January 17, 2025 • 41 mins
The guys tell you how the Raiders end up the front-runner for the hottest OC head coaching candidate. Jason and Mike pay their respects to two Legends, Bob Uecker and David Lynch. And Tom Brady plans to stay with FOX Sports for the duration of his 10-year broadcasting contract despite his growing role with the Raiders.
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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(00:54):
the conversation we had a few minutes ago. I know
you probably defied expectation in realization when earlier today you
saw reports Ian Rapaport NFL Network again, Ian Rappaport saying
that the Raiders could be closing in on Ben Johnson
as their next head coach. Wait a minute, Ben Johnson
was gonna get any job he wanted, right the Raiders.
Why the writ, Well, lots of teams want CEO head coaches.
(01:16):
Now they don't. They no longer want the hot offensive coordinator.
We don't know if a guy can lead, especially in
this cycle where all the teams are the bottom feeders.
They all stink. There's no Hey, we're maybe a new
coach away from being a big Playoff contender. It's we
need somebody to set a culture, need somebody to do
with a plan that's done this before that we have
confidence in. So the Jets didn't even want to interview
(01:37):
Ben Johnson. Probably do you just say no, but wow,
and then you want to talk to us, so good
pressed by that. It's need that same thing with the Patriots.
They went from Mike Vrabel, who has built a program. Right,
you're seeing they want program builders now. So Ben Johnson,
it's weird a year ago hottest guy, hottest guy, still
hottest candidate. But now, hey, guess what your job's gonna
be with the Raiders? Good luck, good luck, I mean somebody.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It becomes the At what point do you get off
of the for lack of a better term than the
treadmill of all right, year fire year fire, Okay, keep
the GM a extually your fire. You know, te LESCo
gets gets let go. They clean everything out there in Raiderville.
Pretty good draft this year, pretty decent job. But in
(02:20):
the end they cleaned it out to start all over again.
But you watch Dan Campbell, you watch Dan Quinn, right,
he's credited. They've done a lot of work. I mean,
you want to talk about cleaning up and changing out
an organization the last four or five years, and Ron
Rivera gets some credit for that, which is why you
talk to a guy like him.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Right again, you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Tone setting, culture building, and trying to build a program.
It's really taking on some of the legs of what
we used to think about for college football, right, not
a Hey, I'm getting hired and by the end of
year two if I'm not winning, they're calling from my ass,
because that's a lot college football anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Usually call for your head. No, they call for your head.
No one calls for your ass. What are you are
you doing? What? I've never heard that before. They're calling
from as they call for your head. Your ass is
on the line, but they call for your head. That's
how it goes. You can turn it however you want. Hello, Yeah, yeah, hi,
(03:22):
I'm calling for Harmon's ass. Is Harmon's ass available, I'd
like to speak to Harmon's ass. Oh, thank you. I
appreciate that. Thank you. I'll wait, I'll wait on hold.
I'm not gonna respond with the one liner because if
you can blame it all them, but calling.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
From my ass, calling from my ass dot dot parenthetical
might be fired.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Mike Harmon's ass to Aisle seventeen. Mike Harmon's ass to
Aisle seventeen. Please thank you. May or may not have happened,
ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Tonight's in
flight movie will be Mike Harmon's ass. You can watch
it on the drop down projector in front of you,
or enjoy music on our in flight deltah. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
You might want to put the privacy lines on anyway.
The idea being that now we're looking at trying to
build stability, and what a novel concept after.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
All of these years, after.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
All of the conversations you and I have had every
year of how many organizations do you trust to where
there's any longevity to where you can build and not
know that Nope, I'm going over there.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Squirrel We've watched it time and time again, and maybe
the due diligence the Jets or the Bears is insane.
It's as insane as twenty interviews may be. And I
think it's overkilled. Just shows you've got nothing. Either that
or you had a Bingo card and you're waiting for
(04:51):
someone to hit every magical square and they get the
job on site in that moment, here's your contract, like
you won the Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory. But
for the Raiders, maybe Mark Davis is listening. Maybe you know,
we talk about Jerry Jones immortality. You know, you don't
(05:14):
have to be in your mid eighties before you start
thinking about those kind of things and succession plans. And
I don't know, trying to win right now as opposed
to running in place, especially in that division.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Now look now here's here's a different angle on this. Right,
And this is the first time I can remember it
happening to a coach and not a player. Right. What
do I always say when the NFL wants you, you
go right? If you are a quarterback with a great
junior year in the NFL says, hey, you're a top
three pick if you come out. Now. Guess what that's
(05:49):
when you go to the NFL. Right, you go to
the NFL when they want you, you go because you
see a guy like Matt Lionert who says, oh, no, no,
I have too much fun. I want to stay in
my senior year, and instead of going number one on overall,
he hasn't. Oh he has a good senior year, but
he has a bad pro day and he winds up
going number ten, where it's a lot easier to turn
the page on the guy taking tenth or twelfth in
the first round. Then it is a number one overall pick.
(06:12):
Never really had the chance to cement himself in Arizona,
lost a job to Kurt Warner, water takes to Cardinals
to the Super Bowl. Matt Linert's on TV right liner.
When the NFL wanted him, he would have been the
number one overall pick in the draft, he decided to stay.
This is why when the NFL or when you're ready
for the NBA, you go. You don't stay another year
because well, I don't know, I'm here. If you want
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to go to the NBA, you want to go to
the NFL when they're ready, you go. It's the same
thing for coaches. When when the NFL says, hey, you
are one of the hottest coaching candidates, you could get
almost any job you want to, that's when you go.
And Ben Johnson last year could have gotten any job
he wanted, but he decided, no, I want to stay.
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We're building stuff here in Detroit. For whatever reason he
decided he wanted to stay. I don't know if he
didn't like the openings out were out there. We'll get
to in a second, but he decided to stay. He
would have been the number one guy. Look at what
he did with the Lions. Oh my goodness. Now there
is a bit of shiny new toy and Ben Johnson
doing it two years in a row. Okay, But mainly
it's about now things changed. Things changed in a year, right,
(07:16):
just in a year. As you see, these teams that
are out here now need CEOs, They need CEO head coaches.
So now he's got to choose from the Jets, the Bears,
the Raiders, bottom feeders, the Jaguars, all the bottom feeder
teams who are all looking for, hey, some kind of
leadership to start us going again. So not only may
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he get passed over for these jobs, because he's not
a CEO guy. He may get into a situation where, dude,
you are behind the eight ball before you even start.
These teams are terrible. How many years are you going
to get to build your culture with that right because
you have bad teams. Now, this is why when the
NFL calls for you, you go. If Ben Johnson last year
had been smarter and said, yeah, I gotta go. They
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want me now, man, I'm the hot guy. You could
have gone to Atlanta, could have gone to the Chargers,
could have gone to the Seahawks, could have gone to
the Commanders of the number two overall pick. You would
have had Jaden Daniels. All five of those openings last year,
all five of those openings are better than every single
opening in the NFL this year. But you decided to
stay and so now instead of hey, I'm gonna you
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saw what Harball was able to do with the Chargers
this year. Hey Raheem Morris did have his ups and downs,
but certainly the Falcons are on the way up right.
Seattle had another decent year. That's a great job. Certainly
you want to be in the commander's shoes right now.
With Jaden Daniels, because that's what would have happened. You
would have taken him number two. Overall, all of these
openings were better, but for some reason he wanted to stay.
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And this is why when the NFL calls you go,
because if you don't, you throw everything into into havoc
and you have to deal with whatever the fault is.
Decisions have consequences, and the consequences are the openings this
year stink And maybe you're not going to be considered
like you worry year ago because the trend is gone
from what you do better to what guys like Mike
(09:05):
McCarthy and Mike Vrabel do better and what they've able
to do. So, I mean, I look at Ben Johnson,
I go, dude, did you miss your window? I mean,
did you really miss it? You want to think that
if my if I'm good OC or a good d C,
hey I'll be a hot can and every No, that's
not the case. It's not the case. Look at Eric
b Enemy, he was a hot offense court and how
many years could even couldn't could even get a finalist
interview for a head coaching gig? Right? When when when
(09:26):
you're when you when it's the hottest for you have
to go and it's a player, it's a coach, and
Ben Jonson is learning that right now.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, for the enemy, there's a there's a lot, a
lot of things that we can go deep down there.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I know what I'm saying is when the enemy first
came up all the oc in Kansas City. Sure, that's
when you go, man, that's when you go. When you say, okay,
I'm ready, I'm ready for my ready to be a
head coach in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, I mean to be fair, I mean you got
Matt Naggy getting interviews again from hanging.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Out on the chief staff. That was just anybody who's
been a head coach. Hey, anybody that's actually sat in
the the head coach's office, Great, we'll interview you will
talk to Yeah, it's like the old and shake to
big by Joe. But that's how But that's how big
of a change. It's been a sea change in a
year where now guys, not even guys who succeeded, like
I get McCarthy and Vrabel, but now it's guys like
(10:11):
Naggie who's stunk, and Robert Salo who's stunk, and these
guys are getting multiple head coaching interviews just because they've
done it before.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
My favorite is for Naggy, and you know my feelings
plenty on tape in our archives. But how people stand
for him while at the same time ripping Mitchell Trubisky.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
It's like he was the quarterback for those teams.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So either he gets credit for too or you shut
up about Matt Naggy.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Chicago wants people to do what they want to do.
