The Bernie Fratto Show talks Inside the NBA, Dodgers, NFL QB Pay Day & MORE!

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absolute jam packed show tonight. We've got some baseball stuff,
We've got some Olympics stuff, we've got some NFL craziness,
and we have a very raucous midnight hour which will
be a fun one. Tonight. We're gonna take a bit
of a left turn and you're gonna like one of
the subjects we talk about. We'll get to that a

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bit later, but we begin with the huge news in
the NBA and how we consume our sports to satisfy
our never ending appetite. You know, let me start with this.
In many ways, I'm a simple guy. Hell I had

(01:10):
a lunchables for dinner last night. But there's two things
that I avoid, like the plague. One going through a
drive through at my favorite burger joint, and two going
to ATM machines. You see, every time I go to
a drive through, all I want to do is get
my damn happy meal and be on my way quickly.
But it never fails. I'm always behind somebody who's ordering

(01:32):
dinner for the fifth fleet and they pay with the
spare chain from their piggy bank. You've been there, you
know what I'm talking about. And then, of course, every
time I go to an ATM, just want to get
my two hundred bucks and be on my way quickly,
but it never fails. I'm always behind somebody who's trying
to orchestrate a leverage bank buy out on an ATM machine.

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You've been there, you know what I'm talking about. But
I also don't deny reality. I have always understood and
believed and observed that the future has a way of
arriving ahead of schedule. In fact, Victor Hugo, the Great
Victor Hugo, I just stood before his mausoleum site in

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Paris sixty days ago, once said, quote, A thousand armies
cannot stop an idea whose time has come. You probably
already know this, but I'll repeat it anyway. Amazon Prime
has one hundred and eighty million subscribers in dozens of countries.
And these are the kind of deep pockets that are

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going to usher in a new world of sports broadcasting.
Hence the plight of the NBA and T and T,
at least from the way I see it. You see
it looks now that the NBA will end this thirty
four year partnership with TNT after next season. They rejected

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the network's offer to match a bid from Amazon. This
is a move that you just wait. It's gonna shake
up the sports world for the next decade and beyond,
and it's gonna change you know, it's gonna create serious
challenges for T and T and their parent company, Warner
Warner Brothers Discovery. But T and T they're vowing to

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push back. Here's where the drama begin is So first,
let's start with the key facts. This past week, the
NBA signed three multi billion dollar deals with Amazon, NBC,
and ESPN. Well their parent company Disney. We're talking seventy
six billion dollars worth a b that's a lot of
happy meals gonna take it through the twenty thirty six season.

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So this is a shift from what the NBA had
been doing before. Now. The NBA said in the statement
that Warner Brothers Discovery they're the parent company of T
and T. That's where it really gets confusing. Disney's the
parent company in ESPN. So if you try to understand
the verbiage language, you have to know these things, which
you probably already do. The NBA said in their statement

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that TNT that their quote their most recent proposal did
not match the terms of the Amazon Prime Video offer,
which reportedly included a one point eight billion dollar payment
to the NBA each year for a series of streaming
only games. Well, TNT responded saying yes we did. Oh no,

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not no, hell no, not up in here. They can
do that to us. They said they did match Amazon's
offer and did not believe the NBA could reject its
bid because it has matching rights. TNT is accusing the
league the NBA of grossly misinterpreting quote our contractual rights

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with respect to the twenty five to twenty six season
and beyond. It gets crazier from there. So where are
we see in the complaint Warner Brothers Discovery again, which
is T and T. They went on to further accuse
the NBA of listen to this now, it's uglier than

(05:14):
an I can Tina Turner divorce quote carefully and meticulously
crafting the Amazon offer to circumvent D and T and
their offer, including by agreeing to include provisions in the
Amazon offer that the NBA believe T and T and
WBD could not and would not perform. Ah ah was

(05:37):
the fix in. I don't know. I'm just a radio guy.
I'm telling you what I know what I think I know.
Now the legal action by T and T, well, it's
really WBD, which is Warner Brothers Disney's it arrives. It's
happening at a time in T and t's history where

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they're really on a down cycle. There's backlash. The stock
is not doing well, they've got downgraded ratings from analysts
due to the loss of their NBA rights, and TNT
is trying to retain its times with the NBA. The
NBA is clearly trying to take it it's games elsewhere.
Maybe they have desired to do this for a while.

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So if you follow this situations and you like legal drama,
this is one of those deals that's poised to become
I think one of the most combative rights disputes will
have ever seen in modern sports history, certainly over the
most amount of money and a highly charged because of
the Charles Barkley Ernie Johnson, Shack Kenny Smith show, which

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has been on for over twenty years. You know, I'm
just gonna throw something in here, and I know I'm
probably gonna go to hell on a scholarship for saying this.
Do I love Urdie Johnson? They don't make him any
better than that guy. If you don't know his history,
read it. Charles Barkley an absolute natural and everything he's
ever done. I've loved the guy since he was at

(07:01):
Auburn along on the short of it as this, He's
everything you'd want in terms of bringing eyeballs. He's the
real deal Shack who's become a fan favorite and a
likable personality. And Kenny Smith's fine. But you put them
all together and that show bores me. When they try
to talk college basketball, my teeth itch, they don't know
what they're talking about. It's bad and it's kind of
slow moving, but it gets camping and everybody likes it. Okay,

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I get it. I get it. I'm the outlier here. Hell,
I'm one hundred percent Italian. I'm calibrace. I don't need olives.
What does that make me? And I know lots of
people like him because I go down the aisles of
Albertson's free plug. There's rows and rows of olives everywhere,
So somebody's buying the damn things. So if the show
comes back, great, If not, life will go on. I

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promise you the sun will come up. Maybe not for everybody,
but for me it will. But the quote goes unquote.
Given the NBA's unjustified rejection of our matching and a
third party offer, we have taken legal action to enforce
our rights. According to T and T Sports, in another
statement they issued, the quote continues, we strongly believe this
is not just our contrastial right, but also in the

(08:07):
best interest of fans who want to keep watching our
industry leading NBA content. Except for Bernie Frattle, I'll watch it,
but again, I'll be okay, man, there's other stuff out there.
With all due respect, once saw Fly Me to the
Moon Today it rocked. Critics don't know what the hell
you're talking about. By the way, the soundtrack, oh yeah,
a lot of motown, but the story ensemble cast Woody Harrelson,

(08:34):
Ray Romano and of course uh Scarlett Johansson and and
and and Channing Tatum. It was it was tremendous. Man.
Uh So you know I could watch that again if
the if the T and T Show is not on?
So where do they go from here? I don't know, home, dinner,
maybe a show. The stage is set. The stage is
set for an incredible heights Takes showdown between NBA, the

(08:58):
NBA and Team Tease parent company Warner Brothers Discovery. Strap
it up, put your seatbelts on. It may not be
fun to watch, but it's gonna be very interesting to
watch because I think this has ramifications for the future
of how we consume sports, and you know, for the
rest of our lives. They're following the money. That's just

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the way this thing works. It may not be fair,
you may not like it. Something is getting left out
in the cold. This isn't the first time this has happened.
And it's not that I'm unsympathetic, It's just that I'm realistic.
I know tomorrow, if I go to an ATM machine,
I'm gonna get stuck behind some knucklehead trying to do
a leverage bank buy out. From an ATM machine. Well,

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I just want my two hundred bucks to get the
hell out of there. I know if I go through
a drive through tomorrow, all I want is my happy
meal and be on my way. But I'm gonna be
behind somebody who's oraderly enough food for the fifth fleet,
and I'll be sitting there a while in air conditioning
at one hundred and sixteen degrees. You get the drift
coming up. We've had Ryan on a lock because he

(10:02):
does a great job and this is one hell of
an up and down roller coaster season for the Dodgers,
and frankly, I wish we could just fast forward to
October because that's all it's gonna matter. But we're two
months away from October and have passed his prologue. The
Dodgers are gonna have more ups and downs, including the
trade deadline Tuesday, so we'll see what happens. We'll bringing
to Ryan Berschinger. He's our Dodger guru. By the way,

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five am Eastern. Just getting started. It's welcome and a gentleman.
Believe me, it's time because when you look at the
Dodgers twenty twenty four season, it has not only been

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a roller coaster ride. They won't end a series of
ups and downs that are completely indescribable. Every time you
see the light at the end of the tunnel, it
might be an oncoming train. No better guy to have
on than our guy, Ryan Bursching or Ryan and my
best Vince Kelly voice. Well, I everybody, how you doing? Ryan?

Speaker 6 (13:18):
Oh Bernie, I love it, I love it. I heard
you're a farmer John Records on the way out.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
In the last segment, oh much. I wanted to do
the whole commercial, but there's someone back in Buffalo, New
yorkle and what is this your bronie. Excuse me, my friend,
I gotta stop smoking those camel non filters before the show.
So here's the deal. Ryan, My god, we talked. I'm
really glad to have you on. Uh wanted you on

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last week. I know you're busy. Now, look what's happening
inside of a week? All right? When I saw the
dusted May thing happen a couple of weeks agoing, you're
out to dinner, you're already in you know, trying to
rehab flexor tendon surgery. You little stomach ache, and the
next thing you know, you're in surgery and you're off
for the year. Then yesterday, I'll check that. Thursday, Clayton

(14:05):
Kershaw makes his return to what I thought was a
real feel good moment for the Dodgers, and maybe this
is a metaphor they could start to turn things around.
Then they lose to the Astros Friday night. And what
happened to Freddy Freeman scratched for a family emergency, So
let's start there, my friend.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
Yeah, hopefully everything is all good with the Freemans. His
three year old son has been in and out of
the hospital for the past few days. From what I understand,
he was discharged a couple of days ago, but then
still wasn't eating and things just weren't looking great. So
he went back to the hospital and Freddie left the

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team to go be with his family. I don't know
exactly what's going on. I'm still trying to learn in
terms of what the exact sort of diagnoses that it
seems to be some sort of issue that can come
up with with young children, terms of like inflammation of
the hip that can really cause some serious issues. So
we're all praying for Freddie and Chelsea and that whole

(15:07):
family because it is a scary situation. And hopefully everything
will be fine there, and you know, he'll rejoin the
team whenever you can. This is, you know, something that's
that's way bigger than baseball, So hopefully everything is all
good there.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Well said, and it's my understanding the earliest to be
back is midweek next week. But Dodgers are a family,
so it's not just Freddie and it's not just dusted May.
You're still looking for Walker Vieler to get back. You're
still looking for Mookie Bets to get back. Right on
down the line, Max Munsey, what's the current mental state

(15:43):
of the Dodgers right now is the ponders are surging,
and although the Dodgers have a somewhat comfortable lead, you
start to think about October and how's all this going
to translate?

Speaker 6 (15:54):
Yeah, it has been a really, really interesting couple of weeks.
They ended the first half on a very low note.
They watched five of their last six, including a couple
of games in Detroit that they really should have won
that they really collapsed in the last couple winnings. And
then coming out of the break, you had a fantastic
All Star break. You have say Oscar Hernandez winning the

(16:16):
home Run Derby, which is a ton of fun to watch,
Otani hitting a home run in the All Star Game,
and everything looked great for the Dodgers across the All
Star Break, and that seemed to carry into the start
of the first half, where those games that they should
have won against Detroit they kind of got back against
Boston where you had a couple of games where they
were able to string things together late. Keik Hernandez came

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up big in one of those games against Boston. Late
Gavin Lux was Player of the Week. Sure, it was
only three games, but we'll take it like he's somebody
who has really struggled much of the season, so for
him to have any as Mike Harmon would say, find
your win. That was a win there for Gavin Lux
and it was good to see him kind of turn
it on. So yet, I think it's as you've been saying,

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it's very very much a roller coaster season as we've
seen the last couple of months here. But now going
into Houston, of course, having this really unfortunate situation with
Freddy and the Bat's just kind of looked flat tonight.
It is what it is, Frambverbald does, that's truly well.
But yeah, now you've got another chance to kind of

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take a look at things and really hopefully the trade
deadline comes and they can kind of get that bump
that they need to kind of get back to their
winning waves, because it looked like they were getting there.
The series against the Giants looks good, So we'll see
how the rest of this Astro series goes. If they
come out with even just one win over the next
two games in Houston, I'd say that's a success given
the status to think at the moment.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
So the trade deadline is Tuesday, three o'clock Pacific time.
And I've been following this for a couple of weeks
because has some good moles in Detroit, who told me
that they believe the Dodgers could make a deal with
Tarik Schoobell. Then the Tigers went on that winning streak,
so they're going to have a much harder bargain. I
know the Dodgers are looking to target a starting pitcher,

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but they were also thinking about targeting Randy Rosarana, who
they lost out on that. So how active do you
expect to be the Dodgers to be on that was clunky?
How active do you expect the Dodgers to be by
Tuesday at three pm specific time?

