May 8, 2026 • 40 mins
Brian Noe is in for Ben as he talks about the new revelation regarding Mike Vrabel and Diana Russini with a video of them on the rented boat surfaces. Plus, Brian chats with callers, tells a story of bike riders for charity, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
What's going on. I hope you're enjoying your late night,
early morning festivities. Hope all is fantastic. So, uh, it's
getting worse, but it's not bad enough in my opinion yet.
So the gift that keeps on giving is this Mike
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Vrabel Diana Russini situation. It seems like, maybe not daily,
but close to it, there's something new where Oh well, dude,
you think that's bad. Get this in twenty twenty one
insert the blank. You know, it's just like, oh my gosh.
So the latest thing is Diana Russini was pregnant at
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the time and she was hanging out with Patriots head coach, well, now,
Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel, Right, that's right, that's right.
It's hold on, you know, just to just find a
nice resting spot, you know, a comfortable chair, make sure
prepared for this. So they were hanging out together. They're
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going a little boating, rented a private boat and they
were just you know, hanging out. Now this is two
months before Diana Russini gave birth to her first son.
It's they're hanging out. So like this six year affair
or thereabouts, like we're in full of fair mode while
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Russini is fully pregnant, like we're getting near the do
date pregnant, you know what I'm saying. And they're doing
a little boating excursion and and so you know how
this goes, right, It's it's videos, it's pictures. It's oh
they only post for one picture and Mike Vrabel asked
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that nobody posts it. And we've got their documentary. There
have to sign this and sign that to rent this boat,
and YadA YadA, b bab bah. It's what it boils
down to. Okay, there are going to be most likely
more layers that are uncovered in the weeks and months
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to follow and all of that stuff. But as it
is right now, for all the speculation about is Mike
Frable going to lose his job? Is Mike Frabel going
to be coaching in week one? I keep hearing that,
and it's like, yes, he's going to be coaching in
week one. Now, this isn't what I'm rooting for. I
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you know, it's I'm just picturing me as the weather man.
I'm not rooting for a tornado to hit the town.
But if I'm like, all right, a tornado is going
to hit the town. I'm just telling you what is
most likely going to happen. I'm reading the tea leaves
all the information that I have. He's going to be
coaching in week one. Okay, my guy, Patty sweek He
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hit me, you know a few few minutes ago off
air and he was like, yeah, let me try to
do my Patty impression. No, I don't know, man, this
is just off the cuff. Okay, this could be a
rough trial. Here. Here's here's my Patty impression.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Like the more the more that we get to the
I don't you know, I don't know, because you gotta think.
You gotta think about, you know, the team and then
delay the boat.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That not good? Not good?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You know what do you think I was?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That was that?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That's pretty good? You got the mannerisms? Sound like that?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I mean like, yeah, you gotta think, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah it's okay for yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
In personate, well I get the like a little quote
like I'll get like the AO or like you know,
like a one full on sentences.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's the first for me. I like it good, very nice. Yeah,
well pay dude, we'd have to work. Listen. Little known
fact about Patty. He's created impressions.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
He can do some.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Really, He's got a great Rob Parker impression.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He's got a great Godfather impression, very well done. He
has the worst Colin Coward impression anybody has ever done.
I don't understand now how that works out. You're really
good at other stuff, but not that one.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
So so, Brian, no sare. My name is Colin crow
I can't even hold that. That's this cowhard.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It sounds like Rush Limbaugh something like this doesn't sound
like Cowherd at all.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You do good, Vito Corleone, like you said, like.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Like come on the demo, that is what him. We'll
make him an off the kill field something like, you
know what you mean, Mark, That's it's okay, it's all right.
It was rushed. You were rushed a little bit. You
gotta be a little bit more deliberate. But you know
what I heard in my head? What have you seen
the Zutopia movie? Yeah, you're like the little mouse voice
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of the little mouse or the rat or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I do have a higher octave like for a voice,
so I get that there.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, oh dude.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It's it's exactly what that character in the movie is.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Honestly, I'll take that. That's still pretty close. That's a
pretty close caricatcher of of that.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It's not bad. But how we got onto this whole
thing is Patty was telling me. He's like, I'll try
to do it again. You know, I don't know, man,
Like we're getting closer to the season, and you know,
the love boat, the boat, it's that's you know, I
I don't And then the team, you.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Know, the what if? What if? What if?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
What if the players aren't on board?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And then and then what if? More what if he's
the father? What what? What if?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You know, he's doing the whole thing. And I'm just like, look, man,
he's gonna be the head coach. This is to me,
this is simple math. Okay, I know, I know, and
I'll be trying to be as fair about this as possible.
I know that Mike Rabel is the leader of a team,
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he's the leader of men.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
And he's acting like a complete jackass.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Like beyond that, it's.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Crazy too, because if you think about this, Mike Vrabel.
One of the coolest things about Rabel, I thought at
the time that in the sense all this other stuff
has come out, it's not as cool anymore. But one
of the coolest things about Rabel when he took over
as the head coach of the Patriots, he told his
team he was like, you will have respect for everybody
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in this building. I don't care who it is. It's
the dude sweeping up when we're about to leave, it's whoever, it's, uh,
you know, the dude washing uniforms.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You will have respect for everybody in this building when
you enter our Patriots headquarters, that sort of thing. And
so if you're a player, you have to be thinking
about that differently now where it's like, wow, man, coach
was telling us to have respect, which is great, we
should do that. And he doesn't even have respect for
anybody in his own home. That's pretty wild. And I'm
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sure that reality has hit Rabel pretty hard. And this
isn't like, oh, poor of Rabel. That's not what I'm saying.
I'm just, you know, like, I was thinking about this too,
and we'll get back to Rabel will be the head
coach in week one, But I was just thinking about
I haven't cheated in my life I'm just Look, man,
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I'm a loyal guy. When it comes to who I'm dating.
I'm not gonna do that. It just I I'm one
of those people that even if I got away with it,
there's no getting away with it, you know what I mean.
Like you're doing something wrong to someone you really care about,
that that should hurt you, even if they don't know
about it, that should hurt you. And the way I
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think about Rabel and the way I've been cheated on,
and so I was thinking about this with this Rabel situation,
and you know, any relationship I've been in and when
I've been cheated on, and how I think of it
is like this. I think that when you're cheating, I
think you just go to a different world. I think
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you just go to the fun world and you're not
living in the real world anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Just hear me out.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
This might sound very stupid at first, It might sound
stupid throughout the whole explanation. I don't know, when I'm
done with it, you might be like, that was the
dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
But give me a chance.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I think you'll leave the real world and you just
go to the fun world and it's like.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Oh, hey we're renting boats.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Hey she's pregnant, but hey, who cares whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I don't know his version of fun.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
He's just living in the fun world. It's exciting, it's naughty,
it's I don't know, it's she's a reporter, I'm a
head coach. Wow, this is just crazy. There's a level
of excitement. It's the fun world. You're living in the
fun world. And then when you get busted and all
of a sudden, you leave the fun world and you
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are smack dab crash landing back to the real world.
It has to be such a dose of reality where
it's just like, I'm the biggest hypocrite on the planet.
Right now, I'm telling my players, you will have respect
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for everybody in this building, everybody in this locker room,
anybody throughout the hallways, anyone that you come into contact with.
You will have respect for them within this organization. And
he doesn't even have respect for his own wife, his
own kids. Like, again, he's been in the fun world.
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He's not even thinking about that. It's not even registering.