It's not Chicago.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
It's big voice people with big spots that want to
stump for their guys.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I want to make sure that I can blame whoever
I want to blame on my television every Sunday, and
don't do the old he was able to do that
with him. It's like no, no, no, it works. And
he was terrible, and he was terrible, and he was terrible.
Your whole family is terrible, So I'm blaming all of you. Okay,
that's how it works here. You've been hanging out with
(11:09):
my family again. It's not perfect. Hey, I don't like
any of my kids. I don't like my oldest, I
don't like my youngest. The one in the middle, I
can't even remember his name. I think he stole a
bunch of stuff. I don't like any of them.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Not my fault.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I hate him, just like I hated Jay Cutler, who
was so bad and kept throwing the ball to the
other team way too much.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
We did have our first you're talking to the other
kid moment driving around earlier to not go over well,
some good laughter and laughter into tears off of that
one I mom find. But it's all that. The situation
with waiting your turn. There's always been that. But then
(11:50):
you rise up and you're the hot prospect. And Bobby
Slowick the same thing. He's getting interviews, but is he
getting a job the cycle Probably Duex's Ryan got an
interview Rex, Right, everybody's getting a look. See what do
you know? What you learn, let's see what we can
lean especially if you're a fellow AFC team something. Maybe
he uh, you know, loose lips and gives you something
(12:13):
for a future matchup.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
But in the interim it's like, no, you're you're not
a guy that's getting the gig.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
And for the NFL, we're seeing the bit of the
shift here, back to the elder statesman, back to the
control of a locker room and not just hey you
are great on that one side. Look at the owners
that are making the hiring. Hell, you had one guy
on a zoom call saying you sell me well enough.
I'll fire a GM right here, right now.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
If you have a good argument, I'll get rid of
the guy sitting right I'll just press a button. He
will fall through the floor.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Farewell, mister Bulkie, can't wait?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Can you step over two feet? Hey, Sead con Why
are you petting a cat like that? No, no reason,
mister Balkis, can you stand right there? Please? Thank you?
Remember we moved the desk over? No, what was in
a lethal weapon? Two? When the guy that lost all
the krueger Rand shows up and he goes, uh, sorry
for the plastic. I'm having some work done. You know
he's gotta shoot him? Yes, yes, hey pete, and it
(13:17):
shoots him on the plastic. I'm having some work done.
Oh okay, oh got sorry spoiler alert. But I mean
that's why when the NFL calls you player, coach, you
gotta go. You have to take your shot. Exit out
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Loss coming up next. We remember not one, but two
unbelievable legends that we lost today, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (15:15):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. And we lost two incredible legends today.
We'll get to Bob Uker coming up in a couple
of minutes. David Lynch, creator, actor, creator, Twin Peaks director
died today at the age of seventy eight. He had
(15:35):
been in ill health for a while. He was a
lifelong smoker. And you know, we use words like legend, genius,
and sometimes they're a little bit over overused, but for
me being the original Twin Peaks freak, the being the
og for Twin Peaks. I can't get over the genius
(15:59):
of what it is for someone like David Lynch to
come up with a world like that. Take the chances
that he does have it all make sense, and take
you and say, trust me, take this ride with me.
It'll be worth it. And you know, when Twin Peaks
first came out in the early nineties, it was incredible television,
incredible television, and it was I can't believe it got
(16:21):
it only made it a couple of years. You know,
it was on Friday Night, not as many people watch,
but it's what everybody talked about all next week at work.
It was a big thing. Came back with Twin Peaks
the Return a few years ago, and that was incredible
and it was It was probably the best TV show
that was on that year, and I was looking forward
to another year at some point doing something. And I mean,
(16:42):
he had a career of just saying I'm gonna do this,
and I'm gonna do it my way, and it's gonna
be a little freaky, but I'm gonna get outside the box.
And that's what he did his whole life. Sometimes it works,
sometimes it didn't. Some of his movies were really good.
Sometimes you go, what the hell did I just see? Yeah,
but it takes it takes a genius to be able
to come up with ideas like that and be able
(17:03):
to put him out there for you to consume it,
for people to love and say, give me more, give
me more. I mean, how many times do I do
my impression to the guy from the Black Lodge when
when you know and they're talking backwards heat back, see
how I mean? One of my favorite impressions to do.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
The one that some percentage have an idea of what
you're saying. The rest of us do not take sex.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Sam Darnold, Okay, I brought it back to sports, right,
it brought brought it back to sports. You did your
bast brought it back? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
No.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I had a friend who was obsessed with blue velvet
twin peaks.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Was was never my jam? What about red velvet?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Well, good cake every now and a velvet this is beautiful,
Lost Highway, Mouhall and drive all great, but the crowning
moment was the Wicked Game video. What a good thing,
doo doo. Yeah, that's it right there. That's he likes cinematic.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Everything you did. You're saying a three and a half
minute video that was the peak of his career for me,
for you, that was all the other movies, everything got
that that three and a half in velvet and made made.
It's Chris Isaac saying on a beach with just the
waves coming in, Huh, they're not even women. They didn't
have to get stunt waves coming in. They're just the
waves are coming in. We're gonna film them. He film
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nature beautifully. That's it. That three and a half minutes.
That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
OK, clearly, all I'm trying to say is I never
got into Twin Peaks. You tried to sell me.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That's like saying Aaron Rodgers with the Jets, boy, that
was the best of his career. Now, Aaron Rodgers, he
said it was.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
The best time he ever had. Roger, you like that.
I'll take his words and put them right back.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
He's getting with the Jets, that's the best I've ever
seen the last two years. He said it was the
best of his career. That's the way to say, screw you,
Green Bay. I'm still glad I left, even though it
might not be. Just to make sure we're talking about
the Cinemax night movie, right, Twin Peaks, No, that's not
in Cinemax anymore. Max is like, you know, because Cinemax
is like legit. How do you know he might have
(19:05):
the alternation? No, no, no, I go, I go passing through
all the movie channels. I don't see if Pam didn't
block something like that. I don't see anything that looks icy.
I don't see anything looks dicey on Cinemax anymore. I
don't see like, oh, The Night of Loving Dangerously. Oh no,
that's okay, it's not on Cinemax. Okay, not there, you
know see that?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
But I mean he gave the world.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Kyle McLaughlin in many, many roles, including Twin Peaks obviously Dune,
which is one that I've sat and watched multiple times
and kind of gone, why am I watching this? Yeah,
as much as I like five rob On and watching
Sting get after the.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
New Dune or the old Dude about the New Dune,
and okay, as much as I love Shalla May and
all in Scars Guard, I just haven't put it in
my my plan. I think you have to like, I
think there's a rule you have to like Timothy Shallome.
You can't say, you know, I think there's a rule.
Though I don't think you're allowed to be he's not
a good actor, not that I don't. I mean I
like Tomothy Shallo May, but I did just if. I
(20:01):
mean I liked him in Little Women. I like him now.
I mean, like, if you say Timothy shallow May is like,
especially my daughter and all her friends like they love
Timothy Shallo May like he's their tom Cruise. But if
you say one thing, yeah, in that movie, what do
you mean in that movie he was just okay. Oh no, no,
I don't mean anything. Sorry, I'm good. I'm good. Don't worry.
What do they say about who he's dating? Though? They
take issue with that? Right, Uh, that's going low. Yeah,
(20:26):
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It
was inside of his relationship. I don't know. You don't
have any thoughts on Kylie Jenner. No, I mean you
know what I mean Zoe on the show, Kylie, I
think you know, all right, he's just a kid having
Kylie Jenner. Kylie Jenner, Kylie Jenner. When I realized the impact,
she had on people my daughter's but a couple of
(20:48):
years ago. So when they were like twelve or thirteen
or whatever, it was like when Kylie j on them,
well with every just note they all knew who she was,
and like they would say something like like, all of
a sudden, we hear them say, Kylie's gonna have a baby,
Like who's Kylie? Who? Kylie? Who? Like do we someone
trying to think all the people you know named Kylie? No,
Kylie Jedder Oh, Like all of a sudden it was, yeah,
(21:11):
oh Kylie, that's huge deal. It's like, all right, my
older daughter loves herself.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Some reality television Hm, nothing to do with the Kardashian clan.
