July 10, 2024 • 37 mins
Brian Noe & Eddie Garcia discuss Joe Burrow's plan for a potential 18-game season and why it's a bad idea, Chris Paul joining the San Antonio Spurs so he can get playing time, and much more!
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(00:22):
So Eddie, we heard last hour from Mike the Leprechaun
in Boston and he went through a lot of things,
but one real quick statement that he made. He talked
about the Patriots in two thousand and one when they
won that first Super Bowl, they were introduced as a team.
They didn't do like the individual introductions. They were introduced
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as a team, which I thought at the time was
pretty cool. But I hate how that's turned into the
normal way things are done now. Cause when I was
a kid, you and I we've done this before. We've competed, actually,
but we love knowing where NFL players went to college.
And when I was a kid, I always looked forward
to the Super Bowl because they would announce these players
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individually and say what college they went to, and I'd
be like, oh, shoot, John Elway went to Stanford. I
didn't know. I never saw him in college. We didn't
have the internet back then, so it was a big
deal at the times. I always looked forward to those
Super Bowl introductions. They don't do it now because the
Patriots and one they ran out as a team, which
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I thought was cool in the moment, but every team
since then followed suit. I hate it now.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, it was. It was unique at the time, and
I'm like you, I do remember kind of liking it
in the moment, but I also was like, well, why
do they just announce the defense and they are the offense?
They why don't they announce all the starters because they'd
always just picked one.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yep, and they still do.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
That for the Charger games that we go to. They
just picked the offense of the defense, so they have
a Super Bowl though. I mean, it was kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, I love that. This is actually a story from
Howard Griffith. He played for the Denver Broncos. He was
on the ninety sevent team that beat the Packers in
the Super Bowl. But he told the story about this
being introduced before the Super Bowl began. I love this storyline.
It was on NFL Network. Check this out.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Phil Simms was out of practice and we were just
talking and he said, you know, Howard, if you're fortunate
enough to have the offense introduced, it's going to be
probably one of the most powerful.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Moments that you'll ever remember.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
It was like my entire life went past me in
an instant because you think about all the different situations
that you may have been in in life where you
had to make a decision.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Am I going to go this way or that way? John?
Knowing that if you had made a different decision some
point in your life, you might not be standing at
tunnel getting ready to get your name called it to super.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Number twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Howard, really.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Was the most amazing feeling that I've ever had.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Is that crazy? The most amazing feeling he's ever had,
and now is just gone thanks to the one Patriots
who changed everything. But I thought that was funny, and
again I thought it was a cool thing that the
Patriots did where they're like, we're not individuals, We're a team.
We get that. It was cool at the time, but
I wish we could go back to them being announced
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as individuals. I used to love that, but that tradition
is gone. Man, the Patriots changed all.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That they did.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, no, you're right, Yeah, there's a hideous idea, Eddie.
While we're talking ball, of course, meaning football. Yeah, Joe Burrow,
Bengals quarterback, he was on the Pardon My Take show,
he was a guest there, and he's talking about this
eighteen game NFL schedule that we're gonna have in the
(03:59):
not too distant future, and so he's like, why, I
got an idea. He's like, how about we do this?
How about we have two bye weeks? That part makes sense,
And he says, how about a league wide bye week
around week thirteen so we can highlight the Pro Bowl?
That would be a pretty good idea, Eddie. This is
(04:21):
a freaking terrible idea. Why would we just stop football?
Nobody's playing in Week thirteen and we're going to focus
all of our attention on the Pro Bowl, which by
the way, is a flag football game. Now, with all
these random events around, that's the only thing that would
be going on in Week thirteen. That's a terrible idea.
(04:42):
I'm all for two bye weeks, but not like that.
We can't have a full weekend with no NFL that
that'd be crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well, this is shocking to hear you say something that
you don't like about the NFL, because usually you just
like anything they do, you think is the greatest thing
in the world. No, but I was at the we were
talking about like going to things. I was at the
last real Pro Bowl, which wasn't it was like the first.
It was the last one. They were in pads in Vegas,
and it was so awful that they decided we can't
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do this anymore. We have to have a flag football
game instead. So yeah, I've never cared for the Pro Bowl.
I've never thought it was important. Although you know, most
of the All Star games have fallen on hard times.
Even even baseball is not what it once was. It's
the closest thing we have to having the you know,
the legitimate game. But yeah, I'm not big on the idea,
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to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
No, it's what they would do, is that I would
I imagine they would have two by weeks because you
have to.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It's too many, Yeah, too many damn games.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
It's a long season. And that's the thing is it'd
be great for the NFL because you could have the
Super Bowl the day before President's Day and then that's
a day off for most people, So that's been talked
about quite a bit. It'd be awesome if we had
Monday off yet, well you could if you have an
eighteen game schedule and just position it that way with
the extra bye week. Most people have Monday off due
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to President's Day, so that would work. I just hate
the idea of Week thirteen We're just gonna have the
Pro Bowl like that. That's hideous. There's got to be
a better way where they stagger the bye weeks. They
do it throughout most of the season the way it
is right now, right Eddie, with just one bye week,
So you'd have to get a little bit creative with
(06:30):
staggering a second bye week. But it's a better it's
a better approach for the NFL than just saying everybody
gets Week thirteen off. We just have the Pro Bowl.
Who's playing in the Pro Bowl mid season? By the way,
you know, no one wants to play in that thing
after the season. No one's playing mid season.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
No one's really playing in it now as it I mean,
it is, it's just there's running around. It's it's a joke.
It is.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It's bad. Have you seen, like I've made the mistake
of watching it one year because I'm like, I'm just
curious what they're doing. They're like catching a football from
a helicopter, you know, do it all this randomly, Eddie.
It's so bad, so bad. They had like a creative catch,
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like you'll. I don't know if they jumped from a trampoline.
I'm not sure, but they would jump up in the
air and try to catch the ball and fall onto
a pad. It's freaking terrible, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
It's awful.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I believe you. I totally believe it. Sounds awful. You
talking about it sounds awful.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, But we're gonna just structure everything around that in
week thirteen, Like that's insane. Are you in favor of
an eighteen game schedule? Would you keep it at seventeen?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I would keep it at seventeen. Honestly, I know it's
gonna be eighteen, and so it's I've kind of just
it's gonna happen. I know it's gonna happen, so there's
no sense in really getting too upset about it. But
I'd keep it at seventeen.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, it's gonna happen. I don't know how long it's
gonna take. I guess. Peter King, he wrote about this
a couple of years ago that it could take effect
as soon as twenty twenty five, right, like, we might
have this in the not too distant future. But it's happening.
You're just hearing more and more and more about it
(08:19):
that it's just a matter of time until we get there.
