Jonas Knox talks Chicago Bears, Jerry Jones, and more!

Jonas Knox talks about the early reports on the Bears offense in training camp, the latest in the NFLPA scandal, a call to free Chuck E. Cheese, Aaron Rodgers speaks a harsh truth about the reality of the NFL, why one NFL team has the reputation it does, and more!

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Speaker 3 (00:12):
You heard me, the friends, some darkness is lighting up
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yep, So okay, I'll report this world. So there's a

(00:49):
story out of the NFL that probably shouldn't come. Is
that much of a surprise, but apparently it is. We'll
get into that for you coming up here in just
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(01:10):
a part of your Saturday morning into the afternoon, we
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have got NFL training camp news and notes, one of
the great times of the year where you can take

(01:31):
a mishandled snap by a young quarterback and all of
a sudden see into the future. It's like those magic
eight balls you used to get as a kid. You
wanted to know how your day was going to go
until you shake it up. You shake it up and
you spin it over and it says, ooh outcome not
so likely. Your ooh future seems bright. All sorts of

(01:55):
shenanigans to be had when it comes to training camp,
including whether or not teams are struggling and whether or
not teams are dealing with any sort of issues with
the season a few weeks away. Because I don't know
if you knew this one or not, but hey, Caleb

(02:19):
Williams and the Bears they're struggling on offense. Oh no,
doesn't look good. Oh no, hey, troubling signs out of Chicago.
Caleb Williams and the Bears. They don't look so hot.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
No god please, no, no, no, yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, because they sucked last year, Like uh yeah, yes,
Like what did anybody think that Ben Johnson was gonna
get there? And it was some turnkey operation? Huh, that's

(03:07):
what the issue was? Fixed it everybody, don't worry about it, Like,
don't worry about it. We fixed the issue. Ben Johnson's here,
don't worry everybody, Hey, problem solved. Ben Johnson's here, like
it was some save the World type What are we
talking about by saying that, you're assuming that the real

(03:33):
issue last year was the head coach. And if the
real issue last year was the head coach, then why
after he was fired were they still bad? Matt Eberflus
got clipped and they still lost their next four games

(03:55):
and were mutilated in those games. It wasn't even close,
not competitive in majority of them, and awful looking football.
Remember that Thursday night game against the Seahawks, Like you
had people digging their own graves at cemeteries because they

(04:18):
didn't want to watch that any longer. They were atrocious
and they won one game. It was at Green Bay.
It was Week eighteen, Green Bay. That was sitting starters,
resting starters, dealing with injuries, all sorts of and it's like, hey,
you finally beat the Packers, But what are we really
talking about here? Yes, they're struggling in training camp. It's

(04:45):
a brand new system with new pieces and new elements.
He's trying, but like, let's not forget they were awful
last year. There's a big story that came out that
Ben Johnson pulled the Hey, he took the ones out
of the lineup and put the twos in because the

(05:05):
ones weren't performing well. Ben Johnson the only thing they
needed to fix things in Chicago spoke about that decision yesterday.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
I know some people enjoyed me throwing the first team
out of practice. Uh, not the case.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
We got to end up executing getting in and out
of the huddle a certain way, and it wasn't that way.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
And we're learning, we're growing.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
You know, there were some things from the springtime expected
to carry over that that was probably one we just
don't have any tolerance for anymore.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
We got we got too far to go, Yeah, yeah,
I pulled him out of practice. Yeah yeah, we get
we got a ways to go. Yeah, because they were
terrible last year, Like they made a couple of additions
on the offensive line, should help. They've added some pieces
via the draft, should help. Defensively, should be improved, like

(06:07):
should be. But there's a fact to all this, and
it's what were you and you were awful? So this
idea that like, oh my god, these struggles Caleb Williams
is struggling, Well, yeah, he struggled sometimes last year too,
Like he's entering year two and he's got a completely

(06:28):
new system, but like we get caught up in this. Well,
they got a new coach now, that should fix things,
all right, because so that was the only issue there, No,
the team sucked. You remember when the Jaguars fired urban Meyer,
Like you remember that one. So like the Jaguars, you know,

(06:50):
like they had a real issue, man, like they had
this real issue. They had to get rid of this guy,
that Urban Meyer. Man, gotta go, gotta go. He was
the real problem. He was the real problem. He's gotta go.
Enough's enough, gotta get rid of urban Meyer because if
you don't, then the Jaguars are just going to be

(07:13):
doomed for the rest of eternity. And then the Jaguars decided,
you know what, we're gonna go ahead and make that happen.
We're gonna go ahead and honor that we are going
to move on from urban Meyer. He can't be here
any longer. And that should fix the issue. Yeah, no, totally, totally, Yeah,
that definitely fixed the issue. They're still bad and they're
on another new coach now, and that season the Jaguars

(07:38):
still lost games after urban Meyer was fired, just like
other teams that fire ahead coaches don't all of a
sudden improve right away because they were a bad team. Thus,
the reason the coach was fired, and the reason the
coach was fired is because the players also had a
part in that. They were just bad. And the Bears

(07:59):
were bad last year. And I got news for you,
they're probably not going to be a super Bowl team
this year. Not to break any hearts out there, but
that's just a reality. But this whole storyline about oh
my god, boy, they're struggling in training camp and the
practices aren't going well in the press. Well, yeah, they
got work to do. That's the reason why training camp's important.

(08:23):
You try and work on these things to get to
the regular season, so you hit the ground running. But
if we're just basing Ben Johnson's arrival as well, that
should have fixed everything. And oh no, this is alarming.
They're still struggling, yes, because they were terrible last year. Like,
you didn't just insert Ben Johnson and all of a

(08:44):
sudden they're a fourteen win team. No, you inserted Ben
Johnson into the equation hoping that he could improve things.
The assumption is you're going to get there. But if
you expected them to just forget about last year and
all of a sudden get to training and there's no
Matti Eberfluce inside, it all problem solved. What are we

(09:05):
watching here at the Jonas Knocks on X at the
Jonas Knocks and AX By the way, for people out
there listening, I'm gonna speak about something here that I
think we all can relate to rats nests. Anybody ever
had a rats nest before? Like it's a real issue.

(09:26):
And the thing about having a rats nest is that
there's never just one, hence the word nest, you know
what I mean. Like, if you see a rat, chances
are he's not just going rogue, like you didn't just
decide one day, you know, Man, I don't like the
way you guys look. I don't like the way you
guys act. I'm gonna go find somebody else to bother.

(09:46):
You guys are on your own. No no, no, no, no no.
They're running packs. They're like ants, you know, like you
never just see one ant cruising around, like you never
find an aunt in the kitchen who's just like you
know what, Yeah, they're all down the street. But I
was like, man, is that a Is that a lollipop
under the counter there, don't mind if I do. No, Like,

(10:08):
there's there's more to that. So if you see one,
there's usually more to that. And apparently the NFLPA is
the biggest rats nest in all the land, because good Christ,
they can't figure it out. Oh bad, the NFLPA. Yet

(10:30):
another storyline developing out of the rats nest of sports.
The latest NFLPA storyline to pop up is that the
NFLPA is under federal investigation over the potential misuse of
funds and self enrichment by union officials. Sweet sweet, So

(10:53):
a couple of weeks ago, it was collusion evidence, then
after that it was the cover up of kale usion.
Then after that last week we talked about it in Vegas.
It was appropriate that we were in Vegas because, you know,
apparently Lloyd Howe, the former executive director, guy's got a
little bit of a problem. Like strip clubs a lot.