It's somehow that the Real Housewives or whatever that's all
over there.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
She likes. She likes competitions, if.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
There's a puzzle to be solved or something she's watching
that she's in. She's watching Old Seeds of the Mole
with Anderson Cooper and Corbyn Burnson and Stephen Baldwin.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You said that like it's wrong. I said I said
that because I actually what you think. I just pull
it off the top of my head. I used to
watch the Mall, I loved the mole you wanted to be.
The male was good. I would love to be a
great mole. A great mole. Oh are you kidding? All
the all the dangerou stuff they want to do. Or
I would say no, I'm too afraid to They would say, oh,
you're the mall man. You look at the special Forces
thing they do now, Cam Newton on me.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You wouldn't dive on that fumble and then.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Golden Tate and all these other guys as part of
these things. I'll hang out of a helicopter. But when
not fumble hit the ground of the super Bowl, I
don't want any part of that. That was a business decision.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So since Kylie Jenner came up, I mean, did did
we have to mean more? Snub Kylie Jenner at that table?
Once you went to say hi to Eliphant a snub?
It looked like a snub or wasn't a hey? We
got a minute before flickering The lights were coming back
from commercial, so I gotta say my helloes and get
back now.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I think they'll just do a hey, catch you later,
or hey a point or something. I think you still
do that if you wanted to go, yeah, we'll talk
at some point if you need to. I don't know. No,
I think that. I think that was a snub. Hollywood
snubs would kind of becoming a thing. Now they're becoming
a real thing. They weren't a thing, but now they're
a thing.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
But I would say this, in the two weeks, it's
been a real half assed effort to figure out why
uh which it seems like we might want to connect
some DUTs.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It's timelines and is true. This is why TMZ has
guys on social media. They've done nothing. Let me go back. Look,
they've done nothing. They've come up with nothing year something.
They're only back at probably twenty nineteen. They got to
get back into the twenty eighteen, twenty seventeen when this
feud has been simmering since the beginning of Twitter in
two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
You kind of a big deal. Late eighties, early nineties.
Need a little bit of time, there'll be more. Still
a big deal now. I'm just saying she's getting nominated
for an Optionense was.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Great, Yeah, chonome. I had a great time at that
movie is really good. You all look at me moorees back.
Oh okay, we.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Went and saw that and as we walked in the
UH the guy that took our tickets and goes, this
is gonna freak you out.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
This is great, Like so you've.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Seen it, like we went the opening weekend goes, yeah,
just wait, we screened it.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It was so good. Next week it's Robbie Williams is
a Monkey. You wait for that movie.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Which my older daughter saw and actually said it was okay,
said that she had problems with the UH continually seeing
a monkey.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Short storting once. Yeah, you don't usually see a monkey
doing drugs. That's something I've never seen. I can't say
I saw that, so I kind of want to go
see it. Not even in the Simpsons when they had Mojo.
All the monkey doesn't sit around and struggle to breathe.
Pray for Mojo. Pray for Mojo. The Jason showing Mike
(24:11):
Carvin Live the TIREC dot Com Studios look, David Lynch
in Absolute Legend Twin Peaks Rest in Peace in seventy eight,
and of course we've talked about it today. Sometimes when
someone like Bob Buker dies, the best most accurate thing
you can say is thank you for his life, for
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your life, for your career, for everything, you've done for baseball,
for entertainment. I mean, this is someone who walked out
of obscurity as a baseball player into the broadcast booth,
became famous in the movies. On television, you had a
sitcom they did one hundred and twenty two episodes of
He was popular on the Tonight Show. He did one
hundred appearances on The Tonight Show. Miller Lite beer commercials,
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still announcing Brewers' games until he was ninety, all right.
His last game was the Alonzo home run game that
he that he did this year when the Brewers lost
to the Mets in Game three of the Divisional series, uh,
the Wildcard series. I mean, he had some sort of
life and for a guy who really and I have
so much respect because people just don't do this nowadays,
(25:17):
is that he made his bones and made himself into
a cottage industry by just being himself. Didn't try to
be something he wasn't, didn't didn't try to look for
an angle, didn't try to say, well, if I'm this
kind of guy, I'll cut through with it. I mean,
he came up and became a big TV star and
resonated for forty years. We still run his major League
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lines as Harry Doyle. He was someone he was just
himself and what he did for a living he took serious,
but he never took himself too serious. And that's what
led to him having that Walter Midty type of career
where yeah, I'm a baseball announcer and I'm gonna I'm
not a movie star, and I'm a TV star and
I and I'm I'm you know what I mean, Just
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that kind of life. All these things that people if
people get to do one of those things in their life,
they would say, I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
And he got to do all of them because that
was the guy. He was. What you saw on TV,
the image that you saw on screen on Cela Fame,
that was what he was. And taking yourself not too
seriously while taking what you do seriously is a bit
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of an art and he was able to do that
and that's why he was who he was. Go back
to the nineteen sixty two that's his top's rookie card.
He was on it with four other prospects, and we
talked about and he was self deprecating of his career right,
a lot of quips about games he was involved with
at bats and the fact that couldn't hit, couldn't hit.
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Yet he's a Baseball Hall of.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Famer and in an age certainly now it's easier to
be seen and found everywhere because of the interwebs and
everything we've got. Back then, you had Mel Allen, New York,
Vin Scully, Los Angeles, Harry Carey, Chagar, so we got everything,
you know, regions covered, and then you got the Gap
(27:07):
from Milwaukee, who becomes this legend, who becomes the Hollywood star,
who becomes the all of those things, not that everybody
else didn't have this week in baseball or Harry Carey's commercials,
and certainly Vin Scully plenty of voiceover and monstrous moments
that he was part of in the broadcast world. But
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for Bob Buker to bounce between all of those things
and still want to do the job up until he's ninety,
and you saw the outpouring of emotion like some of
the letters and little notes put out by Brewers from
the last forty years up until this most recent team,
right Christin Yelich and all these guys posting things stories
(27:50):
with Uker that always ended with yeah, I shouldn't tell
that next part.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, yeah, but we had a good time. Yeah yeah,
you know.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And he would, you know, have fun at their expense,
but always, you know, a one liner at the end
of it. And I don't know, I think that's kind
of cool to be able to keep relating and have
that energy and want to be around it and think
about this for a second too, right, Because I always
say some of the movies that are immortal, and certainly
Major League is one of those movies. It's a hero movie,
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and heroes are always as good, only as good as
their villains, right, I always say that, But sometimes one
person in a movie makes it legendary, right for the
hero villains.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Thing like you go back to Rocky. If Carl Weathers
isn't as good as he is as the villain, Rocky
is a schmaltzy kind of movie where hey, it looks
like a lifetime movie, right or a Hallmark Christmas movie.
But he's so good as the villain. He was a
really good actor, and he was so good in that
role that makes Rocky legendary. Major League is a terrific movie. Right.
(28:54):
And the lou Brown one liners that I like to run,
I mean, nice catch Hays don't ever blank and do
that again? Like I still say I still say that
to the kids, like cook nice catch, don't ever blank
and do that again? Right? But Major League, as much
as much of a legendary movie as it is, here's
no movie without Bob Buker. It's one of those two
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star movies that comes and goes that you see on
cable once in a while. But Bob Buker made it legendary.
When you saw Major League for the first time, but
the first few times after, what did you do? You
quoted his lines? Oh my god, Bob Buker is hilarious.
Every time he's on screen. He's hysterical. And I'm sure
he wrote most of those lines himself. I'm gonna say this,
(29:36):
I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say this. Every time
he is on screen and he says something, it is hilarious.
He goes like twenty for twenty in this. In this movie,
which is a comedy, there's not one line he has
that doesn't make you laugh to some extent. Sometimes you
belly laugh and tears come out of your eyes. Sometimes
you laugh ago, Oh that's a good one. But it
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doesn't matter because he makes that movie, and Major League is,
and you got major League two and major League three,
and Major League back to the miners, major League four.
They're gonna reboot major League I heard at some point.
So you don't have that, and maybe you don't have
the big crush of baseball movies in general. If Major
League doesn't succeed, do we still get a league of
their own? If Major League isn't such a big hit
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in nineteen eighty nine, I don't know, right, do we
get more? Do it? Do we still get that? I
don't know that we do? Do we still get Moneyball?
Do we get all these movies? Major League comes out
and without Bob Bucker, it's kind of a two star
movie that has some fun stuff in it with some stars,
but he elevates it just by his role of being
himself and being Harry Doyle. Is that is some unbelievable
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amount of responsibility and impact you have when by yourself
as a minor role. He doesn't even interact with anybody.
It's just him in it just says fly ball caught like,
I don't have that here? Isn't he a convicted felon?