And all of a sudden, there's some undercover photos. They
get exposed. They do this hardcore denial of this is
a joke. We're not no, not no, and then it
turns out yes, actually yes, and they're hardcore busted. I
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think it's the ultimate ice water gatorade bath, you know,
of reality. And look, he should be dealing with this.
He and I honestly believe like, I bet he feels
so ashamed. I bet he feels so guilty. I bet
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he feels so bad that he's done this for so long.
He's told his players to have respect. He's hadn't. He
didn't have any respect flex six years, the last six years,
no respect. He is a walking, talking fraud. He is
a complete hypocrite, and he's just now realizing this. I'm
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telling you what, man, even if he scrolled Twitter and
saw all the jokes and all the memes, he could
go through every airport and TMZ could ask him every
question in the book and people can make fun. It
won't feel as bad. Nothing will feel as bad as
the realization of how wrong this freaking guy has been
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and he should. Again, this isn't a poor Vrabel thing.
This is just like, this is just the reality of it.
Where I find that interesting where listen music wise? So
I'll tell you a story Steve Gorman, he hosted a
show on Fox Sports Radio for a little while and
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he was the drummer of the Black Crows, been a
musician for a long long time in his life, and
he said something that always stuck with me. He was
he it's gonna play this. It was like a tribute show.
They were just gonna play a bunch of Led Zeppelin songs.
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And I went out there and they had a great turnout.
This packed place was packed, and I remember Steve talking
about this. He's all excited. Is, Oh, then we're playing
all these Zeppelin fans, huge fan of Zeppelin, right playing
all these shows. They're playing all these songs, man, come on,
come on to the show, YadA. And he's like, when
I when I'm playing these songs, I'm going to another planet,
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you know. Like and anybody who plays music, I played
guitar for a long time. When you are in it,
that's how it feels. It's like you're not even really
here anymore. And that's why musicians is kind of eccentric.
It's kind of weird because they spend half their time somewhere.
They're on another planet. They just leave planet Earth and
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you are so into the music. You are somewhere else
and you come out of it and you're like, oh,
what's going It takes you a while, like, oh, I'm
back to Earth right now. Like that's really how it is.
And I think that the whole Rabel Russini cheating scandal thing, I.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Think that's what they were doing.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I think they were literally escaping earth and reality to
do this, you know, naughty, crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Fun, exciting thing.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And now it is all blown up and it is
the reality of that whole situation. But I say all
of that to weave it back to week one. I
don't think he's going anywhere. And I'm not saying what
should what shouldn't happen. I'm just telling you what is
and what the reality of this whole situation was or
is going to be. If you look at the Patriots,
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they went four and thirteen and then they went four
and thirteen again, and then Rabel took over and they
went to the Super Bowl. Okay, right, Robert Kraft was
getting we'll call him adult massages. Okay, the owner of
the team was doing that, and he's.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Gonna run Rable out of town. I don't think that's
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You just got rid of the failed experiment of Drod
Mayo going four and thirteen and you all of a
sudden take the speed pass to the super Bowl and
you're immediately running him out of town the next off season.
That's not gonna happen. He would have to lose the
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locker room. There would have to be some story that
comes out from his past with Russini that is just
like what you know, like beyond just wait what you know?
They I don't even want to make up stuff, you know,
because it's partially irresponsible. They have to be something that
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is so crazy off the radar, like no, this is dude,
this is the last straw. Like the Patriots at this point,
they just can't. There'd have to be something wild, wild,
beyond what we've heard about for him not to have
this job. That's just the reality of it. And look,
this is not a gender thing. If Rabel were the
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reporter and he's hooking up with a female coach, his
journalistic integrity is shot. He'd be out of a gig.
Like this is the thing to keep in mind, all right,
It's all about who you're employed by. If Mike Vrabel
were employed by the athletic who is owned by The
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New York Times. Okay, and he's hooking up with I
don't know a WNBA head coach. Right, it's Mike Vrabel.
He's a he's an insider, right, he's on the scoop,
he's a writer, and he's hooking up with a WNBA
head coach. I'm just trying to think of a sport
that would have a female head coach, right, And uh yeah,
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the New York Times is the employer. He's out of
a gig. He's out of a gig. That's just the
way it's gonna go. Now, Mike Rabel, who's employed by
the Patriots with again Robert Kraft, who has had some
some iffy ethical choices over the years, let's just say
that he's not gonna be out of a gig. Not
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when they just improved from four wins to a Super
Bowl appearance. That's not gonna happen. So no, I don't
agree with Patty that that Rabel's gonna be out of
a gig and won't be coaching week one. Have I
done anything to sway you, Patty, or you still believe
that he's gonna be out of a gig. It's fine
if you do. What do you think?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I I like your reasoning is like the likelihood is
he's probably gonna stay. But like I I agree with
your reasoning and like I really do like it's I'll
even meet you halfway.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And they like if.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Something like overly gratuitous, like something crazy like another you know,
another bigger development like this is just the tip of
the iceberg type thing right now, something bigger comes out,
Like yeah, I think, you know, we could start talking
about like I think as of if this is the
worst of it, Yeah, you're probably right. He's still gonna
be coaching. He's gonna have a little like you know,
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he's gonna be guilty in the eyes of the public, right,
but like as far as like the locker room, like no,
they they they they're they are standing by him unless
it gets way worse.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, you'd have to have like a rolodex of racinies,
you know what I mean, Like he's just a serial cheater.
He's just running through them. What's the old I'm running
through these hose like dray No, remember the old? If
he's doing that, If I don't know, it just takes
a weird turn that you know he's fathering children. He's like,
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you know.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
More illegitimate children, I'll.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Pay you to have an abortion, like what? Just crazy?
Like it would have to be along those lines for
him to be out of a gig. The thing that
I think is more realistic is I expect them to
be the head coach when Week one rolls around. We
don't know their schedule yet, we know their opponents, and
the schedule gets a lot tougher than it was. It
was Swiss cheese this past year. It gets a lot tougher.
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It's a first play schedule, and we don't know. We'll
find out next week, right, the schedule will be released
for the Patriots and we'll know week one, Week two,
week three. Let's say they start off with some tough
games right out of the gate. Let's say they start
off one in three. I think it's realistic to like
forecast a complete overreaction at that point. Let's say again,
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they won the AFC, they made it to the Super Bowl,
and they start one in three, one and four. I
think it would be like, this team isn't focused Mike
Vrabel his whole off season, it's coming back to bite them.
I think it's going to be something like that right
where I think it could be overreaction city, but overreaction
city to the point where the Patriots are like, you know,
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we just got to cut bait with the guy who
just took us from four and thirteen to a Super
Bowl appearance. I just don't see that happening. I don't.
There is no there's no such like journalistic integrity. There's
no NFL head coaching integrity. It's not the same thing.
It's not the same expectation, right like it's it's just
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completely different. So I think he's gonna be on the sideline,
all right. We get to a couple of the tweets
that have caught my attention that I think are pretty funny.
The militia's checking in always appreciate that. Oh I gotta
share a story that's completely off the radar. I read
something today that I guess is sort of sports related
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but not really, and it just blew my mind. I
have to share it with you next. I think you'll
enjoy it. But it surprised me like crazy, and it
has nothing to do with a with Mike Frabel. So
if you're done with that story, that you're in luck
and we have nothing to do with that. Coming up next,
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I'm going to push the story back a little bit.
