February 29, 2024 • 37 mins
Former NFL All-Pro Kerry Rhodes is in for Chris, and he and Rob debate whether Bill Belchick should consider taking the San Francisco 49ers’ defensive coordinator job, and the Odd Couple Crew debate fast food surge pricing in this week’s edition of Shop Talk. Plus, former NBA veteran and FOX Sports Radio NBA analyst Kerry Kittles swings by to discuss the Los Angeles Lakers’ championship odds, what makes Luka Doncic so dangerous, if anybody can compete with the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference and much more!
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Speaker 2 (01:18):
You've been on this kick.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You're the football exper you played in the league, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I get all that.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I respect your knowledge, but I think you're crazy because yes,
you'd like to set up Okay, I saw soaked you
first and then you know, got it. But Carrie, there
was a whole story, rob G. You got the details
of There was a story out earlier today that the
(01:49):
forty nine ers. Okay, rob G, Yeah, break it down
because it's a little.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
It's a little convoluted, yes, because what we do know,
what is factual, is that Steve Wilks, the defensive coordinator,
has been fired, yes, and that whatever they want to
call it, right fired, and that the San Francisco forty
nine ers they gave up let.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Me see, they gave up Patrick Mahomes one touchdown on
a muff punt at the sixteen. That's the only touchdown
they gave up in the game, the Patrick Mahomes. And
he lost his job. Yeah, think about that in the
fourth quarters, you know what I mean, in the four quarter.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
So he got fired and now the forty nine ers
trying to decide how they're going to replace him. Either
they're going to do it in house or they're going
to go outside the company. And see who they can
get to be their new defensive coordinator. Interestingly enough, one
of the brightest defensive minds in NFL history happens to
be unemployed right now.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
That would be Bill Belichick. So you've had columns.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Again, these are opinions, not reports, but columns coming out
of both the Bay Area and out of Massachusetts linking
Bill Belichick to the Niners defensive coordinator job. That's now
inspired a few aggregators. Hey, Balichick's gon me with them.
That has not been reported yet, but the idea of
(03:05):
Belichick going to San Francisco to be their friensive coordinator
has been floated.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Well, and I want to say this first and foremost.
I think I may have been one of the first
ones to float that out there a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Put it, you know what I mean. So, I mean,
I think they're coming around to the idea. Obviously.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
You know, everybody's so high and on Belichick getting a
job again because he's one of the best, and he
is and he has been. But just like anything else,
time expires on a lot of things. What are you saying,
he's sour milk? I think he's done. Yeah, I've told
you that I think he's done. I don't think he's
able to communicate with the younger generation, the younger players.
(03:47):
These players are able to be more sensitive than in
the past. And that's just part of our culture now
and it's not good or bad. I'm just saying that's
that's what it is now. And so to have a
guy come in like that that's used to having a
certain work environment, that's a certain way to run things,
he's not gonna change. You're not gonna teach an older
(04:08):
guy like that to have new tricks.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And he's just I think he's out.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I think he's outdue with being the head coach, and
it'll be an ideal situation for him to go into
San Franz and be the defensive coordinator and win another championship.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You know, that's what I saw. That was my take.
I hear you. It's preposterous. It's foo gazy.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
He's this close, you see where my fingers are to
be the all time winning his coach in the history
of the National Football League.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Well, Rob, he's not gonna work this year. Why not
win a championship this year and get a head coaching
job beginning now?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
No, No, why not, because there's no way you step backwards.
When you're on the verge. You want more super Bowls
than most franchises. Forget about forget about most coaches, sure,
most franchises.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
He's one of the most super bowls.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Okay, so there's no way you're gonna step down and
end up be uh Cole Shanahan's lackey, who's.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Lost three Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I'm gonna be Coyle Shanahan's lackey, and I'm gonna help
this kid who can't close out a super Bowl win
a super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Think about this, I'm not doing that. Think about this.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I want to be the all time winning his coach, sure,
and I want to get another opportunity. Okay, it didn't
work out this time, but you know there's always six
eight openings every year, and some guy will come to
Jesus and go, guess what.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Bill Belichick's still out there.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, if one year might have mellowed him, and you
know he sat on the sidelines. I watched him on
one of the NFL shows on Sunday, and you know what,
he loosened up a little bit. I kind of liked him,
you know what I mean, And he made some great points.
He knows football, he knows defense, he knows everybody says
they hadn't without Tom Brady. Dude, go look every time
(05:55):
they won, their the fifth best at least the fifth
best defense in the league.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
When they won those Super Bow, no question.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
When they beat the Rams the last time, for that
last Super Bowl, oh yeah, the Rams were averaging thirty
five points a game. They got one field goal, an
eighty nine yard field goal was all they.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Got in that Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Tom Brady had no touchdowns, a pick and a fumble,
and everybody said.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Tom Brady won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You know you notice as a defensive player, Sure they
discount the defense when they came back against the Falcons
twenty eight to three. You had to stop them, didn't you,
in order to even give Tom Brady a chance.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Everything you're saying is still supports my point. It's a
defensive guy, he's gonna go out. Yes, that's all true,
and I'm not fighting that or disputing that at all.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's the facts.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
But if he wants to win again and continue to coach,
if he loves to coach and he wants to coach
and he's missing coaching, he's not gonna get a head
coaching job this year, So go win a championship in
San Francisco. He's still going to get the credit from
what you're just saying, Shanna Hans the funky So go
there be the defensive coordinator, win another win, and get
another job after the show that he still has it. No, no, no,
(07:08):
you're not look at another job after it. Here here
it is the last three years. As bad as the
Patriots have been.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Defense seventh in the NFL, eighth and fourth the last
three seasons. Okay, yes, unbelievable. Okay, seventh, eighth and fourth.
If he teams up with a team that has a
young quarterback who's a good quarterback and their offense is
pretty good, he can get that defense in the shape
(07:36):
and give you a chance. The Atlanta Falcons, what if
they won, go ahead, you know, go ahead and pass
up on Bill Belichick and some of these other teams
that have never won anything and they think they can
do it. That's fine, But there'll be some owner who
will that lightle snap on. And maybe maybe it's the
Dallas Cowboys. After yet another which Jerry just gives in
(07:59):
and says, you know what, I'm ninety I gotta do something,
you know what I mean, I gotta do something. I
can't keep doing this and not winning playoff games.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
So you're thinking, I mean, you're just saying it from
the standpoint of it's beneath him to go coach.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
It is beneath him, and the winning is Crump's beneath him.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
But that's fine.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
But if he wants to coach, he's not gonna be
a head coach this year. I mean, what else is
he gonna do.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
He's gonna do TV. I want to see him on TV.
I want to see him on the sideline.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I agree, I don't want to see him on TV
for for other reasons. I'm just saying, Carrie, I'm just
saying it is beneath him. There's certain jobs you shouldn't like.
You cannot when when you're when you're on the verge
of being the most wins, you have the most Super Bowls,
and then in your resume and your story, it's like
(08:51):
Carrie Rose was an All Pro and then Carrie, we
want you to go play Pop Warner one year.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Can you go down and play another position in Pop Warner?
If I play a quarterback?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Sure, say, look, but you get my point, like, there's
certain things you wouldn't even do.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
When you were playing, right, Yes, when I was playing.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
But again, if I knew that I was going to
be out of the league and they were saying, look,
you can be you can be the you can be
the star nickel, but you won't start at safety. Right now,
I would go play the nickel if I wanted to
continue playing the game. All I'm saying is we know
he's one of the greatest coaches of all time. That's
no disputing that. When we know what he can do,
(09:30):
we've seen it. But right now he doesn't have a job.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
But but we have seen coaches take a year, yeah
for sure, and then get a chance.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, Mike McCarthy was with the Packers, he got a
Super Bowl in his back pocket, right, Yes, he got
another chance.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Right, he had to shit out a year, right, it happens.