Speaker 6 (18:23):
I would anticipate them to be rather active because if
you're looking at the sort of things they need at
the moment, they kind of need one of everything. There's
definitely a hole in the starting rotation given the fact
that they've had multiple injuries. We really don't know when
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is going to come back. Of course, Bobby
Miller has had struggles. Once he got healthy, he had

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to go back down to Triple A because he was
pitching really poorly. Walker Buehler has had his struggles, and
it's kind of hard to tell if it's really a
health thing with him or if he's just struggling that
much in general. Then they dfa James Paxton, which I
found to be a pretty odd move. Yeah, Kershaw back
is definitely nice, but Paxton had been steady at the

(19:05):
back of that rotation and he was definitely a piece
that they kind of needed to be able to take
the ball every fifth day and eat up innings because,
as I was mentioning, you've got guys that are kind
of dropping like flies for the last month. Thankfully, Gavin
Stone has been excellent, but beyond them, there's definitely a
hole in the rotation that needs to be addressed. Also,

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the bullpen over the last month has actually been pretty bad.
Their bullpen has been a strength throughout the season, but
this last month I believe they're among the worst of
not sea worst in terms of bullpen era. Over the
last month, Evan Phillips has really struggled as of late,
which is unfortunate to watch because when he's on top
of his game, he's one of the best relievers in baseball.
So they definitely need a relief arm there. They also

(19:49):
need a bad or two. As you mentioned, Randy Rose
Arena was very much on their radar. His fit wasn't
as great because he's more of a corner outfielder. I
think a center fielder would be a better fit for them,
and then adding a bat to the infield, because even
as things were starting to get rolling, you know, an
issue they've had throughout the season was that bottom half

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of the order had really struggled offensively. But as we
saw over the last couple of weeks, guys like Kek
Hernandez and Chris Taylor and Gavin Lux were actually stepping
up and producing and it was getting some wins here
and there. Chris Taylor actually over the last months really
turned things around and was on a path to being
able to be an everyday player again, and then he

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got hurt just a couple of days ago. Also, Miguel
Rojas got hurt a few days ago. So they kind
of need one of everything. So this is the team
that should be insroad of the active at the deadline,
and there are some there's some potential options there that
they could pursue. In terms of the way that Andrew
Friedman tends to approach these trade deadlines is he kind

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of likes to go to a one stop shop where
he can he can get all of his needs at
the same place if he goes to a target or
and he gets one of everything.

Speaker 7 (21:03):
The Chicago White sow to offer that.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
You have Garrett Crochet, which is a top flight starting
pitcher as we just heard recently, though he's not going
to pitch into the postseason unless he gets an extension, which,
as one Dodger blogger put it, hey don't threaten me
with a good time. The Dodgers can absolutely bring Crochet
in and offer him an extension. He's that good of
a pitcher that that'd be a great move on their part. Also,

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you have Louise Roberts, who can play the outfield at
the middle of the order bat for a couple of years.
That's a great addition. And then you've got short term
editions in terms of like Paul DeJong who can play
play the infield. Give them an okay band at the
bottom part of the order, a guy who's had a
better season in terms of just his power numbers kind

(21:48):
of coming back around this year. And then you can
also throw in like a Michael Kopek, who I really
like as a guy who could really develop into a
very strong back end of the bullpen arm. So there
there are options there. It would feel like if the
Dodgers are going to do anything major, it would be
something like that where they just kind of do all

(22:10):
their moves in one gigantic move. They could also go
multiple directions to get multiple guys. But this is a
team that should definitely be very active of the deadline.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
I think Gerrett Crochet would be a great ad. So
one have been one of the best starters in baseball
this year, big time strikeout guy. The Dodgers can clearly
give him the extension he wants. We'll see what they
do about Luis Robert. But there's one more name I
want to mention that might be under the radar, because
you're right, the Dodgers' bullpen has not been that bad,

(22:42):
but they lack I think a bona fide closer. Might
they make a move toward Mason Miller of the Oakland A's,
who might be the He might have the best fastball
in all of baseball, another big time strikeout pitcher, because
they could bolster their bullpen there.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Yeah, if you recall in the All Star Game, shoy
Otani walked in the first inning, then he hit his
home run, and then he struck out and the guy
he struck out against was Mason Miller, and Mason Miller
is that good. His fastball toopped out at one oh
four and it's incredible.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
He is.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
Yes, he is on the injured list at the moment
because you know, he got overly excited and hit a table.
He kind of I don't know if he broke a
bone in his hand, but he's on the injur list.
But it's also his left hand. He's the right end
of pitcher, so it's not not a huge concern there.

(23:34):
But Mason Miller is very interesting because at the start
of the season, it seemed kind of like a foregone
conclusion that it's the Oakland A's they they have one
good guy here, they should move him at the deadline
and get all they can for him. But then as
they started to progress through the season, it's kind of
the thought of, like, well, if this is a franchise
that really wants to start over and truly have a

(23:55):
rebuild here, Brent Rooker is having an excellent season. Mason
Miller is a guy that you absolutely should build. He's
under control for the next like I think four years,
and you can have him at the back end of
that bullbend and dominate. So if this was a franchise
that was really fully concerned with the with the actual
rebuild of the team, then it maybe wouldn't make sense

(24:17):
for them to move Mason Miller. However, over the last week,
suddenly you started to hear Miller's name come up more
in conversations, and the rationale there is, well, yes, he
throws one oh four and what have we seen from
starting pitchers and relief pitchers. Uh, in the current age
of Major League Baseball, these guys get hurt instantly. That

(24:37):
guy's a Tommy John waiting to happen. So maybe it
would be smart or for the Aides to actually move
Miller right now when his value is probably at the
highest that it ever will be. And if you trade
for him, you're gonna have to give up a ton
for him, and understand that, Sure, he's under control for
four years, but he might not pitch two of those
years because with the with the sort of ferocity that

(24:59):
his arm moved, that it's hard to see him really
staying healthy that entire time. However, I'm somebody who would
be totally fine with the Dodgers spending that sort of
price for Mason Miller, because if you're looking at the
window of really this year and next year, yeah, bring
him on in. Then have that shutdown guy at the
end of the bullpen. There are some other options out

(25:20):
there that could definitely make sense. Tanner Scott of the
Marlins is somebody of the Dodgers have been attached to.
I think Kyle Finnegan from the from the Nationals would
be a great option there. There there it's a very
strong relief market. There are definitely good names out there.
It will be interesting to see if you know, technically
you can't really move guys when they're injured, so I
don't think Miller can be traded at this point anyway,

(25:43):
but sometimes they kind of work things out. I don't
know they since they took away the waiver deadline to
take it makes things a little more difficult. But yeah,
there's there's definitely strong options out there on the relief market.
But that they could bring in.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Ryan great stuff is always we'll get you on again
soon and yes, uh tell me John surgery is the thing.
Garrett Cochet's already had it. Who knows, Mason Miller might
get it someday. It sounds like they fit it with
the Dodgers perfectly. Yeah, that was a smart all right, Ryan,
great stuff, my friend. Keep your finger on the pulse
will get you on. I'm looking forward to the pulse

(26:15):
Sason already. As I said earlier, the future has a
way of a ride head a schedule. That's Ryan Berschinger.
You hear his podcast, the Sick Podcast with Boll Benson
very much has his finger on the pulse. You heard
him rattle off a ton of good information right there.
So when you watch and observe the trade deadline Tuesday,
you will be able to enjoy it more thanks to

(26:37):
Ryan's information. Coming up? Will you enjoy the Olympics? The
Olympics are upon us. These Summer Olympics are upon us.
The opening ceremonies are in the books, a couple of
soccer games are in the books. And Sunday the women's
soccer team has a big matchup against Germany and the
men's basketball team will have a very anti climactic matchup

(26:59):
against Serbia. Yeah, but I digress. The key is what
will viewership be this year? We're going to talk about that. First,
go to our guy Kevin Figures with the latest II.

Speaker 8 (27:09):
Kevin, Hey, Bernie start with some Major League baseball from
Friday night, Arizona getting a home run from Jock Peterson
in a four to three victory over Pittsburgh. You had
the Giants hammering the Rockies eleven to four in Oakland,
defeating the Angels five to four. Seattle with they shut
out win over the White Sox ten nothing. They had
an eight run first inning in that one. Fraan Berveldez

(27:30):
pitched six shutout innings for Houston. They defeated the Dodgers
five nothing. Kansas City has shoutout went over the Cubs
as well, six nothing. The final there they s called
all six of their runs in the fifth. It was
Boston nine and the Yankees seven. The Mets won their
fifth in a row and defeated Atlanta eight to five.
Jerks and Profar two home runs for the Padres and
a victory over Baltimore. Wins for the Marlins, Twins, and

(27:51):
the Guardians, who defeated the Phillies three to one. In
NFL news, the Packers and quarterback Jordan Love agreed to
a four year, two hundred and twenty million dollar contract extension,
while the Offins agreed to way four year, two hundred
and twelve million dollar extension with quarterback to Tagovailoa and Bernie,
you're talking about the Olympics and whether you're into it
or not. If you are into it, we've got some
action coming up. At the top of the hour. You
can watch handball between Spain and Slovenia. So if that's

(28:14):
something that tickles your fancy, there you go some live
Olympic action at a midnight Pacific time. So I don't
know if you're gonna be tuning into the handball match
or not, but it's there for you if you want to, Bernie.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
I'll Stanley Kevin, I actually bet the.

Speaker 9 (28:26):
Under there you go.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
I'll watch less than one minute. I actually sampled it
the other night. It's kind of a I'm glad you
brought it up because I was trying to figure out
if it's it's kind of like between basketball, lacrosse, Yeah, soccer, right.

Speaker 9 (28:38):
Yeah, it's kind of intriguing. Actually, actually, you know, it was.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Very intriguing, and I got admit it. It did hold
my attention for a good one minute.

Speaker 8 (28:45):
Yeah, I'm just not appointment viewing. But if there's literally
nothing else on, you'll flip it on.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Why not? Good? Good? Pull Kevin, Now, who's your favorite
handball player?

Speaker 8 (28:53):
By the way, uld say, yeah, that that one guy
for that one country.

Speaker 9 (28:57):
I bet that one thing, yeah him.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yes, yeah, yes, you nailed it, my friend. All right,
good stuff as always, Kevin. All right, So the Olympics
are upon us. Well they've started, and as Kevin mentioned,
we've even got a handball and blah blah blah. But
what's interesting is Gallop Reporting Services issued a report last

(29:22):
week that the Summer Olympics are points to have record
low US viewership and they did a survey amongst people,
only thirty five percent of US adults planned to watch
you know, the games quite a bit. Whatever that means,
you know, only ten percent you know, will watch a

(29:43):
fair amount of the games. That's down from forty eight
percent back in twenty sixteen, and down from sixty percent
back in twenty twelve. And the vealer intensions for each
Summer Olympics in the last twenty four years have been,
you know, waning and you can't just play. But on
COVID they were they were waning before that, And I

(30:04):
think there are lots of reasons why. This is my
personal theory, there was a time when the Olympics were
played when it was really the US versus the Evil Empire.
The USSR always put out phenomenal Olympic teams. You had
track athletes like Valerie Barsov who became famous, won gold medals.

(30:27):
You had the Olympic basketball team. The Russians beat US
twice for a gold medal. There was controversy both times,
and back then, you know, even when the East Germans
had catered to went the great skater. This was a
referendum on societal success. They believe their system was superior.

(30:50):
They produced better athletes, they produced better citizens because of
the way they handled things. The US, obviously we believe
we are better. And the Olympics became sort of this
acid test. Whichever nation would win the most medals prove
the point. And of course, who can forget the miracle

(31:10):
on ice in nineteen eighty It has become famous, It
has become infamous. It will never every year on what
February sixteenth or whatever, the day the US won the
gold medal against Finland. Who can forget the great victory
over the USSR, incredible in Lake Placid, New York, and
February of nineteen eighty. So these things were real. It

(31:32):
was much more than just the athletes between the lines.
It was national pride. It was bragging rights. It was
a referendum on whose society was more advanced, whose was
better by virtue of how many metals you won. It
was the US right, the land of the free versus
the evil empire. That's all gone, that's all gone. I

(31:54):
don't hear any of that anymore. I don't he Frankly,
here far less national pride than I think I've ever
heard in my lifetime. The one good thing is is
women's sports will be watched as much, if not more
than men's, particularly gymnastics. All right, they should draw some
sizeable audiences and gymnastics think to simone viios. But beyond that,
I set it for a month now. Yes, the US

(32:17):
men's team plays with their food, and yes we keep
hearing speeches about all the world's caught up. They are
five and zero. It starts for real Sunday morning at
eight am Pacific time against Serbia. I don't think the
US team will lose a game. They're still too talented,
too deep. They'll out athlete everybody, they'll squeeze them, they'll
turn up the defense. They can play there one on

(32:39):
one ball. They can play their two man ball io ball.
The foreign teams can still shoot the threes better, they
play better teamwork. In FOBA. It's a different game. Okay,
it's eight minutes shorter. Still put the ball in the hole, right,
distribute the ball and put the ball in the whole.
We don't do that in the NBA. It's it's not
our game. It's a star It's a game predicated on stars,
and you don't escape your nature. They're gonna get on
the floor and do it. They do. But we're too good.