(11:16):
Guy gets off a plane in Fort Lauderdale. He's so
horned up he doesn't even go home. He goes straight
to the strip club Tootsies I think it's called. And
he was there for eight hours. They had a NFLPA
meeting in February, and he tried to expense their trip
to Magic City, you know, like so, I mean there

(11:37):
was that last week and be like, all right, well,
at least he's gone, and then JC Tretter says, man,
I just don't want to be around this anymore. You know.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
It's it's you know, there's.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
All this false information about me, and I'm looking after
the family and all this stuff, and I just I'm done.
I can't deal with this chaos in this drama anymore.
It's not great for my mental health. It's I just
got to get away from all this. And then just
a few days later, I'll don't worry about it because
they're under federal investigation over misuse of funds, you know,
kind of some funny money here and there, like yeah,

(12:07):
because why not? And it just goes to show you,
as I mentioned last week, if Pablo Torre never uncovered
the first rat in this nest, we would have never
have seen the rest of them.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
This is a disaster.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
The NFLPA has been around for what seven decades now,
and it just makes you wonder what else is going
on inder there? You know, like what pull a few
pieces of patio, furniture back, what else we got into there?

Speaker 5 (12:38):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (12:38):
This, Wow, there's like a ton. Yeah, they're all over
the place. It's a sewer in New York. It's your
garage in the corner where you see some droppings and
you go, hmm, is that a raccoon? No, definitely not.
Is that a bird? No? Did my son? I'm getting there? No, his'

(13:01):
it bigger than that. Yeah, we got rats. Everybody, the
nflpa's got rats. There's probably more beyond this story, because
every single week we're on like a three or four
week run where there's another revelation about what a mess
that place is and apparently it's not getting fixed anytime soon.
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Speaker 1 (15:30):
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio coming up a little over
ten minutes from now Somebody is back and the problem is,
so is the team. We'll get in that for you
coming up here. I get a little over ten minutes
from now here on FSR, so the Dallas Cowboys, who,

(15:57):
by the way, somebody who lives out here in Ventura County.
The eight oh five or the hato five as some
refer to it. Their training camp is twenty minutes away
something like that, twenty minutes away from where I live
in Thousand Oaks, and so you know, and they listen,
some people call it Knoxnard. I don't know why. I'm

(16:19):
not really sure why, but some people call it that.
But nonetheless, the Cowboys have got this little storyline, this
training camp. If anybody's been paying attention, a little bit
of a storyline, a little bit of an issue. You
see Micah Parsons. Micah Parsons, he's looking for a new

(16:40):
deal and there's been some back and forth. Jerry Jones
earlier in the week discussed all the things he doesn't
like about giving contracts out for, like all the things
that could go wrong, and the injuries and this and that,
and Dak Prescott's talked about it, and Michael Parsons was
upset about it and all these other things. It's like,

(17:02):
you know, you're looking at this whole situation and you go,
all right, well, I mean, at least are they going
to be on good terms? Can Jerry Jones at least
give the guy a compliment, for God's sakes. And so finally,
Jerry Jones did give Micah Parsons a compliment, and it
was this.

Speaker 8 (17:22):
Of all the players that I've ever negotiated with, Michael
Parson is as savvy and knowledgeable and understanding of his
financial business relative to football as any player I've ever
been around.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Now, look, Micah, Michael Parson Parsons up. That feels like
one you would get, right. That feels like one that
you would that you would you would know or have.

Speaker 8 (17:54):
You know.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's like back in the day when Jay Gruden was
calling him Kirk Cousins and not Kirk, you know, like this,
and you just wanted was that intentional whatnot? And it's like, oh, okay, well,
And so the reason I bring this up, it's not
really to make fun of Jerry Jones, but I'd like
to defend him in a way, right because some people
will hear him call him Michael Parson and they'll think, man,

(18:18):
this is another sign because I've seen this. It's been
speculated I've seen this out there. There's been speculation that
this is Jerry Jones showing his age. Guy's eighty two
years old. You're starting to hear the same discussions that
you heard about Al Davis Speckett, you know, and there's
some people that are going down that road. I personally
don't like to go down that road. I don't think

(18:40):
it's nice. I think we're all we should all be
lucky to even get that far and get to that point,
and we're all going to be struggling. So I don't
like to go there. Not my thing, but some people
are different. I don't like to talk about elderly drivers.
It's just not my thing. Not a fan of it,
never have been, don't like doing it, never well. But

(19:01):
I like to defend Jerry Jones when it comes to
this and point out that this is not an age thing,
this is not a well he's really showing signs of deterioration.
Like we're not talking about, you know, the former president
of the United States here, We're not like, no, this
is a Jerry Jones thing. Okay, stuff like that, Like.

Speaker 8 (19:26):
I am a monkey fan, listen in a zoo and
look at him all day long.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
And so like, you hear stuff like that and you go,
all right, Well, Jerry Jones is known to say some
random things and some weird things and some stuff. We're
like it, just like, what what do you what exactly
do you mean by that? What do you what do
you mean Jerry that you ate raccoons, that you're a
monkey fan?

Speaker 2 (19:52):
What else?

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Jerry like to tell Glory Hill? Hey, and again, who
doesn't you know what I mean?

Speaker 8 (19:57):
Like, I'm talking about that.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Well, look, and some people would say that we've all
been there and we all butt dial. I don't know
how that's possible. If you've got your phone in your
front pocket. That seems like another conversation that you want
to have, and maybe somebody walk by, or maybe you're
the Charger security guard and maybe he was texting that
entire time.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
But what else, Jared, am I still on line?

Speaker 1 (20:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (20:25):
I'm just a little bit listen.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
I'm just trying to defend you and point out that
there are things that you have said in the past,
like Michael Parson, that aren't an indication that you know
you're wearing tear age or anything like that. It's just
Jerry Jones saying random stuff like this Star Wars who.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Listen vive remember some of us cowboys.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
I believe he said that at my wedding. Okay, I
believe he said that, And I got news for you.
If he says that in Oxnard, He's going to get
a standing ovation.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I am disappointed.

Speaker 8 (21:01):
I hate to have the taste that I've got in
my mouth. I know where a team does to play
this last half for themselves and their fans the way
you did.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
I mean, it's just it's a Medley Loves rangenge list
of random things that Jerry Jones has said through the years.

Speaker 8 (21:21):
Now, I don't have the patience to jack with you today.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
I hey, listen, tell that to uh Robert krassmasuse like
you know, look, the point of this is, and it's
not to make fun of Jerry Jones. It's actually to
defend him. That while people are sitting there going man,

(21:44):
Jerry Jones is calling out Michael Parsons, and then when
he does give him a compliment, he calls him the
wrong name, not just the wrong first name, calls him
the wrong last name. And this is like and you're
seeing people bring up like his age and all. No,
the point is Jerry Jones has always done this. This
is not an age thing. So we have a good time.

Speaker 9 (22:05):
And I'm not talking about just the the misuse of
words or calling somebody the wrong name, or talking about
glory holes and eating raccoons and liking monkeys and Viva
Mexico and all the other things that he said throughout
the years, or even the fact that Michael Parsons or

(22:26):
Micah Parsons or Micah Parson or.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Whoever you want to call him is looking for a
new deal and doesn't have it and probably should have
had it like a year ago. Like Jerry Jones has
always operated this way. He's always done it differently, He's
always done it randomly. There's never really been a move
that he's made for the most part that you look
at and go, oh, that makes sense. You remember the

(22:49):
one movie tried to make like he wanted to take
Johnny Manziel. They had to talk him out of it
to take Zach Martin. Remember that one. I don't know,
seems like it worked out, Okay, Zach Martin's gonna be
a Hall of Famer, Like when he decided, well, you
know what, I don't need this, I don't need to
deal with Jimmy Johnson anymore. We're just gonna move on

(23:12):
like that one. And then the hiring of Barry Switzer
and then the like you know, he stayed with Jason
Garrett for a long time. It was really loyal to him.
He does things differently than anybody else. He does take chances.
He does operate in a way that other owners don't operate.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
That's just how he does it.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
So like whatever he says about Michael Parson or Micah
Parsons or whoever he wants to call him this week
or next week or the week after, when he wants
to talk about how he handles his contracts, when he
wants to talk about the doom and gloom that come
with giving out contracts. If he talks about Dak Prescott
or Ceedee Lamb or waiting or paying Zeke too early
and way too much while he's in all of those things.