But yeah, it's it's certainly gonna be a situation. Even
Mike Florio, he reported on this last month. Players Association,
they're already bracing for the possibility. Here's the thing for
the player's side. You gotta get something in your favor,
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not just a second bye week. That's the layup part
of this eddie. They've got to be better at negotiating
these NFL team owners. They must look at the players
and the Players Association, like these guys can't negotiate to
say their lives, they're just running over them.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
No, no, no, you're right. I'm sure Jeff Schwartz has
talked about this with you and the shows you've done together.
I know Brady Quinn on The Two Pros and a
Cup of Joe has said the same thing, and he's
talked about like universal health care for all players. You
know what I mean, past and present and future, something
really really big and substantial like that. And I'm like, yeah,
(09:23):
he's right, they've got I mean, you know, the league
and the owners want this eighteenth game. Yeah, and they're
gonna get it. But this is right, this is your
chance to really get something you want in return. Yeah,
and if they don't do it, they're fools.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I love the idea of healthcare for all the players.
That would be something significant, not just okay, we'll give
you a second by week, which they are probably gonna
do anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, that's the bare minimum. That's Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
The NFL probably wants that because it's like, oh, okay,
we could do you like the Sunday before President's Day.
Most people have the day off in this country. That's
a win. They probably want to do that on their
own anyway. But of course they're going to act like, oh,
we don't want to do this at all. But if
that's what it's gonna take, all right, And the players
are like, hey, we got something, and the owners are
(10:18):
like yeah, yeah, sure you did so. Yeah. Hopefully this
is their chance to get something significant. But I'm not
gonna hold my breath that they will, you know, they
just should, doesn't mean they actually will come through on that.
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Speaker 3 (11:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
By the way, Eddie, I don't know if you saw
the Champagne Illinois cats, but I uh, I posted a
little bit they were getting ready for the show tonight.
We're babysitting these cats for a couple of months here.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Oh, they look very comfortable on the couch there. Oh no,
that's those aren't your cats. If somebody else's cats, I'm
looking at.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Somebody else's cats. Yeah, that we're looking after. And yeah,
I'm not seeing the cats here, Brian, you're not seeing them.
Oh you have to sift through. I guess I'm not sure.
But they should be there somewhere, should be there around
whatever the like the Fox Sports Radio account saying hey,
(12:31):
it's Eddie and Brian tonight. Check it out, you know
that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I just responded back to that. So see, yeah you
should be on there.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I saw Spocks weed his cats.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're listening to the show as well.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It looks like they're sleeping. Ok Ah, there they are, Okay,
I see them.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Look at them. Huh some good looking cats or what?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Why are they in jail?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
They're not. I'm in jail. So it looks like looks.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Like they've been put behind bars.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
No, I'm behind bars.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
So what did you do then?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So it's this little office area, but they have plants
and the cats just try to go and destroy these plants.
So yeah, I sit in the uh the office area,
and that gate keeps the keeps them out and away
from the plants. That's what's going on there.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
What are there? What are the names?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
So? Uh, the dude is a big fantasy football guy.
So they're named Cooper after yeah, after Cooper Cup, and uh,
we don't call her this, but the other one is
Chrissy for Christian McCaffrey. So the funny thing is, we thought,
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you know, Cooper after Cooper Cup. We just thought it
was a boy. So all last year we're like, Coop,
what's up, homie, you know that sort of thing, and
they told They're like, oh no, they're both girls. We're like, oh, shoot,
Coop's a girl. We had no idea.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So yeah, I'm not saying anything Coop, justin Cooper.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Did we ever get the picture from Mike the Leprechaun
by the way, Coop?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Man, I did, and I'm I've been trying to tweet
it out, but I don't know if there's something wrong
with Twitter or if the picture is corrupted, but it
is not letting me attach it to a tweet.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Huh. It'd be crazy if Mike was like this big
malware guy.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yes, that's not funny.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Geez it's yeah, at the end of the rainbow there exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
You know, just by the way, a couple of viruses.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
When you were gone last week, Ben had a mild
hissy fit that you had left and apparently not told
him I heard about this. Did Did Ben tell you
he was lee been for a little while. I mean
I saw it on this the but did he tell you?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
No?
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Okay, I think it was last night as he was
leaving he said, I'm off the rest of the week.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Oka, but I also told.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Him, so, yeah, we talked about me going to Chicago
on the air.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
We had the conversation.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
I just don't think you remember the specific dates, you know,
like he knew you were going, he didn't know. Yeah,
it's not like there was no word of it, and
I was just gone. Remember we talked about the fact
that I was going to meet up with Big or
with Doc Mike, and you know what happened. So Doc
was only there one day that I was in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
And he had like.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Basically he had a bunch of appointments with his patience.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
I guess, sorry, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah, man, getting getting blown off, uh by Doc, Mike
and Weedman.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I know, right, How was Chicago? That was awesome? I
liked it a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, Yeah, it was cool.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
The deep Dish pizza I had for the first time ever,
that Yeah, it was amazing. My body wasn't a fan.
That's That's where I said to my wife. I was like, oh,
it was like the last day. I was like, we
should get another pizza. And she's like, did you not, like,
do you not remember like what happened? And I was like,
(16:32):
I was like you know whatever, Yeah right, yeah, exactly
what else did you do over there? We went on
a architecture tour river boat tour.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
An architecture tour.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
We went on like a little like cruise faery thing
on the on the river. Yeah, and you kind of like,
you know, go around and check out all the different
buildings dating back some of them dating back to like
eighteen ninety eight.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
So that was kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
And then I went on to Sears Tower or I
guess they call it. It's yeah, I guess it's Willis
Tower now yeah. Yeah, but went up to the observation
deck and went out on the ledge.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Sound was cool.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That's cool too.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
And then and then of course Wrigley, I did a
I did a stadium tour early in the morning before
the game and.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Too, that was that was awesome. And then and then
I watched then I watched the Angels lose.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, yeah, man, was that coop my sports betting? Here?
Was this the five to one game? Yes? Yeah, I
had them scoring at least I don't know, like, I
think just three runs that game, four at the most.
I can't remember the total, Yeah, just their team total.
And they messed around, scored one run. Then what they
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do the next day?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
It was yeah, it was it was like seven nothing angels,
I know they got shut out five nothing. Yeah, So
what's first of all, what's really awesome? And I believe
I don't know if we talked about this earlier today
or if it was on to two pros yesterday. It's
kind of blending together. But sports betting in California just
needs to happen.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It's is it on the ballot because Ben didn't know
if it was or not.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I don't think so. But I just I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
It was so awesome being able to like it's attached
to Wrigley Field is a draft King sportsbook and like
just like right before the game starts, I walk in there,
place a parlay and then walk into my seats and
it was so cool. I didn't win, but it was cool.
It's the best. I don't know what California is doing.