(33:01):
We're too good. And I know Bri'll save this, and
then you know, Ean'll save this Saturday night. If I'm wrong,
I'll eat crow. They're not losing. So but here's the question,
this is the first question I'm going to have for
our midnight hour tonight. Will you watch the Olympics this year?
It's Kevin brought up a good point, not just watch,
but his appointment watching the WNBA All Star Game last Saturday,

(33:26):
I was appointment watching. Will you appointment watch the Olympics,
because I'll promise you we used to. We used to.
Someone named Caitlin Jenner won the gold medal in the
cathlon in nineteen seventy six and be a guy named
Alberta Wantorana from Cuba and it was national. It was

(33:47):
amazing in nineteen in Montreal, that was appointment watching. Do
we have anything disappointment watching? Will you watch the Olympics?
And do you somewhat agree with my assertion that it's
no longer in the US versus the evil Empire, which
he's taken out, the good versus the bad element and
the number of gold medals everybody wins with the metal count.
It's just I feel like that edge is gone, that
anger is gone, that angst is gone among the citizens.

(34:10):
So I want to hear your thoughts. Will you watch
the Olympics? Yes, know why? Maybe favorite event? And I
like to get your thoughts on my theory about good
versus evil. But the second topic is one we can
all relate to. This one is going to be a doozy,
This one's gonna be fun, This one is going to

(34:30):
be I don't think it'll be controversial. I think it'll
be spirited. Have you noticed have you noticed that everywhere
you go there are self checkout machines that want you
to tip them, even though maybe just picking up something,
or you just ordered a cup of coffee. Just hold
that thought. We'll get into the meat of the subject

(34:52):
matter coming up, which you will be the second part
of the midnight Hour. And I'm looking forward to some
of these calls tonight. I'm Bernie Frattle. We are come
to your line from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio Tirat
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Speaker 2 (35:19):
All right back on the Bernie Fratto Show, Fox Sports Radio.
We are coming to you live from the Tiret dot
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start taking your calls the midnight hour. From where I sit,
it is, in fact the midnight hour in Las Vegas,
twelve midnight. From where you sit, it may also literally
be the midnight hour, but certainly figuratively it's the midnight hour,

(35:42):
and we'll be taking your calls. And I want to
give my producer, Mark Ramsey my technical producer top Props,
pointing out I may not have contextualized the winner of
the nineteen seventy six Olympic to Caflon properly. We know
that individual's current name is Caitlin Jenner, but back in
nineteen seventy six it was Bruce Jenner. And of course
I know that, but it articulated properly. But the point

(36:06):
is we're talking. We are talking appointment viewing in the Olympics.
Are you gonna watch it? Is it appointment viewing in
a samplet We don't have any Tanya Hearting, Nancy Kerrigan
stuff this year. You get the point. I don't need it.
I don't need to recite the litany. We've got a
smart listening audience. Self checkout machines that want you to

(36:29):
tip them. As you have noticed, if you've been out
in the world for the last couple of years now,
businesses has been introducing you options for tipping self checkout machines.
It puts pressure on customers. Some people have called it
emotional black mel despite having zero interaction with an employee

(36:49):
or real service during a transaction. Well, these checkout machines
at places such as you know, well, there's coffee shops, bakeries,
air reports, sports stadiums. They put it in your face
and they list an option to leave a typical twenty
percent tip. And a couple years ago, the Wall Street Journal,

(37:11):
it wasn't even a couple years ago, it probably about
six months ago, did a big story about this, and uh,
the business owners want their staff to make more money
and increase gratuities. But I gotta tell you, the the
great Hoy POLOI is not It's not what I consider
to be enamored about this. Now, don't use me an example,

(37:34):
because I'm a sucker. They put that damn thing in
front of me, and my Catholic guilt kIPS in and
I just tip, I just do it. I was in
Texas's past week and I bought dinner for some peeps
and went and picked it up at a national chain
that you've all eaten out, I promise you. Uh. And
they put the thing in front of me, and not
only did it say fifteen percent, it had like the

(37:56):
twenty five percent in big bull red letters. What they say,
everything's bigger in Texas. Well, it was. So the bill
was sixty two bucks. The tip was like fifteen to
fifty I just did it, all right. I'm just not
going to cry about it. However, just for giggles, and
there might have been some alcohol involved, last a few folks.
Do you tip eighty percent of the people? I said, no,

(38:19):
Hell no, what I do that for? If I wasn't
served or waited on, or there wasn't some you know,
significant opportunity for the person to offer customer service? No,
what am I doing it for? And I said, well,
you get dirty looks and they said no, not really.
I said, oh, this, we'll think about it. They deal

(38:39):
with people all day long, hundreds of people, thousands of people,
and if eighty percent are tip and they're used to it,
I think this is a thing. I think this is
a thing worth talking about because it speaks to a
the zeitgeist of a society. It's just one particular public

(39:01):
relations executive who was part of the Wall Street Journal
team bought a six dollars water bottle at an airport
self checkout machine and was asked by the computer to
leave a twenty percent tip. Now, this is a professional
person who lives in Manhattan, New York. I won't give
the name, but the quote was just the prompt in general,

(39:22):
is a bit of emotional blackmail. I'm a wardsmith. I
thought that was a pretty apt this you know description.
For some people it is like, what are you doing here? Wait?
Wait a tip? You know he's not automatic, although it
should be automatic. But the point of them, you get
my drift. Some people are good tippers. Some people aren't.
Believe me. In Vegas, we know who the good tippers

(39:44):
are and we know the stiffs are. So those are
our two subjects. Tonight. The Olympics are underway. We've already
had the opening ceremonies and for the next seventeen days
it'll be bliss for some of the people, maybe ten
percent most some might not want you any of Will
you watch it? Why have the Olympics lost their groove?
Why have they lost their luster? I believe they have,

(40:06):
and you heard my theory earlier about good versus evil
the number of medals. Secondly, how do you feel when
they put that tip machine in front of you, even
though no one really did anything? Do you leave a tip?
How do you feel about it? Want to hear your
thoughts eight seven, seven, nine, nine six six three sixty
nine eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox From Where

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want to hear from you. Tips and the Olympics. Keep
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recommend an installers tyraq dot com. The way tire buying
should be. Well, we've got a couple of beautiful topics tonight,
the Olympics. You gotta watch them. Have they lost their luster?
Like I said? Also, how do you feel when they
put those tipping machines in front of you and ask

(41:25):
for a tip, even if you're just at a bakery
or the airport or somewhere else where you weren't rented
any service. Yep, it's that time. It's the midnight hour.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
The midnight.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Looking forward to some very provocative calls Tonight the call
has been fantastic throughout the duration of this segment, which
we began last December. We go to Massachusetts. We start
with Jim. Jim, welcome in glad to have you leading
us off tonight.

Speaker 7 (42:00):
Hey, Bernie, say listen. The Olympics. Oh what can I
tell you? It was us first, then good versus Evil.
I remember poor Doug Collins lost the gold medal against
Russia against Alexander Belloff. They let him and found the
ball three times until they got the score. It was like,
I'm like screaming at the TV as a kid. Then
watching the swimming Shirley Babershop and all those girls from

(42:23):
southern town, It's like, hey, I'm heading a southern cow.
They're beautiful. But they lost all their medals because they
went against the East Germans and Russians that were all
two stuff. They had thighs as big as my waist
and I'm a forty four waist. I mean, all that
stuff that happened back then. But then you know, the
sad stuff happened with Munich and everything, and I'm so
glad that got straightened out. And it was in Germany,

(42:46):
and Germany got those guys before they left the airport
and you know, protecting Jewish people. Think about that, you know,
twenty five years after World War Two, I mean things
like that. And then that dope, that stupid dope, Jimmy
got keeping the Olympic team home to obtain a military objective.
And that's when we sent all amateurs. It wasn't pros

(43:07):
and everything. So all those kids and all those sports
work in their butts off boy and girl, and he
keeps from home to do with things. But that's why
no one's watching anymore.

Speaker 10 (43:17):
You know, it's not the storyline.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
There's no storyline.

Speaker 7 (43:19):
The storyline, you know, it's good against evil. And I
just when you had that form the top, I was
just thinking of all the old Olympics I watched. I could,
like I mentioned a few points to you right then.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
I can remember, don't forget Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan
took place in Detroit. I lived fifteen minutes from there.
My radio partner, Mark Wilson was on the scene with
TV two, one of the first reporters that created the
kind of appointment watching. We wanted to see who would
win the gold right.

Speaker 7 (43:49):
Yeah, plus that data whole issue was about money, you
know it boils down to all about money.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
You know, future movie about it. Tell me about it, Tanya.

Speaker 7 (44:04):
I mean, yeah, that was just so disgusting.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
You know, all right, are you going to uh the
tipping thing? What do you how do you feel about that?

Speaker 7 (44:11):
Well, the tipping thing, I like, I like like Trump
wants to eliminate all the tipping, your tax on tipping.
Tipping is for people that start out in life, like
with the waiters and waitresses, first time job and stuff
like that. You know that's starting out at the bottom
and stat in your lives. They want to work them
way through schools. I'm all for that. Now, when you

(44:33):
go into the restaurants, like I went into one the
other day, six people are more. They charge eighteen on
the bill and you see it and you can add
more if you want. I like that. But like soda machines,
water machines, everything out now No, no, I'm sorry, buffets.

Speaker 11 (44:48):
No.

Speaker 7 (44:48):
If I'm getting served, it's going to be on the
you know, the class of the person, the personality of
the person, and if they really want to be there,
you know, earning the money and I usually you know,
I usually do around twenty, you know, when I go
out and stuff like that. But you know a fine
for machine that couldn't believe you told me right. She
wanted money.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Oh yeah, everywhere I go. I did a takeout earlier night.
Great stuff. Jim has always appreciate your man. Every Friday
night at midnight on the midnight hour, Jim usually gets
you started, just the quick a side. Because our producer
Bree is a phenomenal movie. Buff I Tanya is a
great movie. Would not have happened if not you know

(45:28):
the nineteen ninety four Olympics. If that whole event when
Nancy Kerrigan and Tanya Harding and knuckleheads like Shane Stanton
Jeff Glouli became household names. Phenomenal performance by Margo Roby
is Tanya Harding and her mom Alison, Janny rock to
E's swarts seeing hollering, James, welcome in. How are you.

Speaker 12 (45:48):
James still on the air? Thank you, Ben. I mean
I've been burning fat. I'm say it only you're confused.
I'm telling you right now, I haven't really gotten into
the Olympics because my boy mother Smarther and Hagler and
he fought, you know, at a Fermo way back in
the day. He beat Beto and when he de Vito,

(46:10):
they said bartles and everything they could when he beat
Nto in Italy, and he was shied away from the
Olympics when he had the honors shouting from city bumpus.
I'm dating myself way back in the day, and I'm
telling you I'm sixty years old. I've seen a lot
of the Olympics. I want they do, the athletes and

(46:32):
how they train and how they prepare themselves, and it's
just downfair adequate for them to receive propa edition. Whether
they're not that grit and they seem to get in
they get out once to get in or once they
get out they seem to be on top of the world.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Watch him this year.

Speaker 12 (46:54):
I might watch a little bit of it, just so
you know. Americans. I met kid American. Of course, I
was born up here in Minnesota, Minneapolis, and yeah, they
might have my attention.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
All right, good stuff. I appreciate you hollering, James, always
appreciate your call. Just a quick subtext. I didn't get
to the tipping thing with him. He can call back
if he wants. But here's the deal. Boxing was always
a huge thing in the Olympics. What do you think
Sugar Leonard got his start right on down the line.

(47:28):
Floyd Mayweather as well. I can't name any boxers this year,
and that's on me. Quick tweet from a Bolt Royal.
If I've got to do anything other than scan my
card or whip out some cash to check out, then
I'm looking for a discount. Screw the tip for a
machine costing people their job. I don't think anybody likes this.

(47:50):
We're gonna get into this. Wand in Pennsylvania. Welcome in
midnight hour of the Bernie Fratter Show. Hello, are you
there one in Pennsylvania. Yeah, you're on the air.