(23:55):
This isn't an age thing. This isn't something new with
Jerry Jones. He isn't just now all of a sudden
this year showing signs of fatigue or deterioration or anything like. No,
this is just how we operates. He says wild stuff.
He's like a sports talk radio host. Jerry Jones does
multiple hits a week in Dallas. No either owner does that.

(24:20):
No owner does that except for Jerry Jones, and he's
done it for years. He does things differently, and so
I don't look at any of this stuff and go, wow,
Jerry's really lost a step. Boy, Oh boy, this is
like Al Davis all over again. Gotta get him out
of there. Somebody even asked him earlier this week, have
you ever thought about stepping down as general manager? And

(24:41):
he was like, yeah, for a moment, and it was
real brief, just for a moment, like when he bought
the Cowboys, firing Tom Landry. Like he's done stuff like
this throughout the course of history, throughout the entire time
that he's owned the Cowboys that you look look at
and you just take a step back and you go, well,

(25:02):
that doesn't really make a lot of sense. This isn't new.
It's not a new revelation. It's not a sign of
a guy who's aging. It's Jerry Jones being Jerry Jones.
And I'm telling you this right now. For all the
jokes we make and the glory whole drops we play,
and the criticism he gets because they haven't won a
Super Bowl in however many years, et cetera, et cetera.

(25:22):
When Jerry Jones walks away from this whole thing. However
that happens, he will be missed when he's gone. The
guy's not a Hall of Famer by accident. He does
actually know what he's doing. He just does it differently
than anybody else does, and he always has no matter
what age he was at the Jonas Knocks on AX.

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it's coming up next to here. We are going to
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The problem is, so is the team that'll be yours
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Roll out the red carpet in your ears and tell
anybody around you who's making a peep to shut their mouths. Yeah,

(26:28):
he's the one and only, Sir, Isaac Longro.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
You know, I know I like to give you a
hard time around here, but I just want to say,
in all honesty and seriousness, I'm sorry it's been such
a rough last couple of days for you.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Oh Jesus, this again.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
I know it hit close to home and you took
a lot of abuse on social media.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Oh my god. Yeah, like, just all right, spit it out, Isaac.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Just get it out of the way, go ahead, all right. Well,
for people out there who don't know, Jonas used to
work at Chuck E Cheese as the Rat earlier in
his career, and this week in Tallahassee, Florida, Chuck E
Cheese in Tallahassee, not Jonas Chuck E Cheese was arrested

(27:19):
for suspicion of credit card fraud while at work and
in uniform, which led to this exact quote. I'm not
making this up from the police report. Quote. I grabbed
his right arm while giving the verbal instruction Chuck E,

(27:40):
come with me, Chuck E.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Quote. Well, yeah, a lot of people don't realize that,
but he is the middle name. I don't know what
it stands for, but the E is an initial for
the middle name.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
I just find so hilarious that the cop actually literally
spoke those words and documented it in the police report
instead of using the suspect actual name.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Now here's here's what I would say. I actually defended
take take us behind the curtain. I don't get the
balls in times by six year olds.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
I mean that's true.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
But look, I explained it a little bit yesterday, but
I'll get it out of the way now because it
just the day that he got arrested. I got inundated
with text messages from everybody at Fox Sports radio, people
on Twitter. The good news is that, like there's such
cookie cutter comedy and one liners nowadays, that everybody had
the same thing to say, rough day, huh yeah, I

(28:40):
hope you got out already, Like it's just dude, come on.
But for people that don't know, I worked at Chuck
E Cheese. I had to be in the costume. It
was a high school job. I needed money to pay
for stuff my senior year of high school. Chuck Cheese
that just opened up where I lived. They paid pretty

(29:03):
well and so I worked there for a few months
and I was the rat or the mouse whatever, he is.
And I'll say this, I actually defended that guy, the
guy who was arrested, because well, here's what's not defended that.
You can't defend this. He stole the credit card and
the charges were weed and what a burger. So the

(29:25):
guy stole a credit card just to buy cheeseburgers and pot.
That doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
I had my credit card stolen once, and at least
the guy spent like two hundred bucks on stuff at
office depot when I was the victim. So that's a
really a stuid point.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
I mean, I'll be I remember one time I thought
my credit card got stolen because I saw a these
random charges on it, and it turns out it was me.
I was annihilated, and that would have got on that story.
I remember doing it. I was, oh boy, that's bad.
But and I would just like to say this that look,
the guy's been humiliated, but he's trying to work his

(30:04):
ass off. Okay, so he stole credit card to buy
some weed and some cheeseburgers. He's working his ass off.
He's got to wear that costume. It's a miserable job.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
I did it.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
He should be released. He should be exonerated. He should
be promoted, and that woman should have to give him
her credit card moving forward.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
That's my defense of the guy. Fox Sports Radio legal
insider Jonas knot, Yes, that's correct. We have one Major
League baseball game going on right now, Jonas. The Philly
is a four to one lead over the Yankees after
for a Yankee Stadium, Bryce Harper a solo home run,
his fifteenth of the season. The big story though, with
that off the field, the Yankee star Aaron Judge not
in the lineup because of an elbow issue. He's having

(30:44):
imaging done on it today. In the NFL, Minnesota Viking
safety Josh Mittelis has agreed to a three year, thirty
six million dollar extension. NFL media reports Houston Texans Pro
Bowl running back Joe Mixon, who's presently on the non
football injury list with a foot injury, is expected to
be out for an extended period of time and will
be reevaluated closer to the season to determine his availability.

(31:07):
New York Jets quarterback Justin Fields took part in individual
and seven on seven drills today, two days after suffering
a dislocated toe on his right foot. Finally, Jonas, we
have a late breaking Dallas Cowboys Micah Parsons detail.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
So Kaylin Kohler, a very very good reporter, been all
over the stuff, for example, with the NFL Players Association.
In the last couple of weeks, just posted this dateline
Cowboys training camp in Oxnard, California. They were having a
ceremony where servicemen were retiring our nation's colors during a

(31:53):
ceremony that was supposed to be done in complete silence
moments ago at Cowboys training camp in ox And during
the moment of silence, an unnamed Cowboys fans screamed and
I quote pay Micah Parsons, Jerry unquote that moments ago.
I'm not making this up at Cowboys training camp. Back

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to you.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Listen, Knoxnard's a wild place. That's a wild place.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
But during a moment of silence for our service, then
well look.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
And maybe there's a language barrier cocked Oxtarsye.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Not too far from where you grew up though, right.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah, I mean it's like twenty minutes away. All right,
My mother in law still lives in Oxnards. All right,
maybe it was your mother in law. They were there
all the time.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Well no, I mean.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
No, because you said that in English, So no, that
would not be her. Okay, she would not qualify for that. Hey,
by the way, can I just say this. I went
down kind of a rabbit hole yesterday because you know,
people were giving me a hard time because I worked
at Chuck E Cheese. They're sending me that story. And
I started thinking about all the I've had in my life. Okay,

(33:02):
and I've had some doozies, man, all right, let's hear them.
So I painted curbs with my brother when I was younger.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
That's an important job, though, Were you painting the numbers
on the curbs?