I don't have that? Well? He ought to be like
I mean the impact he has had is immeasurable. That movie,
(31:01):
that movie, franchise, what came along after it is there
because of him.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, I would say this. I want to go back
and I've never seen this. Nineteen eighty five his first
IMDb credit OC and Stiggs. It's a Robert Altman movie.
And get this, here's your cast. Jane Curtin's in there,
Paul Dooley, you'd recognize the face. Ducky So, John Crier's
in there, Cynthia Nixon, Tina Louise Wow. Yeah, not on
(31:29):
Gilligan's Island, Jennis Hopper, Ray Walston. And here's the summary. O.
C and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not
only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against them. They
seek revenge against the middle class Swab family who embody all.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
They detest the middle class.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Like that.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I just go on.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I mean all the beer commercials. He's a WWE Hall
of Famer as he was part of the broadcast from
Detroit for WrestleMania three. Some very famous images of Andre
the giants large hands wrapped around his neck going around
the interwebs today. So yeah, I mean, you go all
the way through. I mean, it's a guy. He played
(32:16):
every man, right, It's kind of the career Tim Allen
has tried his entire He's got a.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
New one, got a new one that's pretty good, okay,
but the same kind of theme, same idea. I am
every every man. Time to find out what's trended right
now in the wide world of sports. From someone who
knows that the Clippers have outscored their opponents the last
two nights three hundred and seventy four to eight.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
And seventy three.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Oh sorry, I didn't carry the four.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That's okay, It's all right, Dick, good driving that bus.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I just have to say to me.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Moore absolutely snubbed Kylie Jenner.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I don't know why, because it seems like something is
going on.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
There might be some long beef, right because it seemed.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Who intentional And I wish I had the time or
really cared to dive into social media and figure it out.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
But it was great the video check.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Yeah, let me know, maybe I'll maybe I'll see what
I can figure out in the next hour.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You're right, five games in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Fellas, they have all wrapped up like the Clippers on
it back to back night. They rolled past the Trail
Blazers no problem, one eighteen to eighty nine. Norman Powell
twenty three points for La Kings and Houston are Rockets.
They went down to the wire back and forth. Jalen
Green hit a three with ten seconds left to bring
Houston within one.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Kings hit the free throw, so they were saw up
by three.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Jalen Green had a great opportunity for another three to
tie it, didn't get it. He ended with twenty eight
and the Kings held on to beat the Rockets one
thirty two to one twenty seven was the final score.
Devin Booker dropped thirty seven points as the Sun defeated
the Wizards won thirty to one twenty three. The Pacers
topped the Pistons one eleven to one hundred, and Shay
Gilges Alexander forty points and eight assists as the Thunder
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crushed the Cavaliers one thirty four to one fourteen. There's
only two players that have scored forty points against the
Calves this season.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Do you guys know who the other player is?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Besides Shay Gilges Alexander.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Bob Hope almost almost.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Almost, Damian Lillard this is I didn't know only two
players have scored forty against the Calves. That's great.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Crazy.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Caves also had twenty one turnovers, so that's probably why
they lost in college.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Do you know who Bob Hope is? I? Do you do?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I really?
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Who's Bob Hope?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
He's on the exit when I go to the Free
Way and I go to the Burbank Airport.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I was gonna says the airport. Yeah, yeah, that is
Bob Hope. Drive. Yes, but what else is? I know
what else is he? He was the mayor of Los
Angeles for thirty years. Wow, oh man, I would not
have gone that the truth. No, I was like, no.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
That's I would not.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Have picked that in a multiple choice questionnaire.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
He won twenty games for the Mets in eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Is that are you being seriously? No?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Are you just? Are you to me?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Mourning me right now?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
And I'm Kylie Jenner?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
What is happening here? A lot of side going on here?
Hope own the Clippers and no I'm not.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
That's stop.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Stop.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Nobody likes you right now. Temple defeated number eighteen Memphis
eighty eight to eighty one, and Minnesota took down Number
twenty Michigan with a logo three at the buzzer. Eighty
four eighty one was the final score. Right now, it's
a tie game between number sixteen Gonzaga, the logan Steago,
the NBA logo.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
No, that's not.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Bobbles out of here.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
That's not no, it's not no, it's not get out
of here, Bob Hope, can you kick him? The Oilers
as the Avalanche on the ice four to three, and
the last game just trapped up. It was the King's
just crushing the Canucks five one. And of course we're
keeping an eye on Alex Loovechkin, who scored the game
winner for the Capitals today against the Senators, twenty one
(35:49):
goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's all time goal record
of eight ninety four.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Back to you, Harmon, not to you, Jason, welcome back
in Thank you Manzi. Yeah is Bob Hope, Oh boy
for the memory. We'll explain Bob Hope. Coming up next,
we'll get back get into a big story from the NFL.
I can solve the biggest suit you solved nothing that's
(36:14):
coming up next on Fox Sports. I hope here.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Bob Hope here, you gotta listen to the whole show
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Having Monte Bolango's convinced that Bob Hope
won twenty games with the Mets in eighty seven, that
was pretty good. Well, but it's no. That's the one
(36:48):
thing the Mets don't have is hope. In eighty seven
we did No, you did it?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
We were coming off the World Series at eighty six
the Dodgers. Bob Hope. Yah.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Well, but one of the things, I mean, if your
Monsei Milanas, you don't believe while you're sitting at a
news desk that someone's gonna try to clown you and
tell you lies.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
You sat on a throne of lies. Pop Hope. When
twenty games of the Mets in ages, the rotate was
Gooden Darling Hope, Sid Fernandez says, that was the chance
the Mets won twenty games. No, we were still good
in eighty seven eighty eight, then we got bad. He
we had. We had a good run for most of
(37:30):
the back half of the eighties, but that was it. Sure, sure,
I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. Now speaking of good runs, Uh,
Tom Brady, through his agent today UH made it be
known that he's gonna continue broadcasting, gonna continue going on.
You know, this year the reviews for Brady have been
uneven in the broadcast booth. But he's gonna continue to
fulfill his contract with Fox, which you know pays him
(37:51):
thirty seven million dollars a year for the next nine years.
So I'm gonna spend stivization. Yeah, he's gonna do this
while he still partly owns the Raiders and tells Mark
Davis what to do. But I will say this about
Brady broadcast. There's been a lot said about Brady over
the course of the last eighteen plus weeks, and I
can tell you exactly what might have made things a
(38:12):
little bit smoother for him over the course of this year. Brady,
when I watch him, I think he's still not comfortable
being himself because he feels like he has to say
everything about the play and get all the players in
and he can't sit back and just be Tom Brady,
(38:32):
which is tell me what the quarterback's thinking. Tell me
what he would have seen from the defensive back, tell
me a fun story. I think he's caught up with
having to do everything as an analyst. And Brady at
his best is a guy who's a personality like Eli Manning,
like Peyton Manning. Brady is really entertaining, but he gets
lost in it because he feels I have to keep
(38:53):
describing everything that just hap people need to know what
Lineman shot through the gap and did that and no,
we kind of all see it. If Brady had started
this year, Fox had put him in a three man booth,
I think that the year for Brady in the future,
what people think about him as a broadcast would be
entirely different, because if you had a three man booth,
you could have the play by play, get Kevin Burkhart,
(39:15):
you could have an analyst doing the nuts and bolts,
meat and potatoes from the play, and Brady would pick
his spots throughout the game to say, to say something
he saw, to tell a great story, and it would
be wow, did you see Tom Brady saying this and
saying this and saying this, this is amazing? Instead of Wow,
Brady just feels like he's, you know, regurgitating information. He
doesn't feel like he's quite in the flow. Yes, he's learning,
(39:37):
but a three man booth he would have been able
to get into it a little bit easier, and then
maybe after year or two would have been, Hey, I'm
ready to be the number two guy in a booth.
I know what I can explain and tell my stories.
But if he came in with a three man booth,
I think the impact of Tom Brady, I know it,
it would have been a lot better, and he would
have been a lot more comfortable, and there'd be a
lot more attention on what he's actually saying over the
(39:57):
course of the broadcast.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah, I mean some of it becomes the the poison
ben much like the end of his playing career. You know,
you had a certain fraction of folks like, he's all
go away, He's still one of the most efficient and
winning quarterbacks we've got, doesn't matter, go away, dismiss what
they did, New Englan, all of those things. So when
he gets into the booth, it was, well, I'm gonna
(40:20):
hate what he says, no matter how well he puts it,
how concise his messaging is. I think, to your point,
forget about three man For me, it's the I don't
need the old you know, call response kind of thing
in terms of the play calling and analysis. Just let
it flow, not full on Manning cast, but in that
(40:41):
vein of we don't have to, you know, talk about
everything you just watched.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah, because look, our viewing habits have become a lot
different for football in the last few years, and there's
a way to continue to take advantage of that. That
Brady could have continued to take advantage of that. Yeah,
tell you what. We'll explain exactly what that means coming
up next, as well as tell you exactly where Aaron
Rodgers is going to be playing football next year. Because
you think it's gonna be the Steelers at this I'll
(41:07):
tell you exactly where he's playing. That's next. Jason and
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the conversation we had a few minutes ago. I know
you probably defied expectation in realization when earlier today you
saw reports Ian Rapaport NFL Network again, Ian Rappaport saying
that the Raiders could be closing in on Ben Johnson
as their next head coach. Wait a minute, Ben Johnson
was gonna get any job he wanted, right the Raiders.