Speaker 13 (48:05):
One, go ahead, Yes, good morning. A couple of points
I wanted to make one. I have an appointment watch
the Olympics in twenty four years. I'm thirty five. The
last time I was eleven years old. And the only
reason the appointment watch anything was because when the men's
national team got through their group and made it to
the quarterfinals with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard, that was

(48:29):
like everything to the US, just for the men to
make it that far. And to kind of further that
point as to why it was an appointment watch, I
kind of feel like it's not really the US against
the road anymore. It's the US against its own van base.
I think because the expectation is that, hey, we're supposed

(48:49):
to get the most medals, the most old medals every
year just doesn't seem as interesting anymore for people to
you know, sit on the edge of their seats wondering, hey,
can the US overcome something because we just expect them
to do it now.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Good point, especially when you think of men's soccer now
women's soccer. Yeah a good point, Yeah, yeah, of course.

Speaker 13 (49:08):
And then lastly, I also just kind of I've always
thought just kind of like the pride thing with other countries.
I always felt like other countries just take so much
more pride in representing their country. I feel like the
US is everything just so commercialized and standalone and it's
all about individuality, and it's for me, just as an American,

(49:28):
it just seems like these athletes that represent fur their countries,
it's it's so much more meaningful, or it seems much
more meaningful for them to go out and breat and
rep their country and be like, hey, you know we
can do this, We can go out and we can
beat these USC It seems like we're it's like the
world against us now. And that's why for those athletes too,

(49:51):
because it seems like they just have so much more
to overcome. They don't have as many advancements as we
do or facilities. So yeah, that's that's kid of my sake.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
On all right, great call on, don't be a stranger.
We do this every Friday night and maybe three am
your time in Pennsylvania, but it's the midnight hour everywhere
we are. And he brings up an interesting point. I
happen to sample Iraq versus Ukraine in soccer yesterday or Thursday,
Iraq versus Ukraine. They're feeling soccer teams. Yeah, think about

(50:23):
that for just a second. John and Seattle's up next.
Hi John, welcome in. How are you.

Speaker 14 (50:31):
Hey, boss man, Thank you for finally taking my call.
I want to say this. First off, I just wanted
to talk about the Olympics. But now I want to
talk about this tipping crap. This tipping crap is out
of control. If you sit down and you take a meal,
tip the people, Tip the people. If you're ordering, you know,

(50:51):
tip them good. But if you're going the subway, and
I'm gonna say subway, and I'm ordering my stuff and
I never even sit down. I do not want to
be a tip option. If you want more money from me,
charge me in the god dangn sandwich. Is that simple?
Charge me and that's your two sandwich two dollars. I'll
pay the money. I don't care, But don't put an

(51:12):
option for me to tip, because I don't want to tip.
It's bullcrap.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
And now an interesting point. Hold that thought. I like
the way you articulate it, and I appreciate John, I
appreciate the passion in your voice. This Wall Street Journal
investigator who did this story called it emotional blackmail. So
you don't mind. It's not the extra two bucks, it's
the way they're going about it. How do you feel
about that term emotional blackmail? What's going on.

Speaker 14 (51:38):
Is go ahead, because I feel like I'm a piece
of crap. If I'm looking at this guy who's making listen,
I make good money. I make well into the six figures,
you know, less than two hundred, right around the two
hundred thousand.

Speaker 7 (51:51):
Mark, you know.

Speaker 14 (51:52):
So I make good money and I'm not afraid the
tip if I'm sitting down, but if I'm ot subway,
I feel bad this dude. I know he's not making
that money, and I feel bad and I feel pressure
the chip and it's like, uh, I don't want to
tip twenty five. I don't want to tip fifteen. I
don't want to I don't want to tip anything because
he's just doing what he's supposed to do.

Speaker 12 (52:14):
Make my sandwich.

Speaker 14 (52:15):
And I don't want to feel like he's below me,
you know what I'm saying, And nothing like that.

Speaker 10 (52:19):
I respect the dude.

Speaker 7 (52:21):
But I came there.

Speaker 12 (52:22):
Hey, if you.

Speaker 14 (52:23):
Want my money, charge me extra. That's that's simple turn off.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
You know, did you have excellent points? Real quickly? Are
you gonna watch the Olympics? Have you lost their luster?

Speaker 15 (52:34):
Listen?

Speaker 14 (52:34):
When I was growing up, I was all, I'm a
young black well I still consider himself a young black man.

Speaker 10 (52:41):
Maybe I'm not.

Speaker 14 (52:42):
I'm in my forties. But all I cared about was
the Olympics. Every year, the Olympics. And then in the
early two thousands, I got into soccer and I started
over betting. You know, I got into uh uh, the
soccer team that comes up every three years. You know,
I got and the vast stuff and we don't have

(53:02):
any more heroes. Where's our heroes. Where's the Michael Phelps,
Where's the Michael Jordan's.

Speaker 6 (53:07):
The dream team?

Speaker 14 (53:08):
We don't have any more heroes. The black chick that
does the Olympics, that tumbles around and all that stuff,
we don't have. She's not even popular anymore. She has
on a subway mobiles. I don't even think she's the
subway commercials anymore. Where are heroes that used to be
the American dream that used to be all over the place.

(53:30):
I don't mean serially anymore, but they used to be
all over Weedy's this commercial quick call American Heroes where
you know what.

Speaker 11 (53:38):
The problem is.

Speaker 14 (53:39):
Everyone wants to go to all these social media stupid
people and in the housewives of this that and whatever.
Forget these people.

Speaker 10 (53:48):
There are a bunch of losers.

Speaker 14 (53:50):
Get back to making American heroes great again.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Hey John, real quickly. Uh, don't be a stranger. We
do this every Friday night. I've loved this call. Uh
the Simone Biles, I've seen the subway commercial. I gotta
ask you a question. When she goes to the subway and
they put that thing in front of her, does she
leave it? Tip? I couldn't resist. I couldn't resist John,
don't be a stranger man outstanding saw him and Mike, Poppy, Fernando,

(54:16):
you are all getting in. Bree is manning the phones
and should take your calls. At eight seven seven nine
ninety six six three six nine, we are off and
running the midnight hour, Off and running the Olympics. You're
gonna watch them? Have they lost their luster? Thoughts? They
put those tipping machines in front of you? Are they?

(54:37):
Is this a you know, is this a guilt trip?
Is it?

Speaker 7 (54:40):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (54:41):
You know what? You get the point? I don't you
know the manipulation whatever. I'm Bernie Frattle. We are coming
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Speaker 3 (54:55):
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Speaker 2 (55:07):
We're back at the Bernie Frattle Show Fox Sports Radio.
We continue on with the midnight Hour, the Olympics. Have
they lost their luster?

Speaker 16 (55:17):
And?

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Uh, you know, how about this tipping thing? Man? Is
it the guilt trip time, trying to give you a
guilty conscience, sort of passively aggressively reminding you that you
owe something. Back out to the phone lines, Solomon in
Los Angeles, Welcome in. How are I Solomon?

Speaker 16 (55:34):
Hey, I'm good, Bernie. You know, before I get to
the Olympics, I don't tip machines, man. You know, I
tip people so you can take the machines and you
know where you can stick it.

Speaker 10 (55:43):
So that's my that's my.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Do you feel like if you walk and you do
a takeout order at a restaurant that sit down, but
you go to the takeout part and all they've done
is take the order over the phone, but they put
the tip screen in front of you. You do you tip?

Speaker 16 (55:54):
Then? You know what when I pick up at a
restaurant and there's this servers there that put the meal together,
and you tip them a little something, and again I'm
I'm tipping people. You know. Regarding the Olympics, I think
you are correct. I think the golden age of the
Olympics is no more. That's gone.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Man.

Speaker 16 (56:17):
It's just it's besides the rivalries like you're talking about
between you know, countries or between the United States and
the big superpowers. I don't see any personalities. As far
as you know, there were there were. There were big
things between various athletes from other countries in in a
respectful way. And I think that also back in the

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day he just had television with what you know, twenty stations.
When you've got two hundred and twenty now and social media,
there is so much entertainment. I don't have the time
of patients to sit for an hour or two and
watch that, and I don't think other people do as well.
You got to catch them quick. I can watch something

(56:59):
on Instagram. I think I saw an eighty nine year
old a woman hurdler the other day and it was
like a minute and a half and I went cool, done,
it was great. I loved it next, you know. So
I think that that's affected viewing habits from modern day
people as well. So I'm not putting it big on

(57:22):
my list. It's one of those things if I happened
to catch it. But I don't even watch that much
television anymore. I'm on Netflix and Instagram.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
All right. The NBA is going to love you good stuff, Solomon.
Appreciate you, buddy. Mike in Houston joins us Mike, how
are you.

Speaker 10 (57:39):
Good morning, Bernie. Okay, we'll get to it. The Olympics.
Don't watch him anymore. I remember as a kid then
known as Brush Jenner, I remember getting really excited about that.
In the fact, that made my mom start buying the
wheaties so I could get him on the box, even
though I've never tried wheaties before that time. The nineteen

(58:01):
eighty got canceled due to political differences. If you recall
through the US.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
And then the Russians good and then don't forget Mike.
The Russians paid us back in eighty four in LA
when they didn't send their team which to finish the Olympics.

Speaker 10 (58:16):
And for me, now call me an old fogie. That's okay,
I've been called worse. I thought I kind of lost
his lesson when us the US stopped using amateur basketball
comes to mind. Although I was I was intalled with
the ninety two Dream Team when I watched basketball. I
don't watch it anymore. I've thought it what I wanted

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to amre still out and compete with the best from
the other countries. For me, and you have two great calls.
The guy from Pennsylvania to the other guy right behind him.
Where's the national pride anymore? I couldn't. I couldn't agree
with that more than that, just you know it's commercial anyway.
The kipping thing, No, I do not believe in zipping

(58:57):
a machine tonight. Going to visit my mom. She likes
his dish from this particular restaurant, and you pay, then
they turn around and uh, you know, do a tip option?
Uh they don't. They don't bring out by food. They
don't do it. And I'm sorry. I know the economy
is bad and I'm not going to get political. We

(59:18):
all have our different opinions on that, but lots of
people are hurting right now. I understand they're hurt the
restaurant business. I'll pit delivery drivers absolutely, that's a hard
job and they're providing a service service right now.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
I'm more alluding to when you go to a self checkout,
or even if you go to a bakery or coffee
shop and all someone that was take your order and
they're looking for tim. That's the kind of emotional blackmail
people talk about. We had an earlier call.

Speaker 10 (59:43):
THK it was they go ahead, Well no, I no,
I just don't feel guilty about it at all. It's
off of the other thing that some of these places
and we need to name the stores of self checkout,
of taking away jobs. I mean, it's it's sad. It
just is.

Speaker 12 (59:59):
No.

Speaker 10 (01:00:00):
I don't feel guilty one iota about it. If you're
serving the waiters, waitress, you're performing a service, and I
will tip applicably, you know, But no skip for Kip's sake.
When you're just making fu you're not making any extra effort.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
No, thank you, all right, great call. I appreciate it
covered a lot of ground, and for what it's worth.
At survey the Wall Street Journal did showed that about
seventy percent of customers they refuse to tip, either for
fast food or self serve experiences. So you know that
goes Poppy. Poppy in San Diego is up next, by
the way, top credit Poppy. Last week you said take

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the w NBA All Stars plus the five points to
beat the Olympic team. So that was a winner for
the Poppy followers. We got tonight, Poppy, Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 15 (01:00:45):
Bernie. Well you know what's tonight. It's over here, come
up on Wake and San Diego. It's crazy. I can
tell stories, but look on the Olympics. I just think that,
you know, the opening ceremony when team the Mexico team
was going under and the French they threw water and
the whole Mexican team. So I want Mexico to get
revenge and get a lot of gold medals.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
That's why you watch for that. Okay, So you got
a storyline there.

Speaker 15 (01:01:08):
Yeah yeah. Overall, well I do I do want on
team USA basketball.

Speaker 14 (01:01:14):
Guys.

Speaker 15 (01:01:15):
Look the lost against Germany. I'll give you guys a pick.
I know you guys want to hear a pick. I'll
give you for Sunday, USA covering the spread like a
big laying fourteen.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
They're laying fourteen to get Serbia.

Speaker 15 (01:01:26):
Yeah, yeah, I'll go past fourteen. Bernie. You know why
because they're comparing themselves to the Dream Team. Well, you
better do better than Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
So if you want to be compared to that level
of pron Jim, I know you're listening, you better step up.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
It would not surprise me if they blow out Serbia,
because I think you're gonna come out of the gate
with the house of fire. But we shall see tipping
real quickly, poppy outing.

Speaker 15 (01:01:48):
Look, yeah, you know what tipping I do, will Bridge, Bernie.
I know how it is. Look when I ever go
to the counter and they say, hey, would you like
to tip out for tipping out.

Speaker 10 (01:01:57):
When you're ordering foot to goo?

