people attempting bits and
things for the weekday show to try to get on
with Big Bit and Mike was uh. Mike would use
this a lot for practicing for the Talent Talent contest,
tried a lot of voices, a lot of bits, a
lot of comedy routines. So I'm a fan of Mike's,
(32:57):
but I also felt like the Leprechaun was really trying
to start some sort of rivalry with Lorena, and I'm
not here for that. It's it's not right, Mike, it's
not But you sound like you guys got along okay
when you were in person, right for the murder part.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
You know, he said something.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Dare he try and blame me for that. I'm gonna
post those pictures of him on the ground now, that's
what he gets, Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
The Leprechaun story walking around Fox Sports Radio at like
the middle of the afternoon trying to find Ben a
couple of years ago, it's still the funniest thing I
think I've ever heard.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
It was like eight months ago. It wasn't even a
couple of years ago. No, And I'm I'm on my
way to Oregon and my boss calls me and he's like, uh,
do you know who this man is? And I'm like,
oh my gosh, what is he doing there in the
middle of the day. He got us all in trouble,
like they told us not to have guests anymore, and
(33:54):
if we do, we need to have everyone in the building. No,
even though they're not supposed to, no one would be here.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Why I just want to be around in those conversations.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I would have been those conversations whenever someone is trying
to have it explained to them that a guy named
Mike the Leprechaun is there and he's part of the
overnight crew and it's listen, there might be a gunna
of holler and James who hollering James, You're like, yeahs
when he taught hollering, you know, get it?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
And that's the point though blank we have such an
eclectic group of callers, they could be a little intimidating
for people who don't engage with them on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Oh it's we're overnights. We have no social skills whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
I will say, the drunkest people are always the ones
that say, oh, man, I wasn't drunk.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I wasn't drunk at all. I'd only had a couple
of beers.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
That's the person the next day where you're like, bro,
you were crying about your ex girlfriend. You slurred every word,
you try to do karaoke and you were off well,
you know all those things. It's always the person that
tells you that they weren't that drunk. The NBA playoffs
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Speaker 2 (35:31):
All right, I am, I'm investigating the video of Mike
the Leprechaun's tumble.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Did look at him? Look at him? Look at Mike. Yeah,
I don't think you're You're not at fault here? What
an unfair accusation.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I was really setting up the camera. I'm so shocked
he would try and blame that on me.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Wow, Mike, I'm still trying to imagine him walking around
being like, hey, is this The Fox Sports Radio Studios
where's been mallor in that accents.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
That he's accent that he's got a doing. Not love
that guy? Well, I guess there's a lot of ways
that you couldn't. But I'm a fan.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Have you ever been called a bimbo by a leprechaun before?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
That was first he called you? That got there?
Speaker 4 (36:19):
That's why I like, no matter what, thank you for
taking us to Boston. I will still be sassy with you, leprechaun.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
It is not over.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Do you understand? No beef has been.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Squashed, none, none, whatsover.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
It did get me a really nice tr though that
had like black and red hearts, because I'm the Queen
of hearts, you know.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Queen hearts. That's right.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
I gotta tell you I was obviously I wasn't there,
but kudos to the Mallard militia showed out, showed up
in Boston for the tour stop, and I just it's
fun to be a part of this, even if it's
for one night. Is been coming back on Monday, so
Sunday night in the Monday or is he taking an.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Extra No, No, he's coming back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
He's coming back tomorrow. Yes, all right, gotta be choked up.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
So he's only taking like three days. Man, it's gotta
give himself some time.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Well, I mean he was also off the end of
last week.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Oh oh okay, okay, all right, see I had, I
mean doing a morning show now like this took preparation,
like not well, I mean, obviously you prepare a show.
But you know, Lorraine and I were talking their sleep preparation.
You know, I get done with this show, I get
an hour to go eat some waffle house, and then
I got another show I gotta do. But when this
(37:40):
is the gig, when it's one to five am, God's
time zone Central time every day, gotta give yourself a break. Ben,
By the way, question and I think I know the answer, Coop.
When you're off, when you have your days off, there's
no way you keep the same schedule, right.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Oh, I absolutely keep the same schedule. Really yeah, I
don't understand how you would change it up.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Because life happens whenever you would usually be sleeping. Like,
don't you want to live the life the like the
nine to five for a little bit and just kind
of walk out amongst the daylight and the sunshine and
live it's.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Still daylight at two PM.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
All right, Larina, you keep the same hours when you
have vac.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
When I I just try to sleep when I can.
I'm gonna hit the bed and keep going type of girl.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
All right.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Yeah. About on the weekends, I do try to I'll
try and sleep overnight as much as possible, because I'll
try and get like eight to nine hours straight.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
I work.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
I get up every day the alarm goes off at
four thirty. The alarm is not going off at four
thirty whenever I have a day off. I mean, I
kudos to you, Coop. I just I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
I mean, that's a little bit different. But I don't know.