Oh yeah, No, I'm not saying he can't or shouldn't either.
I'm not disputing that either. I'm just saying, man, Jeannie,
what do you have three jobs? Right? I mean he
got fired from the Jets.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
From the Jets, it went to the Brown and then
and then he as a defensive yea like that. Yeah,
but you know what I mean, Like like sometimes you
have to sit out a year and wait sure for
somebody else to get whacked. And it's just a matter
of time because coaches get whacked all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So who knows.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Maybe Dan Campbell blows it again, you know what I mean,
in the big moment and you say, oh god, you
know we're gonna blow this opportunity. We should have gone
to the super Bowl again, Dan Campbell blew it at
the end. Let's go get a guy, approving guy to
get us.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Over the hump.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I saw this in Detroit. Yeah, and I saw this
with the Pistons. They had Rick Carlisle who was doing
a great job with them, got a great job.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Then we got Larry Brown and guess what happened and
won a champion the next year. And then they went
back the next year to the finals. They lost in
seven games. But you see what I'm saying, Like you
might have a team right on the verge. If I'm
the forty nine ers, Kyle Shanahan might be the guy
who gets replaced after next year. Say that that they
that things don't work out again, Like he doesn't he
(11:01):
doesn't get it done, he can't close it out. Can
he come back after after another failed chance to win
a Super Bowl? That's what I'm saying, And that's another
one similar to what we've seen with Kyle Shanahan. You
the forty nine, that you're gonna be like, we're gonna
waste this opportunity. Let's go get Bill Man.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
The faith you have in Bill being able to to
to get to get to these young guys killing me.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I want Rob G. I want Rob G. I'm not
a Bill guy. Can you tell carry? I'm not ha Belichick.
I'm not a Bill guy. I'm not what's this fascination
with him going to a team right now and getting
them over to hummy? But Rob, you know this guy
is an older guy. I get it.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
But I'm just saying it's beneath him. I do believe that,
And that's why I'm saying he's he's a cheater. If
I'm voting for the Hall of Fame, I'm gonna hold
him out. I'm gonna make him sweat.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Seriously, all that Rob called him like the Barry Bonds
of football.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Oh wow, Absolutely, And we're gonna hold Barry Bonds to
the standard. Why not Bill Belichier. He was fine the
highest fine in the history of the NFL for a
coach because of spy Gate.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, okay, all I'm saying is I was the part
of spy gate. That was that Jet team. Yeah, that's right,
that was us. Yeah, yeah, right, they cheated. Did that
feel good?
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Well it did not, because we were always getting our
butts beat. So yeah, it was not fun like they do.
They know what we're doing, right, thanks Kaw. But you
get my point.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
My point is he cannot bow down and take a
lesser position. He is going to be the winningest coach
in the history of the NFL, wins the most Super Bowls,
and there's no way he takes a job just to stay,
you know, in the league this year he could sit out.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Of you one more quick thing.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
If you're an owner and you have a team, you
have a young quarterback, and you just and you got
all the things you just said in place, you're taking them.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
If I'm close, though, if I'm close to winning, if
they didn't, if if the Charger, if the Chargers didn't
hire Jim Harbor out hire Bill Belichick because you got
a franchise quarterback, he could get the defense you know
what I mean up to speed, and you got a
great chance if you were the Chargers to take Bill Belichick.
I get why they wanted Jim Harball, but I'm saying,
(13:21):
all right, should Bill Belichick take a defensive coordinator gig
with the forty nine ers?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I think Kerry's crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
We want to hear from you eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox eight seven seven nine six nine nine
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Speaker 2 (14:49):
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Speaker 1 (15:02):
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Speaker 1 (15:33):
Nice ironically, I was actually gonna play good Times first,
but then I switched it last minute. Very nice, Mary,
very nice, nicely done. I saw you bopping your head
in man, all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox talking about Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I mean, Carrie just thinks he should just take any job.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Maybe water boy, no, no, oh so just defensive coordinators,
defensive coordinator for the forty nine or specifics, very very specific.
And I say, no, way, no how Bill Belichick should
hold out for a head coaching job because they're gonna
be plenty next year. Plenty of guys will get whacked
and he'll slide right in. He'll get the all time
wins record, and that's all he needs. He don't need
(16:12):
another super Bowl. That would be cherry on the top
on top. He don't need a super Bowl. Six ain't enough.
You remember the show Eight is enough? Six is enough
for Bill Belichick? All Right, all right, eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. Adam in DC, you're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Rado. What's up at him?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
My guy?
Speaker 8 (16:35):
My favorite radio show? Hey man, I'm with the guest
host today, Rob and you know him, and you know
I'm a forty nineer fan. But this is the way
I see if he can come and when we win
a Super Bowl next year, because I believe like every
other fan believe, right, now, but I believe it has
good reason to believe that we can do it. If
Beer was the one that helped lead the defense there.
It's it's like his version of when Tom went and
(16:58):
got his extra one him. It's never it's not gonna
hurt him. If he does a good job, he can
still get a job next year. I mean, I feel
what you mean by it. May feel a little bit
of the meaning. But he leves defense. He doesn't like
talking to the media. It's a perfect job.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
No, But he's a head coach.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
At him, he's a head coach now, one of the
he's on the cusp of being considered the greatest coach
and wins. There's no way that you take that job.
It just doesn't work.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
But he doesn't have a job right now though.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Rob.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
That's my whole point. This guy loves football. You know
you don't want to see that man on TV. He
is not saying Peyton, no guy, he need to be working.
He might as well work, get us the super Bowl
and then go off and get another team and then
do his thing. But I say, he worked, man, I'm
with you. Care have a good one, all.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Right, man, appreciate it. I can't believe it. Look at
that eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. I just
think of I'm Bill Belichick. I'm disupported. I didn't get
a job. Sure, but but you know the league. You
know how this league works. Somebody can get finedired easily.
It just can happen.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Every year.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It's like it seems to be six eight jobs open.
He'll get another job, and maybe he'll soften his stance.
He'll talk to some people. Somebody will say, man, you know,
we're really close. Yeah, I mean, we're really close. We
just need somebody to get us over the helm. We
need a Larry Brown. We need that. That's Bill Beller.
We need a Larry Brown. That's what the Pistons got
(18:26):
in two thousand and four. Yeah, yeah, I agree. But
also they got a team when Larry Brown went there.
There are bunch of veterans, guys that have been through
the wars. I mean, they had good teams and they
had made it deep to the playoffs at certain points,
and he just came and added some assistance to it
and got him over the top. But that was a
veteran team. Let's go to the next caller. We got
(18:47):
Adrian from riverside. You're with the odd couple. What's up, Adrian?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Hey, what's up? Brother? You know, as a forty nine
er fan, I was I was feeling it, like, yes,
you know, get this guy's defensive cordner. Then I started
imagining Nick Saban as a defensive coordinator and I can't
see it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Right, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
He's not gonna do that, right.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Wait, Adrian, I thought you agree with me. What what
are you talking about right now?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
I know I do as a forty nine I love
to see Saban as a defensive coordinator. But it just
it doesn't look right. It just it wouldn't seem right.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
You know, he's gonna be right, He's gonna be on
the sidelines for a guy who muffed three Super Bowls.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
Really, I didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You know, you're a forty nine er fan. You guys
should have two super Bowls?
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean Bill Belichick will definitely get
us over the hump for sure. But it just I
don't know. I like Rabel honestly, Mike Rabel, get him
in the building.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, that's well, they definitely need they definitely need a
you might need a new head coach eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox and we got.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Matthew from Maine. You own the couple?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Man?