Speaker 15 (01:01:58):
No, but look I do tip when I go inside.
I'm a delivery driver and I deliver foods to customers
doing no great, Bernie. There's been times when I travel
like ten miles and did not tip the delivery.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
That's wrong. No, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking
you're providing a service there. Someone didn't get off their butt.
There's dignity in that profession. They brought you your food,
it was warned all that that deserves a tip. I'm
talking about the self machines like you.

Speaker 15 (01:02:23):
Oh no, yeah, I would not say that, Bernie. No,
that's all Ai. It's all manipulation.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
When I'm walking into a sandwich shop and they hand
you the bag and they want.

Speaker 15 (01:02:32):
To tip, No, I'm not going to do that, Bernie,
because that's not right. They're replacing people's jobs, taking people.
That's an AI. No, I'm going to save that and
tip the real people when I go to the restaurant, Bernie,
All right, packy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
Good stuff, but there's this pick USA minus fourteen over Serbia.
That game tips off eight o'clock eight o'clock am Pacific
time on Sunday. Fernando and Bobby don't go anywhere. You
are up next on the midnight hour. But first we
go back to our guy, Kevin Figures and Kevin, I

(01:03:04):
gotta ask you, do you have John Singleton as part
of your update?

Speaker 8 (01:03:07):
Again, I don't necessarily have John Singleton as part of
my update, but I certainly can add him in there
when I talk about the Houston asals beginning the Doctors
five an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Ago, and I got, I gotta, I gotta keep it
real here. Yeah, John Singleton was the great producer. Hey
did two movies I really enjoyed, Boys in the Hood
and Higher Learning. Absolutely died of a stroke. Very sad
he died of a stroke. It's probably been about five
six years now, but I can't not hear that name
John Singleton without thinking about what I thought a groundbreaking

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movie maker he was.

Speaker 8 (01:03:36):
He's done Pheno mean, he did Poetic Justice. I mean
he did a lot of great movies you know before,
back in the day. So John Singleton, like you mentioned,
well respected producer, not the same guy who had a.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Home line to produce hustle and flow.

Speaker 8 (01:03:48):
By the way he did hustle and flow. I think
he worked on Baby Boy back in the day. I
worked on Friday. Yes, I mean, you name it. You
know any of those you know classics. You know John
Singleton had his fingertips on it. So a phenomenal producer
for sure. So and also a phenomenal producer. I guess
you can say, is the John Singleton that place for
the Houston Astros again, as you mentioned, hit a home

(01:04:09):
run and a five to nothing victory for Houston over
the Dodgers on Friday night.

Speaker 9 (01:04:14):
We'll stick to Major League Baseball since we're starting there. JD.

Speaker 8 (01:04:17):
Martinez, former Dodger, they could have used them on Friday,
hit a grand stamp for the Mets. They get their
fifth straight victory in eight to four victory over the Braves.
Seattle scored eight runs in the first inning in a
ten tohing drubbing of the White Sox. You have Boston
beating the Yankees nine to seven behind Masasaka Yeshidah's three RBI.
Yanks have lost five of their last six. Some news

(01:04:38):
out of the NFL. On Friday Packers quarterback Jordan Love
agreed to a four year, two hundred and twenty million
dollar contract extension with the team. Fifty five million dollar
average annual value of his contract ties him with Joe
Burrow and Trevor Lawrence for the highest average annual value
in the history of the sports. Dolphins agreen to a
four year, tw hundred and twelve million dollar contract extension

(01:04:59):
with quarter back to tagoba Ala. And if you're into
the Olympics, Bernie, right now you can turn on the equestrian.
The equestrian if that's something that you're into. Not necessarily
my cup of tea, but some people, uh, you know,
might like to dabble in that sort of thing. So
if you're into the equestrian, it's on live right now,
along with handball, volleyball and rowing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Kevin great stuff. I've always been conflicted about equestrian. Do
you give the medal of the horse or the rider?

Speaker 8 (01:05:23):
You know, that's a good point, hopefully both, which, by
the way, one thing that gets me to with the
Olympics the coaches don't get medals. I realized they're not athletes,
but I mean, are they not instrumental in the athlete's success.

Speaker 9 (01:05:34):
It's always been odd to me.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
Nice for mister Ed to check in.

Speaker 8 (01:05:39):
Yes, talented, mister Ed by the way he hit inside
the park home run off the Sandy Kofax back in
the day.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
That's right, I remember that, Kevin, Good on you, man,
No good on you. That was just claps and people
need to YouTube that. Uh the Diger of course he
was the you know, a horse of a horse of course,
of course, yes. And no one can talk to a horse,
of course unless the horse is mister Ed. Great stuff.

(01:06:09):
Kevin has always bud, you got a Bernie?

Speaker 14 (01:06:12):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
We continue with the midnight hour. Are we talking Olympics?
Are we watching Olympics? And we're talking tipping? Right? You
know what I'm You know what I mean. I'm not
talking about when you go to a nice restaurant, the server,
he's handling your entire experience, et cetera. And part of
that tip, I think goes to the chef and the
crew and the expeditors whatever. I've never worked in a restaurant,

(01:06:33):
so I don't know what I'm talking about. But how
about when you just go to a place, order a
cup of coffee and they put that thing in front
of you. And says, how about an twenty percent, Fernando
here in Las Vegas. Good evening. How are you? Thanks
for hanging on.

Speaker 17 (01:06:46):
I'm good, Bernie. Little backstory back in nineteen eighty four,
I was twenty and I worked at Alle Olympics as
a mini usher around around the sports arena and coliseum,
and I ran into Bobby Knight, all nice, and I said, hey, coach,
how you doing. He goes, don't talk to me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
Ask why it cut Charles Barkley.

Speaker 17 (01:07:08):
Yeah, he said, no, talk to me, leave me up.
But anyway, the Enlisted nineteen ninety six was my favorite,
with Janet Evans.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Atlanta right, Atlanta right.

Speaker 17 (01:07:17):
And then when the two thousands came, there was too
much corruption, too much doping scandals. So this will be
my first Olympics since nineteen eighty nineteen ninety six. I'll
be watching and looking forward to the women's basketball and
the men's basketball, chat and swimming, the usual, the ones
that were strong at and with the tipping. Hey went

(01:07:42):
in Rome, went in Paris, went in Vegas. Tip both ways.
If I have a three hundred dollar bill, you know
I'll tip sixty dollars. Given bits of the machine, I'll
give you know, twenty to fifty dollars, so why not, Well, here,
we're enough.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
I'm kind of you know, I'm kind of with you,
but I know that it's in a front to a
lot of people. And by the way, the thing I
remember about the ninety six Olympics was Kerrie strugg She
got hurt, she really hurt her ankle when she landed
awkwardly on a dismount and she came back a couple
of nights later and won the goal, and that moved
a lot of people. But that was one of those
events that you look forward look moving into the Olympics.

(01:08:18):
But to your point, you're looking forward to watching some
of the events, and fair enough. Bobby in Los Angeles
joined this. Hi, Bobby, how are you, Bunny, Yes, sir,
you're on the air, Bobby.

Speaker 7 (01:08:31):
Yeah, I won't be watching the Olympics.

Speaker 14 (01:08:33):
You pretty much hit it on the head.

Speaker 7 (01:08:34):
It's lost its luster.

Speaker 14 (01:08:36):
I'm a huge football fan. I love the NFL.

Speaker 10 (01:08:39):
I'm huge.

Speaker 14 (01:08:40):
I love the Washington Commanders, and I can think about
all talk about the NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
So I'll be a lot of NFL on my show
Saturday Night. By the way, and by the way, that's
fair They're giving you something to look forward to, which
I think is maybe how I should have couched this.
The Olympics no longer really gives us something to look
forward to.

Speaker 7 (01:09:00):
Yeah, I love the NFL when Gibbs was there eighty
one to ninety two, those were there happiest gready hears
of our life.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
A couple of Super Bowls. The hey by the way,
you know, Bobby, you know a week from Thursday, we
got to got the Hall of Fame game. Bears. I'll
be watching Bear's textans. Okay, anything on the tipping front, Bobby,
you walk into a sandwich shop or a coffee shop.

Speaker 7 (01:09:25):
I always tip everywhere I go, Bernie, I tip everywhere.

Speaker 14 (01:09:28):
Even when I go to a bookstore, I tip.

Speaker 16 (01:09:31):
I mean the history of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Speaker 7 (01:09:33):
I give a tip.

Speaker 14 (01:09:34):
You know, I'm an hege book reader.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Yeah, all right, that's good, good stuff, Bobby. I appreciate it. Man.
Look I'm kind of the same way. I actually feel
better after I do it. But look, the most boring
conversations are when everybody agrees, and we have got good
diversity opinions tonight from you know, from folks who have
thoughts about this because we're all consumers. We all go

(01:09:57):
out to eat, and sometimes you go to a you
find yourself in a situation where you're in a hurd,
you'd take out, and all of a sudden, there's this
new phenomenon. They didn't used to do this, not that
I can ever remember where there was a sort of this,
you know, passive aggressive, suggestive situation that put some people off.
Andre in Massachusetts, you're up next, Good evening, Andrew.

Speaker 11 (01:10:18):
How are you are you doing, Bernie? Thanks for taking
the call first boy. Yet I look forward to the Olympics.
No luster has been lost. It's an absolute treat and privilege.
It only comes around once every four years. And what
are we talking about here? Well, left at three o'clock
in the morning here on the East Coast when I'm
tuned in, we got all these different sports going on

(01:10:38):
a questioning, people riding horses. I'm looking at Lebron James,
you know, doing open ceremonial stor Once every four years
the world comes together centered around sports. It's absolutely tremendous
and specifically for me coming from the basketball tradition. Look
Team USA Poppy. They shout out to Poppy with the winner.
In terms of WNBA Versus USA and the All Star Game,

(01:11:02):
But are you kidding me? With Team USA? They haven't
covered the spread yet forty three points against South Ku Dan,
I wish I had talked to Poppy before that game.
They were down fourteen points a halftime. Bernie, they haven't
covered the spread yet, So that's an incredible storyline for
me because they got all these stars. But look, Bernie,
the Olympics is in Paris, France, and Paris France has
a juggernaut of a team.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
Okay, talking about when be talking about you know, you
recall we lost to Paris and last the Libs. You
know we won the gold.

Speaker 11 (01:11:29):
Okay, but again it's in their country and their team
is loaded.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
I'm gonna agree with with your point. Did that that
adds a dynamic to this go ahead, go ahead, Ubrey,
So I.

Speaker 11 (01:11:41):
Just think, you know, that's going to be fascinating in
terms of, you know, everyone's just crowd in USA. They
have a very difficult journey and they haven't played well yet.
I hope they covered the spread in his first game
and blow a team out, but I haven't seen a
blowout yet from the team, so I don't trust them now, Bernie,
to your point about tipping. It's a great conversation.

Speaker 14 (01:11:57):
Look the place.

Speaker 11 (01:11:58):
First of all, I'm not I'm not I'm not a
you know, Richie rich over here. Okay, I don't have
no I'm not Daddy Warbuck's first, you know, grandson or whatever.
But a lot of the places I go to I
go to consistently, my cafes, like these are my people,
you know what I mean. So even if I because
I'm just in and out, you know what I mean,
I don't sit down to me. I go in, you know,
get my boo boop, and then and I'm out and
I'm moving. But I feel inclined to tip, Bernie, because

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these are my people good, you know, I'm so if
I if I go to a restaurant or a cafe consistently,
they have to get a tip, even if I'm just
going in and going out. But if I'm like, you know,
but if you're going to place that's bad service or
like you're not really familiar, then I agree, you know,
there's they shouldn't really be expecting it because I don't
really know you, you don't really know me. But if it's
a local, homegrown place, you've got to support your people, Bernie,

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thanks so much taking the call.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
All right. He brought up a couple of really good points. Andre.
First of all, the Olympics correct only come around every
four years, so that and that alone might be an
impetus enough to at least sample. And that's kind of
where I am. I will I'm a junkie, so you
can't compare anything to me. The second thing is if
he mentioned that it feels obligated to tip just because
and I'm kind of in that. I'm kind of in

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that corner, so you know, here, I may, you know,
dislocate my elbow from from patting myself on the back,
but I do this, and friends who know me as
crack man. Where I et in Vegas, I frequent a
lot of places I tip thirty percent. And the reason
I do that is because if you go out for
a meal and it's say it's sixty bucks or thirty percent,
tips eighteen bucks. But if you tip twenty, that's twelve.