(18:44):
I have no idea they.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Could be attached. To be honest with you, Well.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
It's the the you know, the the Indian casinos that
are you know, blocking it.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
They don't like figure it out. Yeah, it's just millions
and millions of dollars. They're just like, no, we're just
we're better off without it. I guess it's crazy they'd
be making so much cash. Insane. Uh, but yes, what
did you say right before?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Oh, I have a quick Chicago story for you. Uh,
Coop and Eddie and Loraina and everybody listening. So I
was going years ago. I was going to the Willis
Tower with one of my buddies, and I looked down
at my GPS as we're driving there, and all of
a sudden, he's like, dude, dude. And I look up
as I'm running into the back of the car in
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front of him.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Oh no, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Like, I don't know, it's like a truck or a van.
It was a bigger vehicle. The lady got out and
she just looked at her bumper, which was pretty much fine,
and she just got back in and drove off. And meanwhile,
I looked at my car and it was a Nissan
Ultima and the grille was all jacked up, is all
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dented in and cracked and all horrid, and so it
cost me about five hundred bucks to get that fixed.
But she just drove off, was like, mine looks fine.
So I'm out of here.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I have a quick bummer of a story of Chicago.
Speaker 8 (20:12):
Aside from the fact that the Angels always lose when
I go to see them play, I'm on like a
four year streak. Now, I don't even know how many
games that is, like a dozen at least. If you
ever want to just make a bunch of money anytime
I'm going to an Angel game, just load up your
life savings on the other team. But so, I also
wanted to get an Italian beef sandwich when I was
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out there. That was like one of the highlights.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Oh, we are hungry, we are hungry for more.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
And I don't know if you if any of you
guys watched The Bear on Hulu.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I haven't seen it. I do.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
So his Italian beef shop is based off of a
real place in Chicago called Mister Beef, and I was like, oh,
I really want to go there. It was about a
thirty minute walk from my hotel, and so I was like, Okay,
I'm gonna walk over there. And as I'm walking, we
passed you know probably I guess you know, one of
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the more famous Italian beef shops in Chicago called Owl's
and I was like, no, no, I want, I want
mister Beef, I want this place.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
And so we walked like beef.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Yeah, we walked like ten more minutes and they're closed,
I know, and it's and I guess it was. It
was my fl was it was July fourth, it was
it was Independence date, and I get I should have
called it to make sure, but like I just I
want to Google type them in and it said open,
but I guess holiday hours it was different. And then
(21:38):
I was like, all right, let's just let's just go
back to OL's. And by the time we walked back
to OL's, they were closing their doors. No man, Yeah,
so what did you do?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
You just like hot dog stand it or we.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
Just the first like food place that we like. We
as we were walking back to the hotel, the first
place that we saw that was open. We went in
and it it's like this. I think it was called
Dose Bros. It was basically a Chipotle ripoff place.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, so you can.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Get to have it at all. Well.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
So the next day there was an Owl's location next
to Wrigley Field. So in between the stadium tour and
the game, we went over to Al's and got it.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
But I did not get to have mister beef.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
No, what I have to know what you bet on
the game, not the amount, but what your actual bet was.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I don't even tell you.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I want to know what it was.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
I'm just I'm so dumb, Like I know, I'm on
this like dozen game losing streak of the Angels, like
sucking when I go to see that the Angel I.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Bet like a five four leg parlay I did.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
I did a logan O'hoppy to get a hit, Taylor
Ward to get a hit? Who and then Angels to
win and uh Griff Canning or yeah, Christian Canning to
throw five or more strikeouts?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Did anything hit? Yes?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
I got both like Ohopy and Ward got a hit.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Okay, but they pulled Canning after right out, like literally
he gets his fourth strikeout and then they pulled him
from the game.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Oh but I mean they lost anyway, so Dad five
to one? Yeah, unfortunate. Good stuff though.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
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Speaker 1 (23:32):
Eddie, do you know this story about Lionel Messi where
he was He was seen taking a picture with this
little little kid like six months old, and he was
taking a bath like his mom was there. There was
nothing weird about this. This is actually like a calendar
meant to raise proceeds for charities. Have you heard about
(23:54):
this at all?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
It's I'm a little confused. So so message is at
his house or something.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Kind of it was like this, this little boy is
like six months old, and so Messi is like standing
next to the tub and they just take these pictures
and it was like.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Part of like I'm sure he was wearing like shorts
and you know, it just seems like an odd photo op.
He's in the bath. Why don't you come take a
picture with him?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But it's like, I don't know how to say it.
It's not like a normal like huge bath tub or something.
It's like a little, tiny, little thing, right And and anyway,
that kid has grown up and he's this awesome soccer player.
He's the sixteen year old kid who scored a goal
uh today.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
About that.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
But that's the whole thing is if you see anything
related to that where it's a young Lionel Messi with
this little six month old kid, That's what it's about,
is the kid has crown up and now he's the
this awesome soccer player and I think he's like, I'm
probably screwing all this up. But he's one of two,
i want to say, sixteen year olds that scored a
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goal in the euro something like it's very exclusive for
him to be this young and to score a goal
on this stage. But he did that in the Euros today,
So props to him. And the weird photo op just
grows more in popularity because of what the six month
old kid grew up to be sixteen years later. It's
(25:31):
kind of crazy, right.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Well, bit, yeah, yeah, I did see a viral video
of Messi's bodyguard. Have you seen that? No, He's got
some bodyguard who's like just constantly ready for anything. Okay,
And like I guess in soccer there's a thing where
people will run out on the pitch and get try
and get a picture with the whoever uh huh. And
(25:54):
there's this photo there's like video of him just like
standing there and all of a sudden he just starts
booking it out on the feet and then out of
the corner you see some kid come running in. He
just intercepts him right before he gets the MESSI and
he's just always like, I mean, ready to go at
a moment's notice. And there's like people like getting pictures
with them and they put their arm on his shoulder.
He knocks their arm off of his shoulder. He's just
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always like the guy is just on alert constantly. It's
it's kind of amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, so it's funny you say that because it's happened.
I saw it twice. I don't know why. I was
watching some of this Spain France game, but somebody ran
onto the pitch during the match and you just saw
a couple of security guards just randomly run around and
tackle this dude and escored him off. And it also
(26:42):
happened within the last week or so. There's this crazy
San Diego Padres game. Manny Machado hit a walk off
home run, and you know how it goes, Like he
gets he's doing the postgame interview and they douse him
with gatorade and all that stuff. But around that time,
some fan ran out of the stands and ran up
(27:03):
to Machado trying to take a self.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I did see that. Yeah, he got taken out, he.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Got taken down hard. But you're just gonna see more
and more of that. It's not just a knucklehead running
on the field. It's trying to get a selfie. Yeah,
you know, yeah, that's the new thing. But yeah, this
guy Yamaul, he was the six month old in the
picture with Messi who's almost seventeen years old. But he's
the youngest goal scorer in euro history, like for the
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Euros here, so hey, props to him, Props to him.
Got it done, all right, We got a lot to
get to, Eddie, special treat this evening slash this morning,
the Queen of Hearts. Huh, next hour relationship advice, you
know you need any kind of advice in the bedroom
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sort of thing. She's got you covered. I joked, but
I'm serious, Eddie. We're supposed to break around, you know,
like thirty nine forty after the hour for that last segment,
just to have more time. I might break it like
twenty five, you know what I'm saying, and then we
just have extended time with Lorena. What do you think
about that?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
It's a wonderful idea.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
You think it's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I think it's a good idea, Lorena.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Who I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, She's on board, all right? Coming up next? Is
this a cool story or something else? We'll get to that.