Speaker 9 (19:58):
How are you hey, evening gentlemen?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
How what's up hey?
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Doing well? There is absolutely zero chance that Bill Belichick
science with But next year, who's gonna want to rent
him for a year?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
What are you talking about? Mike McCarthy could flame out again?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
And then the Cowboys there's a there's a team right there,
the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Is Bill Belichick gonna walk into the Cowboys system year
and make them not only a Super Bowl get tender,
but a team that can actually compete for a Super
Bowl in one year? And who's gonna rent h They're
not gonna run him for one year?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
But wait a minute, it's not about running for one year.
How many wins is he thirteen behind? Whatever the number is,
he goes to the Cowboys for two years.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
He wants the record? Can we can we get that
if he.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Wins the Super Bowl less than that's the icing, But
he wants the all time record.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's why he wants to coach.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Sure, I just don't see it happening. So he's got
a system that's different from from the way players think nowadays.
I think he's just he's old news.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
All right, Well deep was in the top ten. He's
old news. I'll take the yellow newspaper. Thank you appreciate it,
all right, Matt? All right, well, Rob, we like everybody's
kind of seeing my side of this.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I know it's unbelievable and I'm defending Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Here we go, you guy, I don't want to vote
to the Hall of Fame. All right.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Coming up next, Carrie Kittles, we'll do some NBA of course,
the former NBA veteran.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You'll tell them your great story. Can't wait for that.
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Speaker 2 (21:37):
All right, Steve, thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
It is The Odd Couple Fox Sports Radio coming to
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Speaker 2 (21:57):
But this will be interesting, I said, this.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
If I was Bill Belichick, I wouldn't want to sit
out because the older you are, I agree, the farther
you are away from it, like, there's no sitting out
two seasons, two seasons, you'll never coach again. No, it's
gotta be next season. So all right, now, let's welcome in.
Speaker 10 (22:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Former NBA veteran and Fox Sports Radio NBA analyst.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Carrie Roads returns to the odd couple. What's up? Carry?
I mean carry kittles.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Of course I was gonna do that, Carrie Kittles with
terms because I'm filling in UH with Carrie Rhodes and carry.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
What's out? Buddy?
Speaker 10 (22:37):
How are you great?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Say hello to carry Rhodes.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I'm a box this cause you got to carry, I know,
but but carry. Before we get started, Carrie Rhodes has
something to say to carry Kittles.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, carry, man. A pleasure to meet you, brother.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I was a little, a little, a little scrawny, skinny
kid in Alabama in eighth grade playing basketball and I
got the comparison of this guy. Somebody was like, man,
you know you remind me of I was like who,
It's like, his name's Carrie, And I was like, Carrie
who it's like Carrie Kettles, and so I started started
playing like you modeled in my game after you and
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high school got the jersey number thirty as well.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
And look at that.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You're right, that's amazing that that's a great story, right man.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And then you went you were so good at basketball,
you went to the NFL.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I was so no wait time I was playing. I
was player of the year in high school, player of
the year, And yes, I could have played collegiate basketball,
but I chose for football over.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
People exactly, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It's all good, all right, Carrie, let's go here. Last
night Lebron put on a show.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
It really was. It was. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
U turn back the clock and uh, he has those
performances every so often. I think long term, I know
Laker fans and people want to see the Lakers make
a running, gonna get to the Western Conference finals, are
gonna get to the finals.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I'm not buying it. I think it's for gaysy long.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Term because I don't see him being able to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Often or or continuously. You know you he has great.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Games, but carry he can't do that four out of seven.
Speaker 10 (24:20):
I don't think he can, and I don't think the
Lakers have what it takes from the West to really
advance far. But hey, listen, I mean when you say
turn back the clock, you look at his numbers. Numbers
this year for a guy his as twenty five, seven
and seven fifty super steds forty from three. So he's
been he's been really consistent this year. The Lakers have
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been up and down.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
But that's carry that was I was gonna say, you're right,
the numbers are fantastic, right, but they're ninth and not
even in the playoff art, right, they'd have to be
in the play it and they have a d who's
been healthy all year, and yet they still that's where
they are.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
That's what I'm that's the problem I have with it.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
Yeah, they're the Lakers aren't deep enough right now in
the West. I think in the West you're seeing the
league really go towards you and speed Minnesota with their
young legs. Okay, see, wow, they've been sustaining their efforts
consistently throughout the year. And then you can't count out
the Nuggets with Jokic, And my sleeper team is the MAVs.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Kerry I knew I knew. I knew I liked you, man,
I knew I liked you.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
I'm a math, I'm a Math fan, and I was
going to ask you about them, But I want to
first go to the to the east coast and to
the east. I mean, right now, is it is it
Boston against the field out east?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Or or is there any teams that you think can
beat Boston?
Speaker 10 (25:41):
Nah, No one could be Boston in the series or seven.
I think that they're just stacked. I think that with
the addition of porzingis now they played five three point shooters.
Every guy in their team shoot three ever since the
trade last year. So I think with the Suckers have
done and Brown and Tatum and been really well this
year playing together, so they're definitely my favorite. And Drew
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Holiday is the glue, you know in the back part.
So yeah, I think it's them against against the field.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
What about the Bucks and the Doc Rivers trade Dame
Dollars complaining that he's lonely.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
He makes forty million dollars and he's lonely on the
road or something video games? Are you all right? And
that him and Giannis are working progress or whatever?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
He said, what are you making the Bucks, because I
think people thought, oh my god, what a match made
in Heaven, right, and it hadn't been that pretty.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
No, I think it's gonna take some time for them
to sort things out. I think that, you know, it's
it's difficult making those kinds of transitions mid season, and
I don't care who you're bringing in mid season, you're
changing how they do things. Their schemes are different, the
energy is different, his his how he holds players accountable,
it's different than so and I think that's the Dame
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is going through a lot personally this year with I
guess it's putting divorce or whatever. That's a lot to
way on a young man's head. So he's trying to
find his way in the new city and with new teammates,
and the chemistry just isn't quite there right now. So yeah,
I'm counting the Bucks out this year in the postseason.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
All right, Cara, Since you talked about your sleeper team
being the MAVs, I know, I know the additions they got.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
They brought PJ.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Washington, they bought Gaffer d In, But out of those,
you know, what makes them high on your radar right
now is being that sleeper team.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
Well, I couldn't wait to actually have this phone call
today because I can remember talking about my man Luca
Dunchs a couple of years ago, and your buddy Rob
Parker is like you comparing him to Larry Bird. Rob,
I said, yeah, she's Larry Bird two point zero and
you went, oh my god. Doing that everybody's been and
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what we're seeing this year is right, he's twenty five
years old, right.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
And he looks like he's thirty five.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
But that's okay, that's okay, but you have to understand,
like how he controls every possession and they get great shots.
He's unselfish, and he's and he's averaging. His numbers are insane,
and I just think he's actually, Honestly, Rob, I think
he's built for the postseason. I really do. I think
he's built for big moments. And now you have well,
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he's out the game. You don't hate Kyrie, and you
saw last night. Kyrie is just he's still a really
consistently good player. So and with those new additions you
just mentioned, Carrie, I really like the maps. Put like this,
if the maps are going against OKAC, watch out, watch out,
I don't think okay, see or or Minnesota want to
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see them in the first round.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I just don't think, no way, no way they do.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
All right, carry Kittles is joining us here on the
odd couple. Of course, former NBA vet Fox Sports Radio
NBA analyst. One other thing, Uh, your MVP us far
in the league. I know, like at the All Star
Break Tatum was fifth. People are like, how could he
be that far down? Obviously the joker and the numbers
that he puts up. Who do you have a leading
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right now?