Why the writ, Well, lots of teams want CEO head coaches.
(01:16):
Now they don't. They no longer want the hot offensive coordinator.
We don't know if a guy can lead, especially in
this cycle where all the teams are the bottom feeders.
They all stink. There's no Hey, we're maybe a new
coach away from being a big Playoff contender. It's we
need somebody to set a culture, need somebody to do
with a plan that's done this before that we have
confidence in. So the Jets didn't even want to interview
(01:37):
Ben Johnson. Probably do you just say no, but wow,
and then you want to talk to us, so good
pressed by that. It's need that same thing with the Patriots.
They went from Mike Vrabel, who has built a program. Right,
you're seeing they want program builders now. So Ben Johnson,
it's weird a year ago hottest guy, hottest guy, still
hottest candidate. But now, hey, guess what your job's gonna
be with the Raiders? Good luck, good luck, I mean somebody.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It becomes the At what point do you get off
of the for lack of a better term than the
treadmill of all right, year fire year fire, Okay, keep
the GM a extually your fire. You know, te LESCo
gets gets let go. They clean everything out there in Raiderville.
Pretty good draft this year, pretty decent job. But in
(02:20):
the end they cleaned it out to start all over again.
But you watch Dan Campbell, you watch Dan Quinn, right,
he's credited. They've done a lot of work. I mean,
you want to talk about cleaning up and changing out
an organization the last four or five years, and Ron
Rivera gets some credit for that, which is why you
talk to a guy like him.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Right again, you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Tone setting, culture building, and trying to build a program.
It's really taking on some of the legs of what
we used to think about for college football, right, not
a Hey, I'm getting hired and by the end of
year two if I'm not winning, they're calling from my ass,
because that's a lot college football anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Usually call for your head. No, they call for your head.
No one calls for your ass. What are you are
you doing? What? I've never heard that before. They're calling
from as they call for your head. Your ass is
on the line, but they call for your head. That's
how it goes. You can turn it however you want. Hello, Yeah, yeah, hi,
(03:22):
I'm calling for Harmon's ass. Is Harmon's ass available, I'd
like to speak to Harmon's ass. Oh, thank you. I
appreciate that. Thank you. I'll wait, I'll wait on hold.
I'm not gonna respond with the one liner because if
you can blame it all them, but calling.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
From my ass, calling from my ass dot dot parenthetical
might be fired.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Mike Harmon's ass to Aisle seventeen. Mike Harmon's ass to
Aisle seventeen. Please thank you. May or may not have happened,
ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Tonight's in
flight movie will be Mike Harmon's ass. You can watch
it on the drop down projector in front of you,
or enjoy music on our in flight deltah. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
You might want to put the privacy lines on anyway.
The idea being that now we're looking at trying to
build stability, and what a novel concept after.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
All of these years, after.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
All of the conversations you and I have had every
year of how many organizations do you trust to where
there's any longevity to where you can build and not
know that Nope, I'm going over there.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Squirrel We've watched it time and time again, and maybe
the due diligence the Jets or the Bears is insane.
It's as insane as twenty interviews may be. And I
think it's overkilled. Just shows you've got nothing. Either that
or you had a Bingo card and you're waiting for
(04:51):
someone to hit every magical square and they get the
job on site in that moment, here's your contract, like
you won the Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory. But
for the Raiders, maybe Mark Davis is listening. Maybe you know,
we talk about Jerry Jones immortality. You know, you don't
(05:14):
have to be in your mid eighties before you start
thinking about those kind of things and succession plans. And
I don't know, trying to win right now as opposed
to running in place, especially in that division.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Now look now here's here's a different angle on this. Right,
And this is the first time I can remember it
happening to a coach and not a player. Right. What
do I always say when the NFL wants you, you
go right? If you are a quarterback with a great
junior year in the NFL says, hey, you're a top
three pick if you come out. Now. Guess what that's
(05:49):
when you go to the NFL. Right, you go to
the NFL when they want you, you go because you
see a guy like Matt Lionert who says, oh, no, no,
I have too much fun. I want to stay in
my senior year, and instead of going number one on overall,
he hasn't. Oh he has a good senior year, but
he has a bad pro day and he winds up
going number ten, where it's a lot easier to turn
the page on the guy taking tenth or twelfth in
the first round. Then it is a number one overall pick.
(06:12):
Never really had the chance to cement himself in Arizona,
lost a job to Kurt Warner, water takes to Cardinals
to the Super Bowl. Matt Linert's on TV right liner.
When the NFL wanted him, he would have been the
number one overall pick in the draft, he decided to stay.
This is why when the NFL or when you're ready
for the NBA, you go. You don't stay another year
because well, I don't know, I'm here. If you want
(06:33):
to go to the NBA, you want to go to
the NFL when they're ready, you go. It's the same
thing for coaches. When when the NFL says, hey, you
are one of the hottest coaching candidates, you could get
almost any job you want to, that's when you go.
And Ben Johnson last year could have gotten any job
he wanted, but he decided, no, I want to stay.
(06:54):
We're building stuff here in Detroit. For whatever reason he
decided he wanted to stay. I don't know if he
didn't like the openings out were out there. We'll get
to in a second, but he decided to stay. He
would have been the number one guy. Look at what
he did with the Lions. Oh my goodness. Now there
is a bit of shiny new toy and Ben Johnson
doing it two years in a row. Okay, But mainly
it's about now things changed. Things changed in a year, right,
(07:16):
just in a year. As you see, these teams that
are out here now need CEOs, They need CEO head coaches.
So now he's got to choose from the Jets, the Bears,
the Raiders, bottom feeders, the Jaguars, all the bottom feeder
teams who are all looking for, hey, some kind of
leadership to start us going again. So not only may
(07:36):
he get passed over for these jobs, because he's not
a CEO guy. He may get into a situation where, dude,
you are behind the eight ball before you even start.
These teams are terrible. How many years are you going
to get to build your culture with that right because
you have bad teams. Now, this is why when the
NFL calls for you, you go. If Ben Johnson last year
had been smarter and said, yeah, I gotta go. They
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want me now, man, I'm the hot guy. You could
have gone to Atlanta, could have gone to the Chargers,
could have gone to the Seahawks, could have gone to
the Commanders of the number two overall pick. You would
have had Jaden Daniels. All five of those openings last year,
all five of those openings are better than every single
opening in the NFL this year. But you decided to
stay and so now instead of hey, I'm gonna you
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saw what Harball was able to do with the Chargers
this year. Hey Raheem Morris did have his ups and downs,
but certainly the Falcons are on the way up right.
Seattle had another decent year. That's a great job. Certainly
you want to be in the commander's shoes right now.
With Jaden Daniels, because that's what would have happened. You
would have taken him number two. Overall, all of these
openings were better, but for some reason he wanted to stay.
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And this is why when the NFL calls you go,
because if you don't, you throw everything into into havoc
and you have to deal with whatever the fault is.
Decisions have consequences, and the consequences are the openings this
year stink And maybe you're not going to be considered
like you worry year ago because the trend is gone
from what you do better to what guys like Mike
(09:05):
McCarthy and Mike Vrabel do better and what they've able
to do. So, I mean, I look at Ben Johnson,
I go, dude, did you miss your window? I mean,
did you really miss it? You want to think that
if my if I'm good OC or a good d C,
hey I'll be a hot can and every No, that's
not the case. It's not the case. Look at Eric
b Enemy, he was a hot offense court and how
many years could even couldn't could even get a finalist
interview for a head coaching gig? Right? When when when
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you're when you when it's the hottest for you have
to go and it's a player, it's a coach, and
Ben Jonson is learning that right now.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, for the enemy, there's a there's a lot, a
lot of things that we can go deep down there.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I know what I'm saying is when the enemy first
came up all the oc in Kansas City. Sure, that's
when you go, man, that's when you go. When you say, okay,
I'm ready, I'm ready for my ready to be a
head coach in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, I mean to be fair, I mean you got
Matt Naggy getting interviews again from hanging.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Out on the chief staff. That was just anybody who's
been a head coach. Hey, anybody that's actually sat in
the the head coach's office, Great, we'll interview you will
talk to Yeah, it's like the old and shake to
big by Joe. But that's how But that's how big
of a change. It's been a sea change in a
year where now guys, not even guys who succeeded, like
I get McCarthy and Vrabel, but now it's guys like
(10:11):
Naggie who's stunk, and Robert Salo who's stunk, and these
guys are getting multiple head coaching interviews just because they've
done it before.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
My favorite is for Naggy, and you know my feelings
plenty on tape in our archives. But how people stand
for him while at the same time ripping Mitchell Trubisky.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
It's like he was the quarterback for those teams.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So either he gets credit for too or you shut
up about Matt Naggy.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Chicago wants people to do what they want to do.