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Speaker 1 (29:03):
No so Eddie. Some of my ideas are fantastic, some
not so much. I'm curious what you think about this one.
So for the Queen of Hearts that will be an
hour from right now, I've put a bug in Lorena's ear.
I'm like, hey, you know, for fun, what would be
good is if you just intentionally, maybe just for one show,
(29:23):
give horrible advice, you know, just give awful advice. If
I don't know, trying to think of a scenario off
the top of my head. If a girl is okay,
Lorena told me about a story where there was like
a male dancer. The girl was a little bit jealous,
and so I was like, all right, the perfect opportunity, Lorena.
(29:44):
You just say, all right, here's what I'll do. Here's
what you do. You get video of you kind of
like give it a lap dance to the girl and
then give that to your girlfriend and say say, nothing
to worry about. Like, that's horrible advice. That'd be fun.
What do you think about that? Let's just Ruin Lives
for one show and then we're back on to good
advice going forward. What do you think about that, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Oh? I thought he was asking you what you He
knows what I think.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I think it's a great idea, especially when they call
him like should I cheat on my wife with our neighbor?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yes, should absolutely? Should make her a pie with your
wife and then take it to her make.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Her Yeah, you make her a pie? Yeah, okay, there's
nothing more seductive, and then go to.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Beast yeah, okay, sure, why not? Okay, you're for it
all right?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I think it could be fun. I would love to
hear the bad advice segment. You know, maybe she'll do
that tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
What if somebody I mean, here's the thing. The listeners
a lot of times don't pay attention to what.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
We're talking about.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Because like Ben will give some trivia answer and then
he'll ask it like in a game the next hour,
and no one will no one will even get right
even though just said the answer. So I mean, what
if she gives somebody horrible advice and they actually follow
through on it.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
I mean, hey, if that's the case, I hope they
call back and let me.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Know how it went.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
See Lorena's on board then, I mean, if she wants
to do it, I'm for it. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
It could be good entertainment purposes. You know, she's awesome,
she's got a good heart, so she might not do this.
I feel like there's gonna be something, you know, tugging
at her saying like no, no, give good advice. But
maybe maybe tonight will be even one, just one piece
of bad advice?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Which one? Will it be.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Exactly right? What was it? The oh gosh, there was
one rest. Maybe it was deja vus. I forget their
tagline where it was like thousands of beautiful women and
three ugly ones something like that. Right, Maybe it's a
similar concept with Lorena's advice, like thousands of great pieces
(31:56):
of advice, but three bad, bad examples of advice. I
don't know, something along those lines, Okay, Eddie. So Chris Paul,
I know Big Ben would probably be talking about this story.
But Chris Paul now with the San Antonio Spurs, he
is not chasing a ring. Obviously, he just joined a
(32:17):
team that went twenty two to sixty. But he says
it's all about playing time. He is valuing that and
a couple of his quotes, he said, my family is everything.
My wife is here, my kids are back in LA
and that's where they'll be during the season. And I
love basketball so much that I could be close to home.
(32:40):
But if I'm not playing, I'm not happy. So he's like,
I want to play basketball. That's why I'm going to
the Spurs, so I get some playing time. What do
you think about that? I do think it's halfway cool
because a lot of players in Chris Paul's shoes would
just latch onto a team that he's got the best,
(33:00):
has to win a ring, And even if he's on
a reduced, reduced, reduced role, they're like, eh, screw it,
I'm still trying to chase a ring. He just wants
to play. He's like, playing is what makes me the
most happy. That's what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, I get it. It is a little different for
kind of somebody of his stature, I guess. But I
know a guy who plays in the NHL and he
could have been on a really good team, but he
decided to sign with a bad team so he could play, yeah,
because he wanted to play. Yeah, And I was like, yeah,
I get that. I gets no fun to, you know,
be a part time guy and sit up in the
(33:35):
press box, you know, eating popcorn, And I mean, you
want to get out there on the ice, even though
it's not you know, you might have a lot of losses,
but at least you're a part of them, you know
what I mean. So I was like, Okay, I get that.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, I get it too. This is something else that
Chris Paul said, and it's along the same lines of
the hockey player that you're talking about. There Eddie, Chris
Paul said, and I love my family to death, so
when we saw this opportunity, even though I well, it'll
put me away from my family, my family knows me
better than anybody, and they know that I just want
(34:08):
to play. I want to play more than anything. So
I think that's kind of cool. Where look, man, I
think sometimes athletes can become guilty of making somebody else's
goals their goals, you know what I mean. Like most
fans are like, you need to win a championship, but
you don't have a ring, And all of a sudden,
(34:29):
the players like, oh, okay, I guess I gotta win
this ring, you know. And Chris Paul is like, you
know what. I know me and I know it would
make me the most happy is getting out and playing
basketball instead of sitting on the bench. And maybe I'm
just lucky enough to be on a championship team. I
don't have any issue with this. Some might look at
it and say, well, he didn't have any other great opportunities.
(34:51):
I guarantee you he would have had a better opportunity
than joining the Spurs this season to be in a
better position to chase championship. And he didn't go there.
So I don't have an issue with this man. I
think that you got to do what makes you happy
instead of what might make the fans happy, Like they
don't control your lives, you do.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, I mean we, I mean we obviously are gonna
have our opinions on whatever. But in the end, it's
his career and it's his life. You gotta do whatever
what's best for you. He didn't listen to any other people.
There's people, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I don't know if that's what the advice Loreena would
give in this situation. You know, maybe if this is
like the bad advice portion of it, you know, intentionally,
maybe she would say something other than what we're saying Eddie.
I don't know. I'm not sure, but I think it's
a good path and link it up with Popovich and
(35:47):
if this is the last portion of Chris Paul's career.
It's been a strange ride, I'll tell you that much, though, Eddie.
Really strange. Where such a brilliant player, but so many injuries,
just a seasons where he had a legit chance to
do major damage and now just kind of like a
journeyman at the end of his career. Has been really odd,
(36:10):
or it's a blend of brilliant play and then bad
luck with injuries and now a final chapter with the Spurs.
That's just it's kind of strange. But I do respect
him for just holding true to what he thinks will
make him the most happy. So interested to see what
happens this season. He did have another quote that was interesting, Eddie.
(36:30):
He talked about Wembin Yama and he said he played
against him, and he said there's probably no player in
the league that everybody in the league talks about after
the game like him. I thought that was interesting, right
where he's just like Wemby is the buzz of the
NBA where these dudes play against them in there in
the locker room, Like did you see that guy's a freak?