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, the numbers, That's an important job. And I still
remember how to do it, like exactly how he did it.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Actually, I'm not joking about this. Would you be available
to do that for my house? It's okay to say no,
no chance, all right.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
I'm not doing that because then I'd have to buy
the supplies and you're not going to paint me enough.
And I'm not going to work for free. I've just
refused to do that. I don't want to go down
that that that rabbit hole again. But I went down
this rabbit hole free fireworks. Other employee. No, I've seen
those fire with those fireworks, those are explosives. I don't
want to get arrested. So I painted curves with my
brother when I was a kid. I also did a landscaping.

(33:51):
I was a janitor. I worked at TGI Fridays Toys
r US the store Tuesday morning. I was a telemarketer
and multiple stops. I did over the phone sales. I
worked as a dishwasher. I worked what was the other

(34:16):
one again? Oh man, I'm blanking, I'm blinking.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
You know what, good for you? You've paid, You've paid your dues.
Good for you?

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Well, I like, and there's more like I'm just thinking.
Oh I was. I was a busboy at a Mexican restaurant.
My brother fired me. No, you probably deserved it. In
his defense, well because because I told him that, a man,
I'm probably gonna.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Be putting in my two weeks.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
He goes, what do you mean. I was like, yeah,
I'm gonna be putting in my two weeks. He was
the manager, and I was like, uh, you know, I
got I got another job and it pays a little
bit more, and I get more hours, and I'm going
to be selling ink and toner like cash register supplies.
And he said, well, you're not doing it unless you
put in the proper notice. I was like, yeah, no,
I'm gonna do that. I just yeah, because because there's
you're not doing and I finally just got frustrated. Well,

(35:00):
I'll just quit if I want to quit, but i'll
put in the two weeks. He goes, no, as a
matter of fact, you're fired.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
I took it.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
I took off my apron right right in front of
my mom and I said cool. And that was that.
And my mom was just looking at my brother and
I going like, this is this is something. But I
just was thinking about all, like all those jobs that
I had, So of all those jobs, the one that
I get my balls broken about the most is the

(35:26):
rat at Chuck E Cheese.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
There's a badge of honor with that, though.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Okay, what about TGI Fridays, What about wearing suspenders with flair, like,
what about all that with like different pins on it,
different you know, stuff like that. It pales in comparison
to wearing a rat suit. Oh I forgot also a
Christmas tree lot multiple years. Did that for for a
long ass time as well.

Speaker 6 (35:50):
Too.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah, there's just a lot of jobs.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
I've done a lot of a lot of random jobs,
you know what.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
All in all serious instructions. You should enjoy every minute
of the success you're having now. And by the way,
you did you didn't mention, like, on your own dime,
going all the way across the country on the off
chance that you'd get your first radio job.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Oh it was pretty desperate. Yeah, that's pretty pretty desperate.
Maybe not the smartest thing in the world, but it
worked out. But yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't recommend you know, basically,
you know, maxing out your credit card so that you
could deliver a resume in person because you were so
desperate to get a job.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
But again, again it wound up working out. You have
great stories to tell on the air, and all these
experiences build a library of experiences that you can relate
to the audience and make them identify with you instead
of serving up a hot take about second down and six.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
That's right, thanks Ilo. By the way, this is a
nice seat you've ever been to me on this show? Yeah,
don't get used to it. All right, at the Jonas
Knox on X. That's at the Jonas Knox and X
Coming up next here on the show, we are going
to tell you how one quarterback is back, but the
problem is so his team. That's yours here on FSR,
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. Coming up top next hour

(37:06):
a little over ten minutes from now. A super Bowl
champion with a hard truth about the Super Bowl. We'll
get into that for you again, coming up here a
little over ten minutes from now. But right now, it
is time for something we do on the show every
single week, and it's called this.

Speaker 6 (37:27):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time
DMZ reports. Let's get kinky. Here's some of the big
stories from the last week. But Jonas, the real question
is do you care?

Speaker 1 (37:42):
And for that we turn it over to our executive
producer Bo Benson to find out what the hell people
have been talking about bo.

Speaker 10 (37:48):
Jets quarterback Justin Fields. He returned to practice two days
after dislocating a toe, giving everybody a heart attack, well
everybody in Jetination, giving them a heart attack as he
got carted off. Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (38:00):
I think, first of all, I hope Justin Fields is okay.
Everything I've heard is that he's a really good dude.
And you know, listen all that being said, I just
like the idea of he goes down, he gets carted off,
he's got a dislocated toe, and almost immediately everyone's like,
all right, avoided that one. And I'm just thinking to myself,

(38:25):
what does it matter if it ain't that, it's gonna
be something else. You're the Jets. What are we talking about? Like,
if it wasn't his toe would have been his hand,
or his knee cap or something else. You're the Jets.
Of course there's cause for concern. There should be cause
for concern every time you open your eyes and go,

(38:46):
oh no, I still root for the Jets. So, yeah,
Justin Fields is back at practice. But the problem is,
so is the team. That's the real issue.

Speaker 10 (38:56):
Next, A's rooky designated hitter Nick Kurtz became the first
rookie to hit four home runs in a game last night,
probably the best game at the plate, at least since
last year with Otani in Miami.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
But Jonas, do you care? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (39:11):
My favorite part about all this is like you look
at the A's and you go, look, there's a lot
to like about the a's I mean that performance last night.
You know, you had Wilson who's an All Star and
looks like the goods. You know, you've got, you know,
great plays made in center field all the time, gold glove.
They're you know, like they're building this new stadium in

(39:33):
Las Vegas that I drove by last week. At the
sight of it, it's gonna be awesome. Oh and by
the way, they're seventeen games back in the division. Like
all this optimism. Oh my god, Hey, tomorrow's going to
be a new day and a great day. We got
this great event coming up. Can't wait for tomorrow. The

(39:53):
problem is right now today it's the worst day of
our lives, you know what I mean, Like, it's the
worst day of our life. So at least you got
that going for you next.

Speaker 10 (40:03):
Lionel Messi is reportedly upset with Major League Soccer over
his one game ban for missing the All Star Game. Jonas,
do you care?

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Oh no, definitely not. No, This is OK. Well, you
know it's gonna be real hard for me to carve
out time for other things in sports. Now the football's here,
and yes, football's here. We've got a real game, and
I don't want to hear any any dismissive tones when
it comes to the Hall of Fame game coming up
this coming week. We've got a real game coming up
and after that we are off and running. So I'm
sorry MLS all apologies. Couldn't care less.

Speaker 10 (40:34):
Next, Marcus Smart credits Luka Doncic for recruiting him to
come to the Lakers, although he did mention that he
has not yet spoken with Lebron Jonas do you care not?

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Really? Look, these are great stories with the Lakers. I mean,
it's great to speculate who Lebron James was involved in
and whether or not Luca is running the show there
and whether or not Lebron's gonna be like can you
do something? Can you can you do like make a
drastic move, like figure out a way to make a
move that's gonna shock the NBA world. Enough dancing around

(41:07):
the topic, Enough dancing around the issue. If you're that
upset with Lebron James, trade him, talk to him, get
him to waive his no trade clause, and move from there.
But other than that, all of these storylines about the
Lakers and like, oh, what could happen and what does
it mean for Luca and Lebron unless those guys are
in a fistfight outside Craigs and you've got all the

(41:29):
other Laker brass standing around there wondering what the hell's
going on with the organization. I don't want to hear
anymore enough. So you got a Super Bowl champion with
some hard truths about the Super Bowl. You'll hear him
coming up here in just a couple of moments from now,
Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. You can listen to this
show as always on the iHeartRadio app. You can find

(41:52):
us on hundreds of affiliates all across the country and
wherever you are making us a part of your Saturday afternoon.
We appreciate you doing so. We're gonna take you all
the way up until the end of this hour four
pm Eastern time, one o'clock Pacific. And look, we opened
up the show because training camps are here. You got
all sorts of storylines, whether they're manufactured or blown out

(42:13):
of proportion. You got like people panicking, concerned evaluating what's
gonna happen with the Chicago Bears and Caleb Williams, because, hey,
the offense has struggled in training camp. Hey, the offense
for the Bears. The starters got pulled from the lots, Like, dude, come,

(42:37):
I mean, first of all, when it comes to the Bears,
don't be concerned. And also, don't be surprised. They weren't
good last year. And it wasn't just a coach thing.
They had problems. This wasn't just a Matt Eberblus thing.