I mean I can.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I mean, you're on the Pacific time zone, so it's
a little bit different than if you're if this show
is on the East Coast or the West.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
I've never been a morning person, so I'm fine on
the weekends staying up till six am and sleeping until two.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
There's nothing wrong with that at all. I am not
here to judge. You also are a gambler, so that's
the way it works.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
I have postponed the lane Kiff and talk long enough
because when we come back, I want to dive into
some of the fallout from it, and again, it's really nerdy,
it's really inside college football. But there is a lot
that's going to happen over the next couple of weeks,
not in the terms of actual movement, but in the
(39:39):
terms of talking and kind of preparing for what that
next era of football is going to look like. Or
are we in the middle of a college football time,
a college sports time that we look back on in
twenty years from now and say that was the start
of something pretty special paying athletes it's nil revshare. Or
(40:02):
are we going to look back in twenty years from now?
I go, can you believe what we were doing in
college football and college sports in the twenty twenties?
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Like what were we thinking? Guys were making how much?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
But when we come back, we'll talk about the pied
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We had an overtime game You're and Marn talk about
it CAVS one one seventeen one thirteen. They are on
the verge of advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals for
a showdown with the New York Knicks. Again, as I
hate saying this because I know that they're I feel
like kind of a jerk when I say it, because
(01:14):
there's people in Cleveland right now that are on cloud nine.
You know, it's just we are one win away from
the Eastern Conference Finals. We are then, you know, five
wins away from getting back to the NBA Finals, you know,
for the first time the post Lebron era.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It's it's it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But I'm just sitting here saying, can I get to
Spurs thunder? You know, can I can I see the
real NBA Finals take place in the West. It's terrible
to say, but I feel like it's the reality of
where the league is now.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
And that's what we've been waiting for.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Had a great game to wrap up the Avs series
with a while Colorado wanted four to three, they advance,
and a couple of walk offs in Major League Baseball
that we'll get into as the show rolls on. The
Dodge did take the advice of many of our hosts
(02:05):
here on Fox Sports Radio. I don't know if I
don't know if Dave Roberts is a big FSR listener
or not, but I feel like every single time that
I'm listening and there's a conversation about show, Heyotani, there
is then a debate about whether or not he should
be hitting when he pitches, which again I know he's
(02:27):
struggling right now, but there is this part of me
and it's like, hey, it's okay to just focus on
one thing.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, tonight, Otani.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Seven strong, four hits, eight strikeouts, two walks.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
He didn't hit.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
They used Tai Oscar and by the way, tay Oscar
in the DH spot did have a couple hits tonight.
The Lakers do not hit show Aotani when he pitches, and.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's the right move. I feel like before we get back.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
To the phones at eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I feel like I've kind of buried the lead.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Now the schedule leaks we talked about and we're gonna
get the full schedule tomorrow night or later tonight, depending
on where you're listening. I don't know how or why
all these are either allowed to leak or that they
get out. But one of the most I guess you
(03:25):
could say hotly debated slash curious questions is who will
the defending World champions play in the season opener RW.
You always kind of look at it, and when it
was the Chiefs, I remember we've been debating.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It's like, gosh, there's like five teams.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Maybe it could be the Texans or the Texas out
of Shaan Watson ended up being that. And it's a
good game, but the Seahawks had a lot of options.
You want the defending champs open at home. It's usually
a Thursday night game. This year it's a Wednesday night game,
and they raised the banner. It's quite the scene this year.
According to Ari mirav the twenty twenty six NFL season
(04:04):
will begin with a Super Bowl rematch. Now, I want
to make sure I give proper credit here because Jordan
Schultz is a great contributor here on Fox Sports Radio.
You hear Jordan a lot on the Herd with Colin Coward,
and Jordan was actually first on this, so again, good
work to him digging it up, finding it out.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
But it's not like that was a great game.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's not like the Super Bowl was one of these
games that we look back or like, man, give me
that again. And I mean, first of all, you have
the wildest story in the NFL in years in the
offseason with the Mike Rabel stuff. In years, you we've
(04:49):
had a rest We've had guys get in trouble. We've
had big trades, but I don't know that we've had
anything quite like this. And you're gonna put that on
the on the national stage right out of the gate.
There's a part of me that kind of respects it. Guys,
there's a part of me that respects it, because I
(05:12):
don't think that you can go to anyone and say, hey,
don't talk about this, right because they're gonna talk about it. Coop,
let me ask you. Let me ask you this. Lareena,
I want your take on this too before we get
Holler and James. If you're who is an NBC that
has the opener? I believe it's NBC that has the opener.