(36:53):
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So Eddie, we heard last hour from Mike the Leprechaun
in Boston and he went through a lot of things,
but one real quick statement that he made. He talked
about the Patriots in two thousand and one when they
won that first Super Bowl, they were introduced as a team.
They didn't do like the individual introductions. They were introduced
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as a team, which I thought at the time was
pretty cool. But I hate how that's turned into the
normal way things are done now. Cause when I was
a kid, you and I we've done this before. We've competed, actually,
but we love knowing where NFL players went to college.
And when I was a kid, I always looked forward
to the Super Bowl because they would announce these players
(01:08):
individually and say what college they went to, and I'd
be like, oh, shoot, John Elway went to Stanford. I
didn't know. I never saw him in college. We didn't
have the internet back then, so it was a big
deal at the times. I always looked forward to those
Super Bowl introductions. They don't do it now because the
Patriots and one they ran out as a team, which
(01:30):
I thought was cool in the moment, but every team
since then followed suit. I hate it now.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, it was. It was unique at the time, and
I'm like you, I do remember kind of liking it
in the moment, but I also was like, well, why
do they just announce the defense and they are the offense?
They why don't they announce all the starters because they'd
always just picked one.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yep, and they still do.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
That for the Charger games that we go to. They
just picked the offense of the defense, so they have
a Super Bowl though. I mean, it was kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, I love that. This is actually a story from
Howard Griffith. He played for the Denver Broncos. He was
on the ninety sevent team that beat the Packers in
the Super Bowl. But he told the story about this
being introduced before the Super Bowl began. I love this storyline.
It was on NFL Network. Check this out.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Phil Simms was out of practice and we were just
talking and he said, you know, Howard, if you're fortunate
enough to have the offense introduced, it's going to be
probably one of the most powerful.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Moments that you'll ever remember.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
It was like my entire life went past me in
an instant because you think about all the different situations
that you may have been in in life where you
had to make a decision.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Am I going to go this way or that way? John?
Knowing that if you had made a different decision some
point in your life, you might not be standing at
tunnel getting ready to get your name called it to super.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Number twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Howard, really.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Was the most amazing feeling that I've ever had.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Is that crazy? The most amazing feeling he's ever had,
and now is just gone thanks to the one Patriots
who changed everything. But I thought that was funny, and
again I thought it was a cool thing that the
Patriots did where they're like, we're not individuals, We're a team.
We get that. It was cool at the time, but
I wish we could go back to them being announced
(03:30):
as individuals. I used to love that, but that tradition
is gone. Man, the Patriots changed all.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That they did.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, no, you're right, Yeah, there's a hideous idea, Eddie.
While we're talking ball, of course, meaning football. Yeah, Joe Burrow,
Bengals quarterback, he was on the Pardon My Take show,
he was a guest there, and he's talking about this
eighteen game NFL schedule that we're gonna have in the
(03:59):
not too distant future, and so he's like, why, I
got an idea. He's like, how about we do this?
How about we have two bye weeks? That part makes sense,
And he says, how about a league wide bye week
around week thirteen so we can highlight the Pro Bowl?
That would be a pretty good idea, Eddie. This is
(04:21):
a freaking terrible idea. Why would we just stop football?
Nobody's playing in Week thirteen and we're going to focus
all of our attention on the Pro Bowl, which by
the way, is a flag football game. Now, with all
these random events around, that's the only thing that would
be going on in Week thirteen. That's a terrible idea.
(04:42):
I'm all for two bye weeks, but not like that.
We can't have a full weekend with no NFL that
that'd be crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well, this is shocking to hear you say something that
you don't like about the NFL, because usually you just
like anything they do, you think is the greatest thing
in the world. No, but I was at the we were
talking about like going to things. I was at the
last real Pro Bowl, which wasn't it was like the first.
It was the last one. They were in pads in Vegas,
and it was so awful that they decided we can't
(05:12):
do this anymore. We have to have a flag football
game instead. So yeah, I've never cared for the Pro Bowl.
I've never thought it was important. Although you know, most
of the All Star games have fallen on hard times.
Even even baseball is not what it once was. It's
the closest thing we have to having the you know,
the legitimate game. But yeah, I'm not big on the idea,
(05:36):
to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
No, it's what they would do, is that I would
I imagine they would have two by weeks because you
have to.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It's too many, Yeah, too many damn games.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
It's a long season. And that's the thing is it'd
be great for the NFL because you could have the
Super Bowl the day before President's Day and then that's
a day off for most people, So that's been talked
about quite a bit. It'd be awesome if we had
Monday off yet, well you could if you have an
eighteen game schedule and just position it that way with
the extra bye week. Most people have Monday off due
(06:09):
to President's Day, so that would work. I just hate
the idea of Week thirteen We're just gonna have the
Pro Bowl like that. That's hideous. There's got to be
a better way where they stagger the bye weeks. They
do it throughout most of the season the way it
is right now, right Eddie, with just one bye week,
So you'd have to get a little bit creative with
(06:30):
staggering a second bye week. But it's a better it's
a better approach for the NFL than just saying everybody
gets Week thirteen off. We just have the Pro Bowl.
Who's playing in the Pro Bowl mid season? By the way,
you know, no one wants to play in that thing
after the season. No one's playing mid season.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
No one's really playing in it now as it I mean,
it is, it's just there's running around. It's it's a joke.
It is.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It's bad. Have you seen, like I've made the mistake
of watching it one year because I'm like, I'm just
curious what they're doing. They're like catching a football from
a helicopter, you know, do it all this randomly, Eddie.
It's so bad, so bad. They had like a creative catch,
(07:18):
like you'll. I don't know if they jumped from a trampoline.
I'm not sure, but they would jump up in the
air and try to catch the ball and fall onto
a pad. It's freaking terrible, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
It's awful.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I believe you. I totally believe it. Sounds awful. You
talking about it sounds awful.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, But we're gonna just structure everything around that in
week thirteen, Like that's insane. Are you in favor of
an eighteen game schedule? Would you keep it at seventeen?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I would keep it at seventeen. Honestly, I know it's
gonna be eighteen, and so it's I've kind of just
it's gonna happen. I know it's gonna happen, so there's
no sense in really getting too upset about it. But
I'd keep it at seventeen.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, it's gonna happen. I don't know how long it's
gonna take. I guess. Peter King, he wrote about this
a couple of years ago that it could take effect
as soon as twenty twenty five, right, like, we might
have this in the not too distant future. But it's happening.
You're just hearing more and more and more about it
(08:19):
that it's just a matter of time until we get there.
But yeah, it's it's certainly gonna be a situation. Even
Mike Florio, he reported on this last month. Players Association,
they're already bracing for the possibility. Here's the thing for
the player's side. You gotta get something in your favor,
(08:44):
not just a second bye week. That's the layup part
of this eddie. They've got to be better at negotiating
these NFL team owners. They must look at the players
and the Players Association, like these guys can't negotiate to
say their lives, they're just running over them.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
No, no, no, you're right. I'm sure Jeff Schwartz has
talked about this with you and the shows you've done together.