(43:00):
You tried that and we saw what happened afterwards. You
fired mettibra Flus. In the next four games they got disintegrated.
So let's not just pretend like that was the only
issue and you fixed it and now you move on
and everything should be fine. Now you got a new
coach and he's Ben Johnson. He's this We don't dude,
we don't know. Ben Jonson's never been head coached before.

(43:21):
It's a great coordinator, he's ever been a head coach before.
We don't know. We have no idea. So this idea
that there's that there's this discussion to be had about
the struggles of training camp and how some people might
be alarmed or surprised. Dude, don't be concerned. It's late July.
And also, don't be surprised. The team sucked. They were bad.

(43:46):
They've been bad for a while. This is not a surprise,
like you see that around the NFL this time of year.
You'll hear stories or struggles or your stories of op him,
and you're and then the reality kicks in. It's like, well,
part way through their year, you start to realize, hey,

(44:08):
some teams might have a shot, and then some teams don't.
Aaron Rodgers, the brand new quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Did you see he was in the news first team
drill and he threw an interception. So I went to
Pro Football Reference and I was looking at Pro Football Reference.
Great site. Love Pro Football Reference if you're a football

(44:30):
nerd like I am, and so I had to check,
and I kept refreshing. I kept refreshing Aaron Rodgers Pro
Football Reference because I wanted to see whether or not
they were going to update his stats after that interception
he threw during the first team drills there at a

(44:51):
training camp in Latrobe, former home of the great Rolling
Rock Beer. And I went through and I kept refreshing,
and I think the there's something wrong with Pro Football
Reference because it says here that he has one hundred
and sixteen career interceptions, and when I checked right after
he threw that interception, it still said one sixteen. And

(45:15):
then I checked right before you threw that interception, and
it's still said one sixteen, which leads me to believe
either there's a glitch in the system or maybe that
interception didn't mean anything at all. I don't know, just
feel like some of these storylines in training camp, I
don't know, man, Like I don't know. I mean, listen,

(45:39):
not complaining. I love it. I mean, we could be
sitting here spending a segment talking about the WNBA. Who
wants that?

Speaker 8 (45:49):
Not me?

Speaker 1 (45:52):
So listen, I love it, but come on, like, some
of this stuff just not legitimate if we're being honest
with ourselves, much like majority of the NFL. According to
Aaron Rodgers, who pointed out a harsh reality about the
league that we love. When he said this about legitimate

(46:15):
Super Bowl contenders.

Speaker 11 (46:17):
I think that you know, there's really only six to
eight if they really have a legitimate chance. Sometimes it's
ten to twelve, and there's teams will surprise you, But
I would say, on paper, we're probably one of those
ten to twelve.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
All right, So ten to twelve, ten to twelve, and
he said this before, ten to twelve teams with a
legitimate chance to win a Super Bowl. Now we could
go through the list of teams that we think have
a legitimate chance to win a Super Bowl. You got
your Bills, You've got your Ravens, You've got your Bengals,

(46:52):
You've got your Chiefs, maybe your Chargers. Maybe you could
squeeze the Texans in there, if you wanted to put
his Steelers in there. Of course, you've got the Eagles,
maybe the Commanders, maybe everybody in the NFC North not
named the Bears, nobody in the NFC South outside of

(47:13):
maybe Tampa. And then you got like the Rams and
maybe the Niners. And I'm like, but I mean it
sounds about right like ten to twelve. And I was
just thinking about this when Rogers was saying that, imagine
being two thirds of the NFL every year, Like, imagine
being a fan of one of the other teams, to

(47:39):
where you know that you hoping and dreaming and wanting
and yearning and desiring a Super Bowl is literally a
waste of time. How about that? Ah? How about that?

Speaker 2 (48:02):
A complete waste of time?

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Because Aaron Rodgers is one hundred percent correct, There are
about ten teams that have a legitimate chance to win
a Super Bowl. I don't know if you know this
or not. That leaves like twenty two others that don't.
That is two thirds of the league. That literally you're
wasting your time if you're thinking super Bowl. But if

(48:31):
you just take a step back and say that out loud,
you realize, oh god, what is all this for? Anyways,
That's why I say, look, super Bowls are important. They
should count for a lot, but they shouldn't really maybe
count for everything when it comes to how we view
somebody as a success or somebody as a Hall of

(48:53):
Famer or somebody if we're being truthful here, because even
with great players, you got no shot, like you just
I mean, I'm sorry. It's why people love the NFL
Draft so much because it gives you hope, because you're like,
oh my god, maybe this will be the one, and

(49:14):
oh my god, maybe that'll be the one. Because there
was a time well before the Patriots were winning all
those Super Bowls that the Patriots were terrible, Like there
was a time well before that. It's like, could you
imagine being a Bulls fan right now? And like you're
under the age of like twelve you imagine that, Like,

(49:35):
you know, how many like twelve year olds are walking
around Chicago right now as a Bulls fan, Like, do
you know what their reality is? Their reality is their
team's never gonna win a championship. And what makes it
worse is that they won a whole bunch right before
they were born, like whenever that was maybe twenty two,

(49:55):
Like just you know, that's just their realction. And there
is a reality to the NFL that Aaron Rodgers illustrates.
It's one hundred percent correct. Ten to twelve teams have
a shot, have a real shot that you look at
and go, oh, I could see that. Like I could
see the Bills winning a Super Bowl. I could see

(50:18):
the Ravens winning a Super Bowl. I could envision the
Bengals winning a Super Bowl. I could even see the Steelers,
who knows, going on a heater, maybe winning a Super Bowl.
Maybe the Texans. You know, the Joe Mixon news not great.
You know, he's dealing with some sort of an issue
with his foot and they're not sure what's happening, and
hopefully he's going to be ready for the start of

(50:39):
the year. But you know, I could kind of see
the Texans. If CJ. Stroud bounces back and they get
some rhythm on offense, maybe they could make a run.
The Chiefs, the Chargers, I could see it, The Eagles,
I could see it. Maybe the Commanders, the Packers, the Vikings,
the line, I could see it. I could see these things.
And then there's all those other teams. You know you

(51:01):
mentioned the Niners and the Rams. I could see and
then like you just all those other teams, you realize,
no chance, literally no chance. I remember going to acting
classes like that, you know. I did some acting classes,
and I remember going to acting classes, which is what

(51:24):
led me to radio because I was like, this sucks,
Like these people are weird. So I traded in that
batch of weirdos for a different batch of weirdos, and
I'm better off for it. If you haven't seen any
of the you know, stuff that comes out in Hollywood
in the news, which, by the way, saw a little
bit of that, not surprised. But I remember being an

(51:45):
acting class and looking at these people try and get
into character and thinking to myself, because they would give
you these scripts and they would tell you, hey, you
got to play this part. For some reason, I was
always Jonathan Vendor from The Breakfast Club, Like I could
never be the nerd or the jock. I always had
to be the you know, the derelict. I always got