Speaker 10 (29:14):
Well? I had him b before he got hurt because
it was a tight race between him and Donches. But
I think Luca right now, and listen, Sga is having
a fantastic year. SGA and what he's done with ok
see put him on the back of his numbers are outstanding.
But I think what Luca's done in Dallas, even though
they are they creeping up right now, you know there
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would be nine and one that shoot's not throwing in
that half court shot.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Hey, it happens. It is called basketball.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
It's called basketball. But I really do think that that
Luca right now is the leading candidate in my book.
What he's done, and I think if he finishes strong,
he will win MVP this year. Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
All right there it is Kerry Kittle's great to have
you back man for the rest of the season, no
doubt here. I appreciate you man here on the Odd Couple, unbelievable.
All right, coming up next, carry you ready for this?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It is our most controversial segment of the week. Shop
Talk is next right here on Fox Sports Radio, Stick
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Speaker 2 (30:23):
Wow.
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Speaker 2 (30:37):
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Speaker 1 (30:40):
On a TV theme song Thursday, Rob Parker along with
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Speaker 2 (30:46):
Do you know what time it is?
Speaker 10 (30:47):
Carrie?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
We are coming from coming to your live from the
Tirack dot Com. But it's time for shop Talk.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
That's right, it is shop Talk here on the Eye
Couple Fox Sports Radio segment. We talk about something happened
out out of the world is sports. This week's topic
is a doozy. In fact, it's such a big deal
that they've already backed off their original plan talking about
Wendy's I don't know if you guys heard about this, but.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Redheaded knucklehead trying to price surge us.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah, So their CEO, Kirk Tanner announced it an earnings
call to their shareholders that effective in twenty twenty five,
they would be implementing price surging or surge pricing. Excuse me,
know what this is carry which if you've ever taken
an uber or a lyft, you know exactly what I'm
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talking about.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
As a hydro man.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
So all of a sudden, it cost me ninety dollars
to go to the airport exactly.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
So like, for example, we're at the super Bowl a
couple weeks ago. If it was a regular Tuesday in January,
the cost to go from Mandalay Bay to Rob's Nike
out it's probably like eight bucks exactly. But it's at
the super Bowl, so so it's sixteen. Right, So that's
kind of what's happening. So Wendy's decided, you know what,
not only are we gonna make the menu boards all digital,
(32:03):
We're gonna allow each store, depending on the time of day,
to change the price of the food as you buy it. Obviously,
that drew a lot of criticism backlash all over social media,
even from competing fast food chains like Burger King, who
took out on social media said the only thing surging
is our flavor here at Burger King.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Oh nice.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
But as recently as yesterday afternoon, Wendy's already backed off
of their announcement and saying they will no longer be
having surge pricing in twenty twenty five. They're gonna stick
to what they got and they will slowly implement price
increases rather than immediately.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Rob Parker, your thoughts on this whole. You already know
I wouldn't pay.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
When they raised the price of a diet coke by
five cents next door, I stopped going there.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I'm want to die coke from the place.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Oh my god, because they're like, I'm like, except for today. No, no, no,
But that's a part of a but the combos different carried.
If you buy drink by hisself, he's not doing it.
But if it comes with the combo, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
The price of the drink is like half the combo.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
So if I could get a salad and a couple
of legs, chicken legs, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Penny pinching.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
But my point is I wouldn't go for that I'm
gonna buy a Wendy single and pay four ninety nine today,
and then I go in on a busy day after
school and all the kids are in, and now they're
gonna charge me six ninety nine and I'm gonna pay
the same price for the same burger.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
No way, there's no way, no, I'm with you on
that one. There's no way what I would even take
pardon that at all. That's one of those situations where
we know exactly what you're doing. You're trying to take
advantage of us, and we're not taking it. We will
not abide.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
And that's why they had the backdown. Rob G you
watch your money, you wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I'm cheap. I'm cheap like you.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
You know, I'm actually I'm cheap like Chrispy start because
Chris is really cheap too. He's not let anyone know
that he is chick. Right, I'm not that cheap. So
the show should be called the Cheap Couple. That's right,
that's right. They're just cheap in different ways.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
That's much, very much. But here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
I'm gonna play Devil's advocate. Yep, what they were doing
was kind of genius. All right from this standpoint, Rob.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Well, it was they're floating a balloon out there.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
No, no, no, what they were doing that too. But what
they were gonna do was I said they were gonna
make the menus all digital, right, so there was no
longer a little card you gotta slide in that says
you could change the price and right, and you people
would see that. But if you're doing it in the
middle of a shift, when no one actually sees the
price getting changed, They just see the update and the
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menus keeps like going in a circle. You don't know
that as of fifteen minutes ago that burger was three
ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Now it was four to twenty. There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And would know, Carrie, if you just walked in, you
might question and say, like, I thought it was cheaper,
but I guess not right.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
You might say that, but you don't know what changed.
I hear what you guys saying. But most people that
go to Wendy's are regulars, so.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
They would be like, my burger was three ninety nine.
They would know that.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
And that's like a budget place, right, So going that
you're going for a specific reason to get a certain
thing that people are trying to save money, right, so
they would I think they would.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Know, you know what I mean, So the biggie bag
would go from five dollars to fifteen dollars?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Is that I don't think they would jump it that big?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I was like, whoa, But so, Carrie, do you think
that if they would have said it, like for example,
three ninety nine and now at you know, two o'clock
it goes up to four oh nine, you think anyone's
gonna notice that difference?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yeah, oh that ten cent? Maybe not? Maybe not the
ten cents, I think so.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
I think they could have got away with it if
they didn't announce it and it didn't get public.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Well, I'll tell you why, Rob, because again, most of
the time those people are going there, the people that
go there Wendy's and those chains, right, they're going they're
probably getting stuff for a family, right, right, So that
ten cents is going to be more than ten cents, right.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
And they budgeted it. They might you know, you go there,
you might only have Rob g just about that much money.
And then you go, wait a minute, I was here
last week and now it's eighty nine cents more. I
went to a McDonald's and I couldn't believe. I wanted
to buy large die coke and this place was charging
you know, McDonald's was having a dollar large drinks all summer, right,
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they wanted like three twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
I looked at them, you know, the McDonald's. Depending which
one you go to, the prices are different.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I know they're independently owned, but three twenty nine for
diet coke, that's correct.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
Now?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Do you guys think that this could come not with
Wendy specifically, but you know, Lyft does it, Uber does
it airlines to do what hotels do it?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Whatever?
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Could you see a scenario in the coming years where
food places are now doing that because it hasn't stopped
anyone from using Uber rob uses Lyft. Here's one thousand
dollars in Lyft in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Hello?
Speaker 8 (36:42):
Was this?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
How much? Could you see this becoming the new normal
across everywhere we go?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
But you know what's crazy? Like as we belly ache
about that? Two examples A real quick once rented during
the two thousand and four finals in l Line, No Lie,
I rented a run a car from an airport rental
place seven dollars a day in LA to drive a car.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Seven. I didn't even understand that. And my ticket to go.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
To the Super Bowl, rob G was thirty eight dollars
and ten cents carry round trip on an airline because
for whatever reason, they also lower prices sometime when the
demand's not there as well for sure, Yeah, thirty eight
dollars ten cents round trip, how do they make any money?