I know Brady Quinn on The Two Pros and a
Cup of Joe has said the same thing, and he's
talked about like universal health care for all players. You
know what I mean, past and present and future, something
really really big and substantial like that. And I'm like, yeah,
(09:23):
he's right, they've got I mean, you know, the league
and the owners want this eighteenth game. Yeah, and they're
gonna get it. But this is right, this is your
chance to really get something you want in return. Yeah,
and if they don't do it, they're fools.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I love the idea of healthcare for all the players.
That would be something significant, not just okay, we'll give
you a second by week, which they are probably gonna
do anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, that's the bare minimum. That's Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
The NFL probably wants that because it's like, oh, okay,
we could do you like the Sunday before President's Day.
Most people have the day off in this country. That's
a win. They probably want to do that on their
own anyway. But of course they're going to act like, oh,
we don't want to do this at all. But if
that's what it's gonna take, all right, And the players
are like, hey, we got something, and the owners are
(10:18):
like yeah, yeah, sure you did so. Yeah. Hopefully this
is their chance to get something significant. But I'm not
gonna hold my breath that they will, you know, they
just should, doesn't mean they actually will come through on that.
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Speaker 1 (11:53):
By the way, Eddie, I don't know if you saw
the Champagne Illinois cats, but I uh, I posted a
little bit they were getting ready for the show tonight.
We're babysitting these cats for a couple of months here.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Oh, they look very comfortable on the couch there. Oh no,
that's those aren't your cats. If somebody else's cats, I'm
looking at.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Somebody else's cats. Yeah, that we're looking after. And yeah,
I'm not seeing the cats here, Brian, you're not seeing them.
Oh you have to sift through. I guess I'm not sure.
But they should be there somewhere, should be there around
whatever the like the Fox Sports Radio account saying hey,
(12:31):
it's Eddie and Brian tonight. Check it out, you know
that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I just responded back to that. So see, yeah you
should be on there.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I saw Spocks weed his cats.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're listening to the show as well.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It looks like they're sleeping. Ok Ah, there they are, Okay,
I see them.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Look at them. Huh some good looking cats or what?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Why are they in jail?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
They're not. I'm in jail. So it looks like looks.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Like they've been put behind bars.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
No, I'm behind bars.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
So what did you do then?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So it's this little office area, but they have plants
and the cats just try to go and destroy these plants.
So yeah, I sit in the uh the office area,
and that gate keeps the keeps them out and away
from the plants. That's what's going on there.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
What are there? What are the names?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
So? Uh, the dude is a big fantasy football guy.
So they're named Cooper after yeah, after Cooper Cup, and uh,
we don't call her this, but the other one is
Chrissy for Christian McCaffrey. So the funny thing is, we thought,
(13:50):
you know, Cooper after Cooper Cup. We just thought it
was a boy. So all last year we're like, Coop,
what's up, homie, you know that sort of thing, and
they told They're like, oh no, they're both girls. We're like, oh, shoot,
Coop's a girl. We had no idea.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So yeah, I'm not saying anything Coop, justin Cooper.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Did we ever get the picture from Mike the Leprechaun
by the way, Coop?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Man, I did, and I'm I've been trying to tweet
it out, but I don't know if there's something wrong
with Twitter or if the picture is corrupted, but it
is not letting me attach it to a tweet.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Huh. It'd be crazy if Mike was like this big
malware guy.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yes, that's not funny.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Geez it's yeah, at the end of the rainbow there exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
You know, just by the way, a couple of viruses.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
When you were gone last week, Ben had a mild
hissy fit that you had left and apparently not told
him I heard about this. Did Did Ben tell you
he was lee been for a little while. I mean
I saw it on this the but did he tell you?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
No?
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Okay, I think it was last night as he was
leaving he said, I'm off the rest of the week.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Oka, but I also told.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Him, so, yeah, we talked about me going to Chicago
on the air.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
We had the conversation.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
I just don't think you remember the specific dates, you know,
like he knew you were going, he didn't know. Yeah,
it's not like there was no word of it, and
I was just gone. Remember we talked about the fact
that I was going to meet up with Big or
with Doc Mike, and you know what happened. So Doc
was only there one day that I was in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
And he had like.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Basically he had a bunch of appointments with his patience.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
I guess, sorry, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah, man, getting getting blown off, uh by Doc, Mike
and Weedman.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I know, right, How was Chicago? That was awesome? I
liked it a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, Yeah, it was cool.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
The deep Dish pizza I had for the first time ever,
that Yeah, it was amazing. My body wasn't a fan.
That's That's where I said to my wife. I was like, oh,
it was like the last day. I was like, we
should get another pizza. And she's like, did you not, like,
do you not remember like what happened? And I was like,
(16:32):
I was like you know whatever, Yeah right, yeah, exactly
what else did you do over there? We went on
a architecture tour river boat tour.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
An architecture tour.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
We went on like a little like cruise faery thing
on the on the river. Yeah, and you kind of like,
you know, go around and check out all the different
buildings dating back some of them dating back to like
eighteen ninety eight.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
So that was kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
And then I went on to Sears Tower or I
guess they call it. It's yeah, I guess it's Willis
Tower now yeah. Yeah, but went up to the observation
deck and went out on the ledge.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Sound was cool.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That's cool too.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
And then and then of course Wrigley, I did a
I did a stadium tour early in the morning before
the game and.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Too, that was that was awesome. And then and then
I watched then I watched the Angels lose.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, yeah, man, was that coop my sports betting? Here?
Was this the five to one game? Yes? Yeah, I
had them scoring at least I don't know, like, I
think just three runs that game, four at the most.
I can't remember the total, Yeah, just their team total.
And they messed around, scored one run. Then what they
(17:52):
do the next day?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
It was yeah, it was it was like seven nothing angels,
I know they got shut out five nothing. Yeah, So
what's first of all, what's really awesome? And I believe
I don't know if we talked about this earlier today
or if it was on to two pros yesterday. It's
kind of blending together. But sports betting in California just
needs to happen.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It's is it on the ballot because Ben didn't know
if it was or not.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I don't think so. But I just I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
It was so awesome being able to like it's attached
to Wrigley Field is a draft King sportsbook and like
just like right before the game starts, I walk in there,
place a parlay and then walk into my seats and
it was so cool. I didn't win, but it was cool.
It's the best. I don't know what California is doing.
(18:44):
I have no idea they.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Could be attached. To be honest with you, Well.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
It's the the you know, the the Indian casinos that
are you know, blocking it.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
They don't like figure it out. Yeah, it's just millions
and millions of dollars. They're just like, no, we're just
we're better off without it. I guess it's crazy they'd
be making so much cash. Insane. Uh, but yes, what
did you say right before?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Oh, I have a quick Chicago story for you. Uh,
Coop and Eddie and Loraina and everybody listening. So I
was going years ago. I was going to the Willis
Tower with one of my buddies, and I looked down
at my GPS as we're driving there, and all of
a sudden, he's like, dude, dude. And I look up
as I'm running into the back of the car in
(19:35):
front of him.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Oh no, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Like, I don't know, it's like a truck or a van.