(52:09):
that role. And so I remember like they would give
you these scripts an acting class, and they would tell
you like, hey, you got to go work on your
scene whatnot, and be ready to go because you know,
in twenty minutes from now or thirty minutes from how
we're going to come in and you got to do
that scene. It's like all right, cool, So you know,
you go out, you practice, and I just remember like
stopping from time to time and looking at all these
people trying to get into character for all these random

(52:31):
roles from movies, whether it.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Was Full Metal Jacket.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
Or you know, die Hard or some other like random
movies that you would see. And I remember just like
standing back watching these people getting into character and thinking
to myself, God, what a waste of time. They got
no shot, literally no shot. Like people that moved out
here got waiter jobs, like or waiting table, going like, yo,

(53:00):
I'm gonna be the next big thing. I'm gonna be.
You're running to get head shots, you're going on auditions,
and the fact of the matter is you got no
real chance. There's a fraction of it, and you admire
the fact that they keep on trying, just like we
admire the fact that those teams keep on playing games
in the NFL and two thirds of them have zero
chants about ever winning a Super Bowl. There are fans

(53:23):
listening to this right now. And you know who you are,
all right, there are fans listening to this right now.
You root for a team that has zero shot of
ever letting you enjoy them winning a Super Bowl ever. Ever,
that's your audition. Hey, so what's the role for the

(53:45):
roles for a Super Bowl CHAMPO? Good luck in there.
And I'm not trying to be at a hole. I
swear to God because I grew up a Cubs fan,
all right, I cannot even when the Cubs do finally
win a World Series, they don't even know how to
do that. Right, they won a World Series for the

(54:05):
first time in over one hundred years. There were people
writing messages on the outside of Wrigley Field and chalk
to all their loved ones that couldn't see it, thinking
to your dad, miss you, Grandma and Grandpa, wish you
could be here. I mean you should have seen it.
Signatures all over the wall, and the Cubs enjoyed it

(54:27):
so much, and it meant so much to that franchise
that two days later there was some guy named Gustavo
with a powerwasher taken all of it off the wall.
Two days later. It's like, you know, so listen, I'm
not trying to judge. I'm just telling you Aaron Rodgers
is correct, and if he's correct, two thirds of the

(54:51):
NFL and their fan bases are.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Wasting their time.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Jonas Knox here on Fox Sports Radio at the Jonas
Knox on that at the Jonas Knocks on X, all
sorts of positive feedback coming in. Dan writes in, you
woke flaming bleep, get back to threatening your irrelevant cracker

(55:15):
ass well boycott sports until your beloved Karen Clark and
the bleep WNBA get more money. Like anybody gives a bleep,
you hoe bag hack. You should be sent to Epstein Island,
Peter Wrights in bordop Bleep, Jonas, get back to enjoying

(55:40):
your hobby of bleeping your micro bleep to your fantasy
beefcake Tom Brady in his luscious form on his yacht.
You Beta bleep Aaron rights in us for letting us

(56:00):
know that they changed Oxnard, California to Knox Snard, California
based off your opening of that glory whole LLC. You'll
probably make enough money to give up this raggedy Saturday
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(56:23):
or ball washing Jerry Jones, at least that hack Jonas
is consistent. He knows how to bleep the balls of
these guys, and he also just plane sucks. Chuck e
Cheese is calling his name again. Somebody rescue this clown.
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(56:46):
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Coming up here shortly next year. On the show, though,
we are going to tell you about who is now
taking the throne of most sensitive fan base and all

(57:08):
the NFL, and it's yours here at FSR.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
All right, First off, Jonas Knox can suck it.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio coming up ten minutes from now.
There's some people that have gotten in trouble, and I
don't think they should have I'll tell you that I
don't think they should have. I think they're getting a
raw deal here. We'll get into that for you again
a little over ten minutes from now. So one of

(57:36):
the things that you find out, depending on who's listening,
is who's really sensitive about something? Like you just like
you want to find like, who's really sensitive about something?
And one of the things that I've found out over
the past few weeks is that Bengals fans are extremely sensitive,

(58:00):
extremely sensitive. Because we've talked about it, you know, on
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe during the week
during last week, the week before that. One of the
real discussions being had this offseason in the NFL is
what are the Bengals going to do? They've got this
Trey Hendrickson stuff. They did figure out a way to
get Shamar Stewart signed, all right, So Shamar Stewart is there,

(58:22):
all right, he've you know, he and the Bengals worked
out some sort of a compromise. He accepts their new
language of the contract. They move five hundred grand of
his signing bonus to pay it up front instead of December,
and like, you know, it feels like they got that
figured out. But like the Tree Hendrickson stuff is weird. Right,

(58:45):
he's looking to be paid. They don't want to pay
him what he wants. What you know is fine, but
it just goes in line with things that they've done
throughout the course of time. Like, nobody's making this stuff up.
Nobody's just taking shots at the Bengals to take shots
at the Bengals, all right, Like I've defended the Bengals.

(59:07):
I remember years ago I got pushed back when I
defended them and the run that they went on with
Andy Dalton as their quarterback. You know, people are like, oh,
they can't want a playoff games, Like, yeah, at least
they're getting there. At least they're giving themselves a shot.
Like I was in Vegas last week. I got news
for you. I saw a lot of people playing the
slot machines. A lot of people didn't win, but you

(59:29):
know what, give themselves a shot. They sat down, they
put their money in, they started hitting that button. I
was one of those people didn't win, but at least
I gave it a shot and gave myself a shot.
I had a chance. So like I've defended the Bengals
for a long time. But I mean facts are facts,

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like it is a cheap, frugal organization. It doesn't mean
it's a bad organization. They just are We caught up
with Albert Breer this week. Albert Breer covers the NFL's
covered the NFL for a long time. I asked Albert Breer,
I'm like, hey, man, like, so so are we, because

(01:00:10):
we're getting a lot of pushback. Bengal fans are ripping
us and saying, we know what you're talking about, and
it is this and it's that, And so I asked
Albert Brier, all right, you set the record straight. Then
what is the reputation of the Bengals organization?

Speaker 5 (01:00:23):
The reputation's reputation, you know, I think there's always been
that reputation going back for years and years and years
that they're cheap, that they're kind of running like a
mom and pop shop, and in some ways it's earned,
you know, like they've had a very small scouting department forever,
and you know, those guys, to the credit, have done
a really great job, you know, Like you know, I think,

(01:00:44):
you know, on balance, over the last twenty five years,
they're definitely as far as like you know, putting rosters
together the town that's gone through there. They're definitely in
the top half of the league in that department, despite
the fact that, again their personnel group is so small
relative to the league. But that's type of stuff is
kind of, you know, gone across the organization in a

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lot of different ways. Like there was that whole thing
with it took forever for them to get a practice bubble,
you know, and that is in Ohio, you know what
I mean, Like it's not in Florida. Like that's just
being able to like functionally practice in December and January.
So it's just little things like that that add up.
And then it's very easy to link that stuff to
how they deal with players, you know, and how they

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deal with the player contracts, and so in some cases
it's fair. In other cases it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
I mean, like nobody's making this stuff up and nobody's
saying they're a bad organization. But for some reason there's
like this it's like this real touchy subject, like oh no, no,
that's not true. You know that that's not No, it
is true, and it doesn't make any sense. Anybody who's cheap, okay,

(01:01:57):
anybody who's frugal, all right, I've been accused of that.
Like some people look at me and they call me cheap.
They call me frugal because I you know, I don't
need like a fancy car. I've been driving the same
truck for nineteen years. It's a two thousand and six.