I mean you're having like the soft light background sit
(05:33):
down with Mike Vrabel, right, I mean, you can't you
can't ignore this. They've I mean there's a party that
kind of respects the NFL says, oh yeah, you're gonna
face this. We're gonna get this out of the open,
and we're gonna try to watch this as quickly as
we can. Right Coop, what do you make of the
Patriots of the Seahawks being the season opener?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I mean I'm intrigued, but i'd be you know, I
love the NFL, so i'd be.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Intrigued, you know, with whomever.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, exactly. Uh going to tune in for a dim
Lintz sit down? Probably not. I'd watch clips online, you know,
because you know, I imagine if anything interesting was said
that it'll be viral. But you know, I'm not going
to tune in early to watch that.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
No, you're not going to tune in early for who's
going to be the concert?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Is it going to be?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I don't fallout boy? Is it going to be a
reunion of Blink one eighty two? I mean we're in Seattle.
I mean, come on, Uh, Lorena should should they do
the all out Bear his soul sit down interview with
Mike were able to start the whole broadcast?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I mean, if that's where they want their focus to.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Be, because once it's out, it's out.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah exactly. But you know I kind of that mentality,
nip it in the butt before you get the season
started so the people stop talking about it. So I
think it is a good idea. Do I think I
would tune into it?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
No?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
But like Coop said, I'm sure there will be highlights
online and stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Maybe I think this story is kind of lost a
little steam too.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Not and again, well, if they have anything more that's
good on it, they should have let it out already, right,
I mean, I mean, what's both happened now?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Though Diana's already out, Yeah, she's out.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Rabel hasn't lost his job yet, Like, I feel like
it's too far along now he's not.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Going to And I mean, who knows the way that
Stu Gotts talks. I mean, Diana Rascini might be our
coworker by the end of the week, who knows. But
I don't know, man, I just it seems kind of
ballsy that that would be your first game of the
season with the narrative that's been going on all off season.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It's just hilarious to me.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
According to the different reports that are out there, this
is the first time that the NFL has opened the
season with a Super Bowl rematch since twenty sixteen when
the Broncos in the Panthers.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Wow, ten years that's cool.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Math ride makes it easy, all right?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine ninety six sixty three six nine. I'm just I'm
such a nerd that I'm sitting here refreshing, like we're
gonna get news tonight. It's like, what's the latest league?
You mean we can't wait ten to twelve hours to
get that later on this evening. I mean, come on,
what are we even doing here? But it's NonStop, man.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It's what we live. It's what we live. Uh im.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It checked in by the way, on the X he said,
I don't quite understand the Thanksgiving Eve games in terms
of how it's gonna work. Are they gonna give both
these teams the week off before? Is one of them
gonna play on Thursday and the other half of the
week off. I get the NFL as king and we're
gonna watch. But when did it get too much? Or
(08:30):
when does it get too much? People are complaining about
the Thursday night game quality being down and a lot
of players think they don't get enough rest because of
the short week.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Well, they've they've got it figured out, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I feel like they've got it figured out as far
as the.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Timing is concerned.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
But you're right, it's once we see it, and I'm
still it's like a twelve year Old'm like, wait minutes,
they're playing on Thursday? Then they're gonna play again that
next Monday. You know it's it's ridiculous. But whenever you
are committed to playing now a game on Christmas and
you've added Thanksgiving Eve, and your Wednesday games are becoming
a thing now in the NFL. I mean that opener
(09:11):
that I talked about is on a Wednesday night.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
This year for some reason.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So time schedule release, Man, it always gets the best
of us. Did you say, Holler and James was still
hanging in there tonight or.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Did he already bail on us?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Might be seping.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Holler and James, welcome to the program. What's going on? Man?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Do you think of Sleepy Coop? The only one sleepy
Coop is you?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
What's on your mind tonight? Holler and James, thanks for
checking in.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
I want to see the Viking schedule. I think the
Vikings got some promise, and that's because they don't know
rule's going to be quarterback. They Harry McCartney's not that good.
Tell me about Tennis. Sent me a McCartney jersey sometime back.
She also sent me Timberwolves license plate. That's just hollering
James with my promise and logo on it and that's
(10:07):
interesting excuse, she said, And I was wondering. I love
your show, Chris Blank, you gotta SCHOOLI show as Brian
No and Ben Muller. You're right right up there with
the best then ouncers ever I've ever spoken to. And
that's for you. Coop. You're not a bad guy. He's
along with me sometime. I'm not done hard to get
(10:29):
along with. I'm easy going. Loreina, you were a doll,
but you get too much credit, and you know that.
One more take, My take is on the Minnesota frost.
They had a good season, they build out the wild,
they had a good season, but they got beat in overtime.
(10:49):
Why doesn't it always happen to Minnesota teams? They can
ever get with the hump when they're going, gets tough.
It seems they're tough, trag get going, and I'm sick
of it. I'm a little sports fan, die hard foreign bred,
Suity of Minnesota, born in Minneapolis General Hospital before beginne
had a big county. And I have one more take
(11:11):
before you let me go, I want to thank you
for not letting me use my golden ticket at Coop.