There's something I read today that's I guess sports ish related,
but not really. It blew my mind. But I'll get
to that at the end of this hour. Okay, because
the Malord militia is on hold, and I feel like
we need to go to the militia. I don't like
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keeping the militia waiting, you know, I appreciate their taking
the time out and interacting. So that's great. So we
roll out the red carpet. Let's go to Let me
go to Lee in Florida. First off, Lee, you're on
Fox Sports Radio. What's going on? What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Hey, thanks for taking my call. Brian, Yeah, real quick.
I meant I should have told the screen guy to
do this. But I want you to check and see
if Babe Ruth is on that one thousand strikeout list.
You know, he was ninety and forty five and five
years of pitching a couple of World Series rings. I
think you might know some of the history there. And
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the reason why I also mentioned all that is, you
know where Ben is going to be on Saturday. He's
gonna be about eight to ten blocks away from where
Babe Bruce spent one season there in Worcester and commuted
in by train into Sengway Park. And I don't know
which season it was, but anyway, the house is on
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a historical register there in Worcester. And Ben's going to
be at the wus Sox Stadium, which is right there
at the train station.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Oh cool, Yeah, yeah, nice cool. I'm looking it up
right now, Lee. And you know the Red Sox Yankees
career for Babe as a pitcher, he had four hundred
and eighty eight strikeouts, so it was almost halfway there. Yeah,
but yeah, not even no, he just.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
Didn't pitch wrong enough either, you know. So, I but
what a record. I mean, nineteen forty five and five
years of pitching with the Red Sox, couple World Series rings,
and of course he's got so much pitching World Series
records that you know will never be broken. The biggest
twenty he's got three wins in a row in the
World Series games, and so you know, that's just you know,
there's so many more that he did, you know, low
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him down. Yeah, in the World Series, So.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, no doubt, yeah, no, it's yeah, that's great. I'm
glad that you you checked in with that, and I'm
just I'm doing a little bit of more research. I'm
just thinking glass now. It was something it was a
little bit under eight hundred innings, right that he pitched.
And that's kind of interesting where that's so fast, right,
babe pitched it looks like twelve hundred and twenty one innings,
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So he pitched a lot of innings, man like. So yeah,
I know, it's a completely differ an era, right, So.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
We read stocks fans to the Yankees celebrate the home runs,
but we read sotox fans celebrate the pitching the baboos.
So yeah, and hey, you know what will come in
and then I'll let you go. You know, you got
a lot here.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
You know, you talked about the.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
You know, the twenty four teams and the seventy six teams. Yeah,
you know football and basketball, you know, and then you
were like, it's inevitable. Well, you know, one of the
big things that's inevitable is that there's so many schools
out there that are spending so much money to expand
their campuses, expand their football, expand their basketball programs, spending
a lot of money to get into Division one status,
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you know, and you know, I think there was something
there was some kind of quote there was like two
hundred teams, you know, when it came to football that
were competing for that you know, national championship. I think
in the future we're looking at Mobbie more like two
hundred and fifty to three hundred teams. You know, schools
are just you know, putting so much money into these
programs now, and as you said, it's inevitable that's going
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to grow to try to get all the competition in there.
And so anyway, great show, Brian, and I hope to
catch you next time.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
All right, all right, man, Yeah, thanks Lee, appreciate that
good stuff. Yeah, man. Yeah. The expansion thing is I've
heard people break it down like this, where you know,
I'll do a show on the weekends, we do Countdown,
and one of the guys I work with is rich Ornberger.
So we do a show on Saturday mornings and he'll
(25:30):
point out, he's like, you know, if you look at
the the percentage of teams and let's just pick something.
Let's say college basketball, they're like over three hundred teams, right,
and so he's like, you know, seventy six when you're
just doing the percentages, and you can compare that to
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the NFL, they're thirty two teams, fourteen get in, right,
So the percentage break that some people play that game
and it's like, I just I don't play that game
or the NFL. I'm sorry the NBA. NBA sixteen teams
get into the postseason, they're only thirty teams. It's over half.
So if you're looking at if you're looking at college
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basketball and everybody that's in the top level, it's over
three hundred schools. We don't have one hundred and sixty
some schools in the NCAA tournament. But I'm like, it's
just not the same thing, man. The percentage argument just
doesn't work the same way. You play the same game
with college football and say, well, even if they got
to twenty four teams, they're at over one hundred and
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thirty teams in FBS, that's still a smaller percentage than
this league or that sport or what It's like, it
just doesn't work the same way. Sorry, I don't want
three and four lost teams in a twenty four team
playoff in college football. I just think that's dumb. I
have no problem with saying, win more freaking games and
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if you don't better luck next year. That's the only
way you're gonna keep the regular season meaning as much
as it does. You're gonna water it down. It's not
gonna mean hardly anything. These teams that are at the
top of college football and you give them three mulligans
and they can still be in the playoff. Bro, these
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teams that they start off like eight to no, they're
already they're a cinch to make the playoff. I just
don't want to live in a world like that. Are
We've got dorcoh he's in Hawaii. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Darko?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You're on Fox Sports Radio? What's up?
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Everybody on Darko? The comedian, Hawaii's Funniest man Alive and Orang.
I'm so happy to announce this last off time. We're
gonna get on board a big flying bus in the
sky and go from Ho No Lulu to la oh
very nice.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
What's going on? Dorco? What's a what's it? Tell us
a joke? Here, mister comedian.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
See now. Yeah, I'm gonna have a shopping cards from
Coop in La Lorena. Yep, you betcha, let's see. Uh yeah.
I just want to ask everybody what rhymes with art?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Hmm. I can think of a couple of words.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Yeah, maybe stuff we shouldn't discuss on the air. But yeah,
it's gonna be pretty exciting. We're gonna be up there
and then we're gonna go to Frisco from La and
then go from there to Reno and Tahoe and and
then Midwest from there and uh, Minnesota and all those
good places, and we'll be calling in and doing comedy
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shows on the way and having a good time.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Very nice, man, nice. Is there a city along the
way that you're like, oh gosh, we have to go
to this dump of a place, If you're being honest,
Doorco Is there a place like that on the tour?
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Is Stockton considered a city?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, I mean technically it is, but I get it.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
I get it just a dumping point for something or rather,
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah heany fair enough?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Man?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Well, hey crush the tour. Appreciate you Door.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Good stuff, man, I love you, love you.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I appreciate that good stuff. Nice like it have we
got Smitty, he's in Rhode Island. What's going on, Smitty?
How are things?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Ah Man?
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Not too bad? How you doing?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Ryan?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Pretty good man? Pretty good, good good man.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
I just wanted to touch a little bit on the
Rable situation going up here in New England. Yeah, I
think that, like you said, his job, I think he'll
be the coach for the Patriots week one. Now, this
team has done a really good job the last twenty
plus years of burying noise, keeping it out of the
locker room. More importantly, I feel like the organization has
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his back, and it seems all the players are also
behind the coach. Now, with that being said, if more
stuff comes out, more importantly, if he fathered a baby,
you know, I know, have one of her kids name
is Mike. So I think that if that ends up
coming out, then the organization might have their hand pushed
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a little bit and maybe he won't be around. But
as far as the situation is going on now, even
with the boat thing that just came out the other day,
I still think that coach Rabel will be the coach
here in New England week one.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yeah, I agree with you. Listen, man, as it stands
right now, he's going to be the coaching week one.
There would have to be some crazy curveball. And it's
just like, all right, dude, you're fathering children while married
and she's married. It's like, if it gets to a
point like that, maybe the Patriots move on. But where
it stands right now, no, it'll be their week one.