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Well, they weren't going to make any money. Nobody got
in the flight, so that thirty eight ten that you
gave him was a boosts.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Coming up next hour number three, d Odd couple, you
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football and Carrie Road.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You've been on this kick.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You're the football exper you played in the league, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I get all that.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I respect your knowledge, but I think you're crazy because yes,
you'd like to set up Okay, I saw soaked you
first and then you know, got it. But Carrie, there
was a whole story, rob G. You got the details
of There was a story out earlier today that the
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forty nine ers. Okay, rob G, Yeah, break it down
because it's a little.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
It's a little convoluted, yes, because what we do know,
what is factual, is that Steve Wilks, the defensive coordinator,
has been fired, yes, and that whatever they want to
call it, right fired, and that the San Francisco forty
nine ers they gave up let.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Me see, they gave up Patrick Mahomes one touchdown on
a muff punt at the sixteen. That's the only touchdown
they gave up in the game, the Patrick Mahomes. And
he lost his job. Yeah, think about that in the
fourth quarters, you know what I mean, in the four quarter.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
So he got fired and now the forty nine ers
trying to decide how they're going to replace him. Either
they're going to do it in house or they're going
to go outside the company. And see who they can
get to be their new defensive coordinator. Interestingly enough, one
of the brightest defensive minds in NFL history happens to
be unemployed right now.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
That would be Bill Belichick. So you've had columns.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Again, these are opinions, not reports, but columns coming out
of both the Bay Area and out of Massachusetts linking
Bill Belichick to the Niners defensive coordinator job. That's now
inspired a few aggregators. Hey, Balichick's gon me with them.
That has not been reported yet, but the idea of
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Belichick going to San Francisco to be their friensive coordinator
has been floated.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Well, and I want to say this first and foremost.
I think I may have been one of the first
ones to float that out there a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Put it, you know what I mean. So, I mean,
I think they're coming around to the idea. Obviously.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
You know, everybody's so high and on Belichick getting a
job again because he's one of the best, and he
is and he has been. But just like anything else,
time expires on a lot of things. What are you saying,
he's sour milk? I think he's done. Yeah, I've told
you that I think he's done. I don't think he's
able to communicate with the younger generation, the younger players.
(03:47):
These players are able to be more sensitive than in
the past. And that's just part of our culture now
and it's not good or bad. I'm just saying that's
that's what it is now. And so to have a
guy come in like that that's used to having a
certain work environment, that's a certain way to run things,
he's not gonna change. You're not gonna teach an older
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guy like that to have new tricks.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And he's just I think he's out.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I think he's outdue with being the head coach, and
it'll be an ideal situation for him to go into
San Franz and be the defensive coordinator and win another championship.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You know, that's what I saw. That was my take.
I hear you. It's preposterous. It's foo gazy.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
He's this close, you see where my fingers are to
be the all time winning his coach in the history
of the National Football League.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Well, Rob, he's not gonna work this year. Why not
win a championship this year and get a head coaching
job beginning now?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
No, No, why not, because there's no way you step backwards.
When you're on the verge. You want more super Bowls
than most franchises. Forget about forget about most coaches, sure,
most franchises.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
He's one of the most super bowls.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Okay, so there's no way you're gonna step down and
end up be uh Cole Shanahan's lackey, who's.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Lost three Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I'm gonna be Coyle Shanahan's lackey, and I'm gonna help
this kid who can't close out a super Bowl win
a super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Think about this, I'm not doing that. Think about this.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I want to be the all time winning his coach, sure,
and I want to get another opportunity. Okay, it didn't
work out this time, but you know there's always six
eight openings every year, and some guy will come to
Jesus and go, guess what.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Bill Belichick's still out there.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, if one year might have mellowed him, and you
know he sat on the sidelines. I watched him on
one of the NFL shows on Sunday, and you know what,
he loosened up a little bit. I kind of liked him,
you know what I mean, And he made some great points.
He knows football, he knows defense, he knows everybody says
they hadn't without Tom Brady. Dude, go look every time
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they won, their the fifth best at least the fifth
best defense in the league.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
When they won those Super Bow, no question.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
When they beat the Rams the last time, for that
last Super Bowl, oh yeah, the Rams were averaging thirty
five points a game. They got one field goal, an
eighty nine yard field goal was all they.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Got in that Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Tom Brady had no touchdowns, a pick and a fumble,
and everybody said.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Tom Brady won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You know you notice as a defensive player, Sure they
discount the defense when they came back against the Falcons
twenty eight to three. You had to stop them, didn't you,
in order to even give Tom Brady a chance.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Everything you're saying is still supports my point. It's a
defensive guy, he's gonna go out. Yes, that's all true,
and I'm not fighting that or disputing that at all.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's the facts.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
But if he wants to win again and continue to coach,
if he loves to coach and he wants to coach
and he's missing coaching, he's not gonna get a head
coaching job this year, So go win a championship in
San Francisco. He's still going to get the credit from
what you're just saying, Shanna Hans the funky So go
there be the defensive coordinator, win another win, and get
another job after the show that he still has it. No, no, no,
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you're not look at another job after it. Here here
it is the last three years. As bad as the
Patriots have been.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Defense seventh in the NFL, eighth and fourth the last
three seasons. Okay, yes, unbelievable. Okay, seventh, eighth and fourth.
If he teams up with a team that has a
young quarterback who's a good quarterback and their offense is
pretty good, he can get that defense in the shape
(07:36):
and give you a chance. The Atlanta Falcons, what if
they won, go ahead, you know, go ahead and pass
up on Bill Belichick and some of these other teams
that have never won anything and they think they can
do it. That's fine, But there'll be some owner who
will that lightle snap on. And maybe maybe it's the
Dallas Cowboys. After yet another which Jerry just gives in
(07:59):
and says, you know what, I'm ninety I gotta do something,
you know what I mean, I gotta do something. I
can't keep doing this and not winning playoff games.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
So you're thinking, I mean, you're just saying it from
the standpoint of it's beneath him to go coach.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
It is beneath him, and the winning is Crump's beneath him.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
But that's fine.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
But if he wants to coach, he's not gonna be
a head coach this year. I mean, what else is
he gonna do.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
He's gonna do TV. I want to see him on TV.
I want to see him on the sideline.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I agree, I don't want to see him on TV
for for other reasons. I'm just saying, Carrie, I'm just
saying it is beneath him. There's certain jobs you shouldn't like.
You cannot when when you're when you're on the verge
of being the most wins, you have the most Super Bowls,
and then in your resume and your story, it's like
(08:51):
Carrie Rose was an All Pro and then Carrie, we
want you to go play Pop Warner one year.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Can you go down and play another position in Pop Warner?
If I play a quarterback?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Sure, say, look, but you get my point, like, there's
certain things you wouldn't even do.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
When you were playing, right, Yes, when I was playing.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
But again, if I knew that I was going to
be out of the league and they were saying, look,
you can be you can be the you can be
the star nickel, but you won't start at safety. Right now,
I would go play the nickel if I wanted to
continue playing the game. All I'm saying is we know
he's one of the greatest coaches of all time. That's
no disputing that. When we know what he can do,
(09:30):
we've seen it. But right now he doesn't have a job.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
But but we have seen coaches take a year, yeah
for sure, and then get a chance.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, Mike McCarthy was with the Packers, he got a
Super Bowl in his back pocket, right, Yes, he got
another chance.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Right, he had to shit out a year, right, it happens.
Oh yeah, No, I'm not saying he can't or shouldn't either.