(01:02:20):
It's got three hundred and eighty four thousand miles on it.
Every time I pull into the parking lot, LeVar Arrington
sings the Sanford and Sun SONGK.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
I'm not offended by it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
I'm proud of it. You're right. Yeah, you're right. I
don't want a car payment. You're right. Yes, call me cheap,
call me frugal, You're right. I'm proud of it. If
you go shopping and you find something that normally costs
an exorbitant amount and you get it at a deal.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Aren't you proud?

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Aren't you happy? Like? Yeahah, I did. I used to
go to Burlington Code Factory all the time, Burlington Code
Factory before they closed, the one near my house. That's
why I would do anytime I need to close, I
would go there. I still go to Ross Dress for
Less like Mervin's was one back in the day. You

(01:03:21):
get TJ. Matt Like.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
I still go to those places. What's wrong You.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
Go to Macy's instead of going to the actual department upstairs,
there's one down below. It's like backstage at Macy's. I
got all the deals and discounts. Still they wrong with that.
I still go to Dollar Trees, I still go to
ninety nine cents stores. Like there's literally nothing wrong with it,
and I'm not ashamed of it. For some reason, Bengals

(01:03:50):
fans are like ashamed of be in cheap like why
are you talking about them? So it's what do you
want to I mean, first of all, they got a
guy who wants to get paid. It's been a public
contract dispute, like yeah, you got Mike Brown talking about oh,

(01:04:11):
you know when we deal with Trey Hendrickson is like
it's like okay, so so we can talk about Jerry Jones,
and we can talk about the Cowboys, and we can
talk about the Jets, and we can talk about all
these other teams, but we're not allowed to talk about
the Bengals. You can't do that because if you do that,
it's not nice and the fan base gets upset and
pissed off about it, like we're making stuff up. No, no, no,
They defend the organization over Trey Hendrickson in this like, oh,

(01:04:37):
you guys don't know what you're talking about. All right, Well,
here's what I do know. Carson Palmer retired because he
didn't want to be there anymore, because he was tired
of it. That's what I do know. I do know
that you just turned Albert Breer. They like you had
to drag them kicking and screaming to build a practice bubble.

(01:04:58):
They're in Ohio. Like, we're not talking about Miami Gardens.
This is in southern California. The Bengals didn't move to Maui.
They're in Ohio, and they like didn't want to have
a practice bubble like you've heard about, you know, the
amenities and like, like, come on, man, Andy Furman's been

(01:05:20):
telling these stories for years, which is what's rich about
Andy Furman, Fox sports radio host, Cincinnati sports radio legend,
my dear friend. What's rich about Andrew? No, it's not
I've heard stories. What's rich about Andy Furman is him
telling me all of a sudden that no, no, no, Trey

(01:05:41):
hendricksonside a contract he should honor the contract. Okay, fair,
but coming from the guy who's been burying that organization
for three plus decades. All of a sudden, he's now
taken their side, Like there's These are just facts about
their reputation. It doesn't make them a organization. They've done

(01:06:01):
amazing things. They've never won a Super Bowl, but they've
done some amazing things and have had some amazing players.
All of that is true. What else is true is
that they're cheap. I'm sorry, they just are. You can
get upset about it all you want, but blame them.
Don't blame people who are pointing it out. Jonas Knox.
Here Fox Sports Radio. By the way, you can stream

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Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
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All right, Andy Ferman, what were you saying? You were
just saying something a second ago.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
People calm down a little bit weird, jeez.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Coming up next here, going on next, we are going
to tell you about how there's some people that are
in trouble and I don't think they should be right.
I'm going to defend this group of people. Right, that'll
be yours here on FSR. But for all the latest
from around the world of sports ladies and gentlemen. He
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(01:07:18):
the one, He is the only, He is the magnificent,
Sir Isaac Lonker.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Well, this guy's always on top right on all accounts.
Jonas and Andy's speaking of trouble. The Yankees are in
trouble right now, on and off the field. Going to
the seventh inning stretch at Yankee Stadium, they trailed the
Phillies nine to one. But the big story off the
field the Yankee star Aaron Judge not in the lineup
because of an elbow issue. He is having imaging done

(01:07:43):
on it today.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
And I low starting to interrupt.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Is we do this every time? You don't have to
apologize for interrupting when it's your show. I can I
do this? Can I do this?

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
I know? But it's like, you know, it's like when
Red got out of prison in Shawshanks.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
I do not know about that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
He kept asking his his boss we could use the restroom,
and his boss was like, you don't have to ask
me every time to use the restroom. Just go. You
have to take a leak, just go, so just go. Well,
John Sterling no longer calling games? Correct?

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Correct? Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
Hi, I was gonna say because whenever I whenever you
start breaking down the Yankees, I'm expecting you to.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Break into John Sterling because I did for so long.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
Yes, he was the gift to anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
Well he's retired, so yeah, who.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
Is high all rise m.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
You know what I could do for future reports, just
for you. I could bring back some jam and some
as I called him, jam Master John Sterling. Oh yeah,
please do.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
Because I think wasn't wasn't there one where he said
something like who's sorry now?

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
Oh good lord? Yes? Yeah, he was really into the
Broadway show tunes and he would he would rely that
during his broadcast. I will mark that down. So concern
in Yankee Land right now, even though John Sterling is
not presiding, and also concern in the NFL because NFL
media reports Tennessee Titans receiver Treylon Burks fractured his collar

(01:09:15):
bone in practice today. He's expected to miss at least
the start of the regular season. NFL media also reporting
that Minnesota Viking safety Josh Mattellis agreed to a three year,
thirty six million dollar extension. Finally, back to baseball, Jonas,
we have an Atlanta Braves pitcher doing shots with Usher. Update.
Three time All Star Wit Marrifield, who played for the

(01:09:37):
Braves last season before retiring, revealed on a podcast that
last season, an unnamed Braves pitcher would consume a shot
prior to pitching. Maryfield related the following story of a
day last season when music superstar Usher was in the
house to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.

Speaker 12 (01:09:57):
One of the pitchers on the team last year say
his name because I don't know if he'd like me
sharing this, but before he pitches, we would go and
there'd be like a group of like five or six
of us that would go take a shot. One game
Usher was in town, thrown out the first pitch, and
he threw out the first pitch. We're all getting warmed
up going the dugout. The pitcher comes in. We go
up stairs to the locker room and Usher's exiting and

(01:10:19):
I yell at him. I go, Hsher, you don't take
a shot, And he kind of laughed, and his manager
with him to go I.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Think I think he's serious.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
So Usher was like, yeah, I'll take a shot.

Speaker 12 (01:10:26):
So he came over and there was like eight of
us around and Usher said hope you all win or
something like that, and we took a shot with Usher
before the game.

Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
Rusher around all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
We're one of the coolest things.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
Yeah, that never.

Speaker 12 (01:10:37):
Happened to me, was taking a shot free game with Usher.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
Not exactly rising to the level of what Doc Ellis
did back in nineteen seventy, but notable. Nonetheless, what did
doc Ellis do?

Speaker 10 (01:10:48):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
You you didn't hear this story?

Speaker 8 (01:10:50):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Doc Ellis, a Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher in nineteen seventy pitched
a no hitter at San Diego while under the influence
of LSD true story.

Speaker 1 (01:11:00):
Well, I mean, then you know he should you know,
he should not be judged if the result was fine,
he shouldn't be judged for that. It's like remember David
Wells when he threw that perfect game. He'd been out
all night. No, yeah, he got butchered the night before
and then came in and you know through that perfect game.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
Actually, Doc Ellis actually might have topped that because as
part of the under the influence of LSD. This is
a true story. Two o'clock that afternoon, the games at
six oh five in San Diego. At two o'clock that afternoon,
doc Ellis was in Los Angeles in the company of
a female companion and the female companion is leaking through
the newspaper and says, hey, Doc, it says here that

(01:11:41):
you're supposed to pitch tonight in San Diego. He thought
that he had the day off. She drove him to lax.
He buys a plane ticket for nine dollars and fifty
cents remember it was nineteen seventy, flies down to San Diego,
gets there an hour and a half before the game,
and goes out and pitches a no hitter while under
the influence of LSD.