It was a bigger vehicle. The lady got out and
she just looked at her bumper, which was pretty much fine,
and she just got back in and drove off. And meanwhile,
I looked at my car and it was a Nissan
Ultima and the grille was all jacked up, is all
(19:59):
dented in and cracked and all horrid, and so it
cost me about five hundred bucks to get that fixed.
But she just drove off, was like, mine looks fine.
So I'm out of here.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I have a quick bummer of a story of Chicago.
Speaker 8 (20:12):
Aside from the fact that the Angels always lose when
I go to see them play, I'm on like a
four year streak. Now, I don't even know how many
games that is, like a dozen at least. If you
ever want to just make a bunch of money anytime
I'm going to an Angel game, just load up your
life savings on the other team. But so, I also
wanted to get an Italian beef sandwich when I was
(20:33):
out there. That was like one of the highlights.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Oh, we are hungry, we are hungry for more.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
And I don't know if you if any of you
guys watched The Bear on Hulu.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I haven't seen it. I do.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
So his Italian beef shop is based off of a
real place in Chicago called Mister Beef, and I was like, oh,
I really want to go there. It was about a
thirty minute walk from my hotel, and so I was like, Okay,
I'm gonna walk over there. And as I'm walking, we
passed you know probably I guess you know, one of
(21:06):
the more famous Italian beef shops in Chicago called Owl's
and I was like, no, no, I want, I want
mister Beef, I want this place.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
And so we walked like beef.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Yeah, we walked like ten more minutes and they're closed,
I know, and it's and I guess it was. It
was my fl was it was July fourth, it was
it was Independence date, and I get I should have
called it to make sure, but like I just I
want to Google type them in and it said open,
but I guess holiday hours it was different. And then
(21:38):
I was like, all right, let's just let's just go
back to OL's. And by the time we walked back
to OL's, they were closing their doors. No man, Yeah,
so what did you do?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
You just like hot dog stand it or we.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
Just the first like food place that we like. We
as we were walking back to the hotel, the first
place that we saw that was open. We went in
and it it's like this. I think it was called
Dose Bros. It was basically a Chipotle ripoff place.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, so you can.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Get to have it at all. Well.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
So the next day there was an Owl's location next
to Wrigley Field. So in between the stadium tour and
the game, we went over to Al's and got it.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
But I did not get to have mister beef.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
No, what I have to know what you bet on
the game, not the amount, but what your actual bet was.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I don't even tell you.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I want to know what it was.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
I'm just I'm so dumb, Like I know, I'm on
this like dozen game losing streak of the Angels, like
sucking when I go to see that the Angel I.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Bet like a five four leg parlay I did.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
I did a logan O'hoppy to get a hit, Taylor
Ward to get a hit? Who and then Angels to
win and uh Griff Canning or yeah, Christian Canning to
throw five or more strikeouts?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Did anything hit? Yes?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
I got both like Ohopy and Ward got a hit.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Okay, but they pulled Canning after right out, like literally
he gets his fourth strikeout and then they pulled him
from the game.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Oh but I mean they lost anyway, so Dad five
to one? Yeah, unfortunate. Good stuff though.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
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Speaker 1 (23:32):
Eddie, do you know this story about Lionel Messi where
he was He was seen taking a picture with this
little little kid like six months old, and he was
taking a bath like his mom was there. There was
nothing weird about this. This is actually like a calendar
meant to raise proceeds for charities. Have you heard about
(23:54):
this at all?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
It's I'm a little confused. So so message is at
his house or something.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Kind of it was like this, this little boy is
like six months old, and so Messi is like standing
next to the tub and they just take these pictures
and it was like.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Part of like I'm sure he was wearing like shorts
and you know, it just seems like an odd photo op.
He's in the bath. Why don't you come take a
picture with him?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But it's like, I don't know how to say it.
It's not like a normal like huge bath tub or something.
It's like a little, tiny, little thing, right And and anyway,
that kid has grown up and he's this awesome soccer player.
He's the sixteen year old kid who scored a goal
uh today.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
About that.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
But that's the whole thing is if you see anything
related to that where it's a young Lionel Messi with
this little six month old kid, That's what it's about,
is the kid has crown up and now he's the
this awesome soccer player and I think he's like, I'm
probably screwing all this up. But he's one of two,
i want to say, sixteen year olds that scored a
(25:10):
goal in the euro something like it's very exclusive for
him to be this young and to score a goal
on this stage. But he did that in the Euros today,
So props to him. And the weird photo op just
grows more in popularity because of what the six month
old kid grew up to be sixteen years later. It's
(25:31):
kind of crazy, right.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Well, bit, yeah, yeah, I did see a viral video
of Messi's bodyguard. Have you seen that? No, He's got
some bodyguard who's like just constantly ready for anything. Okay,
And like I guess in soccer there's a thing where
people will run out on the pitch and get try
and get a picture with the whoever uh huh. And
(25:54):
there's this photo there's like video of him just like
standing there and all of a sudden he just starts
booking it out on the feet and then out of
the corner you see some kid come running in. He
just intercepts him right before he gets the MESSI and
he's just always like, I mean, ready to go at
a moment's notice. And there's like people like getting pictures
with them and they put their arm on his shoulder.
He knocks their arm off of his shoulder. He's just
(26:16):
always like the guy is just on alert constantly. It's
it's kind of amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, so it's funny you say that because it's happened.
I saw it twice. I don't know why. I was
watching some of this Spain France game, but somebody ran
onto the pitch during the match and you just saw
a couple of security guards just randomly run around and
tackle this dude and escored him off. And it also
(26:42):
happened within the last week or so. There's this crazy
San Diego Padres game. Manny Machado hit a walk off
home run, and you know how it goes, Like he
gets he's doing the postgame interview and they douse him
with gatorade and all that stuff. But around that time,
some fan ran out of the stands and ran up
(27:03):
to Machado trying to take a self.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I did see that. Yeah, he got taken out, he.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Got taken down hard. But you're just gonna see more
and more of that. It's not just a knucklehead running
on the field. It's trying to get a selfie. Yeah,
you know, yeah, that's the new thing. But yeah, this
guy Yamaul, he was the six month old in the
picture with Messi who's almost seventeen years old. But he's
the youngest goal scorer in euro history, like for the
(27:33):
Euros here, so hey, props to him, Props to him.
Got it done, all right, We got a lot to
get to, Eddie, special treat this evening slash this morning,
the Queen of Hearts. Huh, next hour relationship advice, you
know you need any kind of advice in the bedroom
(27:55):
sort of thing. She's got you covered. I joked, but
I'm serious, Eddie. We're supposed to break around, you know,
like thirty nine forty after the hour for that last segment,
just to have more time. I might break it like
twenty five, you know what I'm saying, and then we
just have extended time with Lorena. What do you think
about that?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
It's a wonderful idea.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
You think it's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I think it's a good idea, Lorena.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Who I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, She's on board, all right? Coming up next? Is
this a cool story or something else? We'll get to that.