I'm not disputing that either. I'm just saying, man, Jeannie,
what do you have three jobs? Right? I mean he
got fired from the Jets.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
From the Jets, it went to the Brown and then
and then he as a defensive yea like that. Yeah,
but you know what I mean, Like like sometimes you
have to sit out a year and wait sure for
somebody else to get whacked. And it's just a matter
of time because coaches get whacked all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So who knows.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Maybe Dan Campbell blows it again, you know what I mean,
in the big moment and you say, oh god, you
know we're gonna blow this opportunity. We should have gone
to the super Bowl again, Dan Campbell blew it at
the end. Let's go get a guy, approving guy to
get us.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Over the hump.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I saw this in Detroit. Yeah, and I saw this
with the Pistons. They had Rick Carlisle who was doing
a great job with them, got a great job.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Then we got Larry Brown and guess what happened and
won a champion the next year. And then they went
back the next year to the finals. They lost in
seven games. But you see what I'm saying, Like you
might have a team right on the verge. If I'm
the forty nine ers, Kyle Shanahan might be the guy
who gets replaced after next year. Say that that they
that things don't work out again, Like he doesn't he
(11:01):
doesn't get it done, he can't close it out. Can
he come back after after another failed chance to win
a Super Bowl? That's what I'm saying, And that's another
one similar to what we've seen with Kyle Shanahan. You
the forty nine, that you're gonna be like, we're gonna
waste this opportunity. Let's go get Bill Man.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
The faith you have in Bill being able to to
to get to get to these young guys killing me.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I want Rob G. I want Rob G. I'm not
a Bill guy. Can you tell carry? I'm not ha Belichick.
I'm not a Bill guy. I'm not what's this fascination
with him going to a team right now and getting
them over to hummy? But Rob, you know this guy
is an older guy. I get it.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
But I'm just saying it's beneath him. I do believe that,
And that's why I'm saying he's he's a cheater. If
I'm voting for the Hall of Fame, I'm gonna hold
him out. I'm gonna make him sweat.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Seriously, all that Rob called him like the Barry Bonds
of football.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Oh wow, Absolutely, And we're gonna hold Barry Bonds to
the standard. Why not Bill Belichier. He was fine the
highest fine in the history of the NFL for a
coach because of spy Gate.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, okay, all I'm saying is I was the part
of spy gate. That was that Jet team. Yeah, that's right,
that was us. Yeah, yeah, right, they cheated. Did that
feel good?
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Well it did not, because we were always getting our
butts beat. So yeah, it was not fun like they do.
They know what we're doing, right, thanks Kaw. But you
get my point.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
My point is he cannot bow down and take a
lesser position. He is going to be the winningest coach
in the history of the NFL, wins the most Super Bowls,
and there's no way he takes a job just to stay,
you know, in the league this year he could sit out.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Of you one more quick thing.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
If you're an owner and you have a team, you
have a young quarterback, and you just and you got
all the things you just said in place, you're taking them.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
If I'm close, though, if I'm close to winning, if
they didn't, if if the Charger, if the Chargers didn't
hire Jim Harbor out hire Bill Belichick because you got
a franchise quarterback, he could get the defense you know
what I mean up to speed, and you got a
great chance if you were the Chargers to take Bill Belichick.
I get why they wanted Jim Harball, but I'm saying,
(13:21):
all right, should Bill Belichick take a defensive coordinator gig
with the forty nine ers?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I think Kerry's crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
We want to hear from you eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox eight seven seven nine six nine nine
six sixty three sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
We'll continue the conversation with you.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
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Speaker 1 (14:43):
Hey, fish, don't fry in the kitchen on a bean,
don't burn on the grill.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I took a whole lot of trying just to get
up that hill. Now we're up in the big leagues.
Not turn out back. As long as we live is
you and me?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Baby, Ain't nothing wrong with that though I've been moving on. Now,
come on, dude, it's a TV theme song Thursday. If
you ain't bopping in your car, you ain't alive, you hear.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Me said to a Deluxe apartment in the sky.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
DeLux Apartment Rob Parker carry rolls in for Chris Bussar
coming to you live from the tire Rack dot Com Studios.
My goodness, gracious, and that was a rollona right from
a Good Time.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Singing that she was saying.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Nice ironically, I was actually gonna play good Times first,
but then I switched it last minute. Very nice, Mary,
very nice, nicely done. I saw you bopping your head
in man, all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox talking about Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I mean, Carrie just thinks he should just take any job.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Maybe water boy, no, no, oh so just defensive coordinators,
defensive coordinator for the forty nine or specifics, very very specific.
And I say, no, way, no how Bill Belichick should
hold out for a head coaching job because they're gonna
be plenty next year. Plenty of guys will get whacked
and he'll slide right in. He'll get the all time
wins record, and that's all he needs. He don't need
(16:12):
another super Bowl. That would be cherry on the top
on top. He don't need a super Bowl. Six ain't enough.
You remember the show Eight is enough? Six is enough
for Bill Belichick? All Right, all right, eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. Adam in DC, you're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Rado. What's up at him?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
My guy?
Speaker 8 (16:35):
My favorite radio show? Hey man, I'm with the guest
host today, Rob and you know him, and you know
I'm a forty nineer fan. But this is the way
I see if he can come and when we win
a Super Bowl next year, because I believe like every
other fan believe, right, now, but I believe it has
good reason to believe that we can do it. If
Beer was the one that helped lead the defense there.
It's it's like his version of when Tom went and
(16:58):
got his extra one him. It's never it's not gonna
hurt him. If he does a good job, he can
still get a job next year. I mean, I feel
what you mean by it. May feel a little bit
of the meaning. But he leves defense. He doesn't like
talking to the media. It's a perfect job.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
No, But he's a head coach.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
At him, he's a head coach now, one of the
he's on the cusp of being considered the greatest coach
and wins. There's no way that you take that job.
It just doesn't work.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
But he doesn't have a job right now though.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Rob.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
That's my whole point. This guy loves football. You know
you don't want to see that man on TV. He
is not saying Peyton, no guy, he need to be working.
He might as well work, get us the super Bowl
and then go off and get another team and then
do his thing. But I say, he worked, man, I'm
with you. Care have a good one, all.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Right, man, appreciate it. I can't believe it. Look at
that eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. I just
think of I'm Bill Belichick. I'm disupported. I didn't get
a job. Sure, but but you know the league. You
know how this league works. Somebody can get finedired easily.
It just can happen.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Every year.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It's like it seems to be six eight jobs open.
He'll get another job, and maybe he'll soften his stance.
He'll talk to some people. Somebody will say, man, you know,
we're really close. Yeah, I mean, we're really close. We
just need somebody to get us over the helm. We
need a Larry Brown. We need that. That's Bill Beller.
We need a Larry Brown. That's what the Pistons got
(18:26):
in two thousand and four. Yeah, yeah, I agree. But
also they got a team when Larry Brown went there.
There are bunch of veterans, guys that have been through
the wars. I mean, they had good teams and they
had made it deep to the playoffs at certain points,
and he just came and added some assistance to it
and got him over the top. But that was a
veteran team. Let's go to the next caller. We got
(18:47):
Adrian from riverside. You're with the odd couple. What's up, Adrian?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Hey, what's up? Brother? You know, as a forty nine
er fan, I was I was feeling it, like, yes,
you know, get this guy's defensive cordner. Then I started
imagining Nick Saban as a defensive coordinator and I can't
see it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Right, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
He's not gonna do that, right.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Wait, Adrian, I thought you agree with me. What what
are you talking about right now?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
I know I do as a forty nine I love
to see Saban as a defensive coordinator. But it just
it doesn't look right. It just it wouldn't seem right.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
You know, he's gonna be right, He's gonna be on
the sidelines for a guy who muffed three Super Bowls.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
Really, I didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You know, you're a forty nine er fan. You guys
should have two super Bowls?
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean Bill Belichick will definitely get
us over the hump for sure. But it just I
don't know. I like Rabel honestly, Mike Rabel, get him
in the building.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, that's well, they definitely need they definitely need a
you might need a new head coach eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox and we got.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Matthew from Maine. You own the couple?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Man?
Speaker 9 (19:58):
How are you hey, evening gentlemen?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
How what's up hey?