It's not Chicago.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
It's big voice people with big spots that want to
stump for their guys.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I want to make sure that I can blame whoever
I want to blame on my television every Sunday, and
don't do the old he was able to do that
with him. It's like no, no, no, it works. And
he was terrible, and he was terrible, and he was terrible.
Your whole family is terrible, So I'm blaming all of you. Okay,
that's how it works here. You've been hanging out with
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my family again. It's not perfect. Hey, I don't like
any of my kids. I don't like my oldest, I
don't like my youngest. The one in the middle, I
can't even remember his name. I think he stole a
bunch of stuff. I don't like any of them.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Not my fault.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I hate him, just like I hated Jay Cutler, who
was so bad and kept throwing the ball to the
other team way too much.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
We did have our first you're talking to the other
kid moment driving around earlier to not go over well,
some good laughter and laughter into tears off of that
one I mom find. But it's all that. The situation
with waiting your turn. There's always been that. But then
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you rise up and you're the hot prospect. And Bobby
Slowick the same thing. He's getting interviews, but is he
getting a job the cycle Probably Duex's Ryan got an
interview Rex, Right, everybody's getting a look. See what do
you know? What you learn, let's see what we can
lean especially if you're a fellow AFC team something. Maybe
he uh, you know, loose lips and gives you something
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for a future matchup.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
But in the interim it's like, no, you're you're not
a guy that's getting the gig.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
And for the NFL, we're seeing the bit of the
shift here, back to the elder statesman, back to the
control of a locker room and not just hey you
are great on that one side. Look at the owners
that are making the hiring. Hell, you had one guy
on a zoom call saying you sell me well enough.
I'll fire a GM right here, right now.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
If you have a good argument, I'll get rid of
the guy sitting right I'll just press a button. He
will fall through the floor.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Farewell, mister Bulkie, can't wait?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Can you step over two feet? Hey, Sead con Why
are you petting a cat like that? No, no reason,
mister Balkis, can you stand right there? Please? Thank you?
Remember we moved the desk over? No, what was in
a lethal weapon? Two? When the guy that lost all
the krueger Rand shows up and he goes, uh, sorry
for the plastic. I'm having some work done. You know
he's gotta shoot him? Yes, yes, hey pete, and it
(13:17):
shoots him on the plastic. I'm having some work done.
Oh okay, oh got sorry spoiler alert. But I mean
that's why when the NFL calls you player, coach, you
gotta go. You have to take your shot. Exit out
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unbelievable legends that we lost today, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (15:15):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. And we lost two incredible legends today.
We'll get to Bob Uker coming up in a couple
of minutes. David Lynch, creator, actor, creator, Twin Peaks director
died today at the age of seventy eight. He had
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been in ill health for a while. He was a
lifelong smoker. And you know, we use words like legend, genius,
and sometimes they're a little bit over overused, but for
me being the original Twin Peaks freak, the being the
og for Twin Peaks. I can't get over the genius
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of what it is for someone like David Lynch to
come up with a world like that. Take the chances
that he does have it all make sense, and take
you and say, trust me, take this ride with me.
It'll be worth it. And you know, when Twin Peaks
first came out in the early nineties, it was incredible television,
incredible television, and it was I can't believe it got
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it only made it a couple of years. You know,
it was on Friday Night, not as many people watch,
but it's what everybody talked about all next week at work.
It was a big thing. Came back with Twin Peaks
the Return a few years ago, and that was incredible
and it was It was probably the best TV show
that was on that year, and I was looking forward
to another year at some point doing something. And I mean,
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he had a career of just saying I'm gonna do this,
and I'm gonna do it my way, and it's gonna
be a little freaky, but I'm gonna get outside the box.
And that's what he did his whole life. Sometimes it works,
sometimes it didn't. Some of his movies were really good.
Sometimes you go, what the hell did I just see? Yeah,
but it takes it takes a genius to be able
to come up with ideas like that and be able
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to put him out there for you to consume it,
for people to love and say, give me more, give
me more. I mean, how many times do I do
my impression to the guy from the Black Lodge when
when you know and they're talking backwards heat back, see
how I mean? One of my favorite impressions to do.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
The one that some percentage have an idea of what
you're saying. The rest of us do not take sex.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Sam Darnold, Okay, I brought it back to sports, right,
it brought brought it back to sports. You did your
bast brought it back? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
No.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I had a friend who was obsessed with blue velvet
twin peaks.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Was was never my jam? What about red velvet?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Well, good cake every now and a velvet this is beautiful,
Lost Highway, Mouhall and drive all great, but the crowning
moment was the Wicked Game video. What a good thing,
doo doo. Yeah, that's it right there. That's he likes cinematic.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Everything you did. You're saying a three and a half
minute video that was the peak of his career for me,
for you, that was all the other movies, everything got
that that three and a half in velvet and made made.
It's Chris Isaac saying on a beach with just the
waves coming in, Huh, they're not even women. They didn't
have to get stunt waves coming in. They're just the
waves are coming in. We're gonna film them. He film
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nature beautifully. That's it. That three and a half minutes.
That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
OK, clearly, all I'm trying to say is I never
got into Twin Peaks. You tried to sell me.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That's like saying Aaron Rodgers with the Jets, boy, that
was the best of his career. Now, Aaron Rodgers, he
said it was.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
The best time he ever had. Roger, you like that.
I'll take his words and put them right back.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
He's getting with the Jets, that's the best I've ever
seen the last two years. He said it was the
best of his career. That's the way to say, screw you,
Green Bay. I'm still glad I left, even though it
might not be. Just to make sure we're talking about
the Cinemax night movie, right, Twin Peaks, No, that's not
in Cinemax anymore. Max is like, you know, because Cinemax
is like legit. How do you know he might have
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the alternation? No, no, no, I go, I go passing through
all the movie channels. I don't see if Pam didn't
block something like that. I don't see anything that looks icy.
I don't see anything looks dicey on Cinemax anymore. I
don't see like, oh, The Night of Loving Dangerously. Oh no,
that's okay, it's not on Cinemax. Okay, not there, you
know see that?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
But I mean he gave the world.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Kyle McLaughlin in many, many roles, including Twin Peaks obviously Dune,
which is one that I've sat and watched multiple times
and kind of gone, why am I watching this? Yeah,
as much as I like five rob On and watching
Sting get after the.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
New Dune or the old Dude about the New Dune,
and okay, as much as I love Shalla May and
all in Scars Guard, I just haven't put it in
my my plan. I think you have to like, I
think there's a rule you have to like Timothy Shallome.
You can't say, you know, I think there's a rule.
Though I don't think you're allowed to be he's not
a good actor, not that I don't. I mean I
like Tomothy Shallo May, but I did just if. I
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mean I liked him in Little Women. I like him now.
I mean, like, if you say Timothy shallow May is like,
especially my daughter and all her friends like they love
Timothy Shallo May like he's their tom Cruise. But if
you say one thing, yeah, in that movie, what do
you mean in that movie he was just okay. Oh no, no,
I don't mean anything. Sorry, I'm good. I'm good. Don't worry.
What do they say about who he's dating? Though? They
take issue with that? Right, Uh, that's going low. Yeah,
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I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It
was inside of his relationship. I don't know. You don't
have any thoughts on Kylie Jenner. No, I mean you
know what I mean Zoe on the show, Kylie, I
think you know, all right, he's just a kid having
Kylie Jenner. Kylie Jenner, Kylie Jenner. When I realized the impact,
she had on people my daughter's but a couple of
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years ago. So when they were like twelve or thirteen
or whatever, it was like when Kylie j on them,
well with every just note they all knew who she was,
and like they would say something like like, all of
a sudden, we hear them say, Kylie's gonna have a baby,
Like who's Kylie? Who? Kylie? Who? Like do we someone
trying to think all the people you know named Kylie? No,
Kylie Jedder Oh, Like all of a sudden it was, yeah,
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oh Kylie, that's huge deal. It's like, all right, my
older daughter loves herself.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Some reality television Hm, nothing to do with the Kardashian clan.