It have to be something crazy.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Yeah, especially after the season they had last year. You know,
they did so good, and I mean it's got to
take something a little bit more. I mean, obviously what's
going on right now it's a little crazy, but I
feel there's got to be a little bit more for him.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
To get pushed out.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
But anyways, thanks to taking the call. Mine take care.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, you two smitty good stuff. Man, appreciate that, all right.
So here's the story that blew my socks off, all right,
and it's not really a sports story. So there's a newsletter.
My sister told me about this newsletter. It's called fourteen forty.
Maybe I shouldn't even say that. I'm not promoting it.
I'm just saying it's good. I'll take a peek at
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it pretty much every day. So I have a famous
quote at the bottom, or like a cool quote. Maybe
it's not, you know, the most famous quote of all time,
but it's got something that's interesting. That's a part of
it that I like. But anyway, I saw this little
blurb in the newsletter in the morning on Thursday and
(31:45):
it just blew me away. So here's the story. It's
very short. So there's a British father and son, George
and Josh Kohler, and they commit they completed this epic
trip around the world. They could I pleaded it on Saturday.
They're biking, okay, they biked over eighteen thousand miles. They
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went across thirty countries in four hundred days over a year,
four hundred days, like they're on this bike tour, and
some of the stats are insane. With this where they
climbed one hundred and eighty thousand meters during their journey.
That's the equivalent of ascending Mount Everest twenty times. And
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they earned three Guinness World Records while doing this epic
bike ride or bike trip, I don't know what you
would even call it. And so at the end it
says they raised money for charity. So after hearing all
this stuff, Patty, who's with us producing the show? Mark Ramsey,
I want you to fit the chime in over here, buddy,
(32:55):
After doing all four hundred days, thirty countries, over eighteen
thousand miles, how much money do you think they raised
for charity doing this? What would be your ballpark guest, Patty,
We'll start with you. What would you say?
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Oh gosh, I mean for that much, you would think
they would have to get at least about ten million.
I'm gonna put the stamp on ten million. That could
be over or way under. I'm not sure, but I'm
gonna I'm gonna go for ten mil.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Okay, Patty says ten mil. What do you say? Mark Ramsey?
I'm gonna say eighteen million? Eighteen million dollars? Okay? Are
you ready for this? I don't know. I don't have
my drum roll ready here. So they look at Mark
Ramsey's on the money.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
They raised seventy thousand dollars. What yes?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Like, wow, can we open a go fund?
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Made? These dudes biked for four hundred days, they went
over eighteen thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I'll give them some cash.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
That's good for a betty at least, Like, let's get
them some more money. I can't believe they did all
that and it's only seventy g's.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
You gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Give it were on records out of this thing.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Man, that that blows me away. Man, I don't know it.
I don't know what countries they were in. We were like,
you know, not big tippers in these countries. I don't
know what's going on, man, but I feel bad. They
did that epic trip and it's Wow. Maybe it's the charity.
Maybe they're like, I can't give money to that. That's
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a weird charity.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I don't know the specifics, but man, the dollar amount
blew me away. And I don't mean this in a
disrespectful way. I hope you realize that, right, Like, I'm
not saying weak. You guys got to do better. I'm
just like, the people donating have to do better. Look
what these freaking guys did that's worth the donation, right.
That's why it just blows me away that people didn't
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donate more. It's nothing that the bike riders didn't do,
it's what the donators didn't do, right, That's what I'm
really saying. That's crazy, But anyway, I saw that and
I was blown away. I probably would have guessed something
like you guys did ten mil, eighteen mil, seventy g's
it's crazy. That is just crazy. All right? Eight seven
(35:25):
seven ninety nine on Fox is your phone number. I'll
tell you what. We'll get to a couple of tweets,
and I want you to be prepared. I have a
mixture of audio, which I'll tell you what. I've put
some audio together in the past. I don't know if
anything will outdo when I'm going to play for you
(35:48):
next hour. It is as top shelf as it can
possibly get. I don't want to oversell this, so I'm
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I do like a couple of the tweets this evening.
I always think of it as the nighttime, right, Like
I didn't go to bed, so it's still the evening
for me. It might be the morning for you. I don't.
I never know how to say that I'm filling in
for Big Ben. But anyway, Rod checked in talking about
so I have to back up a little bit. We
(37:03):
had this knockdown, drag out debate last night when I
was filling in for Big Ben about Anne Hathaway was
named People Magazine's most Beautiful woman of twenty twenty six.
And I'm like, that's ridiculous. She's beautiful, she's talented, she's
not the most beautiful. Sorry, And anyway, late night Drug
tester was like, all right, ask Patty Sweeka, who's the
(37:24):
producer tonight? Who he thinks he's going Anne Hathaway or
is he going Sophia Vergara?
Speaker 7 (37:30):
Right?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
And so we had the whole debate, and my whole
question is if we're on a beach and Sophia Virgara
is walking one way and Anne Hathaway is walking the
other way, who are you looking at? It's not Anne,
all right, And so I like this from Rod. I
had to set that up so it makes any sense.
(37:51):
He just wrote in Brian, I'm looking at both. What
he's that's cheating, Rod. I mean, it's a legitimate answer,
but that's cheating. Sofia's going west AND's going east. You
gotta pick a lane. Who's it gonna be? You're not
east bounding down, not at that stage. No way, you're
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looking westward, baby, I guarantee it, or I don't know
what you're doing with your life. That's basically what it
boils down to. Douglas. He checked in and said Anne
Hathaway has nothing on Sophia. I would agree with that.
I like this. It's not Ann or Sofia related. But
Steve checked in, My guy, Steve Rodriguez, this is kind
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of This is cool, but it's also funny in a way.
That's why I wanted to share it with you. So
he wrote, when Dan Patrick retires in two years, my
three choices to host the show with the dan Nets
number one, Ross Tucker number two, Reggie Miller number three.
Brian No. Now that is the hell of a compliment, Steve.
(38:55):
I love that very nice. I know that many people
would disagree, but I like that that's your list. The
thing that I find funny is Reggie's not even a
sports radio host.
Speaker 7 (39:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
So it's funny. I'm still I'm still like, Reggie is
fantastic what he does, very talented, you know, as sports opinions,
and I think he's really good as a color analyst.
I think it does a great job with the NBA games.
But it's funny. The funny part is, even though he's famous,
(39:27):
and especially in sports circles, we know who Reggie Miller
is at his core, He's not a sports radio host.
So I'm still looking up at someone who's actually not
in the field, you know. So that seems about right,
seems about right. I do have to I promised you
tremendous audio and we will deliver that will come your
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way at the top of the hour. Also, we have
a special guest who will be calling in momentarily. Very
much looking forward to that, and I hear that there's
a story related with this special guest where maybe falling
down an escalator is involved. That's all I can give
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you right now. Okay, that's all I can give you
at this stage. I also what you have to look
forward to next hour. I have an NFL star that
i'd rather just hear nothing about going forward. And also
I would like to I would like to make a comparison.
You know old school naked gym Guy. You know the
(40:31):
guy that's just standing there air drying for an inappropriate
amount of time, totally nude. There is a new school
edition of Naked Gym Guy. I finally made this connection
well at the gym the last couple of days. So
I'd like to share that with you and see if
you're on board with that or not. Okay, Championship knock
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your socks off audio hitting you coming up.
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Rado, Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What's going on. I hope you're enjoying your late night,
early morning festivities. Hope all is fantastic. So, uh, it's
getting worse, but it's not bad enough in my opinion yet.
So the gift that keeps on giving is this Mike
(00:26):
Vrabel Diana Russini situation. It seems like, maybe not daily,
but close to it, there's something new where Oh well, dude,
you think that's bad. Get this in twenty twenty one
insert the blank. You know, it's just like, oh my gosh.