I still had a golden ticket, but I wanted to
go to the Tanny and Montana.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Thanks for the call.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Okay, first of all, I did have to look up
with the Montreal or the Minnesota Frost tour, and there
was a game. The Minnesota Frost, by the way, just
for those that aren't aware, is a team in the PWHL,
the Professional Women's Hockey League. And in my very in
(11:45):
depth research to find all the information I can for
Holler and James phone call, I have learned that the
Minnesota Frost had one of their playoff games that was
postponed by the league three hours before the game started
due to players safety concerns related to illness. I've never
(12:06):
heard of that before. I mean post COVID, I mean,
I guess what we have? Like, uh, what's the hand
of iris that we're all supposed to be freaking out
about that?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Oh, I'm so excited about that.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
They let the idiots get off the boat. What are
we doing?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Who decided that? Who decided that? Keep them on there?
I don't care if you have to send shipments to
them or you know, wait till it runs through the
whole boat, leave it on the boat.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Take him back to see you know.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
That's why would you why would you even let it
come to land.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Because we're stupid. Because we're stupid, Loraina. That's why that.
I mean, I just answered the question. Now, you guys
sometimes you know again, I don't get to listen as
much as I did back in the day, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I just I'm older now I do a morning show.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Golden ticket that Holler and James got refers to Coop.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
What when did he get it?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I don't know. He always says he has a golden
and I pretty much ignored everything he said.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh oh, okay, okay, that's fair enough. Then, sorry, Holler
and James. I was trying to get more learned up
on everything there, but I have failed you. I will
say it's funny because he brings up the vikings. Now
I'm gonna I'm on a tiptoe and it's some dangerous
territory here involving one of the foundational takes of the
(13:23):
Ben Mallor Show, because I mean bid Ben likes to
use very derogatory terms when it comes to the height
of one Kyler Murray. I think Kyler Murray's gonna be
the comeback player of the Year in the NFL. I
don't think there's any question who's going to be the
starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
It's going to be Kyler Murray.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And I think in Kevin O'Connell's offense, I think he's
gonna be awesome. Now again there's the there's the disclosures.
I need to fully disclose that I covered Kyler in college.
I think he's he's a good dude. He gets a
bad rap, but he's got to go play, he's got
(14:03):
to go perform. I mean, we're in an era now
where the second chance quarterback is the way to go, Right,
Sam Darnald second chance quarterback wins.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
The Super Bowl. It's well, look at that.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Baker Mayfield, second chance quarterback taking the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
By it makes the playoffs this year.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But he's now established himself as the guy in Tampa
Bay after bouncing around from Cleveland to Carolina to even
a stint with the Rams. At one point, second chance
guys or kind of you start looking around the league
and it's like, hey, you know, maybe I can have
another opportunity to rescue X, Y and Z guy. I mean,
(14:44):
if you would have told me from that draft class,
after the way things went through, his first couple of
stops that Sam Darnald would be the guy getting.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
A Super Bowl first.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Tell you're crazy, But again, that's the era we live
in and we do have coaches. Side note to this,
I love the Twitter feeds, X feeds and the Facebook
feeds of the mugshots.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Don't know why. I just can't get enough of them.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And inevitably there's going to be some smoke show and
underneath it, when she might have got arrested for possession
or DUI, there's going to be eight thousand thirsty dudes
tweeting or posting things like I can fix her, let
me fix her, I'm here for you know, just white
knighting like crazy. NFL coaches are a lot the same way,
(15:33):
especially offensive coaches, when it comes to talented, physically talented quarterbacks,
and that's what I think Minnesota saw with Kyler Murray.
He's not the tallest, he hasn't proven to be the
most durable, but he might just be the most explosive.
And I don't think there's a question as to who's
going to be the starting quarterback in Minnesota. I think
(15:54):
it's gonna be Kyler Murray, and I think if he
stays healthy, I think he's going to be really good.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I mean, did we not just see a report.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
That the the Vikings were trying to trade Kevin Kevin.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I'm trying to trade their coach already.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
That they were trying to trade JJ McCarthy before the
season started, but this past season, so, I mean, it
seems like they're bailing out pretty quick. And you know,
Kevin O'Connell might still be there, but the general manager
who was in charge of the draft that allowed them
to draft JJ McCarthy already out of a job.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
So that's a lot on Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
But thanks for the call, Holler and James all right
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine ninety six six three sixty nine. When we come back,
we'll start to patch together some of the leaks that
we've seen so far. And I do want to talk
some college football. Lane Kiffin has been very outspoken. Well
that's typical, but Lane Kiffin has been very outspoken about
(16:55):
the whys behind he left Ole, miss and he took
quite the pot shot at the Raps and more specifically Oxford, Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
He backtracked the bit. Today we'll get to a net.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
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Speaker 4 (17:16):
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Speaker 7 (17:18):
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Speaker 2 (17:48):
It's Ben Malor's show here on Fox Sports Radio. Was
it something cool, Lorena or not? Is this something we
can talk about.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Or was this regular talk about it? I actually am
a little irritated.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Uh oh, welcome back if Lorraine is irritated.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
So I get packages all the time, right, it's not new,
But this package got delivered two days ago and I've
been on a hunt for it and I cannot find it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Well, okay, let's start. Who do we point the finger
at first?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Well, it is a signed package, so they it has
to be signed to be accepted. Usually lovely Adrian Revs
always does it, shout out, Adrian, what up guy? How
you doing? But this time, some guy I've never heard
of got the package. So I'm going to ask Adrian
in the morning and see if he knows who this
other is.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Okay, two quick questions before you talk about it. Number one.