It's somehow that the Real Housewives or whatever that's all
over there.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
She likes. She likes competitions, if.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
There's a puzzle to be solved or something she's watching
that she's in. She's watching Old Seeds of the Mole
with Anderson Cooper and Corbyn Burnson and Stephen Baldwin.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You said that like it's wrong. I said I said
that because I actually what you think. I just pull
it off the top of my head. I used to
watch the Mall, I loved the mole you wanted to be.
The male was good. I would love to be a
great mole. A great mole. Oh are you kidding? All
the all the dangerou stuff they want to do. Or
I would say no, I'm too afraid to They would say, oh,
you're the mall man. You look at the special Forces
thing they do now, Cam Newton on me.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You wouldn't dive on that fumble and then.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Golden Tate and all these other guys as part of
these things. I'll hang out of a helicopter. But when
not fumble hit the ground of the super Bowl, I
don't want any part of that. That was a business decision.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So since Kylie Jenner came up, I mean, did did
we have to mean more? Snub Kylie Jenner at that table?
Once you went to say hi to Eliphant a snub?
It looked like a snub or wasn't a hey? We
got a minute before flickering The lights were coming back
from commercial, so I gotta say my helloes and get
back now.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I think they'll just do a hey, catch you later,
or hey a point or something. I think you still
do that if you wanted to go, yeah, we'll talk
at some point if you need to. I don't know. No,
I think that. I think that was a snub. Hollywood
snubs would kind of becoming a thing. Now they're becoming
a real thing. They weren't a thing, but now they're
a thing.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
But I would say this, in the two weeks, it's
been a real half assed effort to figure out why
uh which it seems like we might want to connect
some DUTs.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It's timelines and is true. This is why TMZ has
guys on social media. They've done nothing. Let me go back. Look,
they've done nothing. They've come up with nothing year something.
They're only back at probably twenty nineteen. They got to
get back into the twenty eighteen, twenty seventeen when this
feud has been simmering since the beginning of Twitter in
two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
You kind of a big deal. Late eighties, early nineties.
Need a little bit of time, there'll be more. Still
a big deal now. I'm just saying she's getting nominated
for an Optionense was.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Great, Yeah, chonome. I had a great time at that
movie is really good. You all look at me moorees back.
Oh okay, we.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Went and saw that and as we walked in the
UH the guy that took our tickets and goes, this
is gonna freak you out.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
This is great, Like so you've.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Seen it, like we went the opening weekend goes, yeah,
just wait, we screened it.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It was so good. Next week it's Robbie Williams is
a Monkey. You wait for that movie.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Which my older daughter saw and actually said it was okay,
said that she had problems with the UH continually seeing
a monkey.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Short storting once. Yeah, you don't usually see a monkey
doing drugs. That's something I've never seen. I can't say
I saw that, so I kind of want to go
see it. Not even in the Simpsons when they had Mojo.
All the monkey doesn't sit around and struggle to breathe.
Pray for Mojo. Pray for Mojo. The Jason showing Mike
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Carvin Live the TIREC dot Com Studios look, David Lynch
in Absolute Legend Twin Peaks Rest in Peace in seventy eight,
and of course we've talked about it today. Sometimes when
someone like Bob Buker dies, the best most accurate thing
you can say is thank you for his life, for
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your life, for your career, for everything, you've done for baseball,
for entertainment. I mean, this is someone who walked out
of obscurity as a baseball player into the broadcast booth,
became famous in the movies. On television, you had a
sitcom they did one hundred and twenty two episodes of
He was popular on the Tonight Show. He did one
hundred appearances on The Tonight Show. Miller Lite beer commercials,
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still announcing Brewers' games until he was ninety, all right.
His last game was the Alonzo home run game that
he that he did this year when the Brewers lost
to the Mets in Game three of the Divisional series, uh,
the Wildcard series. I mean, he had some sort of
life and for a guy who really and I have
so much respect because people just don't do this nowadays,
(25:17):
is that he made his bones and made himself into
a cottage industry by just being himself. Didn't try to
be something he wasn't, didn't didn't try to look for
an angle, didn't try to say, well, if I'm this
kind of guy, I'll cut through with it. I mean,
he came up and became a big TV star and
resonated for forty years. We still run his major League
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lines as Harry Doyle. He was someone he was just
himself and what he did for a living he took serious,
but he never took himself too serious. And that's what
led to him having that Walter Midty type of career
where yeah, I'm a baseball announcer and I'm gonna I'm
not a movie star, and I'm a TV star and
I and I'm I'm you know what I mean, Just
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that kind of life. All these things that people if
people get to do one of those things in their life,
they would say, I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
And he got to do all of them because that
was the guy. He was. What you saw on TV,
the image that you saw on screen on Cela Fame,
that was what he was. And taking yourself not too
seriously while taking what you do seriously is a bit
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of an art and he was able to do that
and that's why he was who he was. Go back
to the nineteen sixty two that's his top's rookie card.
He was on it with four other prospects, and we
talked about and he was self deprecating of his career right,
a lot of quips about games he was involved with
at bats and the fact that couldn't hit, couldn't hit.
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Yet he's a Baseball Hall of.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Famer and in an age certainly now it's easier to
be seen and found everywhere because of the interwebs and
everything we've got. Back then, you had Mel Allen, New York,
Vin Scully, Los Angeles, Harry Carey, Chagar, so we got everything,
you know, regions covered, and then you got the Gap
(27:07):
from Milwaukee, who becomes this legend, who becomes the Hollywood star,
who becomes the all of those things, not that everybody
else didn't have this week in baseball or Harry Carey's commercials,
and certainly Vin Scully plenty of voiceover and monstrous moments
that he was part of in the broadcast world. But
(27:28):
for Bob Buker to bounce between all of those things
and still want to do the job up until he's ninety,
and you saw the outpouring of emotion like some of
the letters and little notes put out by Brewers from
the last forty years up until this most recent team,
right Christin Yelich and all these guys posting things stories
(27:50):
with Uker that always ended with yeah, I shouldn't tell
that next part.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, yeah, but we had a good time. Yeah yeah,
you know.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And he would, you know, have fun at their expense,
but always, you know, a one liner at the end
of it. And I don't know, I think that's kind
of cool to be able to keep relating and have
that energy and want to be around it and think
about this for a second too, right, Because I always
say some of the movies that are immortal, and certainly
Major League is one of those movies. It's a hero movie,
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and heroes are always as good, only as good as
their villains, right, I always say that, But sometimes one
person in a movie makes it legendary, right for the
hero villains.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Thing like you go back to Rocky. If Carl Weathers
isn't as good as he is as the villain, Rocky
is a schmaltzy kind of movie where hey, it looks
like a lifetime movie, right or a Hallmark Christmas movie.
But he's so good as the villain. He was a
really good actor, and he was so good in that
role that makes Rocky legendary. Major League is a terrific movie. Right.
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And the lou Brown one liners that I like to run,
I mean, nice catch Hays don't ever blank and do
that again? Like I still say I still say that
to the kids, like cook nice catch, don't ever blank
and do that again? Right? But Major League, as much
as much of a legendary movie as it is, here's
no movie without Bob Buker. It's one of those two
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star movies that comes and goes that you see on
cable once in a while. But Bob Buker made it legendary.
When you saw Major League for the first time, but
the first few times after, what did you do? You
quoted his lines? Oh my god, Bob Buker is hilarious.
Every time he's on screen. He's hysterical. And I'm sure
he wrote most of those lines himself. I'm gonna say this,
(29:36):
I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say this. Every time
he is on screen and he says something, it is hilarious.
He goes like twenty for twenty in this. In this movie,
which is a comedy, there's not one line he has
that doesn't make you laugh to some extent. Sometimes you
belly laugh and tears come out of your eyes. Sometimes
you laugh ago, Oh that's a good one. But it
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doesn't matter because he makes that movie, and Major League is,
and you got major League two and major League three,
and Major League back to the miners, major League four.
They're gonna reboot major League I heard at some point.
So you don't have that, and maybe you don't have
the big crush of baseball movies in general. If Major
League doesn't succeed, do we still get a league of
their own? If Major League isn't such a big hit
(30:17):
in nineteen eighty nine, I don't know, right, do we
get more? Do it? Do we still get that? I
don't know that we do? Do we still get Moneyball?
Do we get all these movies? Major League comes out
and without Bob Bucker, it's kind of a two star
movie that has some fun stuff in it with some stars,
but he elevates it just by his role of being
himself and being Harry Doyle. Is that is some unbelievable
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amount of responsibility and impact you have when by yourself
as a minor role. He doesn't even interact with anybody.
It's just him in it just says fly ball caught like,
I don't have that here? Isn't he a convicted felon?
I don't have that? Well? He ought to be like
I mean the impact he has had is immeasurable. That movie,
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that movie, franchise, what came along after it is there
because of him.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, I would say this. I want to go back
and I've never seen this. Nineteen eighty five his first
IMDb credit OC and Stiggs. It's a Robert Altman movie.