So the latest thing is Diana Russini was pregnant at
(00:50):
the time and she was hanging out with Patriots head coach, well, now,
Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel, Right, that's right, that's right.
It's hold on, you know, just to just find a
nice resting spot, you know, a comfortable chair, make sure
prepared for this. So they were hanging out together. They're
(01:10):
going a little boating, rented a private boat and they
were just you know, hanging out. Now this is two
months before Diana Russini gave birth to her first son.
It's they're hanging out. So like this six year affair
or thereabouts, like we're in full of fair mode while
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Russini is fully pregnant, like we're getting near the do
date pregnant, you know what I'm saying. And they're doing
a little boating excursion and and so you know how
this goes, right, It's it's videos, it's pictures. It's oh
they only post for one picture and Mike Vrabel asked
(01:57):
that nobody posts it. And we've got their documentary. There
have to sign this and sign that to rent this boat,
and YadA YadA, b bab bah. It's what it boils
down to. Okay, there are going to be most likely
more layers that are uncovered in the weeks and months
(02:17):
to follow and all of that stuff. But as it
is right now, for all the speculation about is Mike
Frable going to lose his job? Is Mike Frabel going
to be coaching in week one? I keep hearing that,
and it's like, yes, he's going to be coaching in
week one. Now, this isn't what I'm rooting for. I
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you know, it's I'm just picturing me as the weather man.
I'm not rooting for a tornado to hit the town.
But if I'm like, all right, a tornado is going
to hit the town. I'm just telling you what is
most likely going to happen. I'm reading the tea leaves
all the information that I have. He's going to be
coaching in week one. Okay, my guy, Patty sweek He
(03:01):
hit me, you know a few few minutes ago off
air and he was like, yeah, let me try to
do my Patty impression. No, I don't know, man, this
is just off the cuff. Okay, this could be a
rough trial. Here. Here's here's my Patty impression.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Like the more the more that we get to the
I don't you know, I don't know, because you gotta think.
You gotta think about, you know, the team and then
delay the boat.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That not good? Not good?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You know what do you think I was?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That was that?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That's pretty good? You got the mannerisms? Sound like that?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I mean like, yeah, you gotta think, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah it's okay for yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
In personate, well I get the like a little quote
like I'll get like the AO or like you know,
like a one full on sentences.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's the first for me. I like it good, very nice. Yeah,
well pay dude, we'd have to work. Listen. Little known
fact about Patty. He's created impressions.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
He can do some.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Really, He's got a great Rob Parker impression.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He's got a great Godfather impression, very well done. He
has the worst Colin Coward impression anybody has ever done.
I don't understand now how that works out. You're really
good at other stuff, but not that one.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
So so, Brian, no sare. My name is Colin crow
I can't even hold that. That's this cowhard.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It sounds like Rush Limbaugh something like this doesn't sound
like Cowherd at all.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You do good, Vito Corleone, like you said, like.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Like come on the demo, that is what him. We'll
make him an off the kill field something like, you
know what you mean, Mark, That's it's okay, it's all right.
It was rushed. You were rushed a little bit. You
gotta be a little bit more deliberate. But you know
what I heard in my head? What have you seen
the Zutopia movie? Yeah, you're like the little mouse voice
(05:14):
of the little mouse or the rat or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I do have a higher octave like for a voice,
so I get that there.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, oh dude.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It's it's exactly what that character in the movie is.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Honestly, I'll take that. That's still pretty close. That's a
pretty close caricatcher of of that.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It's not bad. But how we got onto this whole
thing is Patty was telling me. He's like, I'll try
to do it again. You know, I don't know, man,
Like we're getting closer to the season, and you know,
the love boat, the boat, it's that's you know, I
I don't And then the team, you.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Know, the what if? What if? What if?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
What if the players aren't on board?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And then and then what if? More what if he's
the father? What what? What if?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You know, he's doing the whole thing. And I'm just like, look, man,
he's gonna be the head coach. This is to me,
this is simple math. Okay, I know, I know, and
I'll be trying to be as fair about this as possible.
I know that Mike Rabel is the leader of a team,
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he's the leader of men.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
And he's acting like a complete jackass.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Like beyond that, it's.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Crazy too, because if you think about this, Mike Vrabel.
One of the coolest things about Rabel, I thought at
the time that in the sense all this other stuff
has come out, it's not as cool anymore. But one
of the coolest things about Rabel when he took over
as the head coach of the Patriots, he told his
team he was like, you will have respect for everybody
(06:53):
in this building. I don't care who it is. It's
the dude sweeping up when we're about to leave, it's whoever, it's, uh,
you know, the dude washing uniforms.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You will have respect for everybody in this building when
you enter our Patriots headquarters, that sort of thing. And
so if you're a player, you have to be thinking
about that differently now where it's like, wow, man, coach
was telling us to have respect, which is great, we
should do that. And he doesn't even have respect for
anybody in his own home. That's pretty wild. And I'm
(07:28):
sure that reality has hit Rabel pretty hard. And this
isn't like, oh, poor of Rabel. That's not what I'm saying.
I'm just, you know, like, I was thinking about this too,
and we'll get back to Rabel will be the head
coach in week one, But I was just thinking about
I haven't cheated in my life I'm just Look, man,
(07:49):
I'm a loyal guy. When it comes to who I'm dating.
I'm not gonna do that. It just I I'm one
of those people that even if I got away with it,
there's no getting away with it, you know what I mean.
Like you're doing something wrong to someone you really care about,
that that should hurt you, even if they don't know
about it, that should hurt you. And the way I
(08:11):
think about Rabel and the way I've been cheated on,
and so I was thinking about this with this Rabel situation,
and you know, any relationship I've been in and when
I've been cheated on, and how I think of it
is like this. I think that when you're cheating, I
think you just go to a different world. I think
(08:31):
you just go to the fun world and you're not
living in the real world anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Just hear me out.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
This might sound very stupid at first, It might sound
stupid throughout the whole explanation. I don't know, when I'm
done with it, you might be like, that was the
dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
But give me a chance.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I think you'll leave the real world and you just
go to the fun world and it's like.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Oh, hey we're renting boats.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Hey she's pregnant, but hey, who cares whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I don't know his version of fun.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
He's just living in the fun world. It's exciting, it's naughty,
it's I don't know, it's she's a reporter, I'm a
head coach. Wow, this is just crazy. There's a level
of excitement. It's the fun world. You're living in the
fun world. And then when you get busted and all
of a sudden, you leave the fun world and you
(09:19):
are smack dab crash landing back to the real world.
It has to be such a dose of reality where
it's just like, I'm the biggest hypocrite on the planet.
Right now, I'm telling my players, you will have respect
(09:39):
for everybody in this building, everybody in this locker room,
anybody throughout the hallways, anyone that you come into contact with.
You will have respect for them within this organization. And
he doesn't even have respect for his own wife, his
own kids. Like, again, he's been in the fun world.
(10:00):
He's not even thinking about that. It's not even registering.
And all of a sudden, there's some undercover photos. They
get exposed. They do this hardcore denial of this is
a joke. We're not no, not no, and then it
turns out yes, actually yes, and they're hardcore busted. I
(10:21):
think it's the ultimate ice water gatorade bath, you know,
of reality. And look, he should be dealing with this.
He and I honestly believe like, I bet he feels
so ashamed. I bet he feels so guilty. I bet
(10:42):
he feels so bad that he's done this for so long.