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Doing well? There is absolutely zero chance that Bill Belichick
science with But next year, who's gonna want to rent
him for a year?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
What are you talking about? Mike McCarthy could flame out again?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
And then the Cowboys there's a there's a team right there,
the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Is Bill Belichick gonna walk into the Cowboys system year
and make them not only a Super Bowl get tender,
but a team that can actually compete for a Super
Bowl in one year? And who's gonna rent h They're
not gonna run him for one year?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
But wait a minute, it's not about running for one year.
How many wins is he thirteen behind? Whatever the number is,
he goes to the Cowboys for two years.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
He wants the record? Can we can we get that
if he.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Wins the Super Bowl less than that's the icing, But
he wants the all time record.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's why he wants to coach.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Sure, I just don't see it happening. So he's got
a system that's different from from the way players think nowadays.
I think he's just he's old news.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
All right, Well deep was in the top ten. He's
old news. I'll take the yellow newspaper. Thank you appreciate it,
all right, Matt? All right, well, Rob, we like everybody's
kind of seeing my side of this.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I know it's unbelievable and I'm defending Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Here we go, you guy, I don't want to vote
to the Hall of Fame. All right.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Coming up next, Carrie Kittles, we'll do some NBA of course,
the former NBA veteran.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You'll tell them your great story. Can't wait for that.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
For first, be sure to catch live editions of The
Odd Couple with Chris Brussard and Rob Parker weekdays at
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and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
All right, Steve, thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
It is The Odd Couple Fox Sports Radio coming to
you live from the tire rack dot Com studios. Rob Parker,
Carrie Rhodes here in for Chris Broussard, and we're going
to link up with Kerry Kittles momentarily, so we're waiting
on carry.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
But this will be interesting, I said, this.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
If I was Bill Belichick, I wouldn't want to sit
out because the older you are, I agree, the farther
you are away from it, like, there's no sitting out
two seasons, two seasons, you'll never coach again. No, it's
gotta be next season. So all right, now, let's welcome in.
Speaker 10 (22:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Former NBA veteran and Fox Sports Radio NBA analyst.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Carrie Roads returns to the odd couple. What's up? Carry?
I mean carry kittles.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Of course I was gonna do that, Carrie Kittles with
terms because I'm filling in UH with Carrie Rhodes and carry.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
What's out? Buddy?
Speaker 10 (22:37):
How are you great?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Say hello to carry Rhodes.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I'm a box this cause you got to carry, I know,
but but carry. Before we get started, Carrie Rhodes has
something to say to carry Kittles.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, carry, man. A pleasure to meet you, brother.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I was a little, a little, a little scrawny, skinny
kid in Alabama in eighth grade playing basketball and I
got the comparison of this guy. Somebody was like, man,
you know you remind me of I was like who,
It's like, his name's Carrie, And I was like, Carrie
who it's like Carrie Kettles, and so I started started
playing like you modeled in my game after you and
(23:15):
high school got the jersey number thirty as well.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
And look at that.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You're right, that's amazing that that's a great story, right man.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And then you went you were so good at basketball,
you went to the NFL.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I was so no wait time I was playing. I
was player of the year in high school, player of
the year, And yes, I could have played collegiate basketball,
but I chose for football over.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
People exactly, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It's all good, all right, Carrie, let's go here. Last
night Lebron put on a show.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
It really was. It was. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
U turn back the clock and uh, he has those
performances every so often. I think long term, I know
Laker fans and people want to see the Lakers make
a running, gonna get to the Western Conference finals, are
gonna get to the finals.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I'm not buying it. I think it's for gaysy long.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Term because I don't see him being able to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Often or or continuously. You know you he has great.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Games, but carry he can't do that four out of seven.
Speaker 10 (24:20):
I don't think he can, and I don't think the
Lakers have what it takes from the West to really
advance far. But hey, listen, I mean when you say
turn back the clock, you look at his numbers. Numbers
this year for a guy his as twenty five, seven
and seven fifty super steds forty from three. So he's
been he's been really consistent this year. The Lakers have
(24:43):
been up and down.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
But that's carry that was I was gonna say, you're right,
the numbers are fantastic, right, but they're ninth and not
even in the playoff art, right, they'd have to be
in the play it and they have a d who's
been healthy all year, and yet they still that's where
they are.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
That's what I'm that's the problem I have with it.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
Yeah, they're the Lakers aren't deep enough right now in
the West. I think in the West you're seeing the
league really go towards you and speed Minnesota with their
young legs. Okay, see, wow, they've been sustaining their efforts
consistently throughout the year. And then you can't count out
the Nuggets with Jokic, And my sleeper team is the MAVs.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Kerry I knew I knew. I knew I liked you, man,
I knew I liked you.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
I'm a math, I'm a Math fan, and I was
going to ask you about them, But I want to
first go to the to the east coast and to
the east. I mean, right now, is it is it
Boston against the field out east?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Or or is there any teams that you think can
beat Boston?
Speaker 10 (25:41):
Nah, No one could be Boston in the series or seven.
I think that they're just stacked. I think that with
the addition of porzingis now they played five three point shooters.
Every guy in their team shoot three ever since the
trade last year. So I think with the Suckers have
done and Brown and Tatum and been really well this
year playing together, so they're definitely my favorite. And Drew
(26:04):
Holiday is the glue, you know in the back part.
So yeah, I think it's them against against the field.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
What about the Bucks and the Doc Rivers trade Dame
Dollars complaining that he's lonely.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
He makes forty million dollars and he's lonely on the
road or something video games? Are you all right? And
that him and Giannis are working progress or whatever?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
He said, what are you making the Bucks, because I
think people thought, oh my god, what a match made
in Heaven, right, and it hadn't been that pretty.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
No, I think it's gonna take some time for them
to sort things out. I think that, you know, it's
it's difficult making those kinds of transitions mid season, and
I don't care who you're bringing in mid season, you're
changing how they do things. Their schemes are different, the
energy is different, his his how he holds players accountable,
it's different than so and I think that's the Dame
(26:56):
is going through a lot personally this year with I
guess it's putting divorce or whatever. That's a lot to
way on a young man's head. So he's trying to
find his way in the new city and with new teammates,
and the chemistry just isn't quite there right now. So yeah,
I'm counting the Bucks out this year in the postseason.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
All right, Cara, Since you talked about your sleeper team
being the MAVs, I know, I know the additions they got.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
They brought PJ.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Washington, they bought Gaffer d In, But out of those,
you know, what makes them high on your radar right
now is being that sleeper team.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
Well, I couldn't wait to actually have this phone call
today because I can remember talking about my man Luca
Dunchs a couple of years ago, and your buddy Rob
Parker is like you comparing him to Larry Bird. Rob,
I said, yeah, she's Larry Bird two point zero and
you went, oh my god. Doing that everybody's been and
(27:55):
what we're seeing this year is right, he's twenty five
years old, right.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
And he looks like he's thirty five.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
But that's okay, that's okay, but you have to understand,
like how he controls every possession and they get great shots.
He's unselfish, and he's and he's averaging. His numbers are insane,
and I just think he's actually, Honestly, Rob, I think
he's built for the postseason. I really do. I think
he's built for big moments. And now you have well,
(28:25):
he's out the game. You don't hate Kyrie, and you
saw last night. Kyrie is just he's still a really
consistently good player. So and with those new additions you
just mentioned, Carrie, I really like the maps. Put like this,
if the maps are going against OKAC, watch out, watch out,
I don't think okay, see or or Minnesota want to
(28:47):
see them in the first round.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I just don't think, no way, no way they do.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
All right, carry Kittles is joining us here on the
odd couple. Of course, former NBA vet Fox Sports Radio
NBA analyst. One other thing, Uh, your MVP us far
in the league. I know, like at the All Star
Break Tatum was fifth. People are like, how could he
be that far down? Obviously the joker and the numbers
that he puts up. Who do you have a leading
(29:12):
right now?