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So really not talking about eighteen. We're talking about six dollars,
which is different between twelve and eighteen. And I've never
worked in a food establishment, but I know these people
rely on their tips, and you don't know what their
situation is, if they're supporting kids or whatever. So for
six bucks more or if it's a forty dollars meal
for four bucks more, you get it. You're making somebody's

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day because they know they do this for a living,
and say, wow, that person tipped me thirty So I
feel better about the whole situation. I do, And I
think we should be generous to the extent we can time, talent,
and treasure. If you're blessed, and I'm blessed, you should
be generous again. But I don't put the mid at
hour topics out there so I can spew. I want
to hear what the people got to space, especially this

(01:14:11):
next guy. Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome in the comedic stylings,
you know me love them the candle without them. Man,
weell in Guardina, what's up? Buddy?

Speaker 10 (01:14:22):
Baby burn shines action him in a chain reaction. Bernie,
Oh man, you are touching on.

Speaker 18 (01:14:32):
A few things near and dear to my heart.

Speaker 15 (01:14:36):
So I'm gonna start off on the tipping since we
just left there.

Speaker 10 (01:14:42):
I also am I Hey, I mean, I don't go
thirty percent. I even go twenty to twenty five.

Speaker 18 (01:14:47):
When there's good workers and stuff. I cannot be guilt
tripped though, no matter what. As far as that man,
I ain't tripping. Man, they can look at me however
they want. If it's crappy service, they ain't getting a
good tip, and then a machine is getting no chip.
If I take out and you handle my k meal,

(01:15:09):
I'll probably throw you like five bucks, but I'm not
going percentages at that point.

Speaker 14 (01:15:15):
Now it's the.

Speaker 7 (01:15:16):
Olympics, Bernie.

Speaker 19 (01:15:18):
Do you talk about a bastardization of a sports pantheon?

Speaker 18 (01:15:26):
You know this thing's been going on for more than
one hundred years, man.

Speaker 19 (01:15:30):
And now you got the likes of these things. They're
supposed to be athletes, like skateboarders and like I mean,
and they're actually on the higher end that curly just
a bunch of crap, man, what happened?

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
The main thing is because I'm up against it here, man, Well,
the main thing is are you going to watch l.

Speaker 19 (01:15:55):
No, I'm not watching Snoop Dog, I'm not watching Lebron.
I'm all watching Sealine Dion. That's not the Olympics. It's
a bunch of crap. It's a production they.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Can have you, man, Well, great stuff is always appreciate
you man. We'll see you next Friday night. We wrap
things up on the midnight hour. We got to get
the crew in as well. I'm Bernie Frattle. We're coming
to live from Las Vegas. Fox Sports Radio, Tireck dot
com studios. Keep it locked. You're listening to the Bernie
Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
listen live.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
All right, wrapping it up on the midnight hour, by
the way, quickly, keep things real, gentlemen. At the Brunsen Burner,
the Jalen Brunson Berner tweets in and said, the guys said,
our USA basketball team hasn't blown on anyone. We beat
Serbia by thirty true true story. Brie. Let's start with
you your thoughts on the Olympics. Are they appointment watching?

(01:16:56):
And why are they? You know, have they lost? Or
lester and tipping Hi.

Speaker 20 (01:17:00):
I think the NBA like or the NBA or basketball
in the Olympics because my love for the NBA like,
I will watch at least like the men's basketball team
for sure, one hundred percent because Devin Booker, you know,
I'm a Suns fan, so I will at least watch that.
I don't know about really any other sports. And I
think because we're just so saturated with entertainment and content now,

(01:17:22):
like it's just not as much like as a big
deal to watch one.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
Thing good point so many other choices and we didn't
really necessarily always have that. Have you ever worked in
the food service industry.

Speaker 20 (01:17:34):
I worked at cheesecake factory for two weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
Two weeks. Yes, oh come on, I got to hear
I gotta hear you.

Speaker 20 (01:17:41):
But my dad, okay, go ahead, And my dad was
a bartender. So I have a huge like love and
appreciation for people in the food industry and the food
and drink industry. And he was you know, he's in
Vegas with you.

Speaker 9 (01:17:53):
So I believe in tipping.

Speaker 20 (01:17:56):
You know, if somebody is in front of me and
I have a relation communication and just like are building
like that short little bond, like I will, you know,
give half my four oh one k if I have to,
if somebody's incredible. But in regards to like machines, like never,
I would never give them a cent.

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
How about when you fall in the middle where you
are maybe buying dinner for some peeps. You drive into
the drive in the V window you had to take
out whendo, you walk into that little cubby hole where
they hand you a big bag wrapped up and then
they put the tipping thing in front of you.

Speaker 20 (01:18:25):
What about that if the bag's already wrapped up and
they didn't add like any like barbecue sauce or with
sabby or ginger like, probably not. But if they added
like some chopsticks and asked for or asked if I
wanted any utensils or anything, I'll tip for that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Okay, tell what we're gonna do. I want to get
Mark and I certainly want to get Kevin figures thoughts
on this. I don't want to cut him short, so
we're going to do that right after the top of
the hour. Great job are the callers tonight on the
midnight hour? As as usual, it was an outstanding I
think amalgam of thoughts. It was some really damn good ones.

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And you know, after the show ins tonight you can
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percent off. And I thought about something Breed just said. There,
you show up the hand of the bag, but if
they're looking out for you with the extra condiments or
utensils or whatever, that's something. It reminds me of a
story a local place here. I kind of like they're
fish and chips, but I like the vinegar and I
like the tartar sauce too. So I show up, and

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I've been there a bunch of times, and I always tip,
even if it's a take out under our tip. Well,
I ran into this one gentleman once it was all
up at his attitude and the bag was already sealed,
and I said, hey, you remembered to put the the
the tartar sauce and the vinegar. Right, Yeah? Yeah, man,
I don'd forget that. Are you sure? Could we checking? Non?
So I didn't check the bag because my Catholic guilt

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kick tipped in, kicked in, and I trusted him. I
got home. Guess what. There was no tartar sauce, there
was no vinegar, and I'd already tipped him. Guess hobody
been times have been back to that place? Yeah, you
guessed it, same many times as you have. So there's
always layers to this stuff coming up. We continue on
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dot com, the way tire buying should be before I
get to a couple of massive signings Friday in the
National Football League, and what I believe the ripple effects
are going to be. Let's continue on, ever so quickly
with the crew, their thoughts on the Olympics, whether or
not they've lost their luster, and the tipping phenomenon when

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you come across a situation where you really unprovided service,
but somebody puts a tablet in front of your face
and asking for a tip. Kevin figures, let's start with
you either subject you can begin with.

Speaker 8 (01:21:53):
Yeah, as far as the Olympics losing their luster, they
definitely have to a certain degree. And the big thing
for me is having to wait for the prime time coverage,
you know, knowing having the network tell you what the
most important event was back in the day is just
no longer needed. So I'm into a certain amount of sports.
I'm into the basketball, like re mentioned last hour, for

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obvious reasons, is probably the most the sport that the
majority of people who are regular sports fans.

Speaker 9 (01:22:18):
Will be the most intrigued by.

Speaker 8 (01:22:20):
But even within that, I don't know if TMOSA is
playing at eight fifteen in the morning, I gotta watch it.
It's like, no, if I know that they're playing, if
it's nine thirty, I'll check in and see how they did,
or I'll keep close tabs on it. But I don't
necessarily think that I have to sit in front of
my TV and stop what I'm doing to make sure
that I watch them.

Speaker 9 (01:22:36):
My wife was a volleyball player.

Speaker 8 (01:22:38):
She knows some people that play for the Beach volleyball team,
so that's something that I'll keep a close eye on
to a certain degree as well along with her. But
I'm not going to go out of my way to
make sure that I keep tabs on each and every
single solitary event, you know, the equestrian like I talked
about last hour, or some of the other events just
not really in my wheelhouse and absent any major storyline
surrounding them. There's really no reason for me to keep

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close hat tabs on the sport that I generally would
not follow.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
Well, I think that's fair. And so unless you have,
you know, a vesting interest in a sport you already like,
or maybe some other personal angle, there's not the broad
based storyline that's going to be an attraction.

Speaker 8 (01:23:15):
Correct, Correct, So that's the and look, maybe if if
it's on in the background, it basically what the Olympics
turns into generally speaking over these last few cycles, for me,
Bernie is if I'm home and I'm doing stuff it's
on in the background, if there's some live action going on,
that that's essentially what it amounts to.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
So we had a really good call earlier in the
night who mentioned that if he walks into a sandwich
shop and they put a you know, tip tablet in
front of his face, that's botherish him. But if you
want the extra two bucks or the fight, just charge
me more for the sandwich. But the way that that's
you know, transpiring now, and it has been for the
last couple of years, I think a lot of people

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take umbrage with how do you feel about the tipping? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:23:53):
I agree, And it's popped up left and right in
every single walk of life. Look, if you are you
you mentioned we mentioned subway as as an example. Yes,
people are providing a service and I guess making I
guess they're called sandwich artists.

Speaker 9 (01:24:05):
I guess is the title that they're given. But that's
also their job.

Speaker 8 (01:24:09):
You know, it's not necessarily a service, like like a
server who would typically get a tip for the service
they're providing you over and above what you're already ordering.
These places that you walk in and you order something
where literally someone has to reach behind them grab something
and hand it to you with all due respect, I'm
not going to tip you for that. You didn't do
anything with all due respect. So I kind of have

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no issues whatsoever if it's not something a service that
you're actually going out of your way, whether it's making
a drink or you know, as an actual server at
a restaurant, I have no qualms about not tipping.

Speaker 9 (01:24:42):
And I realized they try to guilp people into it.

Speaker 8 (01:24:44):
You're not going to guild me into that because I'm
not going to go over and above you know, what
is necessary. And so look, I understand why the companies
do it, because they recognize a lot of people are
going to basically feel the social pressure and give into it.
And I guess more to them, But there's an element
of me that just feels like that they're really doing
people wrong and you're preying on people. To go back

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to the original point of the topic, so it doesn't
necessarily affect me, burning I don't really care. I will
tip people who I think deserve to be tipped, or
work in the industry where tips are warranted, but outside
of that, I have no qualms about not tipping in
a situation where it isn't warranted.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
They covered a lot of good ground there, and I
think you're in good company. Probably seventy five percent of
the people feel the way you do, and I think
you allude to the larger issue here. You make the
distinction if there's a customer experience, not just customer service,
but customer experience. We've all had that server that refills
your water grass before you've had to ask for it,

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or refills your drink before you've had to ask for
it right or they seat you right away, or maybe
the meal's taken a little bit longer, but they're always
communicating I hate It'll be right with you, you know,
blah blah blah, sorry for the lake? Can I get
you an appetizer block? Well, they're communicating with you because
people can deal with good news, people can do with
bad news. They don't like to deal with uncertainty. And
if you're sitting there waiting and you're seeing people wander

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by you, you know, like a boss right and left,
and no one's letting you know what's happening. Where's your food?
You know? Part of that service is the ability to
create the experience, so while you're waiting there, you understand
what's going on whatever. I think your point is taken.
So if you don't have that customer experience or customer
service simply because it's a transactional situation, then you are

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preying upon people somewhat. I believe in a passive aggressive way.
I think that's the way seventy five percent of the
people see it. Now I've already out of myself. I
am one of those suckers. I just do it. But
it's a topic because the first time I saw what's this,
It's like the first time I walked into a Carls
Junior many many many years ago in order to die coke,

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and they put a cup on the table. I said,
what is this? Sir? Would you election fries with that?
I said, well not if you're gonna give me a
potato and a knife. What are we doing here? Oh,
to help yourself service machine? So they transform us as
a society anyway, Good stuff, Kevin. You covered a lot
of good really good ground there, Mark Ramsey, you got
the last word from the Food City of Chicago. Your thought,

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let's start with tipping first.

Speaker 21 (01:27:21):
When it comes to tipping, I don't want to tip
a machine because in the whole scheme of things, certain
machines are taking away jobs from people. So I'm not
gonna be intimidated by tipping. When a machine is pushed
in front of me, I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
Okay. Your thoughts on the Olympics are the appointment viewing
for you? Have they lost their luster? What's the deal?

Speaker 21 (01:27:48):
I think they've lost their luster for me because, like
one of the callers said, there's not many certain heroes
and the track and field that I'm watch or some
of the various events that are around.

Speaker 9 (01:28:04):
There's no big hype about it.

Speaker 21 (01:28:06):
I do give in to, you know, advertising, you know,
looking forward to something, and there's not many games or
athletes that I'm looking forward to. If I still had
Network TV, I could always watch highlights, but there's nothing
that I'm looking forward to. One of the callers didn't

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mention that there's a certain pride that other countries have
for representing their country, which it appears that politically America
has been having a couple of generations say they don't
like their country, so that pride has gone away from
wanting to you know, scream USA at an event or

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sporting event. So that's a part of why certain luster
of Olympics has died.

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
For me.