And get this, here's your cast. Jane Curtin's in there,
Paul Dooley, you'd recognize the face. Ducky So, John Crier's
in there, Cynthia Nixon, Tina Louise Wow. Yeah, not on
(31:29):
Gilligan's Island, Jennis Hopper, Ray Walston. And here's the summary. O.
C and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not
only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against them. They
seek revenge against the middle class Swab family who embody all.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
They detest the middle class.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Like that.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I just go on.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I mean all the beer commercials. He's a WWE Hall
of Famer as he was part of the broadcast from
Detroit for WrestleMania three. Some very famous images of Andre
the giants large hands wrapped around his neck going around
the interwebs today. So yeah, I mean, you go all
the way through. I mean, it's a guy. He played
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every man, right, It's kind of the career Tim Allen
has tried his entire He's got a.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
New one, got a new one that's pretty good, okay,
but the same kind of theme, same idea. I am
every every man. Time to find out what's trended right
now in the wide world of sports. From someone who
knows that the Clippers have outscored their opponents the last
two nights three hundred and seventy four to eight.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
And seventy three.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Oh sorry, I didn't carry the four.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That's okay, It's all right, Dick, good driving that bus.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I just have to say to me.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Moore absolutely snubbed Kylie Jenner.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I don't know why, because it seems like something is
going on.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
There might be some long beef, right because it seemed.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Who intentional And I wish I had the time or
really cared to dive into social media and figure it out.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
But it was great the video check.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Yeah, let me know, maybe I'll maybe I'll see what
I can figure out in the next hour.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You're right, five games in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Fellas, they have all wrapped up like the Clippers on
it back to back night. They rolled past the Trail
Blazers no problem, one eighteen to eighty nine. Norman Powell
twenty three points for La Kings and Houston are Rockets.
They went down to the wire back and forth. Jalen
Green hit a three with ten seconds left to bring
Houston within one.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Kings hit the free throw, so they were saw up
by three.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Jalen Green had a great opportunity for another three to
tie it, didn't get it. He ended with twenty eight
and the Kings held on to beat the Rockets one
thirty two to one twenty seven was the final score.
Devin Booker dropped thirty seven points as the Sun defeated
the Wizards won thirty to one twenty three. The Pacers
topped the Pistons one eleven to one hundred, and Shay
Gilges Alexander forty points and eight assists as the Thunder
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crushed the Cavaliers one thirty four to one fourteen. There's
only two players that have scored forty points against the
Calves this season.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Do you guys know who the other player is?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Besides Shay Gilges Alexander.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Bob Hope almost almost.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Almost, Damian Lillard this is I didn't know only two
players have scored forty against the Calves. That's great.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Crazy.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Caves also had twenty one turnovers, so that's probably why
they lost in college.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Do you know who Bob Hope is? I? Do you do?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I really?
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Who's Bob Hope?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
He's on the exit when I go to the Free
Way and I go to the Burbank Airport.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I was gonna says the airport. Yeah, yeah, that is
Bob Hope. Drive. Yes, but what else is? I know
what else is he? He was the mayor of Los
Angeles for thirty years. Wow, oh man, I would not
have gone that the truth. No, I was like, no.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
That's I would not.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Have picked that in a multiple choice questionnaire.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
He won twenty games for the Mets in eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Is that are you being seriously? No?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Are you just? Are you to me?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Mourning me right now?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
And I'm Kylie Jenner?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
What is happening here? A lot of side going on here?
Hope own the Clippers and no I'm not.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
That's stop.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Stop.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Nobody likes you right now. Temple defeated number eighteen Memphis
eighty eight to eighty one, and Minnesota took down Number
twenty Michigan with a logo three at the buzzer. Eighty
four eighty one was the final score. Right now, it's
a tie game between number sixteen Gonzaga, the logan Steago,
the NBA logo.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
No, that's not.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Bobbles out of here.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
That's not no, it's not no, it's not get out
of here, Bob Hope, can you kick him? The Oilers
as the Avalanche on the ice four to three, and
the last game just trapped up. It was the King's
just crushing the Canucks five one. And of course we're
keeping an eye on Alex Loovechkin, who scored the game
winner for the Capitals today against the Senators, twenty one
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goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's all time goal record
of eight ninety four.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Back to you, Harmon, not to you, Jason, welcome back
in Thank you Manzi. Yeah is Bob Hope, Oh boy
for the memory. We'll explain Bob Hope. Coming up next,
we'll get back get into a big story from the NFL.
I can solve the biggest suit you solved nothing that's
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coming up next on Fox Sports. I hope here.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Bob Hope here, you gotta listen to the whole show
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Having Monte Bolango's convinced that Bob Hope
won twenty games with the Mets in eighty seven, that
was pretty good. Well, but it's no. That's the one
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thing the Mets don't have is hope. In eighty seven
we did No, you did it?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
We were coming off the World Series at eighty six
the Dodgers. Bob Hope. Yah.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Well, but one of the things, I mean, if your
Monsei Milanas, you don't believe while you're sitting at a
news desk that someone's gonna try to clown you and
tell you lies.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
You sat on a throne of lies. Pop Hope. When
twenty games of the Mets in ages, the rotate was
Gooden Darling Hope, Sid Fernandez says, that was the chance
the Mets won twenty games. No, we were still good
in eighty seven eighty eight, then we got bad. He
we had. We had a good run for most of
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the back half of the eighties, but that was it. Sure, sure,
I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. Now speaking of good runs, Uh,
Tom Brady, through his agent today UH made it be
known that he's gonna continue broadcasting, gonna continue going on.
You know, this year the reviews for Brady have been
uneven in the broadcast booth. But he's gonna continue to
fulfill his contract with Fox, which you know pays him
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thirty seven million dollars a year for the next nine years.
So I'm gonna spend stivization. Yeah, he's gonna do this
while he still partly owns the Raiders and tells Mark
Davis what to do. But I will say this about
Brady broadcast. There's been a lot said about Brady over
the course of the last eighteen plus weeks, and I
can tell you exactly what might have made things a
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little bit smoother for him over the course of this year. Brady,
when I watch him, I think he's still not comfortable
being himself because he feels like he has to say
everything about the play and get all the players in
and he can't sit back and just be Tom Brady,
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which is tell me what the quarterback's thinking. Tell me
what he would have seen from the defensive back, tell
me a fun story. I think he's caught up with
having to do everything as an analyst. And Brady at
his best is a guy who's a personality like Eli Manning,
like Peyton Manning. Brady is really entertaining, but he gets
lost in it because he feels I have to keep
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describing everything that just hap people need to know what
Lineman shot through the gap and did that and no,
we kind of all see it. If Brady had started
this year, Fox had put him in a three man booth,
I think that the year for Brady in the future,
what people think about him as a broadcast would be
entirely different, because if you had a three man booth,
you could have the play by play, get Kevin Burkhart,
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you could have an analyst doing the nuts and bolts,
meat and potatoes from the play, and Brady would pick
his spots throughout the game to say, to say something
he saw, to tell a great story, and it would
be wow, did you see Tom Brady saying this and
saying this and saying this, this is amazing? Instead of Wow,
Brady just feels like he's, you know, regurgitating information. He
doesn't feel like he's quite in the flow. Yes, he's learning,
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but a three man booth he would have been able
to get into it a little bit easier, and then
maybe after year or two would have been, Hey, I'm
ready to be the number two guy in a booth.
I know what I can explain and tell my stories.
But if he came in with a three man booth,
I think the impact of Tom Brady, I know it,
it would have been a lot better, and he would
have been a lot more comfortable, and there'd be a
lot more attention on what he's actually saying over the
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course of the broadcast.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah, I mean some of it becomes the the poison
ben much like the end of his playing career. You know,
you had a certain fraction of folks like, he's all
go away, He's still one of the most efficient and
winning quarterbacks we've got, doesn't matter, go away, dismiss what
they did, New Englan, all of those things. So when
he gets into the booth, it was, well, I'm gonna
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hate what he says, no matter how well he puts it,
how concise his messaging is. I think, to your point,
forget about three man For me, it's the I don't
need the old you know, call response kind of thing
in terms of the play calling and analysis. Just let
it flow, not full on Manning cast, but in that
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vein of we don't have to, you know, talk about
everything you just watched.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah, because look, our viewing habits have become a lot
different for football in the last few years, and there's
a way to continue to take advantage of that. That
Brady could have continued to take advantage of that. Yeah,
tell you what. We'll explain exactly what that means coming
up next, as well as tell you exactly where Aaron
Rodgers is going to be playing football next year. Because
you think it's gonna be the Steelers at this I'll
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tell you exactly where he's playing. That's next. Jason and
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