Speaker 10 (29:14):
Well? I had him b before he got hurt because
it was a tight race between him and Donches. But
I think Luca right now, and listen, Sga is having
a fantastic year. SGA and what he's done with ok
see put him on the back of his numbers are outstanding.
But I think what Luca's done in Dallas, even though
they are they creeping up right now, you know there
(29:36):
would be nine and one that shoot's not throwing in
that half court shot.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Hey, it happens. It is called basketball.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
It's called basketball. But I really do think that that
Luca right now is the leading candidate in my book.
What he's done, and I think if he finishes strong,
he will win MVP this year. Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
All right there it is Kerry Kittle's great to have
you back man for the rest of the season, no
doubt here. I appreciate you man here on the Odd Couple, unbelievable.
All right, coming up next, carry you ready for this?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It is our most controversial segment of the week. Shop
Talk is next right here on Fox Sports Radio, Stick
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Speaker 2 (30:23):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
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Speaker 2 (30:37):
It is The Odd Couple.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
On a TV theme song Thursday, Rob Parker along with
Carry Road.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Do you know what time it is?
Speaker 10 (30:47):
Carrie?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
We are coming from coming to your live from the
Tirack dot Com. But it's time for shop Talk.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
That's right, it is shop Talk here on the Eye
Couple Fox Sports Radio segment. We talk about something happened
out out of the world is sports. This week's topic
is a doozy. In fact, it's such a big deal
that they've already backed off their original plan talking about
Wendy's I don't know if you guys heard about this, but.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Redheaded knucklehead trying to price surge us.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah, So their CEO, Kirk Tanner announced it an earnings
call to their shareholders that effective in twenty twenty five,
they would be implementing price surging or surge pricing. Excuse me,
know what this is carry which if you've ever taken
an uber or a lyft, you know exactly what I'm
(31:36):
talking about.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
As a hydro man.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
So all of a sudden, it cost me ninety dollars
to go to the airport exactly.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
So like, for example, we're at the super Bowl a
couple weeks ago. If it was a regular Tuesday in January,
the cost to go from Mandalay Bay to Rob's Nike
out it's probably like eight bucks exactly. But it's at
the super Bowl, so so it's sixteen. Right, So that's
kind of what's happening. So Wendy's decided, you know what,
not only are we gonna make the menu boards all digital,
(32:03):
We're gonna allow each store, depending on the time of day,
to change the price of the food as you buy it. Obviously,
that drew a lot of criticism backlash all over social media,
even from competing fast food chains like Burger King, who
took out on social media said the only thing surging
is our flavor here at Burger King.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Oh nice.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
But as recently as yesterday afternoon, Wendy's already backed off
of their announcement and saying they will no longer be
having surge pricing in twenty twenty five. They're gonna stick
to what they got and they will slowly implement price
increases rather than immediately.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Rob Parker, your thoughts on this whole. You already know
I wouldn't pay.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
When they raised the price of a diet coke by
five cents next door, I stopped going there.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I'm want to die coke from the place.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Oh my god, because they're like, I'm like, except for today. No, no, no,
But that's a part of a but the combos different carried.
If you buy drink by hisself, he's not doing it.
But if it comes with the combo, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
The price of the drink is like half the combo.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
So if I could get a salad and a couple
of legs, chicken legs, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Penny pinching.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
But my point is I wouldn't go for that I'm
gonna buy a Wendy single and pay four ninety nine today,
and then I go in on a busy day after
school and all the kids are in, and now they're
gonna charge me six ninety nine and I'm gonna pay
the same price for the same burger.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
No way, there's no way, no, I'm with you on
that one. There's no way what I would even take
pardon that at all. That's one of those situations where
we know exactly what you're doing. You're trying to take
advantage of us, and we're not taking it. We will
not abide.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
And that's why they had the backdown. Rob G you
watch your money, you wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I'm cheap. I'm cheap like you.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
You know, I'm actually I'm cheap like Chrispy start because
Chris is really cheap too. He's not let anyone know
that he is chick. Right, I'm not that cheap. So
the show should be called the Cheap Couple. That's right,
that's right. They're just cheap in different ways.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
That's much, very much. But here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
I'm gonna play Devil's advocate. Yep, what they were doing
was kind of genius. All right from this standpoint, Rob.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Well, it was they're floating a balloon out there.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
No, no, no, what they were doing that too. But what
they were gonna do was I said they were gonna
make the menus all digital, right, so there was no
longer a little card you gotta slide in that says
you could change the price and right, and you people
would see that. But if you're doing it in the
middle of a shift, when no one actually sees the
price getting changed, They just see the update and the
(34:34):
menus keeps like going in a circle. You don't know
that as of fifteen minutes ago that burger was three
ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Now it was four to twenty. There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And would know, Carrie, if you just walked in, you
might question and say, like, I thought it was cheaper,
but I guess not right.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
You might say that, but you don't know what changed.
I hear what you guys saying. But most people that
go to Wendy's are regulars, so.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
They would be like, my burger was three ninety nine.
They would know that.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
And that's like a budget place, right, So going that
you're going for a specific reason to get a certain
thing that people are trying to save money, right, so
they would I think they would.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Know, you know what I mean, So the biggie bag
would go from five dollars to fifteen dollars?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Is that I don't think they would jump it that big?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I was like, whoa, But so, Carrie, do you think
that if they would have said it, like for example,
three ninety nine and now at you know, two o'clock
it goes up to four oh nine, you think anyone's
gonna notice that difference?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yeah, oh that ten cent? Maybe not? Maybe not the
ten cents, I think so.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
I think they could have got away with it if
they didn't announce it and it didn't get public.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Well, I'll tell you why, Rob, because again, most of
the time those people are going there, the people that
go there Wendy's and those chains, right, they're going they're
probably getting stuff for a family, right, right, So that
ten cents is going to be more than ten cents, right.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
And they budgeted it. They might you know, you go there,
you might only have Rob g just about that much money.
And then you go, wait a minute, I was here
last week and now it's eighty nine cents more. I
went to a McDonald's and I couldn't believe. I wanted
to buy large die coke and this place was charging
you know, McDonald's was having a dollar large drinks all summer, right,
(36:10):
they wanted like three twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
I looked at them, you know, the McDonald's. Depending which
one you go to, the prices are different.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I know they're independently owned, but three twenty nine for
diet coke, that's correct.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
Now?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Do you guys think that this could come not with
Wendy specifically, but you know, Lyft does it, Uber does
it airlines to do what hotels do it?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Whatever?
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Could you see a scenario in the coming years where
food places are now doing that because it hasn't stopped
anyone from using Uber rob uses Lyft. Here's one thousand
dollars in Lyft in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Hello?
Speaker 8 (36:42):
Was this?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
How much? Could you see this becoming the new normal
across everywhere we go?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
But you know what's crazy? Like as we belly ache
about that? Two examples A real quick once rented during
the two thousand and four finals in l Line, No Lie,
I rented a run a car from an airport rental
place seven dollars a day in LA to drive a car.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Seven. I didn't even understand that. And my ticket to go.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
To the Super Bowl, rob G was thirty eight dollars
and ten cents carry round trip on an airline because
for whatever reason, they also lower prices sometime when the
demand's not there as well for sure, Yeah, thirty eight
dollars ten cents round trip, how do they make any money?
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Well, they weren't going to make any money. Nobody got
in the flight, so that thirty eight ten that you
gave him was a boosts.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Coming up next hour number three, d Odd couple, you
know what you need to do, stick and stay
Speaker 2 (37:43):
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