He's told his players to have respect. He's hadn't. He
didn't have any respect flex six years, the last six years,
no respect. He is a walking, talking fraud. He is
a complete hypocrite, and he's just now realizing this. I'm
(11:05):
telling you what, man, even if he scrolled Twitter and
saw all the jokes and all the memes, he could
go through every airport and TMZ could ask him every
question in the book and people can make fun. It
won't feel as bad. Nothing will feel as bad as
the realization of how wrong this freaking guy has been
(11:28):
and he should. Again, this isn't a poor Vrabel thing.
This is just like, this is just the reality of it.
Where I find that interesting where listen music wise? So
I'll tell you a story Steve Gorman, he hosted a
show on Fox Sports Radio for a little while and
(11:48):
he was the drummer of the Black Crows, been a
musician for a long long time in his life, and
he said something that always stuck with me. He was
he it's gonna play this. It was like a tribute show.
They were just gonna play a bunch of Led Zeppelin songs.
(12:08):
And I went out there and they had a great turnout.
This packed place was packed, and I remember Steve talking
about this. He's all excited. Is, Oh, then we're playing
all these Zeppelin fans, huge fan of Zeppelin, right playing
all these shows. They're playing all these songs, man, come on,
come on to the show, YadA. And he's like, when
I when I'm playing these songs, I'm going to another planet,
(12:32):
you know. Like and anybody who plays music, I played
guitar for a long time. When you are in it,
that's how it feels. It's like you're not even really
here anymore. And that's why musicians is kind of eccentric.
It's kind of weird because they spend half their time somewhere.
They're on another planet. They just leave planet Earth and
(12:54):
you are so into the music. You are somewhere else
and you come out of it and you're like, oh,
what's going It takes you a while, like, oh, I'm
back to Earth right now. Like that's really how it is.
And I think that the whole Rabel Russini cheating scandal thing, I.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Think that's what they were doing.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I think they were literally escaping earth and reality to
do this, you know, naughty, crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Fun, exciting thing.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And now it is all blown up and it is
the reality of that whole situation. But I say all
of that to weave it back to week one. I
don't think he's going anywhere. And I'm not saying what
should what shouldn't happen. I'm just telling you what is
and what the reality of this whole situation was or
is going to be. If you look at the Patriots,
(13:47):
they went four and thirteen and then they went four
and thirteen again, and then Rabel took over and they
went to the Super Bowl. Okay, right, Robert Kraft was
getting we'll call him adult massages. Okay, the owner of
the team was doing that, and he's.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Gonna run Rable out of town. I don't think that's
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You just got rid of the failed experiment of Drod
Mayo going four and thirteen and you all of a
sudden take the speed pass to the super Bowl and
you're immediately running him out of town the next off season.
That's not gonna happen. He would have to lose the
(14:36):
locker room. There would have to be some story that
comes out from his past with Russini that is just
like what you know, like beyond just wait what you know?
They I don't even want to make up stuff, you know,
because it's partially irresponsible. They have to be something that
(14:57):
is so crazy off the radar, like no, this is dude,
this is the last straw. Like the Patriots at this point,
they just can't. There'd have to be something wild, wild,
beyond what we've heard about for him not to have
this job. That's just the reality of it. And look,
this is not a gender thing. If Rabel were the
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reporter and he's hooking up with a female coach, his
journalistic integrity is shot. He'd be out of a gig.
Like this is the thing to keep in mind, all right,
It's all about who you're employed by. If Mike Vrabel
were employed by the athletic who is owned by The
(15:44):
New York Times. Okay, and he's hooking up with I
don't know a WNBA head coach. Right, it's Mike Vrabel.
He's a he's an insider, right, he's on the scoop,
he's a writer, and he's hooking up with a WNBA
head coach. I'm just trying to think of a sport
that would have a female head coach, right, And uh yeah,
(16:07):
the New York Times is the employer. He's out of
a gig. He's out of a gig. That's just the
way it's gonna go. Now, Mike Rabel, who's employed by
the Patriots with again Robert Kraft, who has had some
some iffy ethical choices over the years, let's just say
that he's not gonna be out of a gig. Not
(16:28):
when they just improved from four wins to a Super
Bowl appearance. That's not gonna happen. So no, I don't
agree with Patty that that Rabel's gonna be out of
a gig and won't be coaching week one. Have I
done anything to sway you, Patty, or you still believe
that he's gonna be out of a gig. It's fine
if you do. What do you think?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I I like your reasoning is like the likelihood is
he's probably gonna stay. But like I I agree with
your reasoning and like I really do like it's I'll
even meet you halfway.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And they like if.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Something like overly gratuitous, like something crazy like another you know,
another bigger development like this is just the tip of
the iceberg type thing right now, something bigger comes out,
Like yeah, I think, you know, we could start talking
about like I think as of if this is the
worst of it, Yeah, you're probably right. He's still gonna
be coaching. He's gonna have a little like you know,
(17:22):
he's gonna be guilty in the eyes of the public, right,
but like as far as like the locker room, like no,
they they they they're they are standing by him unless
it gets way worse.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, you'd have to have like a rolodex of racinies,
you know what I mean, Like he's just a serial cheater.
He's just running through them. What's the old I'm running
through these hose like dray No, remember the old? If
he's doing that, If I don't know, it just takes
a weird turn that you know he's fathering children. He's like,
(17:55):
you know.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
More illegitimate children, I'll.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Pay you to have an abortion, like what? Just crazy?
Like it would have to be along those lines for
him to be out of a gig. The thing that
I think is more realistic is I expect them to
be the head coach when Week one rolls around. We
don't know their schedule yet, we know their opponents, and
the schedule gets a lot tougher than it was. It
was Swiss cheese this past year. It gets a lot tougher.
(18:20):
It's a first play schedule, and we don't know. We'll
find out next week, right, the schedule will be released
for the Patriots and we'll know week one, Week two,
week three. Let's say they start off with some tough
games right out of the gate. Let's say they start
off one in three. I think it's realistic to like
forecast a complete overreaction at that point. Let's say again,
(18:45):
they won the AFC, they made it to the Super Bowl,
and they start one in three, one and four. I
think it would be like, this team isn't focused Mike
Vrabel his whole off season, it's coming back to bite them.
I think it's going to be something like that right
where I think it could be overreaction city, but overreaction
city to the point where the Patriots are like, you know,
(19:06):
we just got to cut bait with the guy who
just took us from four and thirteen to a Super
Bowl appearance. I just don't see that happening. I don't.
There is no there's no such like journalistic integrity. There's
no NFL head coaching integrity. It's not the same thing.
It's not the same expectation, right like it's it's just
(19:27):
completely different. So I think he's gonna be on the sideline,
all right. We get to a couple of the tweets
that have caught my attention that I think are pretty funny.
The militia's checking in always appreciate that. Oh I gotta
share a story that's completely off the radar. I read
something today that I guess is sort of sports related
(19:48):
but not really, and it just blew my mind. I
have to share it with you next. I think you'll
enjoy it. But it surprised me like crazy, and it
has nothing to do with a with Mike Frabel. So
if you're done with that story, that you're in luck
and we have nothing to do with that. Coming up next,
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I'm going to push the story back a little bit.
There's something I read today that's I guess sports ish related,
but not really. It blew my mind. But I'll get
to that at the end of this hour. Okay, because
the Malord militia is on hold, and I feel like
we need to go to the militia. I don't like
(21:41):
keeping the militia waiting, you know, I appreciate their taking
the time out and interacting. So that's great. So we
roll out the red carpet. Let's go to Let me
go to Lee in Florida. First off, Lee, you're on
Fox Sports Radio. What's going on? What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Hey, thanks for taking my call. Brian, Yeah, real quick.