Speaker 2 (01:28:57):
Listen, if you put your ear to the pavement, there
are a lot of people who actually share that sentiment.
I observed. I observed people rooting against the women's soccer
team not only during the Olympics, during the World Cup
because there's some things they didn't like. The Maga Appino said,

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and I realized, she thinks she's smarter than the rest
of us, and she's going to save the world with
their intellectual and moral superiority. But she's also got a
right to speak her mind, and people have a right
to react. And so has that cut into the national product?
You cut? You know, you bringing a really good point there.

Speaker 21 (01:29:34):
Because people have you know, everybody has a right to
say something, and they also have to watch out for
other people responding to what they say. So there's that
whole give and take. If you're going to say something,
be ready for people to respond to you or begin
to ignore you, because they don't have to watch you,
they don't have to listen to you, they don't have

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to be enthralve with you. So you could say what
you want, but then people are going to respond how
they're going to respond, and they might not want to
watch you anymore for various reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
Listen, every action has a reaction, And yeah, you can
say what you want that that's all true, but you
get what comes with it as well. And some people
maybe agreed with her, right, some people be careful what
you wish for that type of thing. But that I think,

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you know, we became somewhat somewhat of an issue. You're
not wrong, all right. So the Miami Dolphins made headlines Friday,
a big time to a guy I've always rooted for,
got the bag four years, two hundred and twelve million,
includes one hundred and sixty seven million guaranteed, and just

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a few hours later, clearly they clearly they must have
been watching to see where the markt was. Jordan Lovey,
I think very deserving. You know, the last nine games
of the season, eighteen touchdowns, one interception strolls into Dallas.
As Kevin would say, Molly wop the Cowboys. That was
big time win a lot of folks. Field green Bay
will very much compete for a you know, the NFC

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North Championship the year Jordan Love gets a deal for
two hundred and twenty million, And so these guys are
really on the map now, Jordan Love to uh, when
you look at the quarterbacks and how much they're paid annually,
they're they're right up there, right up there in that
in that rarefied air. I think what Trevor Lawrence and
Joe Burrow get like fifty five, and now these guys

(01:31:31):
are getting like fifty three. It's big time. But but
I also think I also think they deserved it, right
and right behind them is Jared Goff and Justin Herbert.
But all of a sudden right now, don't don't look back,
but these guys and we'll see, we'll see how they
do coming up this year. Are there? You know what
what are what are the residual effects of this? Because

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they're going to be residual effects. You don't think Dak Prescott,
Team Prescott's watching this. He wanted some leverage in his
negotiations with the He's already got a no trade clause,
a no franchise trade clause, and he's a fifty five
million dollar cap it in twenty twenty four. So that's
leveraged to get a massive deal for Jerry Jones. So

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if you're Dak's people, I don't know if I agree
with this or not, but i'll that's what they're gonna say.
If goff is worth fifty three million a year and
two is worth fifty three point one million a year.
Dak through thirty six touchdowns last year and finished second
in QBR. Now we all know what he did in
the playoffs, but the things are slotted. So is Dak's

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average annual value sixty million. Prescott said he wants to
be there, but he's also realistic that maybe not. So
look what is the residual effect here? Jerry Jones recently
said I do not think this will be his last
year with the Cowboys at all. I don't know what

(01:32:57):
he means by that. What if they go seven and
ten or if they don't even make the playoffs. That's
a possibility. I'm telling you, that's a possibility. And this,
you know, has reached its bordered, lying down to the absurd.
Now to leave Dak Hangen, I'm not a Dak guy,
But I know you got a problem here. You really
want to go back to the you know, you really

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want to go back to the Drew Henson days, Quincy
Carter days. Dak keeps him relevant, although people are gonna
watch the Cowboys no matter what. So the bottom line
is Jerry Jones and I respect Jerry Jones, but he
failed to learn that back in twenty twenty when he
had this last Kubookie dance with Dak Prescott and Dallas

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was finally forced to sign him. They gave him a
four year deal, and they could have given him a
deal after twenty twenty two and his asking price might
have been reduced. That might have been made sense. But
that wasn't a good Dak year. But Jerry likes to
you know, it's good to be the king. Another residual
effect you got Jalen Hurts, the NFL's highest paid quarterback.

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He had a five year, two hundred and fifty five
million dollars deal. It's fifty one million dollars annually in
April of last year, so fifteen months later, don't look now,
Hurts is the seventh ran among quarterbacks, and once Prescott
signs his deal, he'll he'll move down to eighth or ninth.
Jordan Love got his right. So I think Howie Roseman's

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considered the best general manager because he seems to get
the right free agency drafts, the best prospects, He executes
the shoot his trades. But give it up to Harry Roseman.
He's also a master of timing. He sees where markets
are trending and he works to get out ahead of
the market. Jerry Jones doesn't do that. The residual effect
here is Philadelphia is winning because anybody who says you

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can't pay everyone, well, that's exactly what Harry Roseman has done.
Almost every starting offensive player on the Eagles roster is
among the top ten highest paid players at their respective positions.
You got a running back, but it's Akwon Barkley, wide receivers,
offensive lineman, et cetera. Every one of those players is

(01:35:07):
in its top ten of their position. Now, Jerry Jones
is basically trying to run interference with the Cowboys fans.
You can't pay everyone. Philadelphia did it, and you know,
Mike Brown, the owner of the Bengals, said the same
thing at Cincinnati's training camp. Is why he hasn't extended t.
Higgins and so look, this becomes interesting because everybody's joined

(01:35:30):
at the hip in the in the NFL. Another residual effect. Now,
you can't extend brock party until twenty twenty four after
the twenty twenty four regular season ends, because the NFL
rules prevent teams from giving players new contracts until they've
completed the third campaign. Remember, may feel like brock perty
has been around a long time, but he's only this

(01:35:50):
is his third year. But if he continues at the
kind of production he's had and actually heard somebody have
the audacity to say, well, which as a rule responsible
for their success? Are you kidding me? Have you seen
him play? You see how he gets the ball out
of his hands. Have you seen him he puts the
ball right on the money. Have you seen he gives

(01:36:11):
his team confidence? And have you seen how the players
talk about him? Yeah, big difference. He got him into
the Super Bowl second year. He had a lot to
do with it. You know, you want to go back
to Trey Lance, knock yourself out. Another residual effect. Patrick Mahomes,
who did something years ago It really made me tip

(01:36:33):
my cap. He got that ten year packed for five
hundred and twenty nine million to incredible team friendly contract.
But Mahomes is a rare bird. Not only is he
the best player in the NFL, he's got his head
on straight. He wants to win. Since he signed that contract,
they've won two Super Bowls and uh, they're gonna win
another one and they might repeat this year. And he

(01:36:55):
just had the foresight. He said, no, I'm want to
be rich. I know what are we doing here to
build a legacy? My god, what a legacy. But here's
here's the reality. For the talking head pundits who you know,
feign false outrage. Mahomes makes forty five million a year.
That ranks twelveth now that Tua and Jordan and Dak's

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gonna be twelve and he's won three Super Bowls. Josh Allen,
depending on who you ask, I think if you talk
to scouts and opposing players and opposing defensive coordinators who
actually really know what they're talking about, he's just he's
talent wise. He used to perhaps the league's second best quarterback.
He's making forty three million a year, right behind Mahomes.

(01:37:41):
So these things have ripple effects. These things certainly have
a life of their own because everything is connected to everything.
So when a a you know, when the Packers and Dolphins,
who what one of the things they did, I should
keep I should mention this. By doing what they did,

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they insured themselves cost certainty at a position which I
believe is the thinnest in all of sports. Very few
people can play quarterback well. There are thirty two starting quarterbacks,
not all of them play the position well. And so
when you saw what Jordan Love did, tip of the cap,
what a gentleman, what an outstanding human being by it?

(01:38:26):
At this time, stuck behind Rogers Rogers, they had Jordan
Love the keys of the car. There were lots of
questions from people, including me, I'll change my mind. I've
seen enough. He can play the position, and I covered
the lines for ten years, so I know what I'm
looking at. So the Packers and the Dolphins do something big,

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but it doesn't happen in a vacuum. There are residual effects,
from Dak Prescott to the Philadelphia Eagles to Patrick Mahomes.
You get the point. Coming up, all I can say
is this, it's about damn time. It's about damn time.
What am I talking about? I'll tell you coming up

(01:39:10):
I'm Bernie Frattle. We're come to your live from Las Vegas,
Fox Sports Radio, Tirec dot com studios. Keep it locked.
You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
listen live.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
All right back on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio.
Come to live from thee Tirac dot com studios here
in Las Vegas. And all I can say about this
is this, It's about damn time. So you may or
may not know this. The San Diego Padres went fifty
two years without a no hitter, then they've gotten two

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in two years or thereabouts. The other night, Dylan Cease,
who I think last year had a no hitter going
and I think with one or two outs in the
yech or something lost it. Well, Dylan sees on Thursday

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through the second no hitter in San Diego Padre's history,
and it almost didn't happen.

Speaker 10 (01:40:22):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
We talked about this two weeks ago with Paul Skeins.
Pittsburgh Pirates had a no no going on the Ancdom
and it became a midnight hour topic because people have
kind of had enough. And of course the Clayton Kershaw
perfect game became the benchmark for all of these and

(01:40:43):
I don't know anybody was happy about that. And of
course Clayton Kershaw, being the dignified guy he is, handled
it very well well. Dylan Cees now hit the Washington
Nationals the other night Thursday, struck on nine walk three
through one hundred and fourteen pitches. However, it almost didn't happen.
He had a postgame interview with the Padres broadcast team

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and she submitted that the Potter's manager, Mike Shilt, had
told him he was done after seven innings, and se says, not, no,
hell no, not up in here. That's not gonna fly
with me. He lobbied his manager to let him go
back out for the eighth inning. All right, he said,

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I feel great. I've thrown ninety four pitches. There are
games this year where I've throwing one hundred and thirteen pitches.
Mike Shilt listened. Dylan Cees was successful with his lobby.
The manager let him go back out to throw the
eighth inning, and interestingly enough between the eighth and ninth inning,

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he only needed a total of fifteen more pitches Dylan's
to finish the no hitter. He ended up with one
hundred and fourteen, one more pitch then his career high
of one hundred and thirteen. At the end of the day,
he made history. He wanted to make history. And after
the game he said, thankfully they let me talk him
into it, and here we are. And the long and

(01:42:17):
the short of it is, he had a nine pitch eighth,
started the ninth with one hundred three pitches, just needed
eleven to get the final three outs. And after the
game this has probably lost on a lot of people.
Dylan Seeds Ceased went over to his manager, Mike Shilt,
and hugged him and thanked him. We're living at a
time where pitchers are increasingly pulled when they have no

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hitters going due to pitch count. So Cease deserves credit
for sticking enough for himself. Shilt deserves even more credit
for giving Cease a shot at making history. That's why
I said it's about damn time. Coming up, we do
have Chris Perffett's World of Soccer, But first we go
back to our guy Kevin Figures with another no hitter update.

Speaker 9 (01:43:04):
All right, Bernie, we'll start your.

Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
Updates like a no hitter. I screwed that up badly.

Speaker 9 (01:43:08):
No, No, it's quite all right. Don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:09):
I'll pick it up. You know.

Speaker 8 (01:43:10):
You go to the bullpen, I'll come in. I'll strike
him out. It's all good, Bernie, I got you back.
Speaking of the bullpen, we'll start with Major League Baseball.
Seattle scored eight runs in the first inning ten nothing
the drubbing of the White Sox. Alex Brigman and John
Singleton with home runs for Houston. They defeated the Dodgers
five nothing. Boston over the Yankees nine to seven. Masataka

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Yoshita with three rbi there. Yanks have lost five of
their last six.

Speaker 2 (01:43:34):
JD.

Speaker 8 (01:43:34):
Martinez with a grand slam for the Mets. They've won
five in a row. They defeated Atlanta eight to four.
You also had victories for the Blue Jays, Orioles and
the Guardians in the NFL. From Friday, Packers quarterback Jordan
Love signed a four year, two hundred and twenty million
dollar contract extension with the team. You also had the
Dolphins of Green to a four year two hundred and
twelve million dollar contract extension with quarterback two Tagova Looa.

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This morning at five Eastern, Group play and men's basketball
all gets earned away at the Olympics as Australia will
take on Spain. Team USA hoops will play its first
game and group play tomorrow morning against Serbia. US been
soccer team in action today at one pm Eastern, they
will take on New Zealand, looking to avenge they're lost
against France from earlier this week and currently going on.

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If you're into bad mitton there, Bernie Frado, it's on
currently live Team USA taking on at China.

Speaker 9 (01:44:23):
So how about that?

Speaker 2 (01:44:24):
You know, I used to be into badminton, but after
that badminton strike of a few years ago in the
steroids again and I kind of lost my flavor for it.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 (01:44:32):
Yeah, I understand.