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
Trust that is awesome. Did they sell LSD on Amazon?
Is that something that we could like have? Is that
like a arrive like two day if you have prime?
Do you know?

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Or is that not a and exactly what about me
would lead you to believe that I would know.

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
I'm just I mean that you knew that fact to it.
I'm just wondering how many people hear that? And now
all of a sudden, because you're sharing that information on the.

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Airtherway, no means should use there's no connection. I would
ask you about Chuck E Cheese and you have a
range of knowledge there, so I would have.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
Just by the way, by the way, not familiar with
the story.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
Yeah, no, it's it's absolutely true story. He was the
guy who went on to give up that home run
to Reggie Jackson in the All Star Game when he
hit it off the light tower at Tiger Stadium. That
was the next year and and to his credit, Doc Alice,
who I believe? I mean, he passed away some years ago.
But he did eventually not only turn his life around
and get off drugs, but actually work as a substance
abuse counselor later in life after starting his life around

(01:12:59):
back to quick or yeah, how many, by the way,
how many perfect games or no hitters did he throw
as a substance abuse counselor? It was after he retired.

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
You ever you ever seen Bull Durham? What do they
tell you don't mess with a streak. He shouldn't have
messed with that. If you were to continued to an LSD,
he would have thrown more perfect games. That's my conclusion
on that whole story.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
So I suppose he was clean when he allowed that
home run to Reggie. Is what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
By the way, you want to recklessly speculate who the
Braves pitcher was that would do a shot before every game.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
Oh you don't think social media already did that. Social
media is way ahead of you. They have speculated. Oh
who are they going with? H They tracked down the
date when Usher throughout the ceremonial first pitch last year.
Is all I'm saying. Can I guess? Can I? You
can guess?

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
Jeez?

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
Max Freed? Nope, damn? Who was it? According to social media?
They claim it was Chris Sale Again according to social media,
It's not like this is sixty minutes reporting it in
the heyday of Mike Wallace. All right, right, so do you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
Want to know why I was going to go with
Max Freed? This is what this is like where my
mind goes with this stuff. I was going to say
Max Freed even though he's on the Yankees now, but
I was going to say Max freed, because he's had
a history of blister issues, and blisters you get those,
you know, like as a pitcher. You know, maybe you

(01:14:25):
couldn't dry his hand off, or he couldn't get his
the feeling right, And I'm wondering maybe there was some
of the residue from the shot left on his finger
and that's what led to the inconsistency of the moisture
and the dryness of his hands, which would lead to
his blister issues.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
You seem suspiciously authoritative about this subject.

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
Well, I mean, look, sometimes you know you're doing a
shot and maybe you know you'd go to wipe your
face afterwards, and some of the alcohol gets in your
hand and it could dry your hand out a little bit,
and it kind of throws off the whole consistency of everything.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
Let's go live too.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
I have thought about who was doing shots with the Braves,
and was it Nelly or Usher Insacher? How dare you?

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
How dare you so? Just doing some quick research here?
If that was indeed Chris Sale as we all now
seem to know it to be Chrisaale. The headline from
that day was Brave's offense undaunted by Dodgers as Sale
collects seventeenth win.

Speaker 4 (01:15:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
I mean, so we're just saying, look, Marshawn Lynch did
the same thing. He did a shot of Hennessy before
every game.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
Great career.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
Can't judge, man, You just you know, some people can
operate that way. I mean, some people are able to
operate with booze in their system better than other people can.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
I mean there's some boy tell talking to the crowd here.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
I mean there's some people in radio that can do that.
And again, I'm not gonna name any names here.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Lead to lap.

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
I'm not going to name any names here. I'm not
doing that. I refuse to do that. I refuse to
do that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
I freely admit using caffeine in black coffee as my
performance enhancing substances. You can probably tell do you have
any such habits five.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
Hour energy coffee? You know that would probably be Yeah,
that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
It's legal and it works. Baby, what believable amounts of rum?

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
Yeah no, that's no rum for me. Learn my lesson
on that, Learn my lesson on that. Those days are
over all right, Thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:16:15):
Elo.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
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Speaker 6 (01:17:54):
This, Jonas, how could you not get to the story?

Speaker 2 (01:18:00):
Moron?

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
These are the scrats And for that we turn it
over to our executive producer, Bo Benzon to find out
what the hell we've missed so far on the show.

Speaker 8 (01:18:08):
Bo.

Speaker 10 (01:18:08):
Yeah, the National Football League NFL is finding more than
one hundred players for selling their Super Bowl tickets above
face value.

Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
This is such crap.

Speaker 10 (01:18:18):
Yeah, coordinating, I believe with you know, it's sub hub
type thing.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
This is such crap.

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
Let me tell you something. If somebody gives you something
you can't get pissed at what they do with it.
I'm sorry, Like, like you know, you give somebody a gift,
you can't get upset with what they do with it.
These guys are are allotted tickets to the super Bowl.
They didn't want to go to the super Bowl, and

(01:18:44):
they said, I'll just sell them. So what's the problem
if I donate clothes to the Goodwill, which I'm gonna
do later on today and the Goodwill ends up selling them?
Like should I sue the Goodwill?

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
Like I'm giving it like they're not mine anymore. Like
and I got news for you, like a lot of
those clothes or stuff my wife gave me. And let's
hope she doesn't get pissed about what I do with
the stuff she gives me, Okay, because like they're not
that's I don't like.

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
Who gives a rip?

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
Let's go live to our I'm also a ticket broker insider.
Chris Properacord the Latest.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
Chris, did you also give a goodwill a lot of
your Rob Parker iron on odd couple? Oh, they wouldn't tastirts.

Speaker 10 (01:19:29):
Yeah, for some reason, I was gonna say, where do
you think Rob gets them from?

Speaker 1 (01:19:33):
Yeah, like, why are you giving these back to Rob's
dressed for less?

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
That's what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
They're like, why are you giving this back to us?
But yeah, I just come on, but this is ridiculous.
These guys getting fined, might get suspended if they don't
accept the you know, the punishment. Just ridiculous. What else
we got?

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (01:19:48):
Titans wide receiver Trailon Burkes, as Isaac mentioned, he broke
his collar warner practice, so he's gonna miss some time.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:19:55):
If I was the Titans, I would may. I know,
he's probably not available, but you think you'd call that
like AG Brown or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
By the way, isn't Keenan Allen still available?

Speaker 10 (01:20:03):
Yeah, but he's I think he said that he's only
going to play for the Chargers or the Bears if
he plays again.

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
So yeah, maybe he's asking for too much money, but look, man,
he would Keenan Allen actually played pretty well last year.

Speaker 10 (01:20:14):
Yeah, not terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
Considered with that disaster in Chicago, but yeah, I mean
and Traylon Burks. What's what's wild about that story is
he was supposed to be their quote unquote replacement for
AJ Brown because that same draft that they traded AJ Brown,
they went out and signed drafted Traylon Burks, and it

(01:20:35):
just hasn't worked. Like he hasn't been able to stay healthy.
They've got Calvin Ridley there now, but it just does
not work for Trailer Burks. So hopefully he'll get back
on track, but nonetheless probably not going to be taken
real high on fantasy rosters coming up here soon. All right,
it's been a fun one for Chris, Isaac and bow
and everybody who listen. Thanks so much. This is Jonas
Knox here on Fox Sports Radio. Jonas, Son of a Bitch,