Number one, how did you know that it was there?
I mean, it's let's see, it's oh, it's midnight, it's
twelve twenty six am.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Like did someone reach out or yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
The listeners always let me know when they send me.
Oh okay, I know when they're coming, when they're supposed
to be here. I always get the shipping details, gotcha?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Okay, all right, fair enough.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
So, and it's this specific listener is probably sends me
the most packages, and only two. This would be the
second if it does get lost. He also sent me
a big box of socks one time, and those we
never found them. Those those know, those were gone. And
he sent me a picture. He's like, I ordered you
all these socks. Where are they? I'm like, I don't know.
(19:19):
Someone someone got a lot of socks today.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Wow, So yeah, it is it cool? What you get?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
I don't know. I tell him not to tell me.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I like.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I like surprises. This one was a Mother's Day gift.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Happy Mother's Day shout out to King.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Thank you for thinking about me and get me gifts.
Very sweet.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Do we unbox on the air? Do you unbox and
see if you like and then we talk about it later.
I don't know, they will sattle.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I usually will unbox them on my Instagram if okay,
if I unbox them at all. Sometimes I'll just take
a picture of what's inside and post those on Instagram
and do a little shout out. But people like the
unboxing videos.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
They're very popular.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Little Gwinny Plank, who is twelve years old, love is
the unboxing. In fact, she'll ask me if she if
I can videotape her opening her box, and I'm like,
when you have a box, it has nothing in it?
And oh but by the way, I got to speaking
of like Instagram stuff. I took my daughter shopping tonight.
We had to because we can't find anything. We had
(20:18):
to buy toilet trees, so she had to get her
shampoo and with every little thing that she would grab,
she goes, oh, I like this, and she would go,
I don't know if you get like she tap it
with her three fingers. That everyone does, you know, whenever
they're this is my blush and they'll grab and they'll
they'll tap on it a little bit. I'm like, when
you don't, it's all yes, yes, I'm like, you don't, babe.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I love that part.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
You're not on YouTube right now. You don't have to
tap everything that you get. Yeah, exactly, Dad, I really
like this box a lot.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Tap tap tap, I stop it.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Well, congrat I'm glad you finally found it.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I did not find it. Oh wait, you didn't find it,
did not find it?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It is Oh I thought you've Oh my god, no
I was.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Looking for it. Yeah, no, I cannot find it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Do the Are the offices locked up? Can we start
digging through his office or anything? Or is that frowned upon?
Around here?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
You know, there's just one big mail room and I
know where it like the back of my head, I
know exactly where.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You get you get enough stuff where you know? Yeah,
all right, I listen.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I'm very envious quite to be quite honest, So kudos
to you.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And when you find the box from King, we'll have
an official on boxing. Heck yas and what'd you say?
The guy's name is.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Who signs for the boxes, It's usually Adrian Reevos, but
today me today it was I'm gonna I'm gonna call
him out on the air. Where is my package? Rango?
Rango E rango?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
What are we doing? Rango?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Where is my package?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine ninety six six three six nine. Now, I Gunner
and I have tried a few times when I used
to do the Friday night show, and we never had
a good phone connection. But let's see how it works
here on a Thursday Wednesday night. Wait, Thursday morning here
(22:04):
on Fox Sports Radio. What's going on Gunner in Minnesota?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
How are you, man? O?
Speaker 8 (22:10):
What's going on? Playing cowege?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
It going?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Man, It's great to hear your voice. You sound clear
as a bell in Minnesota tonight.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Yeah, it's Goodnestion, Now I got jo going, I got here, Budgeons.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I have no idea what you just said, but take
me through how you're feeling about Game five, our game
six tomorrow night?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Are your tea.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Wolves gonna bounce back. How's your Minnesota fandom going?
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Are you gonna they're gonna boat back? Yes? After that
ridiculousness in Minnesota, that's gonna be just crowds that get loud.
Make sure we be here of it, and we're gonna
We're gonna make him feel like he is. He's have
off things. That's all I want to He's out on sing.