He's Eddie Garcia. I'm Brian know we're in for big
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Speaker 1 (29:03):
No so Eddie. Some of my ideas are fantastic, some
not so much. I'm curious what you think about this one.
So for the Queen of Hearts that will be an
hour from right now, I've put a bug in Lorena's ear.
I'm like, hey, you know, for fun, what would be
good is if you just intentionally, maybe just for one show,
(29:23):
give horrible advice, you know, just give awful advice. If
I don't know, trying to think of a scenario off
the top of my head. If a girl is okay,
Lorena told me about a story where there was like
a male dancer. The girl was a little bit jealous,
and so I was like, all right, the perfect opportunity, Lorena.
(29:44):
You just say, all right, here's what I'll do. Here's
what you do. You get video of you kind of
like give it a lap dance to the girl and
then give that to your girlfriend and say say, nothing
to worry about. Like, that's horrible advice. That'd be fun.
What do you think about that? Let's just Ruin Lives
for one show and then we're back on to good
advice going forward. What do you think about that, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Oh? I thought he was asking you what you He
knows what I think.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I think it's a great idea, especially when they call
him like should I cheat on my wife with our neighbor?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yes, should absolutely? Should make her a pie with your
wife and then take it to her make.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Her Yeah, you make her a pie? Yeah, okay, there's
nothing more seductive, and then go to.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Beast yeah, okay, sure, why not? Okay, you're for it
all right?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I think it could be fun. I would love to
hear the bad advice segment. You know, maybe she'll do
that tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
What if somebody I mean, here's the thing. The listeners
a lot of times don't pay attention to what.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
We're talking about.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Because like Ben will give some trivia answer and then
he'll ask it like in a game the next hour,
and no one will no one will even get right
even though just said the answer. So I mean, what
if she gives somebody horrible advice and they actually follow
through on it.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
I mean, hey, if that's the case, I hope they
call back and let me.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Know how it went.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
See Lorena's on board then, I mean, if she wants
to do it, I'm for it. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
It could be good entertainment purposes. You know, she's awesome,
she's got a good heart, so she might not do this.
I feel like there's gonna be something, you know, tugging
at her saying like no, no, give good advice. But
maybe maybe tonight will be even one, just one piece
of bad advice?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Which one? Will it be.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Exactly right? What was it? The oh gosh, there was
one rest. Maybe it was deja vus. I forget their
tagline where it was like thousands of beautiful women and
three ugly ones something like that. Right, Maybe it's a
similar concept with Lorena's advice, like thousands of great pieces
(31:56):
of advice, but three bad, bad examples of advice. I
don't know, something along those lines, Okay, Eddie. So Chris Paul,
I know Big Ben would probably be talking about this story.
But Chris Paul now with the San Antonio Spurs, he
is not chasing a ring. Obviously, he just joined a
(32:17):
team that went twenty two to sixty. But he says
it's all about playing time. He is valuing that and
a couple of his quotes, he said, my family is everything.
My wife is here, my kids are back in LA
and that's where they'll be during the season. And I
love basketball so much that I could be close to home.
(32:40):
But if I'm not playing, I'm not happy. So he's like,
I want to play basketball. That's why I'm going to
the Spurs, so I get some playing time. What do
you think about that? I do think it's halfway cool
because a lot of players in Chris Paul's shoes would
just latch onto a team that he's got the best,
(33:00):
has to win a ring, And even if he's on
a reduced, reduced, reduced role, they're like, eh, screw it,
I'm still trying to chase a ring. He just wants
to play. He's like, playing is what makes me the
most happy. That's what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, I get it. It is a little different for
kind of somebody of his stature, I guess. But I
know a guy who plays in the NHL and he
could have been on a really good team, but he
decided to sign with a bad team so he could play, yeah,
because he wanted to play. Yeah, And I was like, yeah,
I get that. I gets no fun to, you know,
be a part time guy and sit up in the
(33:35):
press box, you know, eating popcorn, And I mean, you
want to get out there on the ice, even though
it's not you know, you might have a lot of losses,
but at least you're a part of them, you know
what I mean. So I was like, Okay, I get that.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, I get it too. This is something else that
Chris Paul said, and it's along the same lines of
the hockey player that you're talking about. There Eddie, Chris
Paul said, and I love my family to death, so
when we saw this opportunity, even though I well, it'll
put me away from my family, my family knows me
better than anybody, and they know that I just want
(34:08):
to play. I want to play more than anything. So
I think that's kind of cool. Where look, man, I
think sometimes athletes can become guilty of making somebody else's
goals their goals, you know what I mean. Like most
fans are like, you need to win a championship, but
you don't have a ring, And all of a sudden,
(34:29):
the players like, oh, okay, I guess I gotta win
this ring, you know. And Chris Paul is like, you
know what. I know me and I know it would
make me the most happy is getting out and playing
basketball instead of sitting on the bench. And maybe I'm
just lucky enough to be on a championship team. I
don't have any issue with this. Some might look at
it and say, well, he didn't have any other great opportunities.
(34:51):
I guarantee you he would have had a better opportunity
than joining the Spurs this season to be in a
better position to chase championship. And he didn't go there.
So I don't have an issue with this man. I
think that you got to do what makes you happy
instead of what might make the fans happy, Like they
don't control your lives, you do.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, I mean we, I mean we obviously are gonna
have our opinions on whatever. But in the end, it's
his career and it's his life. You gotta do whatever
what's best for you. He didn't listen to any other people.
There's people, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I don't know if that's what the advice Loreena would
give in this situation. You know, maybe if this is
like the bad advice portion of it, you know, intentionally,
maybe she would say something other than what we're saying Eddie.
I don't know. I'm not sure, but I think it's
a good path and link it up with Popovich and
(35:47):
if this is the last portion of Chris Paul's career.
It's been a strange ride, I'll tell you that much, though, Eddie.
Really strange. Where such a brilliant player, but so many injuries,
just a seasons where he had a legit chance to
do major damage and now just kind of like a
journeyman at the end of his career. Has been really odd,
(36:10):
or it's a blend of brilliant play and then bad
luck with injuries and now a final chapter with the Spurs.
That's just it's kind of strange. But I do respect
him for just holding true to what he thinks will
make him the most happy. So interested to see what
happens this season. He did have another quote that was interesting, Eddie.
(36:30):
He talked about Wembin Yama and he said he played
against him, and he said there's probably no player in
the league that everybody in the league talks about after
the game like him. I thought that was interesting, right
where he's just like Wemby is the buzz of the
NBA where these dudes play against them in there in
the locker room, Like did you see that guy's a freak?
(36:53):
My lord? All right, we got a lot to do.
Coming up Next is if this guy was accurate, I
wouldn't have a problem with what he said.
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