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
I know. I'm going to hell on a scholarship for
such a harsh opinion.

Speaker 9 (01:44:36):
I trust, I understand, mightya, my friend?

Speaker 2 (01:44:38):
I just can't. I can't. You know, it's very scandalous.
I look at those guys and say, wow, they hit
that birdie like a ton, but are they juiced? And
leave me? You know, it just kind of ruins. Ruins
my day, Hey, real quickly, are you as happy about
the two deal as Iron? And I'm gonna tell you why.
It's gotta be a sweet day for Tua when you
consider all the struggles he had, concussion issues, he almost

(01:45:02):
contemplated retirement, he had the ankle deal, the hip deal.
I mean, he's been hit more than Rocky bell Bow,
He's had more surgeries and John Rivers near he is
two hundred million dollars. I'm really happy for the guy.

Speaker 8 (01:45:12):
Yeah, to go through the You say, what adversity, first
round pick, all that. So it's your point with all
of the injuries, I mean, to your point, he could
have had his career ended a couple of years ago.
Remember that scary sight from that Thursday night football game.

Speaker 2 (01:45:24):
A couple of obasons, goeh, hitting the neck they thought
it was a yeah, go ahead, yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:45:28):
The multiple concussions, I mean, I mean, this kid could
have had things end very quickly for him and bounce
back and had a great year last season. And by
all accounts, one of the I haven't spoken with him
or interacted with him, by all accounts, one of the
greatest people you'll ever meet.

Speaker 9 (01:45:41):
So I love it.

Speaker 8 (01:45:42):
When good people, when good things happen to good people,
and people will talk about whether or not he deserves
the contract. The market is the market when it comes
to quarterbacks. If you're a quarterback and you perform well
and a team wants to keep you, chances are you're
going to be the highest paid quarterback in the NFL.
That's just how it ends up working out. So kudos
to him. I'm happy for two to get the contract in.
I think the sky is the limit for his talent
and ability moving forward with the Dolphins.

Speaker 9 (01:46:04):
So I'm happy for him.

Speaker 2 (01:46:05):
And I love that you said he's a good person.
I love the way he carries himself. There's such a
thing called huddle presence, and I believe he has. When
I was in high school, we threw the ball thirty
times again, we had a quarterback, Steve Cody, and he
had real huddle presence. You just felt like things are
going to be okay. And to your point, he has performed.
Look at the freaking numbers, right, numbers are all right,

(01:46:25):
good stuff, Kevin, appreciate you man. All Right, it's that time,
and boy, the timing is good because we've got soccer
on Sunday and the men's team has already pooped the bed,
and we got youngsters playing soccer and coaching changes. That's
why we bring you at this time Chris Perfett's World
of Soccer.

Speaker 3 (01:46:44):
The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum. It's
all here in this report from the World of Soccer, Bernie.

Speaker 22 (01:47:05):
Across Europe, across the world of soccer, domestic leagues are
going final. We have final after last weekends, thrilling action
in multiple leagues, some already sewn up, some not so much.
Let's well, we're gonna go to England in a second,
because that's where the big story was. It came down
to the final week of Premier League and we were

(01:47:26):
talking about it here on Fox Sports Radio all morning
last Sunday as everything collided. There's still a weekend to
go in La Liga, but Real Madrid obviously champions, having
pulled ahead so far ahead from everyone else in the pack.
The Kings of Football looked to be nigh unbeaten a
twelve point margin before even going into the final weekend

(01:47:49):
over Barcelona, who is in second place. But really the
hats are off. The toast is being raised across Europe
to Bayer Leverkusen, a team in the German Bundesliga who
have completed the impossible, not only winning Bundesliga and breaking
up the monotony of Bayern Munich and maybe Borussia Dortmund

(01:48:09):
claiming that league's title, but having an unbeaten season ninety points,
thirty four games played, twenty eight wins, six draws, no losses.
It is for the history books Leverkusen, coming out of
seemingly a lot of years of just growth development, really

(01:48:30):
pounding on the door, having better and better showings.

Speaker 9 (01:48:34):
They were six last year.

Speaker 22 (01:48:35):
A year prior they had made it third behind Dortmund
and Munich, and now here they are a top of
the world, well at least the top of Germany. That
unbeaten record was being carried through the season in European
play as well, until finally they hit the Europa League
final this past week against the Italian side Atalanta and

(01:48:57):
they were defeated three nils, a very bittersweet moment to
go out on, but holding up the Bundesliga trophy still
a fantastic story for them. Atlanta, of course, winning Europa
and the Italian League going very convincingly to Internazionale Milan,
who had a massive nineteen point lead over AC Milan

(01:49:19):
as the season concluded here.

Speaker 9 (01:49:21):
But again, the real action.

Speaker 3 (01:49:22):
This season was in England.

Speaker 22 (01:49:25):
It was in the Premier League and it was a
battle between Arsenal and Manchester City down to the final day.
We were tracking all of it here on the World
of Soccer. It was thrilling and yet in the back
of my mind, in the back of my mind, I
just sat there thinking and knowing as much as Arsenal
kept the lead, especially after Liverpool started to fade away,

(01:49:46):
I thought, something's going to happen. Something's going to happen,
and a no fault of their own, no fault of
Arsenal's own. They had been winning six of their last
Premier League matches, including their lif last one over Everton,
a two to one victory that kept them afloat. But
the point is is that Manchester City, because of some schedule,

(01:50:09):
had a game in hand, and that game was played
they were able to make up ground and this led
us the last Sunday's action where we had Manchester City
and Arsenal playing at the same time. Arsenal all they
needed was to do was to win and for City
to either draw or lose. Because City had also played

(01:50:29):
fantastically well, built up an early enough lead early on
the year before a lot of their troubles came back.
They too had been winning about five, six seven straight
and they faced west Ham United Arsenal was taking on
Everton Arsenal two to one over Everton Great and every

(01:50:49):
time it looked close, west Ham United could not do
any favors to the gunners. Manchester City three to one
and once again City is on top. Maybe not quite
as dominant year's past, but this now makes four straight
titles for Manchester City in the Premier League, which is
a bit of a bit of a bummer, a little bit.

(01:51:12):
The greatness of Manchester City cannot be understated, but at
a certain point you kind of hope that in the
Premier League they're not used to having teams like in
say Germany and France and Spain just simply dominating and
winning title after title, year after year after year. Four
straight years of Manchester City, and to be clear, they've

(01:51:34):
been winning quite a few. You can go back to
last ten twelve years or so and it's only broken
up here and there by Chelsea or the amazing Leicester
City season or the one year that Liverpool wanted during
the COVID like. This is a run of dominance that
I think is really being understated. But English soccer has
always sold itself as that more clubs have a chance

(01:51:57):
at that title. It's a fantastic run and you know,
Saturday and come and go and we'll see if they
win a FA Cup on top of it. Over Manchester United.
But this is a club that is facing a lot
of financial fair play regulation penalties that might come down
at some point against them. This is a club that

(01:52:18):
has just roundly outspent everyone, picked up some of the
best players in the world over and over and over again.
And I do wonder if English Soccer's allure is starting
to fade a little bit because Manchester City is just
roundly defeating everyone. It was very much so fate for
the Arsenal. This is a club that has always had

(01:52:40):
a lot of bad luck on their side, and to
go into the final, go into the final week knowing
that the fate wasn't even in your hands, it must
sting tremendously.

Speaker 9 (01:52:50):
But the seasons are done.

Speaker 22 (01:52:51):
We stare down now the off season here, but we
have a few finals to say. Come next week on Saturday,
three pm Eastern Time, the Champions League Final, the Kings
of Spain of Real Madrid against a very scrappy and
very plucky German Borussia Dortmund team, held in Wembley Stadium. Yes, Bernie,

(01:53:15):
you were just there Wembley Stadium. It is going to
be a thrill for the ages. I think a lot
of the spirits out there are around Barussia Dortmund, but
it's hard to argue against all of the talent, all
the splendor and all of the ability of Real Madrid.
We'll give you a preview here coming up on the
world of soccer and to recap one way or another,
and you'll have it all here on the world of soccer.

Speaker 2 (01:53:41):
Well, Chris is right, I was recently at Wembley Stadium
in London. Had maybe tweet that picture out? I actually
I think I will. I'll retweet it right now. I
tell the truth here. Coming up, we wrap up the
Burnie Frattle Show, but not without revisiting a name that

(01:54:02):
you heard a lot during the college football season last year.
Towards the end, remember the name Connor Stallions and you're
driving around thinking, wait, wait, why do I know that name.
Why do I know that name? Well, I'll remind you
coming up. I'll remind you coming up, and I'll share

(01:54:22):
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(01:55:24):
on Fox Sports Radio. All right, we are wrapping it
up on The Bernie Fratter Show, coming to live from
the tirac dot Com studios here in Las Vegas. Before
we go any further, I want to thank my broadcast
team back in Los Angeles. They've been with me since
eleven pm Pacific time on Saturday night. Kevin figures on

(01:55:46):
all the updates, his thoughts on the tipping saga, as
well as whether or not the Olympics of lost or luster.
Great stuff. Mark Ramsey, our technical producer, same situation, great job,
and of course bre the newest edition of The Bernie
Frattle Show, a very welcome edition. Great job that I'd taken.
All the callers chiming in and we might have a

(01:56:07):
little announcement there in a week or so in following
an expanded role for Bree very well deserved, and I
want to thank the callers as well as always, you've
made the Midnight Hour a truly spectacular, one hour a
week event. It's become an event. It's become a standalone
event because the variance of opinions and thoughtful opinions and
the fact that people really speak their mind without any

(01:56:30):
concern of judgment, as it were, And the truth of
the matter is the most boring conversations are when everybody agrees.
So we don't always agree, but it makes for good
stuff on topical issues and Bree. Of course, we'll put
the podcast up here very shortly, shortly after the show.
If you missed the any of tonight's show, I'd be

(01:56:52):
sure to check out the podcast. Just search Fox Sports
Radio wherever get your podcasts. Be sure to follow, rate
and review the podcast. Again, just search Fox Sports Radio
wherever you get your podcasts. You'll see the show posted
right after we get off the air. You can hear
those callers and they were great and the subject matter
we had have the Olympics lost their luster? Are you
still gonna watch? What's the reason? And the tipping saga? Right,

(01:57:15):
you walk into a coffee shop, you order a cup
of coffee. It's a takeout order or a machine. They
put something on your front of your face, and they
want you to tip them. Some people do, some people don't.
Is it emotional blackmail? Is it passive aggressive behavior? What
is it? Well? We had some really good calls. Get
the podcast or you'll put it up and you'll be
able to hear those calls. Connor Stallions, Okay, he was

(01:57:39):
the central figure last year during the Michigan football sign
stealing scandal, which has long been forgotten now. Michigan went
on to win a national title. No one can dispute that,
and they've had their come up. It's with the NCAA
and Jim Harbaughs moved on now. But it was a
big enough story that it was worthy of a documentary.

(01:57:59):
So Netflix has a documentary series that they call Untold.
They're pretty good and up on deck. Connor Stallions. He
set to premiere his documentary to tell his side of
the story on August twenty seventh. I will watch that.
That will be appointment watching. Remember the NCAA and the

(01:58:20):
Big Ten Conference ruled last year that Michigan illegally did
in person scouting of future opponents and potential future foes. Okay,
and Stallions was the point man. He was believed to
be the appointment of the whole operations. They have apparently
evidenced that the tickets he bought to go to these
games involving teams that the Wolverines were due to play

(01:58:43):
in a couple weeks or so, and then being spotted
in those venues. Well, Stallions resigned from his job on
the Michigan football staff. During the twenty twenty three season,
Michigan went on to go undefeated they won the National Championship.
Then Jim Harbaugh denied all nine knowledge of this illegal scouting,
still received a three game suspension from the Big Ten

(01:59:04):
to end of the regular season. Michael Brown a one
time Kansas football player who's directed documentaries for ESPN and Peacock.
He's the one heading up this project. So, by the way,
Netflix also has announced the subject of two other upcoming
untold stories. It's been fifteen years almost to the day,
the murder of Steve McNair that will air August twentieth.

(01:59:28):
And remember Hope so the goalie for the US women's team,
She's going to have an untold story on September third.
But the Connor Stallions is still kind of freshening people's
minds if you stop and think about it and remember it.
And there's always a backstory to these things, so be
curious the backstory. I'm back on these airwaves Saturday night,
Heavy Heavy. NFL will also look into who might be

(01:59:51):
able to beat the US men's Olympic basketball team. Nobody,
but I will tell you know, for posterity, who will
challenge them? Give it some Heisman Trophy odds. By the way,
Dallas Cowboys fans a very revealing survey. It's gonna do
it for the Bernie Frattle Show. See it's Saturday, eleven
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