(22:55):
It's gonna be he's a bad night. He had Game
one against us.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Let me ask you this, Gunner.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
A big story developed earlier in this hour whenever Holler
and James called in and did not know who he
thinks the quarterback of the Viking should be. I proudly
proclaimed that I think Kyler Murray is your guy, and
I think he's gonna be good. Where do you stand
on JJ McCarthy versus Kyler Murray versus I think Carson
Wentz might still be there? Heck, I don't know. Maybe
(23:22):
that dude I'd never heard of before is there either.
Where do you stand?
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Well, I'm not a Viking pan How can you.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Not be a Viking fan in the heart of Minnesota?
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
You don't know?
Speaker 8 (23:36):
I'm a Panther fan.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That's right. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Listen, I drink during the show. I forget things. You're fine,
But what is what is the vibe around Minnesota?
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Though?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You feel it? You know it? Are they do?
Speaker 9 (23:49):
They?
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Boy? They liked McCarthy plan.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I know that.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
I'm Viking fans I work with. It's like, how do
you like a guy that played what ten games? I
think he has more receptions and touchdowns or more turnovers
in touchdowns he has? I went on, am my teammester. Sure,
I think he's gonna be a league for you know it.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I hope to accept my apology Gunner for mistaking you
for a Vikings fan, knowing your.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Die hard to your line of Panther fan nature.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
All right, buddy, but everything good? Are you doing good?
You're staying out of trouble?
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm doing good. I'm just ready
for nights for Friday's game and winning that game and
believe in San Antonio back in Texas. That's all I'm
hoping you do.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Hey, gotta thanks for the phone call. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
JJ McCarthy, in his career in the National Football League,
has started ten games.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
He's six and four in those starts. Not bad.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Eleven touchdowns, twelve interceptions. He's also fumbled it six times
while being sacked twenty seven times. So na, I mean,
you got Justin Jefferson. You got one of the best
wide receivers in the game. But yeah, I don't really
know if he had to help around him. Sorry about that, Gunner.
You know that that's on me, all right. I just
(25:13):
my mind got absolutely spaced, and I forgot. You're the
only Carolina Panthers fan that I know in the world.
You know, Jeff Schwartz lives in Carolina, but he's kind
of a cheap.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
He's not kind of he's a Chiefs guy.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
So I mean, I Darry Noka, Darry Noka ESPN, whom
I work with locally, he's a Carolina fan.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
That's about it.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Big Mike Lingard is a Panthers fan.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
How is that possible?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
My old co worker at Red Robin is a Panthers fan.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Lady, unlimited fries.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Okay, it's called bottomless. They're bottomless. Bottomless, Oh yes, and
their campfire and their honey poppy is so good.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Topless fries.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
For a lot of things is topless. But I mean,
I thought bottomless was only for drinks. Is it for
apps and food too?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Just the French fries in the sodas and the freckled
lemonades will be bottomless yeahed lemonades?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, bottomless fries dangerous, dangerous dangers.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
They're so good that seasoning on there? Oh? Stop?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
And what was your coworkers at Lindsay Lacey? Lazy lazy
go Panthers Lacey.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
I think she's now managing the one that I used
to work at. So we used to be those coworkers
servers and now.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, we need discounts.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
And Big Mike is Mike from Carolina or something that
makes no sense whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I don't remember the logic behind it. I just I
just know for sure he's a Panthers fan boy.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
This is an all star lineup on the on the
phones right now? Is it not Jed who fled?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Welcome? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I figured that would be all right. Well, speaking of that,
he fled? Jed who fled? I don't think you know,
just a side. I don't think I've ever talked to
jet who's who fled? I don't think I'm not even kidding.
I've filled in, you know, a handful of times over
the last decade, and I think every single time I
see Jed who fled is on hold.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I'm pretty sure he never makes it to the air. Never.
I don't think I've ever talked.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
He warned me when I screened his phone call. He said,
just so you know, I could get distracted by drugs,
women or something else, but I might not make it
till he goes to me.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
At least he's honest. You know, you got to respect
the honesty.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Well, speaking of stars, Michaeh Leprechaun, Welcome to Fox Sports Radio.
Mike Little, I'm impressed a little early. What's going on, man?
Speaker 9 (27:38):
How are you No I get up at a cop
these days.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Congulations? All right, man, how are you doing?
Speaker 9 (27:44):
Harry Chris? I missed you. Brian nog in for you
and he did.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Let me just put this in real fast. Leprechaun. Make
sure you tread lightly where you be talking about other hosts,
or you might not get back on the air when
those hosts call.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
You know what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
So you need to be respectful to the people who
put you on the air if you want to get
on the air.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
And Brian and I are filling in forbid, just so
you know.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
So It's not like he's it's just yeah, I follow
you advice.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
It was a good he was a good substitute teacher.