I meant I should have told the screen guy to
do this. But I want you to check and see
if Babe Ruth is on that one thousand strikeout list.
You know, he was ninety and forty five and five
years of pitching a couple of World Series rings. I
think you might know some of the history there. And
(22:19):
the reason why I also mentioned all that is, you
know where Ben is going to be on Saturday. He's
gonna be about eight to ten blocks away from where
Babe Bruce spent one season there in Worcester and commuted
in by train into Sengway Park. And I don't know
which season it was, but anyway, the house is on
(22:41):
a historical register there in Worcester. And Ben's going to
be at the wus Sox Stadium, which is right there
at the train station.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Oh cool, Yeah, yeah, nice cool. I'm looking it up
right now, Lee. And you know the Red Sox Yankees
career for Babe as a pitcher, he had four hundred
and eighty eight strikeouts, so it was almost halfway there. Yeah,
but yeah, not even no, he just.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
Didn't pitch wrong enough either, you know. So, I but
what a record. I mean, nineteen forty five and five
years of pitching with the Red Sox, couple World Series rings,
and of course he's got so much pitching World Series
records that you know will never be broken. The biggest
twenty he's got three wins in a row in the
World Series games, and so you know, that's just you know,
there's so many more that he did, you know, low
(23:28):
him down. Yeah, in the World Series, So.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, no doubt, yeah, no, it's yeah, that's great. I'm
glad that you you checked in with that, and I'm
just I'm doing a little bit of more research. I'm
just thinking glass now. It was something it was a
little bit under eight hundred innings, right that he pitched.
And that's kind of interesting where that's so fast, right,
babe pitched it looks like twelve hundred and twenty one innings,
(23:55):
So he pitched a lot of innings, man like. So yeah,
I know, it's a completely differ an era, right, So.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
We read stocks fans to the Yankees celebrate the home runs,
but we read sotox fans celebrate the pitching the baboos.
So yeah, and hey, you know what will come in
and then I'll let you go. You know, you got
a lot here.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
You know, you talked about the.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
You know, the twenty four teams and the seventy six teams. Yeah,
you know football and basketball, you know, and then you
were like, it's inevitable. Well, you know, one of the
big things that's inevitable is that there's so many schools
out there that are spending so much money to expand
their campuses, expand their football, expand their basketball programs, spending
a lot of money to get into Division one status,
(24:39):
you know, and you know, I think there was something
there was some kind of quote there was like two
hundred teams, you know, when it came to football that
were competing for that you know, national championship. I think
in the future we're looking at Mobbie more like two
hundred and fifty to three hundred teams. You know, schools
are just you know, putting so much money into these
programs now, and as you said, it's inevitable that's going
(25:00):
to grow to try to get all the competition in there.
And so anyway, great show, Brian, and I hope to
catch you next time.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
All right, all right, man, Yeah, thanks Lee, appreciate that
good stuff. Yeah, man. Yeah. The expansion thing is I've
heard people break it down like this, where you know,
I'll do a show on the weekends, we do Countdown,
and one of the guys I work with is rich Ornberger.
So we do a show on Saturday mornings and he'll
(25:30):
point out, he's like, you know, if you look at
the the percentage of teams and let's just pick something.
Let's say college basketball, they're like over three hundred teams, right,
and so he's like, you know, seventy six when you're
just doing the percentages, and you can compare that to
(25:50):
the NFL, they're thirty two teams, fourteen get in, right,
So the percentage break that some people play that game
and it's like, I just I don't play that game
or the NFL. I'm sorry the NBA. NBA sixteen teams
get into the postseason, they're only thirty teams. It's over half.
So if you're looking at if you're looking at college
(26:11):
basketball and everybody that's in the top level, it's over
three hundred schools. We don't have one hundred and sixty
some schools in the NCAA tournament. But I'm like, it's
just not the same thing, man. The percentage argument just
doesn't work the same way. You play the same game
with college football and say, well, even if they got
to twenty four teams, they're at over one hundred and
(26:35):
thirty teams in FBS, that's still a smaller percentage than
this league or that sport or what It's like, it
just doesn't work the same way. Sorry, I don't want
three and four lost teams in a twenty four team
playoff in college football. I just think that's dumb. I
have no problem with saying, win more freaking games and
(26:56):
if you don't better luck next year. That's the only
way you're gonna keep the regular season meaning as much
as it does. You're gonna water it down. It's not
gonna mean hardly anything. These teams that are at the
top of college football and you give them three mulligans
and they can still be in the playoff. Bro, these
(27:19):
teams that they start off like eight to no, they're
already they're a cinch to make the playoff. I just
don't want to live in a world like that. Are
We've got dorcoh he's in Hawaii. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Darko?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You're on Fox Sports Radio? What's up?
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Everybody on Darko? The comedian, Hawaii's Funniest man Alive and Orang.
I'm so happy to announce this last off time. We're
gonna get on board a big flying bus in the
sky and go from Ho No Lulu to la oh
very nice.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
What's going on? Dorco? What's a what's it? Tell us
a joke? Here, mister comedian.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
See now. Yeah, I'm gonna have a shopping cards from
Coop in La Lorena. Yep, you betcha, let's see. Uh yeah.
I just want to ask everybody what rhymes with art?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Hmm. I can think of a couple of words.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Yeah, maybe stuff we shouldn't discuss on the air. But yeah,
it's gonna be pretty exciting. We're gonna be up there
and then we're gonna go to Frisco from La and
then go from there to Reno and Tahoe and and
then Midwest from there and uh, Minnesota and all those
good places, and we'll be calling in and doing comedy
(28:36):
shows on the way and having a good time.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Very nice, man, nice. Is there a city along the
way that you're like, oh gosh, we have to go
to this dump of a place, If you're being honest,
Doorco Is there a place like that on the tour?
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Is Stockton considered a city?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, I mean technically it is, but I get it.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
I get it just a dumping point for something or rather,
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah heany fair enough?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Man?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Well, hey crush the tour. Appreciate you Door.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Good stuff, man, I love you, love you.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I appreciate that good stuff. Nice like it have we
got Smitty, he's in Rhode Island. What's going on, Smitty?
How are things?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Ah Man?
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Not too bad? How you doing?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Ryan?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Pretty good man? Pretty good, good good man.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
I just wanted to touch a little bit on the
Rable situation going up here in New England. Yeah, I
think that, like you said, his job, I think he'll
be the coach for the Patriots week one. Now, this
team has done a really good job the last twenty
plus years of burying noise, keeping it out of the
locker room. More importantly, I feel like the organization has
(29:47):
his back, and it seems all the players are also
behind the coach. Now, with that being said, if more
stuff comes out, more importantly, if he fathered a baby,
you know, I know, have one of her kids name
is Mike. So I think that if that ends up
coming out, then the organization might have their hand pushed
(30:10):
a little bit and maybe he won't be around. But
as far as the situation is going on now, even
with the boat thing that just came out the other day,
I still think that coach Rabel will be the coach
here in New England week one.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yeah, I agree with you. Listen, man, as it stands
right now, he's going to be the coaching week one.
There would have to be some crazy curveball. And it's
just like, all right, dude, you're fathering children while married
and she's married. It's like, if it gets to a
point like that, maybe the Patriots move on. But where
it stands right now, no, it'll be their week one.