Let's put it on here. Ben is having fun in
New York. Lorena was actually Lorena giveslove a bad name,
a stake through the heart. I have the top thing.
Ten things I learned about Lorena this weekend. Ten would
you like to get the kid had cut it down?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, how about this? How about give me give me three?
How's that? Because I mean we only got like four
minutes left in the segment.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I hate to I hate to ruin the bid, but
I do have I do have the constraints to the
broadcast clock.
Speaker 9 (28:43):
Mike, Okay, I'll go quick. She wore a tiara, she
wore she got a clean heart thing. She pulled the
rug from under me. She pulled a chair down when
I was sitting.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It was not even.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Standing next to you when that when you were I
was putting. I was putting the girl with the camera
in her hand on the chair and you fell. Everyone
was like, I have it on camera, bro, I have
me running towards you on camera, trying to pick you
up next time you fall. I'm not picking you up.
You stay on the ground.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
Next time, I won't kick you up either.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
You didn't fall.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
You missed the chair because you were hammering because you
were so drunk.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
I wasn't that you were. I had about three drinks
song Lives. It was so busy. Anyway, Lorena was awesome
on stage, singing Sweet Caroline Hotel, California. She was awesome,
and she told my jokes with me. She had fun
to hang out with. She wrote me a lovely text
from the airport said, Mike, thanks to the great weekends.
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Blah blah blah. My favorite part was Salem. And then
she said, but Mike, don't worry. I'm going to always
be sappy with you and I'm courting her and Lorena,
I can hold that over your head. I could leave
that phone number on Instagram at anytime.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
You totally could, and I'm perfectly fine with it.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
And I won't.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Of course I wouldn't. But now I know why she's
jealous of Sydney Sweeney, because you should see her with Michaelos.
She was so envious of the wannabe model. There was
lots of people hitting on Lorena at the bars. One
of my friends, you've done it.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Again, leprechaun, you have accused me of being jealous of
my as soon to be sister. Like, stop, we're twins.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
We are.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
We have the same smile, the same eyeballs. Like I
told her the other day, I was like, girl, I'm
pretty sure you are my long lost sister. She's like,
I completely agree. So shout out to my girl model
over in Worcester shirt.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Thanks for the call. Appreciate it was that enough? I mean,
I think I like Mike. It's just he's a lot,
you know.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
It's noticed.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Have you uh, Have you guys had a chance to
talk since the meet and greet with Mike or was
that the first time?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Did he call in the other day yet?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I guess, well, yeah, yeah, no, he called in when
Brian was filling in. He was on hold for like
an hour and a half. Brian goes to him and
the very first thing he says is I like Chris
playing better.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Oh my gosh, Mike, and then Mike gets upset when
Brian doesn't go to him that way.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Listen, hold on a second. It's my guy, all right,
that's that's my butt. Brian No has come to Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
We watched the thunder playoff game together way back in
the day. Don't don't be that's my guy. Stop.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I'm not better than number one. I'm not better and
number two. Like you said, LORAINI this.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Is why Michael Lepreton.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
It's kind of funny though, for those that you know
don't have to work on the weekends. I last summer
did the Friday night show before Adam and Kfig took over.
And well, well, actually I was. I was fired from
the Friday night show. And I was fired because who
(32:01):
was it that fired me?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Who was who was producing? She just left Fox Sports
Radio and.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
They pre yeah, bre fired me. And then after she
fired me, you know, there was a little depression, but
the Friday night show was It's this is an old reference.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
There was a show called Star Search with Ed McMahon.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Maybe you could call it now the modern day American Idol,
and it was where people would try out acts and
they would say if they would move on.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
My Friday night show was kind of like Star Search.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
It was like American Idol for people attempting bits and
things for the weekday show to try to get on
with Big Bit and Mike was uh. Mike would use
this a lot for practicing for the Talent Talent contest,
tried a lot of voices, a lot of bits, a
lot of comedy routines. So I'm a fan of Mike's,
(32:57):
but I also felt like the Leprechaun was really trying
to start some sort of rivalry with Lorena, and I'm
not here for that. It's it's not right, Mike, it's
not But you sound like you guys got along okay
when you were in person, right for the murder part.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
You know, he said something.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Dare he try and blame me for that. I'm gonna
post those pictures of him on the ground now, that's
what he gets, Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
The Leprechaun story walking around Fox Sports Radio at like
the middle of the afternoon trying to find Ben a
couple of years ago, it's still the funniest thing I
think I've ever heard.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
It was like eight months ago. It wasn't even a
couple of years ago. No, And I'm I'm on my
way to Oregon and my boss calls me and he's like, uh,
do you know who this man is? And I'm like,
oh my gosh, what is he doing there in the
middle of the day. He got us all in trouble,
like they told us not to have guests anymore, and
(33:54):
if we do, we need to have everyone in the building. No,
even though they're not supposed to, no one would be here.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Why I just want to be around in those conversations.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I would have been those conversations whenever someone is trying
to have it explained to them that a guy named
Mike the Leprechaun is there and he's part of the
overnight crew and it's listen, there might be a gunna
of holler and James who hollering James, You're like, yeahs
when he taught hollering, you know, get it?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
And that's the point though blank we have such an
eclectic group of callers, they could be a little intimidating
for people who don't engage with them on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Oh it's we're overnights. We have no social skills whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
I will say, the drunkest people are always the ones
that say, oh, man, I wasn't drunk.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I wasn't drunk at all. I'd only had a couple
of beers.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
That's the person the next day where you're like, bro,
you were crying about your ex girlfriend. You slurred every word,
you try to do karaoke and you were off well,
you know all those things. It's always the person that
tells you that they weren't that drunk. The NBA playoffs
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Speaker 2 (35:31):
All right, I am, I'm investigating the video of Mike
the Leprechaun's tumble.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Did look at him? Look at him? Look at Mike. Yeah,
I don't think you're You're not at fault here? What
an unfair accusation.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I was really setting up the camera. I'm so shocked
he would try and blame that on me.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Wow, Mike, I'm still trying to imagine him walking around
being like, hey, is this The Fox Sports Radio Studios
where's been mallor in that accents.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
That he's accent that he's got a doing. Not love
that guy? Well, I guess there's a lot of ways
that you couldn't. But I'm a fan.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Have you ever been called a bimbo by a leprechaun before?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
That was first he called you? That got there?
Speaker 4 (36:19):
That's why I like, no matter what, thank you for
taking us to Boston. I will still be sassy with you, leprechaun.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
It is not over.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Do you understand? No beef has been.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Squashed, none, none, whatsover.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
It did get me a really nice tr though that
had like black and red hearts, because I'm the Queen
of hearts, you know.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Queen hearts. That's right.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
I gotta tell you I was obviously I wasn't there,
but kudos to the Mallard militia showed out, showed up
in Boston for the tour stop, and I just it's
fun to be a part of this, even if it's
for one night. Is been coming back on Monday, so
Sunday night in the Monday or is he taking an.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Extra No, No, he's coming back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
He's coming back tomorrow. Yes, all right, gotta be choked up.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
So he's only taking like three days. Man, it's gotta
give himself some time.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Well, I mean he was also off the end of
last week.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Oh oh okay, okay, all right, see I had, I
mean doing a morning show now like this took preparation,
like not well, I mean, obviously you prepare a show.
But you know, Lorraine and I were talking their sleep preparation.
You know, I get done with this show, I get
an hour to go eat some waffle house, and then
I got another show I gotta do. But when this
(37:40):
is the gig, when it's one to five am, God's
time zone Central time every day, gotta give yourself a break. Ben,
By the way, question and I think I know the answer, Coop.
When you're off, when you have your days off, there's
no way you keep the same schedule, right.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Oh, I absolutely keep the same schedule. Really yeah, I
don't understand how you would change it up.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Because life happens whenever you would usually be sleeping. Like,
don't you want to live the life the like the
nine to five for a little bit and just kind
of walk out amongst the daylight and the sunshine and
live it's.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Still daylight at two PM.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
All right, Larina, you keep the same hours when you
have vac.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
When I I just try to sleep when I can.
I'm gonna hit the bed and keep going type of girl.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
All right.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Yeah. About on the weekends, I do try to I'll
try and sleep overnight as much as possible, because I'll
try and get like eight to nine hours straight.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
I work.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
I get up every day the alarm goes off at
four thirty. The alarm is not going off at four
thirty whenever I have a day off. I mean, I
kudos to you, Coop. I just I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
I mean, that's a little bit different. But I don't know.
I mean I can.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I mean, you're on the Pacific time zone, so it's
a little bit different than if you're if this show
is on the East Coast or the West.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
I've never been a morning person, so I'm fine on
the weekends staying up till six am and sleeping until two.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
There's nothing wrong with that at all. I am not
here to judge. You also are a gambler, so that's
the way it works.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
I have postponed the lane Kiff and talk long enough
because when we come back, I want to dive into
some of the fallout from it, and again, it's really nerdy,
it's really inside college football. But there is a lot
that's going to happen over the next couple of weeks,
not in the terms of actual movement, but in the
(39:39):
terms of talking and kind of preparing for what that
next era of football is going to look like. Or
are we in the middle of a college football time,
a college sports time that we look back on in
twenty years from now and say that was the start
of something pretty special paying athletes it's nil revshare. Or
(40:02):
are we going to look back in twenty years from now?
I go, can you believe what we were doing in
college football and college sports in the twenty twenties?
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Like what were we thinking? Guys were making how much?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
But when we come back, we'll talk about the pied
piper of content in college football. Lane Kiffin takes center
stage right here on Fox Sports Radio.
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