It have to be something crazy.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Yeah, especially after the season they had last year. You know,
they did so good, and I mean it's got to
take something a little bit more. I mean, obviously what's
going on right now it's a little crazy, but I
feel there's got to be a little bit more for him.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
To get pushed out.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
But anyways, thanks to taking the call. Mine take care.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, you two smitty good stuff. Man, appreciate that, all right.
So here's the story that blew my socks off, all right,
and it's not really a sports story. So there's a newsletter.
My sister told me about this newsletter. It's called fourteen forty.
Maybe I shouldn't even say that. I'm not promoting it.
I'm just saying it's good. I'll take a peek at
(31:23):
it pretty much every day. So I have a famous
quote at the bottom, or like a cool quote. Maybe
it's not, you know, the most famous quote of all time,
but it's got something that's interesting. That's a part of
it that I like. But anyway, I saw this little
blurb in the newsletter in the morning on Thursday and
(31:45):
it just blew me away. So here's the story. It's
very short. So there's a British father and son, George
and Josh Kohler, and they commit they completed this epic
trip around the world. They could I pleaded it on Saturday.
They're biking, okay, they biked over eighteen thousand miles. They
(32:08):
went across thirty countries in four hundred days over a year,
four hundred days, like they're on this bike tour, and
some of the stats are insane. With this where they
climbed one hundred and eighty thousand meters during their journey.
That's the equivalent of ascending Mount Everest twenty times. And
(32:32):
they earned three Guinness World Records while doing this epic
bike ride or bike trip, I don't know what you
would even call it. And so at the end it
says they raised money for charity. So after hearing all
this stuff, Patty, who's with us producing the show? Mark Ramsey,
I want you to fit the chime in over here, buddy,
(32:55):
After doing all four hundred days, thirty countries, over eighteen
thousand miles, how much money do you think they raised
for charity doing this? What would be your ballpark guest, Patty,
We'll start with you. What would you say?
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Oh gosh, I mean for that much, you would think
they would have to get at least about ten million.
I'm gonna put the stamp on ten million. That could
be over or way under. I'm not sure, but I'm
gonna I'm gonna go for ten mil.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Okay, Patty says ten mil. What do you say? Mark Ramsey?
I'm gonna say eighteen million? Eighteen million dollars? Okay? Are
you ready for this? I don't know. I don't have
my drum roll ready here. So they look at Mark
Ramsey's on the money.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
They raised seventy thousand dollars. What yes?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Like, wow, can we open a go fund?
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Made? These dudes biked for four hundred days, they went
over eighteen thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I'll give them some cash.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
That's good for a betty at least, Like, let's get
them some more money. I can't believe they did all
that and it's only seventy g's.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
You gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Give it were on records out of this thing.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Man, that that blows me away. Man, I don't know it.
I don't know what countries they were in. We were like,
you know, not big tippers in these countries. I don't
know what's going on, man, but I feel bad. They
did that epic trip and it's Wow. Maybe it's the charity.
Maybe they're like, I can't give money to that. That's
(34:38):
a weird charity.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I don't know the specifics, but man, the dollar amount
blew me away. And I don't mean this in a
disrespectful way. I hope you realize that, right, Like, I'm
not saying weak. You guys got to do better. I'm
just like, the people donating have to do better. Look
what these freaking guys did that's worth the donation, right.
That's why it just blows me away that people didn't
(35:03):
donate more. It's nothing that the bike riders didn't do,
it's what the donators didn't do, right, That's what I'm
really saying. That's crazy, But anyway, I saw that and
I was blown away. I probably would have guessed something
like you guys did ten mil, eighteen mil, seventy g's
it's crazy. That is just crazy. All right? Eight seven
(35:25):
seven ninety nine on Fox is your phone number. I'll
tell you what. We'll get to a couple of tweets,
and I want you to be prepared. I have a
mixture of audio, which I'll tell you what. I've put
some audio together in the past. I don't know if
anything will outdo when I'm going to play for you
(35:48):
next hour. It is as top shelf as it can
possibly get. I don't want to oversell this, so I'm
just gonna shut up right now, but I'll tell you
what it might. It might change the way you think
about audio in general. It's that powerful. I'm Brian no
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I do like a couple of the tweets this evening.
I always think of it as the nighttime, right, Like
I didn't go to bed, so it's still the evening
for me. It might be the morning for you. I don't.
I never know how to say that I'm filling in
for Big Ben. But anyway, Rod checked in talking about
so I have to back up a little bit. We
(37:03):
had this knockdown, drag out debate last night when I
was filling in for Big Ben about Anne Hathaway was
named People Magazine's most Beautiful woman of twenty twenty six.
And I'm like, that's ridiculous. She's beautiful, she's talented, she's
not the most beautiful. Sorry, And anyway, late night Drug
tester was like, all right, ask Patty Sweeka, who's the
(37:24):
producer tonight? Who he thinks he's going Anne Hathaway or
is he going Sophia Vergara?
Speaker 7 (37:30):
Right?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
And so we had the whole debate, and my whole
question is if we're on a beach and Sophia Virgara
is walking one way and Anne Hathaway is walking the
other way, who are you looking at? It's not Anne,
all right, And so I like this from Rod. I
had to set that up so it makes any sense.
(37:51):
He just wrote in Brian, I'm looking at both. What
he's that's cheating, Rod. I mean, it's a legitimate answer,
but that's cheating. Sofia's going west AND's going east. You
gotta pick a lane. Who's it gonna be? You're not
east bounding down, not at that stage. No way, you're
(38:12):
looking westward, baby, I guarantee it, or I don't know
what you're doing with your life. That's basically what it
boils down to. Douglas. He checked in and said Anne
Hathaway has nothing on Sophia. I would agree with that.
I like this. It's not Ann or Sofia related. But
Steve checked in, My guy, Steve Rodriguez, this is kind
(38:34):
of This is cool, but it's also funny in a way.
That's why I wanted to share it with you. So
he wrote, when Dan Patrick retires in two years, my
three choices to host the show with the dan Nets
number one, Ross Tucker number two, Reggie Miller number three.
Brian No. Now that is the hell of a compliment, Steve.
(38:55):
I love that very nice. I know that many people
would disagree, but I like that that's your list. The
thing that I find funny is Reggie's not even a
sports radio host.
Speaker 7 (39:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
So it's funny. I'm still I'm still like, Reggie is
fantastic what he does, very talented, you know, as sports opinions,
and I think he's really good as a color analyst.
I think it does a great job with the NBA games.
But it's funny. The funny part is, even though he's famous,
(39:27):
and especially in sports circles, we know who Reggie Miller
is at his core, He's not a sports radio host.
So I'm still looking up at someone who's actually not
in the field, you know. So that seems about right,
seems about right. I do have to I promised you
tremendous audio and we will deliver that will come your
(39:49):
way at the top of the hour. Also, we have
a special guest who will be calling in momentarily. Very
much looking forward to that, and I hear that there's
a story related with this special guest where maybe falling
down an escalator is involved. That's all I can give
(40:11):
you right now. Okay, that's all I can give you
at this stage. I also what you have to look
forward to next hour. I have an NFL star that
i'd rather just hear nothing about going forward. And also
I would like to I would like to make a comparison.
You know old school naked gym Guy. You know the
(40:31):
guy that's just standing there air drying for an inappropriate
amount of time, totally nude. There is a new school
edition of Naked Gym Guy. I finally made this connection
well at the gym the last couple of days. So
I'd like to share that with you and see if
you're on board with that or not. Okay, Championship knock
(40:54):
your socks off audio hitting you coming up.
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